A MYSTERIOUS clanging that has plagued a block of flats in Regent’s Park for more than five months could be being caused by “entities” from a nearby burial ground, according to “paranormal investigators” who have volunteered to track down the source of the noise.

Residents of Grasmere House in Osnaburgh Street have been complaining to Camden Council about the metallic banging since September, but engineers have been unable to diagnose the disruptive noise, leading some to label it the “Ghost of Grasmere”.

Spectrum Paranormal Investigations, a group of volunteers who spend the night in buildings that are suspected of being haunted, contacted the New Journal to offer their services after reading about the case last week. 

Hazel Williams, who founded the group in 1996, said they would like to visit the estate with equipment including an “electric magnetic field detector,” adding: “Say, for instance, we have a very high electric magnetic field and the field is moving around the estate then at least we know that there is some paranormal activity, if people are fearing it some kind of entity.”

Residents of Grasmere in Osnaburgh Street have complained of sleepless nights 

Ms Williams said: “We’d have to review some of the old maps of the area and see if it was a religious site and had graveyards underneath, or perhaps there’s a subway or tunnels.”

Camden Council declined the offer of assistance this week and told the New Journal: “We will continue to focus on more traditional methods of investigation for now”.

But resident Daniel Bouve, who said he has been left feeling like a “walking zombie” after repeated sleepless nights at the hands of the racket, was more receptive.

He said: “To be honest, we have nothing to lose. Camden have done nothing in the past week, so everybody is welcome, from green aliens to whatever. I would love to meet them.”