Luton ghost buster and jazz drummer, Tony Broughall, has died in Kings Lynn at the age of 80.
He had been in poor health for some time.
His friend – author and fellow paranormal enthusiast, Paul Adams - said: “Tony was the town’s original ghost buster and wrote the first gazetteer of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire hauntings in the early 1970s.
“I edited and published it in 2010 as Two Haunted Counties, to favourable reviews. “He was born in Ashburnham Road and in his early days was an ace jazz drummer.
“He organised Luton’s first jazz festival at the Old Alma Theatre and jammed on one occasion with Dudley Moore, no less.”
But he suffered from diabetes and lost a leg through the condition 17 years ago.
Tony met his wife Georgina when they were both working at Dunstable’s ABC.
“We were both only children,” she said. “He was from a strong Spiritualist family.
“I became a lot more interested in that side of things after we got together.
“He was a lovely man, always telling jokes and making people laugh.”