A hotel which is said to be haunted by 13 ghosts has seen another spooky incident. The owners of Ye Olde Kings Head have shared an eerie video of a rocking chair that seems to move all by itself.
The ghosts in the Chester hotels are believed to be of Roman soldiers, young children, women who worked in the hotel when it was a brothel, and Civil War soldiers. Did one of those move the chair?
The chair, which has a creepy doll on it, is in room six at the hotel in Lower Bridge Street which dates back to the Stuart period in 1622, CheshireLive reports. It was bought by paranormal enthusiast Harry Achilleos 15 years ago and his dream has been to turn it into a top dark tourism destination, due to its spooky reputation
Paranormal investigator Danny Moss, who has joined Harry and fellow team member Brett Jones to work on the My Haunted Hotel project at Ye Olde Kings Head, said that he and the rest of the team there had been stunned to see the footage of the rocking chair and had even attempted to debunk it without success.
Danny said: "Chester is one of the most haunted cities in the UK, without a doubt, and this 400-year-old building is reputedly one of the most haunted in the country. Harry has installed 16 infrared cameras with the hope of catching evidence of anything paranormal happening.
"It's become such a huge attraction locally. It's the ninth week of the cameras being installed now and the activity we have captured on camera has been phenomenal. We found the footage of the rocking chair moving at 3.28pm in the afternoon when there were no guests in the hotel. Harry got a notification on his phone, saying that there was movement in room six.
"He went back and told me and Brett and we even tried to debunk it but could not find an explanation for this happening as the chair is pretty heavy and would not be moved by a draft or people moving around it, for example. I'm quite a scientific person and I will always look for a rational explanation. When I can't find one then that's when I know it's real."
The creepy going-ons have caused such a stir that the hotel has featured on the TV show Most Haunted and more recently on Sky Pick's Paranormal. It was also named spookiest hotel in the North West last year, Chesire Live reports.
Sightings over the years are said to range from eerie mists to full body apparitions, with poltergeist activity reported in the bar, including pints being knocked over. Even the foundations of the original building have a story to tell having been constructed for Peter the clerk in 1208.
Hotel owner Harry added: "Setting up My Haunted Hotel has always been my dream and now this has finally happened I just want to prove that this is the most haunted hotel in the UK."
For more on the evidence captured from the hotel, which has six horror-themed bedrooms available for hire for overnight ghost hunts, visit the My Haunted Hotel website. Episodes of the hotel's YouTube paranormal show can be watched here.
