Easily the single most iconic ghost in Ghostbusters history, Slimer is an enduring staple of The Real Ghostbusters, being the ...

And there was more: the phantom himself had a real-life inspiration. “As for the ghost with the deformed face, Gaston Leroux would have been inspired by a news item from 1862,” Bachelier said.

Now the two of them are going ghost-hunting. Can they see a real life phantom? Show more Mark Gatiss has spent his career writing about ghosts, but he's never actually seen one. Richard Coles ...