Ghosts of the hotel

From the day it was opened until present day the hotel has been surprisingly popular with the spirit world, with many residents opting to stay on even after death. The sheer wealth of paranormal activity experienced in the hotel has led to many investigations being carried out and in 2003 to Living TV's 'Most Haunted' programme filming there. The episode in question saw perhaps the most compelling footage in the show's history when a locked off camera caught a bed and chair moving by themselves in the notorious Room 214. This is a room in which guests have woken at night to find themselves being watched over by a ghostly figure. Staff have also seen children running through this and other rooms along what is known as 'the haunted corridor', before disappearing into the wall.

It is also rumoured that a gruesome murder took place on the premises in the early part of the 20th Century. Most Haunted's Derek Acorah elaborated on this by claiming that the body of the victim was put into a beer barrel and rolled out through the cellar chute before being buried at the front of the building somewhere. If this is true, it might explain the sense of foreboding and unexplainable fear that many people feel in the cellar, and why many staff refuse to go down there alone.

The noises that are heard during the night cannot be explained and people have thought that it was just guests in the nearby rooms but one might ask what guests.This is because when some of these noises have been heard the people that have reported it have had nobody in the rooms next tothem.