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First Published October 31 2000 Ghostbuster Barrie Hudson pays a visit to the King and Queen JUST as a watched kettle never boils, so, I suspect, a watched haunted pub never yields its secrets on demand. I knew before manager Jon Champ gave me a tour of the King and Queen that ghosts would not be making an appearance. That is not their style. To adapt the words of author Shirley Jackson in the Haunting of Hill House: whatever walks the King and Queen has been there for a few hundred years, so it knows the ropes of the spooking business - probably gives lessons to the recently deceased, in fact. Any self-respecting pub ghost must surely know that there is a time and a place for haunting. Broad daylight in the presence of several people is not such an occasion. Far better to wait until long after closing time when you can have a cosy one-to-one with whoever is left in the building, slip on your spectral hobnailed boots and stroll along the eaves, or perhaps crank the thermometer down a couple of dozen degrees. I keep an open mind about the supernatural, but at first I was disappointed in the pub because I didn't feel remotely spooked in the bar, not even when I sat on a chair in a spot that dogs have been known to bark at for no reason. But then Jon showed me the old servants' quarters in the attic, which have not been used for more than a century. The space comes complete with the regulation chilly air, crumbling walls, cobwebs, dismembered spiders, dust and dark doorways and corners (as per the Creepy and Spooky Buildings Act 1847). And if anything not strictly alive is knocking around the King and Queen, I bet you the last dud cheque in my wallet that we were uninvited guests in its bedsit. Back to 2000 index |
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