This beautiful hotel was formerly an inn frequented by smugglers.
The cellars beneath the building are said to date back 1156. The
rest of the hotel was rebuilt in 1420. With a wealth of character
from its huge inglenook fireplace, sloping floors and old beams to
its secret passages, it's not surprisingly reported to be haunted!
It has been said that a woman in a greyish gown sits in a chair by
a fireplace in one of the rooms and often guests who have left
their clothes on the chair overnight find their clothes to be
soaking wet in the morning! Another ghostly apparition is of a man
who walks through the wall of the bathroom, across the bedroom then
justs fades away. A lot of poltergeist activity has been reported
in other parts of the hotel at different times. Probably the most
famous ghostly tale from this haunted hotel is of two dueling
Cavaliar soldiers in one of the bedrooms. They fight across the
bedroom and the victor throws the wounded victim down a secret
passage then disappears. These are just a few of the paranormal
occurrences at this old Inn. The Mermaid has even been investigated
by the Most Haunted team a few years ago and i believe they have
asked to go back to do further investigations.
