Ghost-Hunting Couple Set for Life

Since winning the National Lottery Set for Life game, a lucky Nottinghamshire woman has packed in her day job to focus on ghost-hunting.

Laura Hoyle, 39, of Hucknall, has thrown in her role at a logistics firm so that she and her husband can focus on tracking down wayward spirits full-time, funded by an amazing prize of £10,000 pounds a month for the next 30 years.

Her husband Kirk Stevens, 37, has decided to keep his job as an aeronautical engineer at Rolls Royce but will still find the time to accompany his wife on paranormal adventures.

The couple have been ghost-hunting for years and run a YouTube channel chronicling their haunting experiences.

Since their lottery win, they have visited Nottingham’s Museum of Justice, a former courtroom, prison, and police station that was voted one of the UK’s most haunted locations on the TV programme Most Haunted.

Mrs Hoyle described the experience: “We experienced a lot. In the courtroom, we had more activity in just that one place than we normally have on any visit.

"We also heard footsteps above us while in the Sheriff’s Dungeon even though we were metres below the surface sandwiched by sandstone." “I never thought that one day we’d be able to do something like this”, said Mr. Stevens.

"It was a dream come true. We would never have been able to enjoy an event like this before the win.

"Ask any paranormal investigator what their dream is, and they’d say good equipment and to have access to all areas to a venue like the Justice Museum. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, this whole experience is because of our win and now we have done it, we have the realisation that having this Set For Life win will afford us so many future opportunities, not just with paranormal investigation, but with all our hobbies.

“This win means we are literally ‘set for life’ and we are going to fill every single second."