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GREGYNOG Hall recently went under investigation by the Most Haunted team and will appear on the show this week.
The building is believed to be haunted by a number of ghosts, one of which is a man called William who wears a long black coat, has a dog and doesn’t like other men very much.
It is thought he wanders up and down the corridors, and reportedly used to knock the shoulder of the previous male director of the hall, Tom, as he left his office, and was seen by the current manager’s father during a Christmas security patrol.
Tom said: “I caught him holding a door open for a man in a black coat that clearly wasn’t there. My father didn’t believe in ghosts until that day.
"I don’t either, but I always say goodnight to William when I’m the last to leave the building at night – just in case.”
In Room 7 it has also been said that there’s a child who sits on the end of the bed and cries sometimes. Guests who don’t know the story have gone to the conference office the next morning and requested to move rooms due to the noise of a child crying somewhere.
A rather nasty ghost resides in the cellar bar, which reportedly shut one of the Most Haunted team in the safe and was rescued sometime later by presenter Yvette Fielding.
One of the house managers at the hall has sensed the feeling of rainfall in the annex corridor, an area in which Most Haunted stated that a presence came and went on occasion – hence this sensation which is a classic sign of paranormal activity moving around.
Powys Paranormal, a paranormal group based in Tregynon, once took a photograph of what looks like the outline of a horse in the courtyard of the hall.
Rachael Davies, from the group, said: “That night it was very frosty, we’d been all around the grounds, we walked into the courtyard to take pictures. When you see the picture you try to find logic, like is it breath?
After we took the picture we looked and found that the courtyard is where the horses were stabled, which explains the horse.”
Karen Armstrong, the current director of the hall said: “Many of our staff have worked here for a long time and they keep telling the same corroborated stories. Whenever I remind them that ghosts don’t exist, they knowingly smile at me.”
The episode will be broadcast on Living TV on Wednesday, June 30.
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