Reputedly haunted George and Pilgrim Pub on the High Street, Glastonbury.
"The George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, was built in the late 15th century to accommodate visitors to Glastonbury Abbey.
It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
It is claimed to be the oldest purpose built public house in the South West of England.
Having once been the Pilgrims' Inn of Glastonbury Abbey, by the mid-nineteenth century the building was known as the George Hotel.
The current name preserves both.
The first record of the building is from 1439 when the tenant was N. Kynge.
In 1493 Abbot John Selwood gave a "new" building to the abbey chamberlain.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries it became the property of the Duke of Somerset.
By 1562, when a 21-year lease on the building was taken out by George Cowdrey, it was described as "in such great ruin that it is likely that in default of repair within a few years the rent will not be answered" but included "six featherbeds".
In 1658 the property was divided and a horse mill installed to grind malt.
The building was also used for meetings and inquiries for example by Royal Commissioners (in 1672) and the Quakers (in 1691)
Hauntings-
It is reputed to be haunted by several spirits including one who is said to be a monk who has been spotted wandering the dark corridors of the hotel in the early hours of the morning, with the floorboards creaking under his feet.
The other is said to be an elegant lady who follows him on occasion with a look of yearning on her face!
Two of the ghosts are referred to by Guy Lyon Playfair in ‘The Haunted Pub Guide’ (1985), ‘One, not surprisingly, is a monk.
Early in the 1970s a woman guest described him in unusual detail, having seen him for what she said to be ten to fifteen minutes……
At one point the monk sat down on the guest’s bed, and she felt the sheets and blankets tighten over her as he did so.
He was not alone; hovering in the background were two indistinct shapes that remained in a sort of vapour.
A visiting medium claims that the pair were in fact lovers, but due to the monk having taken a vow of celibacy their love remained unconsummated and they have forever been doomed to stay there bound to Earth because of this!
It is believed they used to meet in the tunnels which lead to the Abbey.
In 2012, it is reported by the landlady at that time, that her ghostly likeness was photographed by a customer in the bar area.. see photo (
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Other reports of paranormal activity include sightings of a tall man in a blue jacket, as well as some residual sounds including music heard from empty rooms, arguing in the function room, phantom smells of cigar smoke and some poltergeist activity of taps turning on & off and televisions.
Doors slam and coughing and footsteps are heard in the cellar.
Another monk is said to have been seen in the bedrooms who is alleged to have committed suicide in a room called the Haunted Cell
Regular ghost hunt events are held here."
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