He could be Britain’s youngest ‘ghost hunter’ who contacts spirits through a mobile phone app. Bobby Horton, aged eight, is aiming to follow in the footsteps of his nan and step-grandad who run a paranormal investigation group on Facebook.
Teresa Hughes, 59, and step-grandad Charlie Harker, 58, run Afterlife Paranormal and Bobby is aiming to carry on his family’s legacy in their search for ghosts. The youngster, from Bloxwich in Walsall, claims to have made contact with his grandad Terry Hughes, 59, via the app called Spirit Talker. Terry sadly passed away six years ago.
Bobby said: “I like investigating the paranormal, my favourite part is probably speaking to my grandad. I used the app to do that, my grandad has come through sometimes.”
READ MORE: ‘We hunt ghosts in our spare time – but they’ve followed us home and haunt us’
READ MORE: Win a holiday from Birmingham Airport to Split, Croatia with Jet2holidays!
Charlies says his step-grandson has been investigating the paranormal for about a year-and-a-half but only carries out ‘light’ investigations. “He is proper into it, with ghost gadgets and that, but he’s not been on a proper investigation yet. He does his own little things,” said Charlie.
“If we are out with him at the pub, he will want to put a ghost box on and he will call out, things like that. He loves it.
“I wouldn’t say he gets freaked out, it is light paranormal, not heavy, you know. He does try, though.
“He has a little app, he uses that. It comes out with words basically. It’s designed for spirits to manipulate the words and change them to the words they want to put out, basically. I would say he is one of the youngest paranormal investigators in the country, I have never known anyone his age, that young, doing it.”
According to Spirit Talker’s blurb on the Google Play store, the app was developed with the intention that spirits could manipulate a phone’s sensors to say and show relevant words and respond to questions. Charlie and Teresa have carried out also carried out live investigations at their house, including a range of equipment, and claim their home is haunted by a ‘sinister’ spirit called ‘George’.
Asked what the mum of Bobby, who is Teresa’s daughter, makes of paranormal investigations, Charlie said: “She’s not really into it. She likes to think it is not real, like it is a different category to what Bobby is into. I would say she is on the bit of the sceptic side, she is not really a believer.”
Charlie added: “Probably when Bobby is older, I can see him joining us on investigations, I will be like his mentor. I’m a professional in this field.”
Follow Afterlife Paranormal on Facebook.