Is this Britain’s tidiest ghost? Spooked landlord reckons he’s caught a spook cleaning up his pub
Eerie footage shows a mop seemingly fly across a table with no explanation - but is it a helpful ghost?
A SPOOKED landlord reckons his pub could be haunted by Britain's tidiest ghost – after catching the ghoul on camera, cleaning up his tavern.
Eerie footage shows licensee Katie Ann Round, 31, placing an A-board as well as a mop in the back room of the boozer after closing time last week.
However, after she left the room at The Chapel House in Dudley, West Midlands, the yellow wet floor sign seems to move mysterious before inexplicably folding itself up neatly on the floor.
Then, as her fiancé Ben Parkes, 35, enters the shot, the mop in the corner is launched across the nearby table.
Katie and business partner James Stevens, 39, say that they are now calling in paranormal investigators to try and shed some light on the ghostly goings-on.
James, who has been running the pub with Katie for the last three months, said: "I was in my bedroom at the time and they came running up the stairs.
"They have watched the footage after the mop fell over and they were both a bit frightened by what they saw.
"And so was I. When I watched it back I just thought 'what the hell is that?'.
“It sent a chill down my spine.
"The locals have told us about a few ghostly goings on over the years and the pub has been around since 1830.
"There's been lots of talk about strange things happening here but this was our first experience of it.
"I'm not really a believer in ghosts, but this makes you really think. It was a really weird experience and freaked me out a bit.
"But we have to say it must be Britain's tidiest ghost. It did a very good job."
RELATED STORIES
Katie, from Tividale, West Midslands, added: "I was cleaning up at the end of the night and heard something in the kitchen.
"I went out to look and couldn't see anything so I thought it was my other half pulling my leg.
"Ben jumped out of his skin when the mop fell over.
“When we looked at the footage later, we couldn't believe it.
"I didn't believe in ghosts at all but this really spooked me. There have been other incidents since.
"Last Friday a glass on a shelf above the bar propelled off and hit me hard in the chest."
Ben and Katie began to research into the pub after their ghostly encounter and discovered that it was over 200 years old.
Ben added: "It turns out that the cellar at the pub, and the arches in the cellar were barred and used as overflow cells for the nearby police station.
"Sometimes you can hear footsteps coming up stairs but then they just stop."
What do you think? A tidy spook or is there another explanation?