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The Mermaid Inn UK - Haunted and Old

 



The Mermaid Inn in Rye, Sussex England is 600 years old and was a popular Ale House with sailors in the Middle Ages.

The cellars date back to 1156 and the building was rebuilt in 1420 as the whole village was burnt to the ground by French Raiders on June 22nd 1377.

The Inn has 31 rooms and each one is named after a person from the history of the Inn and Rye.

It has been featured in the MOST HAUNTED TV series. and has had a long list of famous visitors including a few of the royal family.



There is a lady in grey/or white who sits by the fireplace in Room 1, which is called the JAMES ROOM.

Other apparitions are another white lady who walks across a room and stops at the foot of the bed, a man who walks through the bathroom wall and into the main room in another part of the Inn and a woman who is supposed to be the wife of one of the local smugglers back in the 16th Century when Rye was still a port village.

Other reports include bottles smashing in the Elizabethan Chamber room and cold spots in the Kings Room.



The Inn is situated on Rye Street in Rye in Southern England.

The main building dates back to 1420 and further additions were added in the 16th Century,

The Inn would have seen a lot of smuggling in it's heyday and has a history of association with a group of smugglers known as the Hawkhurst Gang who made use of the secret passages underneath the Inn and around the port area to escape the constabulary. (hauntedrooms/uk)


Would you like to stay here?
As for me...the only question I have is WHEN CAN I GO?????

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