Stay off the spirits! Spooky moment pints of beer slide off a bar by themselves as manager questions if her country pub is haunted

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A manager has been left questioning whether her country pub is haunted after spooky CCTV videos showed drinks sliding off the edge of a bar by themselves.

Bizarre footage taken from inside the pub shows pints of beer slowly sliding off the side of a table without being touched or moved.

The curious incident occurred twice within two hours at the same spot, the manager said.

Now pub-goers at the Jolly Sailor in Fawley, near Southampton, have been left eerily suspicious of paranormal activity.

Manager Emily Waters, 33, defended the spooky nature of the clip, insisting that the bar is level and that it was completely dry.

Mrs Waters, who has managed the pub for three years, came to the conclusion that the only explanation is a ghost haunting the venue.

A manager has been left questioning whether her country pub is haunted after spooky CCTV videos showed drinks sliding off the edge of a bar by themselves

Bizarre footage taken from inside the pub shows pints of beer slowly sliding off the side of table without being touched or moved

Now pub-goers at the Jolly Sailor in Fawley, near Southampton, have been left eerily suspicious of paranormal activity

She explained how both incidents of the pints sliding off the edge of the bar happened on the same day.

‘They were taken on the same day, about two hours apart. It’s all a bit weird’, she said.

‘The three ladies are some of our die-hard regulars and when it happened we were all chatting and joking that she was angling for a free pint, but she insisted she didn’t touch it.

‘I said I can settle this by having a look at the camera so I went out back and had a look – I didn’t expect to see it move by itself.

‘Later on it was a young family and when it happened the man was very apologetic – but I told him “hang on, let me just check something” and sure enough when I checked the cameras the same thing had happened.

‘I just thought “this is so weird”.’

Mrs Waters said other punters told her it could have been a wet surface, but she said ‘I checked and it was dry’.

The bar is also level, she said.

She ended up carrying out her own experiment by placing five pints of soda water across the bar, on dry and wet patches, but they didn’t budge – even with a bit of a nudge to try to get them moving.

‘What else could be going on here? There’s no explanation for it’, Mrs Waters said.

The curious incident occurred twice within two hours at the same spot, the manager said

Mrs Waters, who has managed the pub for three years, came to the conclusion that the only explanation is a ghost haunting the venue

Staff and customers believe it could be the ghost of James Martin (centre) who was the son of the original pub landlord Richard Martin, and ran the pub from the 1870s

‘I do believe there’s something there. I don’t think you can ever fully understand the world so I don’t think you can rule ghosts out.

‘I’m not a complete sceptic, but I’m not one that would go looking for them – I’m somewhere in the middle.

‘You watch the videos and it’s quite hard to explain. You can see really clearly that it moves, then stops right at the edge, and then it’s almost like something then pulls it off the edge.

‘Both people got their drinks back on the house, it’s not every day a ghost steals your beer.’

Mrs Waters added that this occurrence wasn’t the first creepy thing to happen at the pub over the years.

‘For years people have been talking about how it’s an old building in an old area’, she said.

‘There’s always things that happen in the pub that are unexplained.

‘Once a bucket that was at the back of a shelf came tumbling down, snack cards fall off the wall and go flying across the bar, and we’ve had signs falling off the wall.

‘People hear voices, too. ‘I work the evening shift and when it’s dark it can be horrible, it’s constantly like you are catching something out of the corner of your eye.

‘It does not feel dangerous but it feels like someone is just going about there own business here.’

The latest spooky activity has got tongues wagging at the Jolly Sailor, with customers fascinated by the idea their pub is haunted.

Staff and customers believe it could be the ghost of James Martin, who was the son of the original pub landlord Richard Martin, and ran the pub from the 1870s.

He was known as a ‘fastidious’ character who used to pull pint glasses back if they were too close to the edge of the table.

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