The ghost of Michael Jackson is tap-dancing, says La Toya

Michael Jackson's sister is convinced he haunts his former family home.

La Toya Jackson claims a family bodyguard has heard a series of unexplained noises in the property in Encino, California, which she thinks can only be explained by the presence of her brother's spirit in the house.

She said: "He says that he hears someone tap-dancing. Michael used to do that every Sunday for two hours.

"When he told me I said: 'You're kidding', that made me want to know even more about hearing someone tap-dance over a certain part of the house.

"We go up there and no one's up there ... just tap-dancing.

"Every single night the dog barks and he looks up at this certain window... I said: 'That's where Michael's bedroom was, that's where he stayed'," she said.

"[The dog] barks at a certain time every night and he just keeps barking and looking at it."

[comment]Here's a clip of 'the Michael Jackson ghost' at Neverland[/comment].

La Toya insists she has also felt a "presence" that she thinks is the late King of Pop - who died of acute Propofol intoxication in June 2009 - even though she has no proof.

She told 'Good Day New York: "It's the strangest thing. You feel something, like, thick around you or behind you and you're wondering ... You don't see anything, but you feel a presence.

"It's very interesting because it is there, it's definitely there."