Way back in July top Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert, visited the Chronicle offices to film a ghost hunt for his BBC television series, Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience

As the cameras rolled Chronicle reporter David Lynch joined the team as they set off in search of spooks.

I’ve been asked to spend the night with a famous comedian.

Rhod Gilbert sits awkwardly in the loft of the Abergavenny Chronicle office, waiting to begin our midnight rendezvous.

But the only wild affair that we have planned is hunting for things that go bump in the night.

When I first braved walking into the Nevill Street offices to ask for work experience, I didn’t imagine I would be here at two o’clock in the morning the next week.

Bright and busy during the daytime, the building takes on a completely different persona at night...particularly tonight.

Its corridors are cluttered with spectre spotting gear, and snaking wires from cameras set up to film paranormal phenomena.

Though I am loathe to admit it, it’s also very spooky. I understand why some might think that the Tindle House offices are haunted.

Rhod is also a sceptic.

"I’ve never believed in ghosts,” he tells me. “But my wife swears that our dog can see something supernatural, and I have plenty of friends who swear they’ve been the victims of haunting.”

So, is there the slightest chance that Rhod might be scared during the evening?

"In the dark and with the right atmosphere, I have started to doubt my usually unwavering scepticism,” he admits.

Rhod is joined by Cwmbran-based ghost hunting group Beyond the Grave, run by husband and wife team Darran and Leanne Pole.

I have been watching their exploits from a monitor.

The camera has shown me a flurry of strange night time activities.

At one point someone was lying under a table, their legs kicking against the floorboards.

At another moment, three members of the Beyond the Grave team glided around the room carrying exotic pieces of tech.

I spoke to Darran about the equipment the team are using.

“It’s mostly specially made to order,” he reveals. “But some pieces I have built myself, like this LauDan meter here.”

Darran proudly cradles a box covered in dials and antennae. It looks a bit like a bat detector, but obviously it’s used for much more sinister discoveries.

Other fantastic pieces of kit are expensive looking night-vision cameras and a ouija board.

There is also something mysteriously called a knocking block, which the spirits supposedly tap to communicate.

"What’s that knocking sound?” an excited member of the team asks at one point, eyes darting around the room as Rhod walks away from a cupboard sniggering to himself.

Leanne is excited to be working with the former Never Mind the Buzzcocks frontman.

“He’s going to have his work cut out with us,’ she laughs. “We plan to take him to the Borough Theatre in Abergavenny, and to Redcliffe caves in Bristol.

“We also have an extra surprise planned. He is going to lead a ghost hunt when we make a private call to a haunted house!”

But will the funny man be willing to play ball?

Tensions rise as the group attempt to use a ouija board.

Rhod is, as ever, wary. "Ask it a question which only you’ll know the answer for,” Darran tells him.

The group then follow the path of the glass around the board.

Someone could be moving it for all I know, but I can’t quite tell from over their huddled shoulders.

The answer they are looking for is the name of Rhod’s first pet rabbit.

But the search for a name is fruitless.

"It was Rupert,” Rhod reveals at the end of the night.

While my snooping around dark buildings comes to an end with the night, Rhod’s goes on.

Rumour has it that for the sixth series of Work Experience he might be doing a different kind of snooping... when he tries his hand at journalism.

See you in the news room Rhod!

• A brief piece of film capured during a ghost hunt at the Abergavenny Chronicle last year, is said by paranormal group Beyond the Grave to be be best ever piece of evidence. See what you think of the spooky clip which shows a figure walking down a stairway from the Chronicle's newspaper archive. At the time the film was taken by a remote camera everyone in the building was accounted for and the third floor library was empty. Is it real....only you can decide!

Comedian Rhod Gilbert’s experiences as a paranormal investigator, filmed during an overnight stay at the Abergavenny Chronicle offices and the town’s Borough Theatre last summer, will be broadcast on BBC-1 Wales next Tuesday (February 23) at 10.40pm.

The programme follows a sceptical Rhod on the hunt for something he doesn’t think exists. Will he find it in our supposedly haunted Tudor building? Is there anything to find? Will he know it when he finds it anyway?

Teaming up with a merry band of local ghost hunters, Rhod is expected to host a paranormal evening for the public and, desperate to meet those beyond the grave, he attempts to put himself in the scariest situations he can find.