"Iam sure you are inundated with stories,” reads the email. “All I can say is that this one needs to be heard.” Moments later, I’m typing a reply, convinced Grant has sent me one of the oddest, most unsettling ghost stories ever. Apparitions -ghosts you can actually see – are rare, but this case has loads of them! Grant’s story takes place when he moved to Rottingdean, a windswept clifftop village near Brighton in the late 90s. Back in the 1930s and 40s, the village was home to a luxury hotel named Tudor Close. Hollywood stars such as Cary Grant and Bette Davis stayed there and it even inspired the board game Cluedo, which was originally known as ‘Murder at Tudor Close’. When the hotel closed, it was converted into a crescent of separate houses, and it’s one of these that Grant bought. “We still had the original 1930s bath,” he tells me. “And our dining room had been the dining room of the hotel.” From the photos I’ve seen, the house really does look like the set of a murder mystery. The previous owner was Elizabeth Dacre, a well-known figure in Rottingdean –a charismatic military widow, glamorous and wealthy, who’d died in her nineties, a year before Grant moved in.