By Tim Binnall
Patrons at a pub in Wales were understandably shaken when a pint glass on their table suddenly exploded and the proprietors of the establishment suspect that it could have been the handiwork of the building's resident ghost. The spooky scene was reportedly captured by a security camera at the Coniston Tavern in the community of Nuneaton. In the video, three people are casually chatting at their table when one of the friends glances at a pint glass in front of him, and it almost immediately explodes before his eyes. The group largely sit there stunned with the patron showered in beer, looking particularly stunned by what had just happened.
To that end, manager Andy Gadsby indicated that he initially thought the incident could have been caused by a hairline crack in the glass that was exacerbated by being washed and then filled with cold beer. However, he noted that this theory doesn't quite add up as "if that had happened, you wouldn't expect it to explode and he’d already drank half the drink so the glass was clearly cold." Later checking the security camera to get a better look at the proverbial beer blast, Gadsby was surprised to see that a similarly inexplicable moment occurred at the same table a few months ago when a patron saw his glass eerily slide onto the floor.
As such, Gadsby put forward a supernatural suspect for the pair of chilling spills: the ghost of a man who had previously lived in the building. "Apparently, a tenant called Dave lived in the flat above the pub and one night, he drank a bottle of brandy and had a heart attack and died," the pub manager explained, "maybe his spirit is around the pub and he’s desperately trying to pinch people’s drinks." While skeptics will dismiss the two incidents as merely weird accidents, it would seem that patrons are more inclined to believe the paranormal hypothesis as Gadsby revealed that they "have spooked people out." What's your take on the tavern's security footage? Weigh in with your thoughts at the C2C Facebook page.