McCartney 'fooled by Ouija board prank'

Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that Beatles bandmate George Harrison once tricked him into thinking that he could talk to his dead mother.

The 68-year-old recalled how he, Harrison and John Lennon once experimented with a Ouija board and apparently came into contact with his recently deceased parent.

"We once did an Ouija board thing when we were kids," he confessed to Bang Showbiz. "We weren't really into all that, but somebody said, 'Let's do it', so we were touching the glass saying, 'Okay, nobody push it, okay?' so then, suddenly, it's moving!

"It spells, 'Congratulations... son' and we're going 'No!' and it spells 'Congratulations... son... number... one. In NME'."

Realising that his mother wouldn't have been aware of the music magazine, McCartney remembered that he immediately set about trying to find the culprit of the ghostly prank.

"We were all, 'Oh, f**k off' and then there's George, you know, laughing - he's been pushing it all the time. Bad boy."