Celebrity ghost encounters: 10 stars who have had terrifying paranormal experiences as Alexa Chung claims her Tudor engagement ring is 'haunted'

With spooky season sending shivers down our spines, there's no better time to delve into the mysterious world of ghosts and the paranormal.While celebrities are used to living extraordinary lives in the spotlight, some claim their strangest experiences are unexplainable.From haunted hotels to unexpected visitors in their own homes, these famous faces have stories that will leave you sleeping with the lights on.Most recently, Alexa Chung has claimed her Tudor engagement ring from Sienna Miller's ex Tom Sturridge is 'haunted'. But she is just one of several stars who have claimed to have been linked to some form of paranormal activity over the years.Here are 10 celebrity ghost encounters that are guaranteed to give you goosebumps. Celebrity ghost encounters: 10 stars who have had terrifying paranormal experiences as Alexa Chung claims her Tudor engagement ring is 'haunted'Alexa Chung's 'haunted' engagement ringWhen Alexa Chung confirmed her engagement to Sienna Miller's ex Tom Sturridge she revealed Tom proposed with a 'haunted' Tudor ring.While the fashion star adores her historic diamond ring, she mused that there could be something unsettling about its origins.'My engagement ring is a Tudor... Tom knows how much I adore vintage and antiques, and he got me a beautiful Tudor ring. It's like a table-cut diamond,' Alexa told More Or Less magazine.The ring's design reminded her of jewellery worn by figures at the court of Henry VIII, including his famously ill-fated second wife Anne Boleyn.She explained: 'When I went to the National Portrait Gallery and looked at images of Anne Boleyn and all the other people who perished at the hands of Henry VIII, a lot of them had these rings on.'But Alexa's choice of engagement jewellery prompted an unexpected reaction from a friend while she was preparing for a fashion show in Paris.She recalled that her hairstylist, Alexandri, exclaimed: 'Oh my god, I think your ring is haunted.'Alexa continued: 'He took it off my finger and started making wishes around it and blowing on it. So I hope that my ring isn't haunted. Or do I? Because that's iconic.'Matthew McConaughey's visit from Madame Bleu Matthew McConaughey had a ghostly encounter while doing press for his movie Ghosts of Girlfriends PastMatthew McConaughey had a ghostly encounter while doing press for his 2009 movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.He previously said that his home in Hollywood was haunted by a spirit named Madame Bleu.‘I was not even under the influence and she was there,' he told ScreenSlam.'She wasn’t that happy, it didn’t seem like she was going to be much fun to hang around or have in my house, so I went ahead and stood my ground.'‘You can move around all you want but I’m not going anywhere,’ he told her, encouraging guests to say the same thing.Anyone that visits his house noticed ‘someone down the hall.’Matthew added that eventually he stopped getting visits from Madame Bleu.Miley Cyrus's visit from the late Dolly Parton Miley Cyrus said her late godmother Dolly Parton visited her after her passing (Dolly and Miley pictured together in 2019) Miley Cyrus's godmother Dolly Parton may have passed away in August, but the country singer is convinced she had an encounter with her spirit.During a concert earlier this month, the singer spoke about an unexplained experience with what she presumed to be Dolly's ghost following. 'I actually have a Dolly mannequin in my bedroom. She gave it to me for Christmas. It's dressed like her, it's built like her,' Miley started by saying. 'When I was by myself, I actually took my phone and I played Jolene for her on video, holding it up to the mannequin, and lit a candle. I put a flower down for her.'Miley said she tried to reach out to her godmother, urging her to communicate. 'I said, "Dolly, if you're here right now, flicker the lights",' she said.According to the singer, the lights in her hallway began flickering. 'So, I know she's here with me tonight,' Miley continued, adding that she felt Dolly's presence was helping her. 'I'm feeling some of the feelings that I'm most afraid of, and having her here with me is getting me through,' she told fans. Jason Manford's terrifying FaceTime call Jason Manford said his daughter saw a ghost behind him while on a FaceTime callWhile he's known for being a funnyman, Jason was left terrified after his daughter claimed she saw a ghost of a murdered star.In 2012, the comedian was in his dressing room in a West End theatre when his four-year-old daughter asked him who was the man stood behind him.He recalled how she then described seeing a crying soldier standing in the room at the Adelphi theatre on the Strand.Jason later told the theatre company manager about what happened and was told that he was the ghost of the late William Terriss – who was murdered at the stage door in the 1800s.Recalling the tale during an apperance on Alan Carr's Life's a Beach podcast, he said: 'There were lots of people in much bigger dressing rooms than I - I was in a small dressing room. And, like I said, dead by half eight, so sat by myself. 'So I'd FaceTime the kids, my youngsters were maybe three or four at that point. So one day I'm FaceTiming home and out of nowhere, my daughter just goes, "Daddy", I went "What", she went, "Who's that man behind you?"'He told his daughter that nobody was there but she replied: 'There is - there's a man behind you.' Jason continued: 'Anyway, my wife at the time and her sister couldn't see anything so we just moved on. 'A couple of days later, it happened again. [She'd ask] "Who's the man behind you?" I'd say, "There's nobody there". She was starting to get a bit upset because we were saying there wasn't anybody there.'Jason said that when his daughter told him a third time the man was there he asked her what the man looked like.She described a man dressed as a soldier crying.He said: 'Anyway, I mentioned it to the company manager a few days later, I said, I said, oh, weird story, funny story - I went with that angle.'And when I told him, he went, "Oh, that'll be William". I said, "Oh f**k, what do you mean? Who's William?"''So I Google his story and he's on that. He was an actor and performer, director, all sorts.' Jason concluded: '[In] 1900 or something like that, he was the star of a show that he'd written... [he was] murdered at the stage door, stabbed at the stage door. The stage door that's under my dressing room.'Murdered by his understudy at stage door. And he was in a show that night that he'd written called The American Secret Service, where he was playing a soldier.'Hugh Grant's 'shimmering light' Hugh Grant claims he saw a 'shimmering light'Hugh Grant believes he had an encounter with a ghost orb while staying at a castle.The actor recalled seeing a mysterious 'shimmering light' in the middle of the night after a fight with his girlfriend in the middle of the night.She ran out of the room and into the depths of the castle, with the actor going to check on her moments later.He told HELLO! magazine: 'I stood on the landing at the top of the stairs and suddenly, at my feet, just on the floor, there was a white shimmering light around my feet.'He continued: 'Then it went through me, down the corridor, through a wall into the main bedroom. 'The next morning, I said to the woman who owned the castle that I'd seen this thing and she said, 'I know – it's up there the whole time.''Hugh explained that it was known as the Third Duchess or something. He described it as the pattern of those 'big old dresses with a bustle'.'I saw it – and I wasn't drunk,' he insisted. Kylie Jenner's haunted house Kylie Jenner is convinced her home is haunted Last year, Kylie Jenner claimed on The Kardashians that her home is 'very haunted'.During an episode of their hit reality show, Kylie opened up about the eerie situation while speaking to her mother, Kris Jenner, and Scott Disick during a visit to the Kylie Cosmetics headquarters.'I have a situation. My house is, like, very haunted, and I need your help,' the entrepreneur admitted.She continued: 'So it started with just bangs - bangs in the walls.'As she noted about the occurrences, including a pot and a pan banging or like a knock on the door, Scott wondered if it was due to a broken pipe. 'No, it's like if someone maybe fell or something. And they happen randomly. It's either a bang night or it's not a bang night,' Kylie Jenner shared.She added: 'When I'm sleeping, I'll wake up to things falling in my bathroom, in my closet. Like people can't sleep over.'The ordeal was so severe that her sister, Kendall, had to leave her house 'in the middle of the night'.Kylie added: 'It was too freaky for her.'Ariana Grande's visit from a demon Ariana Granda claims she had an encounter with a demonAriana was asked in November 2013 if she believed in ghosts and aliens, she replied: 'Of course.'She explained that she had a demonic experience while she was in Kansas City visiting a haunted castle.The singer told Complex: 'The next night, we wanted to go to Stull Cemetery, which is known as one of the seven gates to hell on Earth… I felt this sick, overwhelming feeling of negativity over the whole car, and we smelled sulphur, which is the sign of a demon, and there was a fly in the car randomly, which is another sign of a demon.'Ariana continued: 'I was like, "This is scary, let’s leave". I rolled down the window before we left and said, "We apologise. We didn’t mean to disrupt your peace".'The hitmaker said that she took a picture and claimed that there were three distinct faces in the image.'They’re faces of textbook demons,' she added.Keanu Reeves saw a 'cool' ghost with no legs Keanu Reeves saw a ghost when he was six Keanu said that he was six or seven years old at the time when he saw a ghost.When asked by Jimmy Kimmel during his late-night show in 2014, if he'd ever seen a ghost, he replied: 'Yes, when I was a kid. I was in New York - I was probably like six or seven years old, new apartment, we'd come from Australia.'The Matrix star continued, 'Renata, our nanny, was in the bedroom, and there was a doorway and all of a sudden this jacket comes waving through the doorway, this empty jacket - there's no body, there's no legs.'Then it just disappears, and I was a little kid and I thought, "OK, that's interesting", and I looked over at the nanny and she's like this,' Keanu said, and showed off a horrified expression.'Is that a ghost? Or just some weird floating jacket?' I asked.Lily Collins was visited by Ted Bundy's victims Lily Collins said that she was visited by Ted Bundy's victimsLily Collins said that she was visited by Ted Bundy's victims. The actress, who starred as Bundy's ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer in the 2019 Netflix movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, told The Guardian that she 'started being woken up by flashes of images, like the aftermath of a struggle' while preparing for her role.She added: 'I discovered that 3AM is the time when the veil between the realms is the thinnest and one can be visited.''I didn't feel scared — I felt supported,' she said. 'I felt like people were saying: "We're here listening. We're here to support. Thank you for telling the story".'Jessica Chastain's haunted staycation Jessica said that she was filming a lot of night scenes for The Huntsman when she experiences a ghostly encounter in her hotel room when she returned at 3amJessica said that she was filming a lot of night scenes for The Huntsman when she experienced a ghostly encounter in her hotel room when she returned at 3am.'As I started taking my clothes off to put my pyjamas on, the light started to dim and I thought, "OK, I might be having a stroke,"' she said during an appearance on The Late Late Show.'Every light in the room, even the bedside tables, slowly started to go on,' the actress added, saying that she felt like she 'was on some alien spaceship.'Jessica said the room also 'went pitch black' and she spoke aloud to the spirit in the hopes that it would leave her alone.