Bassa Villa: Pint Glasses Smashed

Yet another pub in England appears to be haunted.

Bassa Villa in Bridgnorth

The Bassa Villa pub in Shropshire, England caught on their CCTV-- security cameras--an unseen force hurling pint glasses off the bar’s shelves.

Unusual activity is something that new owner Nick Bevon is used to. He has worked in the pub for years and has experienced unexplained activity in the past.

While working alone he has had his wrist grabbed, while he was in the pub's cellar, and he has seen a mysterious figure walk across the bar—all the while wondering if it was just his imagination.

Bevon and many others have also heard strange noises in the pub’s cellar.

The most notable incident although happened last month-- in mid-August. Nick and his assistant manager entered the pub one morning to find smashed glass all over the floor.

Thinking someone had broken in the night before Nick checked the pub’s security cameras.

He was surprised to see glass pints falling from various bar shelves at 1:43 a.m. without any apparent assistance.

He checked the scene from several camera angles, but concluded no one was in the pub at the time these glasses fell.

A scene from the video footage.

Bevon states, “I do not believe in ghosts but I can’t see any other explanation for this.”

The activity in the pub is attributed to the mother of two children who drowned in the building. It is said she is the dark lady seen walking around the pub.

In the 1600s, when the pub was known as the Magpie House, these two children, Charlotte and William, drowned while playing hide and seek when the pub’s basement was flooded from the River Severn.

Bevon looking down the well.

However, Nick Bevon recently discovered an old well in the pub’s cellar—he thinks the children might have drowned in this well instead.

The following is some of the activity that Bassa Villa’s security camera’s caught last month.

The Ghosts of the Roman Legionnaires

The Treasurer’s House located in York, North Yorkshire, England is considered to be a very haunted structure. Today, England’s National Trust owns this stately home. 

In medieval times it was the home of the treasurers of York Minster. The home’s cellars show an even more ancient history than this for what was once the main Roman road in the area runs right under it. 

One eyewitness account that states the ghosts of Roman Legionnaire soldiers were seen has made this house a curiosity.

In the ancient city of York, 2000 years ago there stood a Roman Fort. Twenty-five thousand Roman troops occupied the area for over 400 years. The Treasurer’s house sits on the land that once was the center of where this fort was located. 

In the 1990s a plumber by the name of Harry Martindale was called in by the National Trust to run a new set of water pipes. In the area of the cellar that he worked was a part of the main Roman cobbled road had been unearthed.

Martindale was on a ladder making a deep hole into the cellar ceiling when to his surprise he saw a man in a Roman uniform on a horse come right through the wall and then at least 20 soldiers on foot marching two by two followed. 

This procession filed right past him and then disappeared through the opposite wall. Frozen with fear Martindale was still able to give an in-depth description of what these men wore and carried.

His account is compelling because like many witnesses to ghostly sightings he was not familiar with the history or even that these men were Roman legionnaires. But he was able to give very specific details about their uniforms and armaments even though he had no prior knowledge of these items. 

Experts later confirmed that the details he recounted were very accurate.