The Crown

A former employee, who left in 2012 informed me of some phenomena at this pub. The kitchen is, or at least was, the source of much poltergeist activity including things falling off shelves and plates being ejected in a row from an old oven that was used to keep them warm; and a hot plate of roast potatoes flew off hot plates onto the floor in the restaurant area. A guest who took a room in the lodgings above the pub complained the next day of loud voices downstairs at 2am, and of hearing a young couple running down the upstairs corridor giggling and laughing followed by a horrible voice shouting at them. The guest was told that he was the only guest and there was no "lock in." Another guest had the unsettling experience of someone getting into her bed at night. There has also been the sighting of an old man sitting in the corner of the pub after it had been closed and the alarms were about to be set (the barlady who saw him did not stay long enough to get a better look!). In previous years, the old landlady's young grandchildren had a toy trainset which would come on by itself, and in the early 2000s, a figure appeared in a photograph taken in the bar, seemingly wearing a Tudor ruff.

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