The presenter of popular TV show 'Most Haunted' is now spooking visitors to a regional newspaper's website.

Medium Barrie John has teamed up with the Yorkshire Evening Post to take its staff around six of Leeds' most haunted hotspots.

The tours were filmed and can now be seen as a web-TV series on a dedidcated website run by the Johnston Press daily.

The first episode features an investigation at the Victorian prison cells beneath Leeds Town Hall that yielded far more than any of the team expected.

Barrie, who was also joined on the excursions by paranormal investigator Lynne Robinson, said: "The results at Leeds Town Hall were pretty conclusive as the episode shows.

"We had all kinds of activity which proves to my mind that spirits are all around us.

"The cells were a fantastic location filled with a real sense of atmosphere and, being completely honest, a horrible feeling of foreboding.

"As viewers will see, we ended up with much more than we bargained for."

To mark the programme's launch, the YEP has created a special website to house all six episodes which will be updated weekly at www.hauntedleeds.co.uk.

Visitors can watch the programmes, read Barrie John's exclusive blog, meet the team, get the latest weird world news and upload and view spooky photos and videos.

Geoff Fox, series producer and YEP digital editor, said: "This is a real first for the Yorkshire Evening Post.

"This is a fully fledged series of programmes that we hope will prove to be truly groundbreaking for our website.

"These buildings are iconic and we were lucky enough to be given unprecedented access to parts the public never gets to see.

"This series represents the opportunities the web has given newspapers like ours.

"With this series, we're hopefully going to show what can be achieved by pushing our own relatively modest understanding of video to its limit.

"It's a testament to the willingness of our staff to adapt and embrace modern technology to enable them to successfully explore new mediums outside the realms of print."