Scissor Sisters' close encounter with ghosts

Washington, Oct 19: Perhaps the Scissor sisters were overawed by the
television series "The Ghost Whisperer", as they chose to interview a
psychic voodoo queen to seek out ghosts at their favourite New York
haunt, for an article for US men's magazine Blender.
The band were told they could do anything for their first Blender
article and decided to hire voodoo expert Jackie Barrett to play ghost
buster at Greenwich Village club Mr Black, reports Contactmusic.

The fun idea quickly turned serious, however, when ghosts of past drag
queens and revellers who once frequented the club attempted to contact
singers Jake Shears and Anna Matrionic.
Barrett discovered the ghost of a young girl who was beaten to death in
the club, a former brothel, who left Shears gasping for breath, while
the spectre of an elderly man haunting the club's bathroom attempted to
make contact with Matronic.

She told Barrett, "I've been in here many times and felt like someone is
watching, and people have seen full apparitions in here." Matronic was
later left in tears - all chronicled in a piece in the current issue of
the publication - when a orphaned girl who died in the venue attempted
to contact her from the grave.

Barrett explained, "She has picked you because of your long hair." The
club the group chose to investigate for the article has a macabre
history - Church of Satan founder Anton Lavey was a fan of the New York
haunt and gave a previous owner a pentagram tapestry as a gift. The
tapestry now covers a cocktail table in the venue's VIP room.

--- ANI