DAN AYKROYD BORN TO BE GHOSTBUSTER

Ghostbusters star Dan Aykroyd has revealed he was born to the role – because his family home is haunted.
Aykroyd, 58, who is set to team up with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis in a third instalment of the spooky series, has been aware of the spirits all his life.
“I remember when I was about four or five my grandparents and mom and dad discussing what went on in this room,” he recalled of the parlour in the family's 19th century farmhouse in Ontario, Canada.
“It was all in hushed tones, as if I wasn't supposed to hear. It was about the seances that were held here.”
His father, Peter Aykroyd, has a similar memory of watching his own dad, Dr Samuel Aykroyd, conducting a séance and watching tables tipping,words mysteriously appearing on tablets of paper and trumpets floating through the air.
“I knew something important was going on,” Peter, 87, said. “I just didn't know what.”
Now he has written a book, A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Seances, Mediums, Ghosts and Ghostbusters, based on 83 handwritten journals left by his father, with a forward written by Dan.
Dan's 91-year-old mother, Lorraine, calls herself a sceptic about ghosts – but remembered seen a ghostly couple standing at the foot of the bed shortly after Dan was born.
“I called to Peter and described them, and he said it was Dan's grandparents, coming to see the baby,” she told USA Today.
Dan and his parents have separate summer homes on land which has been in the family for nearly 200 years, and Dan has had his own uncanny experience there.
A few years ago he was debating whether to pull down and rebuild his old house and decided to renovate instead after getting a message from above.
“It was as if lightning had hit the house,” he said. “There were three electric snaps. Sharp snaps.”
Now he is delighted to be helping to publicise his father's book and laughed: “I've had to sell some really bad movies in my time so it's great when you can get behind a good product.”
These days Dan is more involved with different spirits, with rights to Patron tequila, a new brand of vodka, Crystal Head, which he is launching this autumn and his own line of wines from the Niagara region of Ontario.
He did not inherit that part of his interest from his grandfather, who believed in temperance.
“That didn't get passed on to me,” he added. “We enjoy the active living spirits of a good drink every now and then.”
Dan joined his Ghostbusters co-stars to provide voices for a video game earlier this year and is due back on the big screen as parapsychologist Dr Raymond Stantz in the third film in 2012.