Chilling CCTV captures ghostly goings on at the UK's 'most haunted' museum - including the moment a 16th century skeleton smashed in an empty room in the middle of the night.

The Museum of Curiosities lays claim to being one of the most haunted places in the country with thousands of cursed artefacts and spooky oddities.

Staff at the Nottingham attraction now refuse to work night shifts there due to the amount of paranormal activity going on- with some of it being captured on camera.

Hair-raising footage shows a 400-year-old human skeleton worth £12,000 falling to the ground and shattering despite nobody being inside the building at the time.

In another creepy clip the same room can be seen filling with a mysterious mist which triggers the security alarm but then suddenly disappears.

Owner Steve Wesson, 52, says its not uncommon for the alarm to get tripped 'by ghosts' in the middle of the night while items are often moved about by spirits

The former paranormal investigator has spent several years building up a collection of

thousands of eerie objects and curiosities inside his house of horrors.

He said: "When you get a collection and it gets too big, it turns into a museum. "

"I used to go ghost hunting. As we went around we collected bits and bobs, oddities and weird stuff. Now we've got four floors full of it. "

"The security alarms always get set off in the middle of the night for something. It was going off two times a week at one point and it contacts the local police."

"There was stuff moved around the museum while it was closed, stuff does get moved around a lot. "

"The mist video was in June and only lasted 30 seconds and it triggered the alarm. The mist was around the whole room, there's no draft in there or anything."

"The mist has happened around three or four times since we've been there. "

"The skeleton that smashed was a 16th century skeleton in the corner, it just blew up it into little fragments all over the room. "

"People said did we do that, we don't smash £12,000 worth of displays. It shattered for no reason. "

"The staff won't stay there after dark any more. Some people have been pushed down the stairs."

"It's a really bizarre place."

The museum is home to at least 50 real human skulls and features a bone library full of human skeletal remains as well as creepy dolls and mummified animals.

There's also books from the Enfield hauntings, paintings done by serial killers, movie props from The Exorcist - and even the UK's largest ouija board.

Paranormal enthusiasts have come from all over the country and a film crew from the USA made the trip over for an episode of World's Most Haunted Places.

Steve, who has run the city centre museum for nearly two years, added: "We've got quite a lot of human skulls now. "

"We've got old Viking skulls, old Satanic ritual skulls, we've got quite a lot now. We've got 50 in total. We've even got a Saxon skeleton."

Steve has built up his spooky collection over the years and says he's part of an inner circle of collectors who swap freaky objects.

The building is an old cinema which has a graveyard inside, while just a few buildings up is where Nottingham's main morgue was.

Steve added: "We're like a little club who knows everyone. We all stick together, if anything comes up in their collection, they ask if we're interested. It's like a select circle of the top guys."

"The item that I like the most is a book from the Enfield haunting. It's a book from the shelf at the time. It has writing inside that we keep private."

"We've got dolls from the Island of the Dead Dolls in Mexico, they're cool as you can't even get on the island anymore. "

"We've got vampire slaying kits, we've got loads of different things. We've even got the taxidermy lion from the film Cleopatra."

"I used to be the senior manager for a wine seller. Then I went on a ghost tour many years ago and it went from that. "

"The best bits are the bits that you get for free, the bits that people don't want. "

"It's a cool place, I've spent many a night there but its not for the faint hearted."