contd. A barrel of Guinness ran out (I wasn't there by this time!) and an ex-pub landlady friend of mine helped out the bar staff and changed it for them. About 6 pints later, barrel went again and she checked - it was totally empty. (She knows a full one from an empty one!!) No leakages anywhere either.
Best of all - we were unceremoniously dumped by a new landlord who had plans to move in upstairs. The same friend of mine kept me posted on all the goss, and how much the locals didn't like him. One afternoon, he came down into the pub and asked her if she believed in ghosts. She said "have you seen her then?" he said, "what do you mean 'her'? Did you know there was a ghost?" My friend laughed and told him about the rumours, of which he knew nothing until that moment. It turned out the ghost had gone down the stairs in front of him, frightened him to death, and as a result he never moved in and sold the pub shortly afterwards.
Lastly, Channel 4 made a programme about the pub which I was in, briefly. I missed it when it was on, but a friend taped it and lent me the tape and it was blank. Years later, I started a new job, someone recognised me from the programme (what are THOSE odds??!!) and said he had it on tape still because it was local interest. Lent me the tape - that one was blank too. And HE had watched it more than once so he knew it had been there.
I like to think she was very real, knew I was terrified and was just a bit mischievous to me and bf, but appeared to the guy everyone disliked to get rid of him. I think there's more, but I'm trying to think back. Someone is bound to discredit me, but I'm utterly convinced she lived there too.....
woooooooooooo (ghost noise, naturally...!)