The Doncaster Free Press occupies premises on the fittingly named Printing Office Street in the city centre, a building with the ordinary, unremarkable working history of a provincial newspaper office rather than any single dramatic event attached to its past. Staff there have nonetheless reported cold spots and unexplained footsteps moving around the building after hours, the kind of low-level, persistent haunting story common to older commercial buildings once the working day has ended and everyone else has gone home for the night.
The most detailed account by far comes from an overnight investigation carried out specifically on Halloween, 31 October 2008, in which the visiting team reported encountering a genuinely specific cast of figures: a little boy and his mother, a man identified as a former boxer, an insurance clerk, and a tailor, five distinct presences with distinct implied occupations rather than the vaguer, more generic cold-spots-and-footsteps reports typical of most office hauntings recorded elsewhere in this collection.
No individual identities or dates are attached to any of the five beyond their stated occupations, and the 2008 Halloween investigation itself stands as the primary source for this level of detail, rather than any older, independently attested local tradition stretching back through the building's own working history as a newspaper office. It remains, in that sense, a haunting almost entirely defined by one specific night's organised investigation rather than by decades of accumulated staff testimony.
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