Finding out your place of study is full of ghosts costs you nothing yet can scare the bejeezes out of you, which is also fun (sort of). Hence this article's filed in Thrifty Fun (just go with it).

If you're at university in any of the towns below then you are officially studying at one of the UK's top ten haunted university towns, and therefore we've worked out that you have a significantly higher chance of getting 'got'.

If you study at Derby, it's a miracle that you haven't already been 'got', but they're certainly coming to 'get' you very soon.

The study was conducted by Lionel Fanthorpe, one of the UK's leading authorities on the unexplained. He explains that Derby may have a high hauntings per person rating because of its multitude of spooky limestone caverns, caves and labyrinths - the energy from bygone events possibly being able to latch on to this stone and linger for centuries, according to Fanthorpe.

York has a high number of reports for mischievous poltergeists and a werewolf. Exeter, a number of floating female phantoms, including a ghostly nun who floats along the south wall of the nave in Exeter's cathedral.

Seen any terrifying goings on in your university town? Post them below and maybe we can scare the bejesus out of ourselves even further.

Top ten most haunted university towns in the UK

Sightings per 10,000 Members of City's Population in brackets

1.) University of Derby (14)
2.) University Of Chester (11)
2.) University Of York (11)
4.) University Of Exeter (9)
5.) Universtiy Of Hertfordshire (St.Albans) (8)
6.) University Of Edinburgh (7)
6.) Queen's University Belfast (7)
6.) Oxford University (7)
9.) The University of East Anglia (Norwich) (6)
9.) University Of Gloucestershire (Gloucester) (6)

[Commissioned by Warner Bros, the study was researched by Lionel Fanthorpe. Lionel Fanthorpe, BA (Hons), FCP, FRSA, FCMI, President of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena]

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