Ghosts of the pub

taken from the BBC radio website.

You hear about haunted pubs all the time and I've visited the odd one or two in the past, but have never quite experienced the fear I felt at Molly O'Gradys in the city recently.

"I suddenly started to feel my stomach churning and my whole body shaking."
Rupal Rajani, BBC LeicesterWith the nights drawing in, everything seems just that little bit more scary.

However, when you're invited to visit a grade two listed pub first thing in the morning you don't expect to be spooked quite so much as I was when I met Lorraine the landlady of the pub.


The cellar houses many rooms including the old bar room that's still there complete with the bar. Bits of old furniture no longer used still laying around. And all the usual things you might find in a cellar.


Beware of the ghostly hand!
I Was Scared!
Standing near what used to be the gents toilets chatting away to Lorraine and Paul the barman - I suddenly started to feel my stomach churning and my whole body shaking.

I wasn't, until that point feeling particularly scared, but I felt very uncomfortable all of a sudden. I felt that I needed to get away from the area as soon as possible.

I felt myself struggling for breathe!

It could be that I was just overwhelmed by the whole experience, or suddenly frightened by the conversation, but somehow I don't think so.

As we walked up the stairs and back into the bar, Lorraine also told me that the two dogs they have, refuse to go into the cellar.

Don't they say - that animals have a sixth sense about these things?



That feeling of unease and fear took the whole day to get over. I don't know what's down there, if anything at all!

I do know 'Whoever or Whatever' it is, scared me and it's an experience I really don't want to repeat again in a hurry