Customers spooked as renovation disturbs spirit at ‘haunted’ pub
GHOST IS ‘MISCHIEVOUS, NOT MALICIOUS’, SAYS LANDLADY
GHOSTLY goings on have been reported at a village pub after the owners carried out renovation work.
Customers and staff at the Red Lion in Kegworth say strange things have been going on since building work started last week.
Owner Adrian Cowley said social distancing measures because of the pandemic led him to carry out renovations to make more space for customers – a process which may have awoken a ghostly being.
He said: “Having lived in the village for many years we were aware of the ghost stories surrounding the pub when we took it over last year.
“However, we’ve never seen or heard anything unusual until now.
“To comply with Covid restrictions we’ve had to carry out some structural alterations, and that’s when all this strange activity started.
“It’s almost as though we’ve disturbed something in the fabric of the building.”
According to Mr Cowley, local legend claims that the e building is haunted by the spirit pirit of a Mrs Daniels, a landlady who ran the pub for 40 years in the early 1900s.
The woman is said to have died on the day that she handed the pub over to the new landlord.
Current landlady ady Vanessa Gage said she e has “definitely felt an unusual sual presence” in some of the rooms since the building work began.
She said: “The pub is an 18th century coaching inn with a series of small rooms. To make it more Covid-friendly, we decided to open up two of the rooms to make more space for customer seating.
“That seems to have sparked this
strange activity, glasses have been mysteriously falling off shelves and I have definitely felt an unusual presence in certain rooms of the building. “Whatever, or whoever it is, their spirit seems to be mischievous rather than tha malicious and, after a all, every pub needs a go good ghost story.” O One particular incid dent has been e etched into the memory of a pub regular when his pint inexplicably “flew off the table”. The customer, who wan wanted to be referred to on only as John, said: “I was sitt sitting and chatting in the bar whe when my pint just shot off the table.”
Bartender Beth witnessed this ghostly happening. She said: “It was a fairly quiet night in the pub.
“I was clearing glasses and talking with the customers when there was a loud bang and John’s pint flew off the table, sending beer all over the floor and the seats.”
Glasses have been mysteriously falling off shelves and I have definitely felt an unusual presence Vanessa Gage
Owners of the Red Lion at Kegworth knocked part of a wall down to make room for customers – apparently disturbing the resident ghost