According to a 1992 newspaper report, footsteps have been heard on the first floor which always went in the same direction. A hooded female figure has also been spotted and also the outline of two small children.

The son of the family living in the pub has recorded three of his sightings with drawings of what he had sighted. Click on each photo for a fill-size scan of the drawing.

He sighted this apparition one morning when he was hoovering the Bar Area. He says that as he was doing this he turned around and saw a short woman who was smiling. He kept his eyes on her as he went to sit down on a seat behind him and watched for approximately 10 seconds before the figure moved to the left towards the dartboard before disappearing. The figure drawn looks hooded which may connect with the hooded female figure that's listed above.


A frequent phenomena that occurs in the pub is the sound of running footsteps down the Corridor and knocking on each bedroom door. The son reported that when this happened one time his bedroom door was open, and saw a small shadow run into his room and towards the bathroom door. Then the light on his tortoise tank just as the shadow figure was passing it and instantly disappeared. Again, this ties in with what was reported back in 1992.

He spotted this figure in the Living Area whilst he and his mother were sat watching the television. He notes that a tall, hunchback figure appeared beside the television and that, at the same time, his mother went cold. The figure was spotted in the same room where, as said above, monks have been sighted.

Monks have been sighted in the pub in the past - possibly connected to the nearby local church - and one story tells of three monks that were spotted walking through the wall in the Living Area and out towards the corridor where they disappeared.

The gangway felt very busy to Chris, who also sensed a strong presence of a female spirit. This was the same spot where the owners son spotted the female figure that he then drew (see scan above). Chris also felt that the layout of this area 'didn't feel right' and felt that the end wall of the gangway was not there at one time. When this was related to the landlady she said that originally the pub was built in a different place and that it originally stood in the area that is now the carpark. This meant that the gangway would have originally extended further forward than it is now. Chris was given the name Josey for this female spirit and that she seemed to be wearing something long.

Kim felt that the private lounge was originally part of a Church owned home for poorer families and workers and picked up on the name 'Alma' She also picked up o a 'tall, white haired man' who was very upright and who said "Year of our lord, 1676." She felt that this man kept people there until they were moved onto the authorities and picked up on the word 'Judge' and the name 'Deere'. No record of a 'Judge Deere' can currently be found. Also in the lounge Kim got a picture of a large opening where the back window is now and a hoist of some sort where men were lowering down sacks of what she thought was grain. Could this be connected to when Kim was in the end bedroom and sensed a waterwheel? Unfortunately, there are no records currently found that suggest that this building was anything but a pub or private residence.

When Chris spent time in the lounge she began to pick up on a male spirit who was wearing a flat cap, who had a shirt on with rolled up sleeves and a type of waistcoat. He kept referring to Chris as 'Missy' andspoke in a strong Devonshire accent that she found difficult to understand. She asked for his name and was told 'Bert'. She felt that he had something to do with the building and that he had lived there for a long time with his wife. He seemed to get very agitated when asked about offspring and when Pete entered the room he again got agitated and appeared to say 'Why I'm be 'ere, Missy?". The spirit then became silent. After relating this to the landlady the group were shown a photo of a previous resident of the building who had lived there for many years. In the photo he was wearing a flat cap, had rolled up shirtsleeves and was wearing a waistcoat. After checking with pub regulars they said that there was once a landlord called Robert. Our research shows that a Robert West lived there in 1897 but within 12 years he had gone. Could 'Bert' be part of 'Robert'? Or could Bert have been what the B stood for in William B Hosking who lived in the pub for over 30 years?

Also in the Lounge, when stood on the other side of the room Chris said that it felt very different and was filled with men who were all stood up and facing one way as if listening to something. It was, she says, like they were at a meeting of some kind. She says that some were in this room but the rest appeared to be on the far side of the wall as though the room was extended at some time. After checking with the landlady the group were told that the room did indeed extend into next door to make one big room. This room was originally used as the community hall.

When in the Master bedroom Chris sensed that there was a very strong Earth-like energy that appeared to run across one end of the room quite strongly. When she used the dowsing rods she reported that they reacted very strongly to it. She said that it felt like a water energy and was very strong. Apparently it is at this end of the house that there is a small stream of water which passesclose by and goes to a nearby well. This could also possibly tie in to Kims feeling of there once being a waterwheel on this side of the building.

In the Back Bar area Chris reported feeling the presense of many females. She could feel them in this room and yet it felt like they were in the porperty next door. She described these females as wearing long, dark grey dresses with white aprons and wore white bonnet type hats. They appeared to be singing and down the right side of the room Chris reported hearing children. The description given for what the women were wearing sounds very close to what 'Quaker Women' used to wear (see left), and there are currentl a number of nearby Quaker establishments in East Devon.

In the middle bar, whilst the group were using the planchette, Kim got the names Arthur and Emily Flan or Flyn. Previously in the same area Kim got the name Reynold and in the main bar got the name Miller or McMiller. Unfortunately none of these names came up in our research.