By Tim Binnall
A peculiar piece of security camera footage from a purportedly haunted pub in Britain shows a beer bottle inexplicably fly off of a shelf and the proprietors of the establishment believe that the strange spill was the work of their resident ghost. The eerie incident reportedly occurred last week at the 300-year-old White Swan Inn in the town of Dunstable. In the video, a row of beer bottles can be seen sitting atop a shelf undisturbed when suddenly one of them appears to burst and comes tumbling to the ground with a rather remarkable amount of force. This is followed by a bewildered worker running over to see what caused the commotion and finding only a sizeable puddle of beer on the floor.
Manager Natasha Magnan, who has worked at the pub for over 20 years, suspects that the spooky spill was caused by some kind of spirit as the centuries-old pub has long been thought to be haunted. "The bar staff were so spooked out after," she recalled "they felt the chills of the aftermath of our beer-destroying ghost." Oddly enough, the establishment was actually in the news earlier this year when a customer's pint glass mysteriously toppled over to the floor. "‘We now have two pieces of CCTV showing what we feel are ghosts," Magnan declared, "we have no idea who the ghost is – someone who doesn't like beer."
While the staff and patrons of the pub seem to think that the two separate incidents could have been caused by something paranormal in nature, skeptics understandably are not quite convinced. Their explanation for the recent spill centers around a fairly prosaic phenomenon which is often cited as the probable cause for eerie events at 'haunted' pubs: condensation. To that end, they theorize that the water collecting on the outside of the beer bottle likely caused it to slip from the shelf as if being propelled by an unseen force. What's your take on the weird scene? Was it an ornery pub ghost in action or simply a run-of-the-mill mishap at the bar? Weigh in with your thoughts at the C2C Facebook page.