English pub reports spirits of a different kind

Workington - A ghost at a Workington pub is spooking bar staff, its landlord Shaun Gardner has told the local news and they want to locate a medium to bring into the pub to find out if there is a spirit – of the other world – hanging around in the cellar.

Just in time for Halloween, staff at the recently taken-over Brewery House, on Main Road, in High Harrington, claim to have reported sightings of a ghost which inhabits the cellar and front bar. They say they think it is the ghost of a man who died in the pub several years ago, according to a report in the Time and Star. Regular drinkers at the pub – who admittedly are no strangers to spirits – say the ghost, which they refer to as a 'he', sits in the same seat, under the TV in the front bar. He sits quietly, waiting and watching the bartender and the pubs patrons. Recently the pub says he has begun to spook their barmaid, Natalie Taylor, 21. It's reported she is so terrified of his presence in the cellar that she refuses to go there alone. Taylor will wait outside the bar till the first patrons arrive or another employee has shown up for their appointed shift. Taylor says she started working at the pub in August, but has known about the ghost for a number of years. “Years ago a friend of mine lived in this pub and she warned me," she added. And that is not all she had to say, “Stuff would move from one place to another or go missing without any explanation. The cellar gives me the creeps. It’s damp, cold and has a weird atmosphere, a definite presence. There’s something not right down there," according to Taylor and the pub's loyal patrons and it's not the booze creating the easily seen apparition.