Natalie Taylor
© UnknownNatalie Taylor
A ghost at a Workington pub is spooking bar staff, its landlord has said.

Just in time for Hallowe'en, staff at the recently taken-over Brewery House, on Main Road, in High Harrington, claim to have reported sightings of a ghost which inhabits the cellar and front bar.

They say they think it is the ghost of a man who died in the pub several years ago.

Regular drinkers - no strangers to spirits - say he sits in the same seat, under the TV in the front bar.

But, the pub says, he is spooking barmaid Natalie Taylor, 21, who is so terrified of his presence in the cellar that she refuses to go there alone.

She started working at the pub in August, but said she had known about the ghost for a number of years.

Natalie said: "Years ago a friend of mine lived in this pub and she warned me.

"Stuff would move from one place to another or go missing without any explanation.

"The cellar gives me the creeps. It's damp, cold and has a weird atmosphere, a definite presence. There's something not right down there."

Landlord Shaun Gardner wants to find a medium to bring into the pub to find out if there is a spirit - of the other world - hanging around in the cellar.