"We've never lost anyone yet...but you might get touched".

Those were the warning words to Wimbledon's very own ghost-hunter as he arrived at Britain's "most haunted school" to connect with supernatural phenomenon.

Intrepid legal expert Anthony Fairclough lived out his childhood ghost-hunting dream on Saturday night as he joined a night-time tour of the Ragged School Museum in Tower Hamlets.

The former free school for some of London's most deprived children has been described as "a hot spot of paranormal activity" where people have reported to hear tormented cries, laughing and loud bangs.

Mr Fairclough, a self-confessed supernatural "sceptic" decided to take part in the tour because he thought it would be a quirky way to raise money for mental health charity Mind.

The ghost hunt included experimenting with table-tipping, Ouija boards and glass divination. But Mr Fairclough failed to be convinced he was connecting with spirits from the afterlife.

He said: "I think it's fair to say that if you were pre-disposed to believe, you would interpret some of what happened as proof of life after death, but I didn't experience anything that I didn't feel wasn't caused naturally.

"That said, standing in a dark cellar holding hands with strangers and singing 'Ring a ring o' roses' is probably one of the spookier things I've done."

He added: "Perhaps the most impressive thing I saw was a Maglite torch, on the cellar floor being repeatedly turned on and off, apparently by itself.

"One of the organisers kept challenging the spirit of the caretaker to turn the light on and off, whilst we all stood in a circle around it holding hands in the dark.

"And to be fair, it faded out, and then back on. Quite a few times."

Spooked or not, Mr Fairclough succeeded in raising more than £1,600 for Mind.

He said: "There's quite a lot of stigma around mental health conditions and yet there shouldn't be and not talking about it is one of the worst things about it."

To find out more about the charity, visit mind.org.uk.