Sunday, June 21, 2009

UK pub - The Ship Inn is plagued by ghosts

A mysterious grey figure is just one of the ghostly goings-on which have been spooking staff at a village pub near York. Since the Ship Inn, at Acaster Malbis, reopened last month, the riverside pub’s new owners said they have experienced a series of strange incidents. Manager and licensee Alan Deans said the pub’s fire spontaneously lights in the grate and a lamp has been known to suddenly fly from its shelf in the bar. Landlady Carol Temple said she has seen the phantom for herself and was “terrified” when it passed just inches from her. She said: “It was in a storeroom where, funnily enough, we keep the spirits. “I had bent down to get something out of a cupboard and I felt a cold shiver, so I stood up...............