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The Castle Hotel

24 February 2021 · Zoe Mouti

Castle Hotel Ghost

South Glamorgan – Paranormal Database Records

In the photograph of the Castle Hotel, in Jewel Street, Barry, a ghostly female figure appears, to the left, on the staircase. One pub regular believes she was a chambermaid who apparently fell pregnant with a captain’s baby, but he dismissed her. She threw herself out of the top window into the beer garden. Punters claim she makes her presence felt upstairs.

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