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Pub ghost flushed with success
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BARNSLEY, UNITED KINGDOM. Police in South Yorkshire were alerted when an alarm went off in the Low Valley Arms public house, in the early hours of 24 April. When they arrived at the pub, in the village of Darfield, there was no sign of a robbery. Instead, they found pub landlord Roger Froggat, 55, looking decidedly shaken having encountered a ghost with half a face missing, in the ladies washroom.
The pub landlord was made speechless with shock by the encounter, at 01:30, and, believing he must have seen an intruder, his wife Kathryn called the police.
It was, apparently, not the only paranormal event that night. Froggat had gone into the pub to see if there was an intruder. Instead, finding all the television screens had been turned on, he checked the rest of the premises, and that’s when he encountered a woman in a flowing white gown, with a grotesquely-disfigured face. “I was petrified,” he said later.
When two police officers arrived, they could find no evidence of forced entry. They confirmed that Froggat was badly shaken. What shocked them, according to Inspector John Bowler of South Yorkshire Police, was the sight of a manually-operated toilet repeatedly flushing itself. They left quite scared, he added. The flushing continued, apparently, until 05:00.
Local paranormal investigator Darren Johnson-Smith was one of many interested parties – including the media - – who have since visited Low Valley Arms. He told “Sheffield Today” that he had picked up the name Mary Quantrill when meditating in the ladies toilet, and believes she was an early 19th century traveller whom was murdered by a man with a hoe, on or near the site of the pub.
Froggat and his wife Kathryn have run the pub for a year and, despite rumours of a resident ghost, had witnessed nothing dramatically paranormal until the events of 24 April, though they have heard barrels moving in the cellar, bottles have been smashed, the gas pressure has inexplicable failed several times, and they have regularly experienced cold spots, particularly in the toilets.
Froggat has described the ghostly encounter as “the single most terrifying experience of my life”. Despite that, they say have no plans to leave the village pub.
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Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006
Category: Ghosts
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