10 Jul 2008
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Spirits turn spooky in this popular pub
Ghostly presence blamed for mysterious goings-on in middle of the night
OVERTURNED napkins and glasses and the turning on of a beer tap that drained a whole keg of beer are just some of the things a ghostly apparition is being blamed for at an Inverness pub.
Staff at the Gellions Bar and McGonagalls Restaurant on Bridge Street claim the spooky events have been going on for years.
Dona Mateer, one of the owners of the bar, said: “You just feel somebody is there — nothing happens but you feel someone — just a presence. I don’t think there is any malice in it.
“I have never had anything done to me but I know that people who previously worked here have been pushed down the stairs.”
Mrs Mateer said she didn’t believe a human being could be responsible for the unusual events that appear to go on in the upstairs restaurant of the popular city bar.
She said: “The girls set up the restaurant at night and then when you go in the next morning there are chairs stacked up on top of each other and napkins and glasses overturned.”
Mrs Mateer added: “You can put something down and then you don’t find it for ages and weeks will pass and then you’ll find it in the oddest place like a wine opener which turned up in the laundry room where it shouldn’t have been.”
Mrs Mateer believes the ghostly events go back to when the bar used to be used as a holding prison.
She said she understood there used to be a tunnel from the former prison to the castle where criminals were tried and she thought the possible ghost could be related to that period of time.
Monty Montgomery, charge hand at the bar, said: “There have definitely been some funny goings on. I think there is something there. But it has been going on for years.”
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