Halloween tales of the past - part four

 The former Moorings restaurant complex on Largs seafront, and staff quarters in Aitken Street, had a few ghost tales in the 1970s.
The ghosts of former workers were apparently seen in the staff quarters. Four times during the year of 1976, Miss Charite Ronquillo from Manila, claimed to have seen or heard the spectres of people who died in Largs long before she came to the country.
There was apparently a ghost of old Johnny who haunted her in the room where he died. There was also a boiler-suited ghost who stalks the corridors of The Moorings switching off lights, jingling keys and flushing toilets.
One incident was decidedly eerie. Miss Ronquillo recalled: 'I was sitting in my bed, with only the bedside light on, reading. It was not a ghost book, but a romantic book. While I was reading I heard something fall and all my records went off the chair and on to the floor.
'I just continued reading and then I stopped. I got goose pimples and felt my hair sticking up. I felt something moving.
'I looked near the wardrobe on the right. There was a shadow of a man, He had thin hair which I could see. He had sandals and white pyjamas. His feet were above the floor.' She subsequently said a prayer under the covers and the apparition was gone and she fell asleep. When she woke up though, the records were back on the chair. Mr George Castelvecchi confirmed it was the ghost of Mr Stiffini who had died in the room in 1973.
However, a week later Miss Ronquillo moved to the staff quarters at the Moorings and again was tormented by more bumps in the night and witnessed the apparition of another man, this time a man dressed in overalls whom the staff recognised by her description to by another ex-employee Mr Matteo Salotti.
Asked what he intended to do about the phantom of the Moorings, Mr Castelvecchi replied: 'Nothing. They are not doing any harm to the staff or to property so we are just going to leave them as they are.'