Actress Winslet buys home with "friendly" ghost
( 2001-07-31 14:46 ) (7 )

"Titanic" actress Kate Winslet has been warned she will be sharing a house she has just bought with a ghost, the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

"Titanic" actress Kate Winslet has been warned she will be sharing a house she has just bought with a ghost, the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

"I hope it won't put Kate off. I know people who have seen the ghost and he is definitely friendly," John Mappin, joint owner of the nearby Camelot Castle Hotel, was quoted as saying.

The Telegraph said the British actress had bought the house at Tintagel on England's southwest coast. The house is close to the ruins of Tintagel Castle, said in legend to have been King Arthur's Camelot.

Winslet, 25, who is married with a daughter, planned to renovate the house -- once the home of a worker at the hotel who died about 70 years ago, the newspaper said.

Mappin said some people believed the ghost was that of the hotel worker.

"He has been seen walking from the house to the hotel, as if he is going to work. No one has ever been frightened of him and I think he probably adds character to the house," Mappin said.