Haunting
The inn has been widely reported to be haunted. The owners of the inn make no secret of it, describing the inn as having "resident ghosts", and as a place of "paranormal activities of dark deeds done in the night". In fact, the inn capitalises upon its ghostly apparitions in the promotion of it and has several ghost themes within it including a Casper the ghost cartoon-like figure on the wall with a match to warn for a fire. The inn has been featured in an episode of the British TV programme, Most Haunted, first aired on the TV channel LIVINGtv on April 6, 2004, which the Most Haunted team described as one of the spookiest places they had ever visited.
Even though the inn was subject to "temperance" in the 1900s, the ghost stories persist in different apparitions. Considering the innumerable ghost stories related to the inn, "The Ghost Society" investigated the matter. Of particular interest to these investigations were the strange events reportedly noticed in the Smuggler's Bar, the Stable Bar, the restaurant and in bedroom 4 on the upper floor.
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Famous quotes containing the word haunting:
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
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—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“You go to my head and you linger like a haunting refrain.”
—Haven Gillespie (1898–1975)