About this episode

The episode recounts two ghostly apparitions witnessed at Graythwaite Manor, highlighting the hotel's mysterious past.

An empty hotel bar after a wedding. A man in a bowler hat with a sherry glass. And a second apparition seen months later by a guest with no knowledge of the first. When Rob began working at Graythwaite Manor in Grange-over-Sands, he knew little of the hotel’s history. One night, while closing the bar after a wedding, he glanced across the room and saw a man seated in the bay window — calm, silent, and dressed in a bowler hat. Seconds later, the figure was gone. What might have been dismissed as a fleeting mistake became harder to explain when the hotel’s owner revealed a detail from its past: the bar had once been the drawing room of the manor’s original owner, a retired banker from Bradford known locally for wearing a bowler hat. Months later, another wedding brought another sighting. This time, a bridesmaid at breakfast saw what appeared to be a maid in traditional dress approaching the dining room — only for her to vanish before the order could be taken. In this case from The Witness Files, one former hotel worker recalls two quiet but striking apparitions inside a Cumbrian manor house: encounters that suggest some buildings remain occupied long after their guests have gone…

People in this episode

Host: Haunted UK

Guest: Rob

Topics covered

• ghost sightings
• hauntings
• Cumbrian history
• hotel stories
• supernatural encounters

Keywords

• Graythwaite Manor
• ghosts
• hauntings
• Cumbrian manor
• supernatural
• wedding
• apparitions

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Witness Files

Places: Graythwaite Manor, Grange-over-Sands, Bradford

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