The Horrifying True Haunting of The Wheatsheaf Inn: UK’s Most Evil Pub with 37 Ghosts, Murder, and EVP Evidence

0:00 Speaker 1: Welcome back, friends to the Strange History Podcast, where the

0:03 Speaker 1: past isn't just remembered, it refuses to rest tonight, Pour

0:08 Speaker 1: yourself a pint, pull up a creaky stool, and settle in,

0:13 Speaker 1: because I'm taking you to a place that's soaked an

0:15 Speaker 1: ale legend and an unspeakable darkness. This is the horrifying

0:21 Speaker 1: true story of the Wheat Sheaf In, a charming little

0:25 Speaker 1: pub nestled in the village of West Bolden Tyne and Where, England.

0:31 Speaker 1: But don't let the flower baskets and friendly signage fool you.

0:35 Speaker 1: Beneath the wooden beams and warm smiles, lurks something twisted.

0:39 Speaker 1: This dear listener may just be the most haunted pub

0:43 Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom.

0:45 Speaker 2: The ordinary face of evil.

0:48 Speaker 1: By all appearances, the Wheat sheaf Inn is your typical

0:51 Speaker 1: British watering hole, a cozy nineteenth century pub frequented by locals,

0:57 Speaker 1: families and weekend ale enthusias. It served Sunday roasts, hosted

1:03 Speaker 1: quiz nights and rang with laughter. But strange things had

1:07 Speaker 1: been happening there for years. Cold spots whispers, the staff

1:12 Speaker 1: complained of lights flickering and glasses smashing without cause. Patrons

1:16 Speaker 1: heard footsteps above them when no one was upstairs. Dogs

1:20 Speaker 1: refused to enter the cellar, and some even claimed they

1:23 Speaker 1: saw a little girl staring silently from the shadows, then vanishing.

1:28 Speaker 1: But no one really knew what they were dealing with

1:31 Speaker 1: until two thousand and four.

1:34 Speaker 2: A psychic walks into a bar.

1:37 Speaker 1: Enter Suzanne Hadwin, a well known psychic medium from the Northeast,

1:43 Speaker 1: invited to the Wheat Sheaf for a charity ghost hunting event.

1:47 Speaker 1: What she expected was your typical pub haunting, some residual energy,

1:51 Speaker 1: maybe a grumpy old spirit who missed his darts league.

1:55 Speaker 1: What she got was something else entirely Almost immediately, Suzanne

2:00 Speaker 1: claimed she made contact with the spirit of a young

2:03 Speaker 1: girl named Jessica Ann Hargreaves. Jessica, she said, was six

2:07 Speaker 1: years old, sweet, quiet, innocent, and absolutely terrified he hurt me.

2:16 Speaker 1: Suzanne described Jessica's spirit in heartbreaking detail, brown hair, a

2:21 Speaker 1: pink dress, soft shoes, and a deep, unrelenting sadness. Jessica

2:26 Speaker 1: revealed that she had lived in the pub long ago,

2:29 Speaker 1: and that she had died there horribly. She told Suzanne

2:33 Speaker 1: she had been lured into the cellar, where a man

2:36 Speaker 1: named Joseph Lawrence, or possibly Joseph Armstrong, raped her, strangled her,

2:42 Speaker 1: and dismembered her body. Suzanne, stunned, asked where the remains were.

2:48 Speaker 1: Jessica pointed to the fireplace. Now, if this sounds like

2:52 Speaker 1: the plot of a gothic horror novel, well it gets worse.

2:58 Speaker 2: The cellar that spoke the.

3:00 Speaker 1: Landlord at the time, Damon Brown, was both disturbed and intrigued.

3:05 Speaker 1: Together with the staff, they ventured into the cellar following

3:09 Speaker 1: Suzanne's eerie directions. They noticed a hollow sounding wall. Suzanne

3:14 Speaker 1: insisted that behind it lay proof of Jessica's story, so

3:19 Speaker 1: they broke it open. What they found chilled them to

3:22 Speaker 1: the bone. A small child's shoe, a fragment of a

3:26 Speaker 1: pink dress, and a lock of light brown hair. Exactly

3:30 Speaker 1: as Jessica had described. These were real objects hidden in

3:35 Speaker 1: a place no one had touched for decades. Was it

3:38 Speaker 1: coincidence a trick or a young girl crying out across

3:42 Speaker 1: time for justice?

3:44 Speaker 2: I'm coming for you, Suzanne.

3:48 Speaker 1: But that wasn't all. During that same ghost hunting session,

3:51 Speaker 1: the team captured an EVP, an electronic voice phenomenon believed

3:56 Speaker 1: to be the spirit of Joseph himself. The voice said

4:00 Speaker 1: I'm coming for you, Suzanne, I'm going to kill you

4:04 Speaker 1: multiple times that night. Suzanne claimed she felt overwhelming dread,

4:09 Speaker 1: like something malevolent was watching. She would later say she

4:12 Speaker 1: had never felt such concentrated evil in one place. And

4:16 Speaker 1: remember this woman made a living visiting haunted houses.

4:22 Speaker 2: Thirty seven spirits and counting.

4:25 Speaker 1: After the events of two thousand and four, the Wheat

4:28 Speaker 1: Sheaf gained national attention. Paranormal investigators poured in. Over time,

4:34 Speaker 1: more and more spirits were identified over thirty seven. By

4:38 Speaker 1: some counts, the pub seemed to be a supernatural sponge

4:43 Speaker 1: soaking in trauma, memory and presence. Visitors report chairs flying

4:49 Speaker 1: across the room, glasses hurling themselves at walls, and shadowy

4:53 Speaker 1: figures that dart through the halls. Some staff quit, refusing

4:57 Speaker 1: to return to the cellar. Others swore they were fough

5:00 Speaker 1: followed home by something from the pub and Jessica, according

5:04 Speaker 1: to psychics, she's still there, watching, waiting, hoping someone will

5:09 Speaker 1: find the rest of her. The police get involved after

5:14 Speaker 1: media coverage exploded. Northumbria police actually investigated Damon Brown feared

5:20 Speaker 1: there may be more than just Jessica's remains, possibly up

5:24 Speaker 1: to eight more children buried beneath the pub That was

5:27 Speaker 1: never confirmed, but police did take Suzanne's findings seriously enough

5:31 Speaker 1: to visit the site. No full bodies were recovered, no

5:35 Speaker 1: charges were brought, but the questions never stopped myth or murder?

5:41 Speaker 1: So what are we dealing with? A psychic's overactive imagination,

5:46 Speaker 1: a local legend taken too far, a historic crime that

5:50 Speaker 1: was never documented but desperately wants to be uncovered, or

5:54 Speaker 1: something darker, something tied to the land, the building and

5:58 Speaker 1: the spirits who still cling to it. The artifacts remain real,

6:02 Speaker 1: the EVPs are documented, the sightings continue, and the Wheat

6:06 Speaker 1: sheaf Inn, now notorious, is forever etched into the grim

6:10 Speaker 1: annals of Haunted Britain. So if you ever find yourself

6:14 Speaker 1: in West Bolden tempted by the quaint charm of an

6:17 Speaker 1: old English pub, just remember some places don't serve spirits,

6:22 Speaker 1: they house them.

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