The Abergele and Penesarn Visitor of April 7th 1994 included some info on the resident ghost in their profile of Bach-y-Graig Farm guesthouse in Tremeirchion:

WHEN Anwen Roberts decided to set up her own business she expected to open her home to all sorts of guests — but not from previous centuries. Ghosts were unheard of at Bach-y-Graig Farm, Tremeirchion, until Mrs Roberts started doing bed and breakfast in the 16th century house and then they started creeping out of the woodwork.

"A lot of visitors reckon they have heard a ghost singing and walking along the landing, but we've never heard anything, thank goodness, so I just tell them that they've been dreaming," said Mrs Roberts, one of 50 nominees for AA Landlady of the Year.

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Not quite a pub but... I was already planning to include this story in the pub series, just for want of somewhere to put it, but I didn't put two and two together in my head until I googled 'bagillt + cinema' to search for its name. Peter Moore was one of Wales' worst serial killers, murdering at least four men and committing 39 sex attacks over a 20 year period. He's currently serving a whole life tariff.

All the same, according to the Abergele and Pensarn Visitor of July 6th 1995, Moore didn't like to be in the cinema after closing thanks to a ghost dubbed Susie...

One not so happy part of the atmosphere, though, is a non-paying guest - or rather ghost - which haunts the cinema at Bagillt, which has had a varied life as cinema, bingo hall and originally, chapel. Peter believes there is some connection. The ghost, named Susie, is a lady with a shock of white hair dressed in the black robes of a lay preacher. Ironically, she last appeared in the middle of the film Hocus Pocus.

"It was in the intermission. I won't stay in the building once we've closed up at night now. We did actually think at first that she was one of the bingo players who died just after getting a full house."

The Abergele and Pensarn Visitor of Thursday 20th October 1994 mentioned the pub's ghost:

The White Horse sports a ghost - a blonde woman in a white dress. She has appeared several times in part of the bar area, and elsewhere, and is generally thought of as being friendly but 'mischievous'. Her history does not appear to be commonly known, although most seem to agree that her white dress is something to do with a wedding and that a misfortune occurred at that time of her life.

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The Owain Glyndŵr Hotel in Corwen is said to be haunted. The Abergele and Pensarn Visitor of Thursday November 9th 1989 reported:

The story would not be complete without a mention of Nellie, the hotel's mischevious ghost who leaves taps running, switches lights on and off and has even been known to feel the bottoms of men working there. There are two stories connected to Nellie, but the one which John and Olwen favour is that she was the mistress of the naughty old abbot and comes back to haunt the place because he would not make an "honest" woman of her.

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The Abergele and Pensarn Visitor of August 14th 1986 reported on a ghost at the Saracens Head in Llansannan.

A SPOOKY NIGHT IN ROOM NUMBER 6. THE PUB WITH ITS RESIDENT GHOST.

THERE was a rather unusual visitor to one pub in Abergele ares last week — a friendly ghost. The snesitive spook was reported to have popped in room no 6 at the Serecens Head pub, in Llansannan, where a man from Glasgow had spent the night. Mr. Peter Glover, who has been licensee at the pub for almost four years, said: "The man who stayed in room 6, was a perfect stranger, but the next day he started questioning my wife, Paula, if there had been any strange happenings in the room or if it was haunted."

He added: "He said he had seen a figure of a man appear from behind a book he was reading but when he put the book down the figure went, but reappeared when he picked the book up again. Over the years, I believe there have been stories of the pub being haunted but this is the first time a perfect stranger has ever reported anything to me, so I am sure he could not have heard of these stories in the past."

Mr. Glover said he had heard children's voices coming from room 6 at night and had been in the bar when the air suddenly went cold. Mr. Glover believes part of the pub dates back to the 12th century, and said: "I would be interested to hear if anyone else has experienced anything here or knows of anything strange that has happened in the past." He described room 6 as "a lovely room, complete with oak beams, but it does have an eerie feeling about it. I am sure this ghost must be friendly because there are no reports of him throwing things yet."

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The Abergele and Pensarn Visitor of Thursday July 20th 1989 published a piece on the Red Lion Inn in their good food guide, mentioning their resident ghost, Albert.

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Article from the Abergele and Pensarn Visitor of January 27th 1994.

SPECTRE GETS INTO SPIRIT OF SPOOKING

LOCALS of the Blue Lion pub in Cwm are used to seeing spirits behind the bar, but recent going-ons have been far from those of an alcoholic nature. With parts of the pub dating back to the 16th century, it is a prime spot for a spectre to do some wailing and chain rattling. But there have been sightings of a second ghost over the past few weeks. One of the staff Jane Pears saw a new ghost only a few days ago.

"I was walking up the stairs to another part of the restaurant when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. It was stooped over and had something brown on," she said. After running into the kitchen Jane realised that she had seen a ghost. "I was screaming, and all the hairs on my neck were standing up. When I told the others, two of them said that they had also seen this thing, but did not tell anyone about it as they were afraid of being laughed at."

Landlady Mrs Peggy Williams is surprised to hear that another ghost has been seen. "John Henry is our resident ghost although I have never seen him. I have often felt as if there was someone else here with us, but never thought it would be another ghost." She said that a book on Clwyd ghosts had a picture in it that matched the description that the staff had given. Maybe it is a monk from the monastery that used to be near the pub, doomed to eternal prayer. Or perhaps an old customer waiting for last orders to be called.

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The Abergele and Pensarn Visitor of Thursday April 28th 1994 was impressed enough with the pub's haunting to put it on their front page...

SPOOK'S DRINKING HAUNT

A GHOSTLY visitor has a message for landlord Alan Yates - wine and spirits don't mix. The spook regularly knocks glasses from shelves and spills drinks at the Bull, in Chapel Street, Abergele. Last week Mr Yates opened up the bar to find it flooded with red wine. But when he checked the wine dispensers he found the taps were closed and completely dry, leaving him to count the cost of another visit from the spook his family have called Clarence since he first appeared five years ago.

"We've got used to having him around now and just accept it when we find glasses we stacked neatly on shelves laying on the floor, or taps turned on around the pub," said Alan. "We first noticed strange things happening when my daughter Laura was a baby and we put it down to poltergeist activity because we had read that it is often associated with psychic energy from young children," he said.

"But then my 24-year-old daughter Rachel saw Clarence when he appeared as a tall young man with curly dark hair and wearing what looks like a motorcycle cape. Since then he has been seen several times in our room eight and upset one lady, a spiritualist, who came down to ask if we knew we had a ghost because he had just moved her bed, but stopped when she told him to leave her alone.

"Glasses falling off shelves can be blamed on traffic vibrations but there is just too much going on here to dismiss lightly." Alan has discussed the ghostly visitor with his customers and several of them believe he was a local man, named Clarence, who died in a motorbike accident before World War II. "I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who can shed more light on him," said Alan.

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Inital Abergele and Pensarn Visitor report identifying the ghost as Travis Worrall from August 11th 1994:

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The February 9th 1995 edition reported on the pub's inclusion in a Myths and Legends TV show, and the identification of 'Clarence' as Travis Worrall. Worral was 21 when he died in a motorcycle accident on July 10th 1927.

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