When businessman Anwar Rashid bought the 52-room Clifton Hall, he thought it complemented his millionaire lifestyle perfectly.  But Mr Rashid yesterday claimed his family was left so terrorized by a series of ghostly sightings he had to give up the property to his bank, only eight months after being handed the keys.  The final straw was the appearance of apparently unexplained blood spots on their 18-month-old son's bed clothes.  Mr Rashid, 32, compared his experience to the 2001 horror film The Others.  In the film, which stars Nicole Kidman, a family is apparently forced out of their country home by ghosts.  Mr Rashid said: 'Clifton Hall is a beautiful property. I fell for its beauty but behind the facade it is haunted. We were like the family in The Others. The ghosts didn't want us to be there.'  He said the first experience came hours after the family moved in.

'There was a knock on the wall,' he said. 'We heard this, "Hello, is anyone there?".

'Two minutes later we heard the man's voice again. I got up to have a look but the doors were locked and the windows were closed.'

Mr Rashid, wife Nabila, 25, and their four children bought the house in Clifton, Nottinghamshire, in November 2006.

The family moved in two months later, along with Mr Rashid's brother and their parents.

Mr Rashid, who is worth £25million and made his money through a chain of nursing homes and a hotel in Dubai, said the house then remained quiet for several months until one of the maids said she saw a grey figure sitting on her bed.

He claimed that things began to get really scary when the ghosts started to take on the form of his children.

'On one occasion my wife went downstairs to make milk for the baby at 5am and she saw our eldest daughter watching TV,' the businessman added.

'My wife realised something was up, so she went back upstairs to check on her and found her fast asleep in bed. When we found red blood spots on the baby's quilt, that was the day my wife said she'd had enough. We didn't even stay that night.'  Full Story