http://directoryofyork.net/blog/2009/09/23/york-tyburn-knavesmire-gibbet/ Local York Business Directory, Information and News Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:05:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://directoryofyork.net/blog/2009/09/23/york-tyburn-knavesmire-gibbet/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Nights Out in York: York's Haunted Pubs Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://directoryofyork.net/blog/?p=740#comment-316 [...] From Dick Turpin’s spectral horseman galloping through the cobbled streets to the ‘groping’ ghost inhabiting  the snug in The Cock and Bottle, reputed to be the lecherous George Villiers 2nd Duke of Buckingham, or the ghostly Papists whose meetings reportedly still take place in the rooms of The Old White Swan when muffled voices are heard and chairs are mysteriously re-arranged in circles during the night. The Golden Fleece in Pavement claims to be the most haunted of coaching inns with a total of five spectral visitors, but the oldest continuously licensed pub in York is The Olde Starre on Stonegate where the cellars were once used to shelter wounded Royalist soldiers.   It’s said that on dark nights, one can sometimes still hear their dying screams.   Strangely, the pub has a strange effect on canine visitors who appear to see something lurking in the corners of the bar invisible to the human eye.   [...] [...] From Dick Turpin’s spectral horseman galloping through the cobbled streets to the ‘groping’ ghost inhabiting  the snug in The Cock and Bottle, reputed to be the lecherous George Villiers 2nd Duke of Buckingham, or the ghostly Papists whose meetings reportedly still take place in the rooms of The Old White Swan when muffled voices are heard and chairs are mysteriously re-arranged in circles during the night. The Golden Fleece in Pavement claims to be the most haunted of coaching inns with a total of five spectral visitors, but the oldest continuously licensed pub in York is The Olde Starre on Stonegate where the cellars were once used to shelter wounded Royalist soldiers.   It’s said that on dark nights, one can sometimes still hear their dying screams.   Strangely, the pub has a strange effect on canine visitors who appear to see something lurking in the corners of the bar invisible to the human eye.   [...]

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