If you're interested in the supernatural September is the time to visit The Grenadier Pub, 18 Wilton Row, Belgrave Square, London.
It was once an officer's mess said to have been frequented by the Duke of Wellington and even George V and it's during the month of September that the paranormal activity increases. Items are moved, chairs and tables rattled, footsteps and voices heard, cold spots develop, people are pushed and a ghostly figure which vanishes suddenly has been observed.
Cedric, as bar staff and customers have named the ghost, is believed to be the ghost of a soldier caught cheating at cards, beaten by his fellow card players as punishment who subsequently died as a result of his injuries. Due to the increase in ghostly activities during the month if September it is assumed that this is the month he died in.
It's said that a film crew once captured a photograph of a ghostly soldier looking into The Grenadier and that one unfortunate customer, a Chief Superintendent from Scotland Yard, was burned by an invisible cigarette.
You can watch Richard Jones telling Michaela Strachan about The Grenadier 's ghost on Great British Ghosts via YouTube by clicking The Grenadier
Image:By Ewan Munro from London, UK (Grenadier, Belgravia, SW1 Uploaded by Oxyman) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Other September hauntings:
Ghost of King Edward II Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire
The Ghost of Annie Chapman, a September Haunting
The Ghost of Amy Robsart wife of Sir Robert Dudley a September Haunting
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