Sting sees a ghost

Sting has seen a ghost in his bedroom.

The singer was sleeping next to his wife Trudie Styler when a strange "chill" woke him at exactly 3am. He looked around and was surprised to see the figures of a woman and a child staring at him through the darkness. "I would never have said I believe in ghosts, until I saw one, and I've seen a ghost with my own eyes," the star said. "I was in bed one night and I woke up at 3am, bolt upright, looked into the corner of the room and thought I saw Trudie standing there with a child in her arms, staring at me. And I thought, 'Well, that's strange - why is she standing in a corner, staring at me?' And I then reached next to me and there was Trudie, and I suddenly got this terrible chill. And she woke up and said 'Gosh, who is that?' She saw this woman and a child in the corner of the room."

Sting - real name Gordon Sumner - and Trudie have since moved out of the house. He claims they continued to experience paranormal phenomena until the day they left.

"A lot of things happened in that house, a lot of flying objects and voices and strange, strange things happened," he told BBC's Radio 2. "When you live in old houses you get this energy there. Intellectually, no I don't believe in ghosts, but I've experienced them on an emotional level."