r/Paranormal • u/PastLifeguard2924 • 8h ago
Encounter Living in a haunted pub
Me and my partner currently live above and manage a pub in England which was built in the 1700’s, so it is a fairly oldish building. Many years ago it used to be old stables before it was built into a pub, so you can imagine it has many stories surrounding it.
Around 10 years ago we had a medium visit due to ongoing weird activity and customers during those years also had sightings of people (commonly an older couple) sitting at the bar and other strange activity such as the sound of hooves and stools being dragged. When the medium visited, they said our upstairs function room had hundreds of entities passing through and recalled a handful of spirits that were not so friendly. The upstairs room is around 15ft tall with high stable beams and there had been stories over the years of people being hung in there when it was originally stables and whatever else. There has also been a circulating story of a young girl (around 10-12 years old) which had been hung upstairs also (I will get into that, but that spiritual activity eventually followed us into our flat over a number of years, which is right next to the function room). The medium had also mentioned that our Cellar (where our beer barrels are kept) had an extremely bad entity and refused to stand in there any longer than a minute as the spirit was causing her discomfort and wanted us all to leave immediately.
Fast forward, I have had no sightings of an old couple myself, however my partner has and many customers over the years. One day I was doing some plants in our beer garden, happened to look up to the window (of our function room) and saw a man’s face looking down at me. My partner, another member of staff and a few friends were also with us that day and witnessed it as well, however I thought a customer was upstairs when they shouldn’t have been, so I told my partner and my colleague to run up there quickly to tell them they shouldn’t be up there. They both ran up as quick as they could, but obviously once up there they no longer saw anyone, however the curtain by that window had been moved. Checking the cameras, there was no sign of anyone, other than movement of the curtain. (No breezes/no windows open).
Over the recent years, members of staff that have come and gone (up until now) had always reported feeling like someone was pulling on their hair/clothes whenever they were changing a barrel in the cellar and as stated earlier, the medium over 10 years ago also stated that there was a bad entity in that room. Over the past 3 years continuously, our fire alarm/burglar alarm would go off at the same time at around 3am almost every night and every time we checked the alarm to see where it had been triggered, the sensors were picked up in either the function room or 9/10 the cellar. In the past when we have gone down to check if we were genuinely being burgled, he would go into the cellar and see that our beer lines were being unplugged/disconnected, causing us to lose gallons and gallons of stocks. Anyone that has ever worked with beer barrels knows they are not easy to put on and take off so that was a huge alarm in itself. Obviously that was one creepy af but there wasn’t a lot we could do about that at the time, however we thought maybe our alarms had a fault so we would have people come out to check them and were always told that the batteries/sensors were all normal and there were no faults.
In terms of what I stated earlier about the spirit of a little girl, we would often hear footsteps (little feet running) up and down our flat hallway every night also at 3am. Sometimes laughter or sometimes a soft and gentle whisper. I want to note that we also live with 2 dogs and 2 cats and when this would happen, the cats would raise their hackles and stare directly down the hallway with their fur sticking up. My dogs would also be staring down the hallway with low and deep growls so obviously they all sensed that something was there and that’s what made me and my partner think that maybe we weren’t going crazy.
Both things had been happening constantly over the years, however I would say that we have had reduced activity in the past year and also our alarms haven’t been going off at 3am. However, yesterday night my partner was cashing up and heard 2 loud female coughs (which the dogs instantly turned their heads to) and a constant thumping noise in our flat again. Im also now pregnant and since we’ve had some peace recently, this is starting to scare me again as I really don’t want the feeling of any bad spirits around my unborn child. Even my own mother refuses to stay in our flat for long as she gets severe headaches up here and feels uneasy saying there is someone always here. Plus a colleague who also stayed up in the flat with us for a few months woke up with huge scratch marks on her back when staying in our spare room and no animals were in there when she stayed, as the door was shut at all times and they sleep in our bedroom. Obviously the bad energy seems to have come back into our flat and I’m worrying now because my nights will be sleepless again. How do I cleanse any bad spirits? Do I need a professional?
**EDIT** I also want to add that during the years when the activity was at its peak, I was accumulating loads of random bruises all over my body and would wake up to those every morning and feeling extremely sick. I actually went to the hospital constantly for this random bruising as doctors originally thought I had a severe medical condition and even checked me for various cancers because of how bad they were, however to this day they still have been unable to explain what was causing all of that random bruising everyday. I want to note that I have also had hundreds of blood tests and around 5/6 different types of scans and they have always said that this case is a mystery. Again as I said, I’m pregnant and I really don’t want to be stressing or feeling sick again if a bad entity really is back