The Shawshank Redemption star Tim Robbins didn't have the same luck with his homely spooks - they beat him and he had to move out of his Hollywood home.

"It was in Los Angeles, 1984," he remembers with chilling accuracy.

"I had just moved into a new apartment in a converted church. I had two cats. I came home one night -- everything was still in boxes -- it was dark and the cats were terrified."

"There were clearly spirits in the room. Then I looked on the wall and there were cockroaches all over it. I moved out the next day."