{"id":2238,"date":"2015-06-08T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2015-05-10T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T20:24:40","slug":"is-the-leopard-pub-haunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"Is The Leopard Pub Haunted?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Or, Visit A British Haunted Pub<\/h5>\n

Visit the original article here<\/a>. Or continue reading below for the full story.<\/p>\n

Is the Leopard Pub in Burslem Haunted?<\/h2>\n

Written by Colette Warbrook in Jan. 2015<\/p>\n

\"28-06-2008<\/p>\n

A FEW months back, I took a younger friend to Burslem and was surprised to learn that he had never patronised the revered Leopard in Market Place.<\/p>\n

In a jiffy, I had dragged my friend Kevin into the hostelry and ordered some drinks while he looked around his \u201cnew pub\u201d.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before he told me he felt unsettled, explaining that he could sense an unhappy presence.<\/p>\n

At this stage, I should reveal that Kevin appears to be sensitive to such phenomena, as he claims to have seen a non-corporeal young girl in his Pittshill house on many occasions \u2013 as indeed have his wife and two children.<\/p>\n

I introduced him to Sharon Crisp, the Leopard\u2019s landlady, with whom he cheerfully swapped notes about creepy experiences.<\/p>\n

Sharon and her team often advertise ghost tours at this historic pub.<\/p>\n

Some of the unlit \u2013 and largely unused \u2013 upstairs rooms have been draped with such as fake spiders\u2019 webs, and you\u2019ll even find a representation of the alleged Burslem Witch, Molly Leigh, to further enhance the entertainment value.<\/p>\n

And this is the point. Are the ghost tours a bit of harmless fun, or is the Leopard really haunted?<\/p>\n

My visit with Kevin triggered a follow-up visit by about 14 members of Burslem History Club, who were given an extensive tour of the building just before Christmas.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m lucky enough to possess an architect\u2019s plan of the Leopard as it was in 1903, and the upper floors have changed relatively little.<\/p>\n

Our guide related various incidents that had allegedly occurred in the pub, including the inexplicable flinging of a horse statuette that normally sits on top of the mantelpiece in one of the front rooms.<\/p>\n

All this was prime fodder for the team of Most Haunted, who filmed at the Leopard in 2007.<\/p>\n

Then again, I\u2019d be highly dubious of that television programme\u2019s angle on things.<\/p>\n

Just before production began on the Leopard segment, one of their team rang me and told me they were thinking of running with the story that Molly Leigh \u2013 who they claimed was well-known in the Leopard \u2013 had been put on trial as a witch in Burslem Town Hall.<\/p>\n

I pointed out that at the time of Margaret\u2019s death in 1748 \u2013 at the age of 24, incidentally \u2013 Burslem\u2019s first town hall was still about 13 years in the future.<\/p>\n

Burslem History Club members survived the tour without beer mats being thrown at us, or hairs standing up on the tops of our heads. However, one of our lady members commented that she had definitely sensed a presence.<\/p>\n

I am a firm believer in the idea that some people are more psychically receptive to these things than others, such as this lady and my friend Kevin.<\/p>\n

There is a rational explanation for most things, but this is no reason to dismiss my friends\u2019 observations.<\/p>\n

On the night when Kev and I visited, Sharon permitted us to go up to one of the landings.<\/p>\n

My friend took a number of inquisitive steps forward, while I stood at the top of a staircase.<\/p>\n

The strange thing is that I began to feel very cold down my left side, and even when we returned below for a drink, I felt a sense of unease that I had never previously experienced in a pub.<\/p>\n

Someone asked me during our ghost tour whether I could handle a sleep-over at the Leopard. I have to say that a cage-fight with Mike Tyson might be preferable.<\/p>\n

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