Ghost entry for this location:


Regency Tavern


32-34 Russell Square, Brighton and Hove, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 2EF
01273 325652

One of the ghosts here is thought to harken back to the time the building was a cobbler's and is said to be his daughter. She was said to be disabled and was incarcerated in a first floor room after some unspecified "trangression." She smelt gas and threw herself from the window in a panic in an attempt to escape. Weird Wiltshire adds that, "She survived initially but sadly later died. Her panicked apparition is sometimes seen at the first-floor window or in the building. Another report says her ghost was seen in the building in a wheelchair heading towards a bricked window. She then disappears into the wall because there is no window there." There is some confusion over this ghost, with some saying that her futile escape actually occurred at the Regency Hotel.
Two former landladies are said to haunt this pub; the first is a Mrs Penfold who had a heart attack and died after football hooligans smashed the windows of her pub in the 1990s. The second is a Mrs Edlin, who ran the pub between 1894-1902 after her husband died. She is described as being "a slim, grey-haired lady [who] was apparently a nice person in life."
There are other interesting phenomena; chairs that were left on tables after closing were found back on the floor the following morning; black shadows being seen out of the corner of the eye; ornaments and other items have been found moved (in one case in a locked room); a woman wearing a long old-fashioned dress in the cellar, and who "exuded a weird green luminosity"; and dogs and cats being reluctant to go up to the first floor and reacting to something only they could see.

Link: Weird Wiltshire

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