Hello Everyone. Praise the Lord!
Hayley Budd is convinced 'weird things' have long been going on at The Lansdowne Pub in Cardiff, Wales, and recently. she believes she caught a smoking gun on camera.
The thirty-three-year-old was taking a break on July twenty-sixth, when a chair seemingly slid across the room of its own accord! The mother-of-three is in no doubt this was the doing of a resident ghost dubbed by regulars as 'Lady Lansdowne'.
Hayley is worried the 'ghost' could leave her short-staffed. Reflecting on the creepy encounter, she said: "I wasn't looking at the chair, I was looking at my phone but I saw it out of the corner of my eye." I heard it as well so I asked a customer if they had seen anything and they'd also heard the noise.
I always try to find the most logical explanation so in the video, you can see me looking to see if it was something in my bag that had moved then I was trying to tell myself that maybe it was the wind. I've tried to recreate it so many times but there's no logical explanation. I checked the CCTV to make sure I hadn't been imagining it.
"I wasn't frightened enough to quit my job, and run out of there, but I was really shocked. I wasn't expecting to see that at all. I don't frighten easily so I still sit at that table on my breaks."
However, while Hayley might not be easily spooked, she's a tad concerned that these weird goings-on could leave her short-staffed. Who moved that chair? Got Lady Lansdowne written all over it. She said: "One girl who works here, thought she'd bumped into another member of staff, but when she turned around, he wasn't there."
Nobody has ever physically seen her [the apparent ghost] standing in front of them, but a couple of weeks ago, the chalkboard started randomly swinging. A lot of the staff have said that if anything like that happens when they're there, then they'll go home, so I hope Lady Lansdowne takes that into consideration, because I don't want to be short-staffed."
It seems the challenge for Hayley then will be convincing her employees that the invisible lady means no harm. She said: "Weird things do happen, but nothing quite as blatant and obvious as this!"
There's a long-term rumor among the regulars, about a woman haunting the pub, and people who live in the flats above the pub say there are strange goings on up there. When I close the pub and there are no customers, I'll go into the cellar to do paperwork or change a barrel and it sounds like there's furniture moving upstairs but when I go up, everything is as I left it.
I'm not scared just because I've worked here for eight years, and she's never done anything that's a cause for concern. She clearly just wants to make herself known.
William James Roop
