'There are a number of accounts of staff who have felt a sudden tightening around their neck while standing at the bar - the very bar where, it is said, an earlier landlord hanged himself. In fact several of them have described how their hair was pulled as if by invisible hands. There is no explanation that I can think of.'ĭuring the evening's investigation the team felt sudden cold chills in some areas of the building, and a child's voice was heard at one point.Ī spokesman for the Golden Fleece, which was once featured on TV show Most Haunted, said: 'It is no surprise that people who live and work in the Golden Fleece have some hair-raising tales to tell. 'This is the one piece of footage we have ever found that we are not able to debunk. However, a friend of mine analysed the picture and said that there was no light penetrating the shadow, it was just a dense black shape. She added: 'Despite it being very creepy, I thought there must be a rational explanation.

Quite a few people in our group were shook by the photo and we found it very unsettling.' 'There was a kitchen door behind the figure but it is completely obscured by this shadow. They are pictured with former Most Haunted star Jason Karl (right) Now Jack is back on the job, and Pen is eternally grateful.Discovery: Ghost hunters Steve and Susanne Taggart who captured the bizarre sight. From the look of things, history is about to repeat. Back in the 1940s, those same Valentino Teardrops starred in a bizarre case of betrayal and murder. Jack Shepard, PI, may have been gunned down decades ago, but his memory hasn’t been ghosted. And when the spirited Norma vanishes before her arrest, Pen turns to another spirit… Pen doesn’t believe Norma is guilty of the crime-though the evidence is distressingly strong. Norma is accused of stealing jewels from a guest’s room: the legendary Valentino Teardrops, an antique necklace and earring set, inherited by a young socialite. But it’s Norma’s other job, working as a housekeeper at the Finch Inn, that gets her into terrible trouble. Jovial, wise, and scrupulously honest, she’s become an uplifting presence in the little town of Quindicott, Rhode Island, where bookseller Pen is thankful to have her part-time help.

Living out of her van and teardrop trailer, she revels in self-reliance, solitude, and reading in the glorious peace of nature. With the help of her gumshoe ghost, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure sets out to clear an innocent woman of a shocking crime in this all-new entry in the “utterly charming” ( Mystery Scene) Haunted Bookshop Mysteries from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.

The ghost and the stolen tears