Haunt (audio story)

 was the second story in the audio anthology Visitants, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lizzie Hopley and featured Angela Bruce as Brigadier Bambera, Alex Jordan as Sergeant Savarin and Yemishi Oyinloye as Dr Louise Rix.

Publisher's summary
Bambera joins Rix on an excursion up north to investigate strange goings on at the abandoned Greensands Hotel. Are local legends true that the hotel is haunted by a murderous bogeyman known as Baghead, or is there a more down-to-earth explanation? The only way to uncover the truth is to stay in the hotel overnight, but their digging into the building's past has awoken something that would have been better left alone.

Plot
Rix takes Bambera to Greensands, Merseyside to visit The Dunes Hotel, which MP Malcolm Climber wanted to have demolished before he disappeared. She shows Bambera to the basement where a construction man was attacked by a man with a bag on his head, whom he believed to be Climber, and plays a recording by an architect from a week later. Bambera is unimpressed, but agrees to investigate on the condition that Rix have Savarin complete her paperwork for a month.

Bambera and Rix stay at the hotel overnight without incident but, when Rix replays a recording, she hears a voice say "you will die" and a child cry. At the library, Rix listens to a recording about Baghead by Clare Yale, who went missing fifteen years ago, and is told by journalist Dom McNeil to read the microfilms on the Wells family. The Wellses owned the hotel from 1915, when it was briefly an army hospital; Graham Wells died in an asylum two months ago and his son, Alan, is in prison for murdering his mother.

Rix puts a UNIT trace on Clare Yale, who believed that Baghead was a "vessel for the lost", but Bambera believes that it is a hoax trying to shut down Lantern Constructions' development of The Dunes. Promised ice cream in addition to breakfast, Bambera goes with Rix to the asylum where Nurse Bannister shows them photographs of scratches on Graham allegedly caused by his son and tells them that Graham believed that his wife's ghost held his hand at night. This reminds Rix of various other stories of people who stayed at the hotel complaining about somebody holding their hand in the night.

to be completed

Cast

 * Brigadier Winifred Bambera - Angela Bruce
 * Sergeant Jean-Paul Savarin - Alex Jordan
 * Dr Louise Rix - Yemisi Oyinloye
 * Dom McNeil - Nathaniel Curtis
 * Baghead - Jason Forbes
 * Clare Yale - Chandrika Chevli
 * Nurse Bannister - Sarah Griffin
 * Landau - Lesley Ewen
 * Talbot - Timothy Blore
 * Joyce - Liz Sutherland-Lim

Continuity
to be added