Venture into any nook of Cambridgeshire and somebody can have a mysterious story to inform you. There’s a pub in Chatteris rumoured to have a spooky tail – and sure, that spelling is deliberate.
The Cross Keys Hotel is alleged to have a ghost canine which haunts the premises. In 1996, the inn was named essentially the most haunted in East Anglia and the present house owners have stated the tales concerning the pub and its historical past don’t faze them.
Though particulars are laborious to come back by, locals say there are a number of studies of individuals seeing a brown-ish ghost canine within the bar. The pub dates again a number of hundred years, so it is not laborious to think about that loads of individuals (and doubtlessly a canine or two) can have handed via.
According to whatpub.com, the Cross Keys Hotel is “a snug and unspoilt freehold pub, restaurant and lodge with a small backyard. Packed stuffed with historical past with collections of medieval weaponry, work, china, tapestries and clocks.”
As effectively as its obvious doggy visitation, the pub is alleged to have ties to the well-known diarist Samuel Pepys. It is alleged that he stayed there in 1663 on his journey to Huntingdon after visiting family members within the space.
While the well-known diarist didn’t specify the identify of the inn, he wrote that he shared ghost tales together with his fellow company earlier than they went to mattress. Perhaps they included spine-chilling tales of one thing going ‘woof’ within the night time.
Whether the pub is haunted or not, reviewers adore it and it has 4.4 stars on Google. Hazel Hitchcock wrote: “What a stunning place it’s – it jogged my memory of what pubs was like once I was younger – pleasant and cosy.”
Another reviewer, Danielle Catt, wrote: “Amazing pub stuffed with quirky antiques. Great meals [and] sensible pub quiz.”
