Meet the Australian couple who found love as they hunted down spirits

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Meet the Australian couple who found love as they hunted down spirits

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4791274/Adelaide-couple-share-storied-years-ghost-hunting.html

An Australian ghost-hunting couple have revealed what it is like chasing paranormal activity - and how the ghost of a little boy who didn't know he was dead brought them both to tears.

Heather Eckermann, 45, and her partner Werner Schubert, 49, from Adelaide in South Australia, have been hunting ghosts together for more than a decade, but still find their encounters chilling.

The dedicated couple told Daily Mail Australia they have seen and spoken to many ghosts but it took a little boy called Ben who didn't know he was dead to bring them undone.

'I can't pinpoint what it was about him, whether it was his age or if he had died in some tragic accident but he had me in tears,' Heather said.

'He was about five or six and spoke to us about how he was starting school soon and was excited to go shopping for some new shoes.

'It was like he didn't know he was dead - tomorrow was always coming - like he was stuck in a perpetual moment like groundhog day.'

Werner claims he went back to the same cemetery weeks later and the young boy was still waiting there, excitedly chatting about going to get new shoes the next day.

'He even asked where Heather was, he remembered her,' Werner said.

Werner has been ghost hunting since 2004. His mother passed away that year and had been a ghost hunter for as long as he could remember so he decided to pick up where she had left off.

When he met Heather in 2009 he shared his passion with her and they have been hunting for spirits across Australia and the world ever since.

'We spend a lot of time in the Adelaide hills and Barossa Valley, but have been to Queensland and across America too,' he said.