S04-E06 - The Haunting of The George Inn Hotel

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Steven Holloway

Haunted Locations, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Strange Phenomena, Documentary Podcast, Folklore, Documentary, Hauntings, Ufos, History, Paranormal, Unexplained Mysteries

4.5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A pub till prints a receipt without power.

A gaunt figure appears on the landing in eighteenth-century clothing.

And beneath an old Preston inn, something buried may have been disturbed.

This episode explores the haunting of The George Inn Hotel, a now-demolished pub in Preston with a deeply unsettling reputation among landlords, staff and witnesses who lived and worked there.

The story centres on Tom and Ann, whose time running the pub became dominated by strange activity: disappearing objects, oppressive atmospheres in the cellar, flying CDs, slamming doors, and repeated encounters with a tall, thin figure in a wide-brimmed hat who seemed to focus his attention on Tom. As the phenomena intensified, the family brought in paranormal investigator Melanie Warren and a team of mediums in an attempt to understand who — or what — was haunting the building.

The case becomes darker still with the discovery of a bereavement ring engraved with the name Robert Clay and the date 1786, found beneath an old gravestone in the pub’s cellar. Local history, rumours of murdered children, a possible connection to a nearby house of correction, and reports of a woman in white all deepen the mystery surrounding the inn.

Blending haunted pub folklore, witness testimony, Preston history, poltergeist-like activity and the unsettling question of what may have been hidden beneath the floor, this is a chilling account of a building that may be gone — but whose story still feels unfinished.

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1:56.3	he was thinking about everything that had gone on whilst he and his family had been there.
2:01.9	It was time to move on. It was time to put their nightmare firmly behind them. A nightmare which had made them
2:09.8	question reality and everything they believed in. A nightmare which certainly brought Tom to the
2:15.8	edge of his sanity.
2:22.3	I think it would be fair to say, Tom and his family were frightened and ready to make their escape and to move on to another pub.
2:27.0	As Tom reflected on this, he watched the new landlord Tony and his wife Debbie move in,
2:33.2	making sure to bring their own till from their previous
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