Maesmawr Hall Hotel

Long Length
Caersws
Newtown
Wales
SY17 5SF

History

This Tudor manor was built in 1535 and the surrounding area was once occupied during Roman Times. Now a listed building, Maesmawr Hall became a notable sporting estate for shooting game and once housed a Welsh Long House in its grounds. During the 1870s it was owned by a John Pryce Davies and remained in his family until around the 1900s. The hall is now owned by Nigel Humphryson and is run as a hotel.

Paranormal Activity

This half-timbered house has many folk tales and myths attached to it from Robin Drwg, a half man half beast that was ritually cast into the lake to the ghost of a grey lady who has been seen walking the grounds. Roman legionnaires have been seen haunting the grounds around this hall with one visitor to the hotel even reporting seeing a road disappearing under the building with a Roman legion marching along.

Orbs and other strange light anomalies have been seen here at the hall with investigations reporting movement and activity in a room upstairs where the floor actually moved. Sightings of a servant in Elizabethan clothing have been seen going through the wall in the panelled hallway and is said to be that of a housekeeper as she is often seen and heard with keys. The ghost of a man and his dog is said to appear in the cellar area and the Davies sisters who used to manor the hall in the 1900s are also said to haunt the building. Current owners have not reported seeing anything unusual in the hotel but have confessed to hearing unexplained voices and banging.

The Bell Hotel

King Street
Thetford
Norfolk IP24 2

History

The Bell Hotel dates back to as far as the 15th Century and is famous as the home of the cast and crew of the television series Dad’s Army.

Paranormal Activity

Rooms 10 and 11 are supposedly haunted in this old inn. Unexplained dents have been known to appear in the beds and mysterious bangs have been heard in the early hours of the morning. Miss Dagraca, duty manager at the Bell Hotel, said: “You always feel like you catch something out of the corner of your eye and feel as if people are there but I don’t pay attention to it. I always had a feeling there was something in room 10 though “.

Reading Moat House Hotel

(Best Western)
Mill Lane
Sindlesham
Reading
Berkshire RG41 5DF

History

Once a 19th Century mill house, this hotel and restaurant, which is now a Best Western, sits peacefully over the river Loddon. The site is believed to have once been an old workhouse and even a church at one point. It is also believed that Dick Turpin once drank in the Poacher’s Pub here.

Paranormal Activity

Investigators have reported much activity at this old mill house such as that of orbs and other light anomalies. The sound of children laughing has been heard and other unexplained voices have been caught on recording equipment. Staff have also reported hearing the sound of what is believed to be a horse and carriage outside when nothing has been there.