Posted on 04/26/2006 8:43:13 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
British police responding to a call about a possible break in at a pub in northern England Monday found themselves in the middle of a ghoulish riddle.
Officers arrived at the Low Valley Arms pub near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, 250 miles north of London, after being told the alarm had been set off, but instead of finding any signs of a robbery, they were faced with a shaken landlord convinced he had encountered a ghost with half a face missing in the ladies washroom.
Though they saw no ghoul-- described as a woman in flowing white gown-- officers were shocked to find toilets flushing themselves, said Inspector John Bowler of South Yorkshire Police.
Pub landlord Roger Froggat, 55, and his wife Kathryn, 49, moved in a year ago and said they had seen nothing before, despite rumors of a resident specter.
"I heard the alarm go off for a second time, went into the pub and all the television screens had turned on," the pub owner said.
"I went to check the rest of the pub and standing in the women's lavatories was a woman with half her face missing. I was petrified."
Officers found no signs of forced entry and were left quite scared, Bowler added.
Since the ghost story became public, the pub has become the talk of the town, attracting everyone from mediums to a national television film crew determined to catch a glimpse of the mystery woman should she appear again.
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Too much booze will do that to ya!
call Derek Acorah!
If not him
call.....
THE GHOST BUSTERS!
lol!
To my mind the jury's out on ghosts.
I'm an open minded skeptic.
England, of course! Where else do people have so much invested in ghosts and hauntings?! Give me a break!
Spooky ping!
Ghost Ping!!
Smart pub owner.
This is great pub-licity.
;-)
Thanks for the ping.
Any place where people have been for a historically significant amount of time seems to collect things like this - whether it's stories or the real thing.
As the USA as a whole nation (not the people in the country, the country itself) gets older, more strange stuff will be reported.
Good scam to attract the tourists!
Now he just needs some green jello and a timer on the flushing toilets...it could be his "old faithful".
When it's a business reporting spooks, I can't help but immediately think it's the money. So, didn't the police investigate the toilets or just drop it?
Is Hillary now channeling Eleanor Roosevelt in England?
Thanks for the ping CurlyBill. Love the ghost stories! Mr. Sneakers and I are going to Gettysburg for our 25th wedding anniversary next month! Going to do all the ghost tours! (Now if I can only find that darned Triangle Field!)
Three sheets to the wind takes on a new meaning here.
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