WWW- The French call orgasms “le petit mort”–“little death.” How appropriate that this world collided with the next at an infamous haunted mansion that was the site of one super-charged sex scene after another in the days leading up to Halloween. Celebrated Scottish director Gazzman (www.gazzman.com) took his cast and crew deep into the English countryside for this mega-shoot for leading UK adult firm Harmony Films.

But the spirits didn’t take kindly to this invasion of flesh. Hungarian hottie Katy Caro was the first to experience their wrath, apparently joined in bed by a ghostly presence. Katy refused to say if the apparition was male or female (or other), telling us only that her visitor was definitely not welcome. Katy’s sheets have been sent out for spectral analysis.

Strange smells, spooky winds and books jumping off shelves were among the phantasmic phenomena. Porn pros weren’t the only witnesses to these blood-curdling occurences. A group of layman were there as guests at the latest outing of “Porn Week,” which gives adult-film fans frontrow seats to top porn productions in the world’s most exotic destinations. (www.pornweek.com)

As the paranormal atmosphere intensified, cast members Olivier Sanchez, Poppy Morgan and Frankie made sightings of a pair of cloaked figures that materialized out of the midnight ether. Olivier, a jungle warfare pro and hardened survivalist, was worst affected: “They just floated across the grass. I have never seen anything like it, not even as a fighter for the French Foreign Legion!”

The pandemonium culminated in a Halloween night freak-out during a huge occult gang-bang scene where cast and crew, clad in monks’ robes, evacuated the set after an unknown figure appeared in the background and subsequently vanished without a trace.

The scene’s star, our own princess of darkness Isabel Ice, said “Bring it on–I’m not scared of the supernatural. In fact, I’ve been known to fuck guys to death, so what’s the difference!” Others were not so brave. The scene had to be finished with a “skeleton” cast and crew as all the extras fled the set for good.

At least one otherworldly mystery was traced to an earthly cause. The “rumbling voices” that startled everyone in the wee hours turned out to be none other than crew member Gordy, whose snoring could wake the dead. Magnified greatly through the ancient air conditioning system, it triggered the porn crew’s fearless leader Gazzman to flee his own spooky room high in the remotest part of the mansion and to curl up on the tiny sofa beside cousin Gordy’s bed. Oddly enough, it was the only way Gazzman could get a good night’s sleep and rise in the morning to crank out top-notch porn, despite ongoing opposition from beyond the grave.