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Welcome to the Northern Ghost Investigations Haunted UK database. Here you'll be able to find some of the best haunted locations throughout the UK and many that Northern Ghost Investigations have visited over the years.

It would seem that almost every old building has a ghost or two lurking in the shadows and hopefully over time as we catalogue them, you'll be able to find the history and paranormal stories behind them all in the Northern Ghost Investigations Haunted UK database.

Friday, 22 May 2009 10:05 Mark 5 Comments
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The Swan Inn

The Swan Inn Lavenham, Suffolk is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of a medieval municipality.

The History of The Swan Inn

The Swan dates back to the 1400s, when it played a key role in Lavenham`s burgeoning wool trade. This is the archetypal medieval inn, with a timbered exterior and beamed ceilings and ancient walls reminiscent of a bygone age. During World War II its Garden Bar was a great favourite with American airmen stationed nearby, and many of their signatures are scrawled across the walls of the bar. Glen Miller, the bandleader, is even said to have stopped in for a drink before setting out on his last fateful flight.

Today, The Swan is a thriving Hotel where traditional oak beams and inglenook fireplaces blend with luxurious contemporary furnishings and fabrics to create the perfect ambiance in which to relax and savour Suffolk. The Old Bar boasts a wonderful collection of badges and signatures from grateful American airmen stationed at Lavenham during World War II.

The Haunted History of The Swan Inn

The inn`s benign ghost dates back to the 19th century when The Swan was in its heyday as a coaching inn and boasted stabling for over 50 horses. It is said that a housekeeper pregnant out of wedlock, and although the man responsible agreed to marry her, he had a last-minute change of heart and left her standing at the altar. The poor women is said to have hanged herself from one of the rafters in her room (what is now room 15). Another version of the tale claims that she became depressed when she was overlooked for a promotion. Whatever the cause of her despair, the outcome was the same.

Her ghost has remained behind to send shivers down the spine of those who cross her path. A security guard encountered her in 1991 and was scared of his wits. Several guests have also seen her sorrowful spectre in room 15, and a nun who was staying there one night awoke with a start in the early hours when she felt the ghost tickling her feet!

The Swan Inn

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0carly2012-01-23 20:15#5
My Husband and I recently stayed at the Swan in room 6. I woke at 2.30am with a terrible headache and sat up in bed. I then heard someone walk across our room making the floorboards creak at the end of our bed. This also then woke my husband and we sat there in horror and listened as someone or thing proceeded to walk right across our room one end to the other making the floorboards creak. There was no explation to this as it is a very quiet hotel and no mistaking what we heard. I thought it might be the central heating as it is an old hotel but I could not go back to sleep and for the rest of the night and I did not hear another sound. There was no mistaking it. My husband does not believe in the paranormal but agrees we definately witness something very unusal that night.
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-12011-09-21 08:16#4
Stayed at The SWAN hotel in Lavenham last week (16th Sept. 2011) in room 7. The original room 15 has now been re numbered room 3 and room 7 is directly below. My parents were actually staying in room 3 (15) and reported nothing, but I awoke in the middle of the night to find an image of a bearded man at the side of my bed where my wife was sleeping. He was not a solid image, but was clearly visible and as i brushed him away from the bed he clearly retreated to the wall where the walk in closet is and then disappeared. I asked about him at reception in the morning and they said he had been seen many times before. they also told me an elderly lady is often seen in rooms sitting on a bed and the lady who committed suicide in room 3(15) is seen quite regularly.

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02011-08-28 11:47#3
My dad recently stayed at The Swan with my mum on a break. He is not usually a believer in the paranormal. He slept on top of the covers as he was hot and awoke later on feeling freezing cold, he could hear the sound of his glass moving on the bedside cabinet and then felt a sharp prod into his shoulder blade. Needless to say he jumped under the covers. He was later woken up by the sound of running footsteps and again at 4am. This time my mum was awake too and they both heard the footsteps. Definitely something unusual going on.
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02011-03-21 00:12#2
Isn't there also aghost dog at the Swan Inn. I was there fro a cream tea in the '70s when I was on a trip from the States.
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02011-03-21 00:10#1
I was at the Swan Inn in the '70s,for a cream tea on a trip from the States. Isn't there a ghost dog that haunts the dining room?
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