SHIP of TERROR

When I applied for my dream job, I had no idea of the curse that lay beyond.

Karl Gibson

Standing under the galleon, I smiled as a newspaper photographer snapped away. It was Halloween and they’d come to do a feature on my pub. ‘Have you got everything?’ I asked. The photographer was staring intently at his camera. ‘That’s so weird. You’re not in the photo,’ he said, showing me. He was right. While the galleon was in plain view, I was nowhere to be seen. ‘Let me try again,’ he said. This time, the photo showed me, but not the galleon. ‘I don’t understand,’ the photographer frowned. ‘It’s not you,’ I told him. ‘It’s probably the galleon.’ His jaw dropped. ‘You mean… the curse?’ For the past 12 years, I’d been the landlord of Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham – one of the UK’s most haunted…

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