The 21 year-old says she was forced to call in a psychic medium to cleanse her house and is looking into her own psychic abilities.

A young woman called Leah Lewis, claims she was scratched on the thigh by the ghost of murdered man while she was taking a shower.

The 21 year-old from Newhall, Derbyshire, says she was forced to call in a psychic medium to cleanse her house and is looking into her own psychic abilities.

Leah Lewis said her and mum Colette had endured months of paranormal activity at the hands of the spirit, who she claimed had been helped to “pass to the other side” by medium Ian Griffiths.

Leah said she couldn’t have made the scratches herself because they were too pronounced, writes Staffordshire Live.

She said: “I didn’t feel anything at all (in the shower) until I saw the scratches when I was drying myself. I told my mum and she said I think we need to contact Ian Griffiths now. We had been putting it off for a while but now I had been physically assaulted.”

Mr Griffiths claimed the unsettled spirit followed the young woman home from her work at a shop in nearby by Burton-upon-Trent.

There was speculation from staff the ghost was a man who may have been murdered in the area years before it became a shop, as he was described as aggressive and angry.

Her mother Colette said: “Leah started saying she could see and hear things which none of us could. I remember this one evening driving to my mum’s. She asked me if I saw the little girl stood on the roadside and I was blown away as I couldn’t see anyone.”

Leah started to hear noises and movement upstairs, and then one particular night she says as she left her bedroom and saw a tall, bald, slender man leaving another bedroom.