“Ruthin is not short of ghost stories. There’s a different one on practically every corner of St Peter’s Square at the top of town,” reports Nick Bourne for the BBC.
There’s the sound of a ghostly wail which has been noted, apparently, by several different customers using the hole-in-the-wall cash machine at the Nat West Bank which was, long ago, Ruthin’s old court house, with its gallows once erected on the site of what is now the cash machine.
Across the road on Castle Street there is the imposing arched entrance into medieval Ruthin Castle Hotel, itself the scene of numerous ghost stories, most notably Lady Grey, as well as the ‘drowning pool’ which needs little explanation except to say it was reputed to be in constant use around the time Owain Glyndwr laid siege to the town.
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