The Queens Head Hotel
79 Market Street Ashby-de-la-Zouch Leicestershire, LE65 1AH England
Not for the faint-hearted, the Queens Head Hotel is a 17th-century, three-story coaching inn with a black-and-white beam facade. On the ground floor level is a nightclub area where the Spirit Team began our investigation of the many accounts of spirit activity that have been reported in the building. We set up video cameras to cover the nightclub, with a camera specifically covering the bar. On the first floor, cameras were set up at various points in the attic bar.
The staff of the Queens Head recount many sightings of a tall, dark, imposing man in the hotel. At first, they believe he is simply a patron, only later they realize there is no one around—the dark man disappears. His presence makes the staff feel very uneasy, as though they are in the presence of evil. Voices have also been heard when no one else is around to account for them. During our investigation of the nightclub area, several of our members described this phantom man, though they had no prior knowledge of him.
The spirits of children have been seen and heard inside the hotel as well. They seem afraid of the larger entity, as though he controls them, or did. We placed a 20-pence coin on its side on the bar and asked if anyone could cause it to fall. The coin immediately fell, though the phenomenon was not repeated when we tried again. Many orbs were visible in there.
The upstairs bar was very misty during our time there, like people had been smoking, but no one had. Dank smells came and went without explanation. One of our senior members felt his arm being touched, EMF meters confirmed high levels of electromagnetic energy, and a child was seen sitting on the stairs wearing a gray school uniform. The child spirit was later seen standing by the fireplace. When we asked the spirit to come forward, a footstep was heard.
While reviewing one of our video camera monitors that was placed in an upstairs room, we observed the screen blank out for a moment, as though someone walked in front of the camera, but no one (who was living) could have been in the room to do so.
