If you are staying at our bed and breakfast accommodation in South Shields you are welcome to order takeaway food to eat either downstairs in our dining room or in your bedroom.
If you are staying with us this Halloween weekend then you might want to visit one of the many haunted places in North East England, we are often asked by guests who stay with us over Halloween for suggestions of places to go so we have made a series of blog posts with all the haunted venues in the North East region that you might like to visit…
Haunted Places In North East England – Marsden Grotto
Marsden Grotto, known locally as just The Grotto is the closest supposedly haunted location to our bed and breakfast accommodation in South Shields.
Marsden Grotto is one of the very few ‘cave bars’ in Europe, it is partly dug into the limestone cliff face.
Access to the Marsden Grotto via a lift or a zig zag staircase on the cliff at the side of the building.
The Marsden Grotto has a long history dating back to 1782 with a reputation for smuggling activities.
There are several tales of hauntings at Marsden Grotto, mainly relating to a smuggler named John the Jibber who was reputedly murdered by his fellow criminals after selling information to HM Customs.
It is said that he was hung in a barrel in a cave close to the present lift shaft and left to starve.
A popular story is that a former landlord of the pub would leave out a special tankard of ale each night after closing and in the morning it would be empty.
Local DJ and TV presenter Alan Robson drank from the tankard during one of his live Metro Radio shows, allegedly sparking off a series of supernatural phenomena that eventually forced the then landlord to quit.
This included flying ashtrays smashing against the wall and flooding in the cellar after all the beer taps were inexplicably turned on.
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