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I was on business 23-12-2010 in North West Wales. The journey took 6 hours up there due to the folks who wanted to drive at 25mph. By the time I finished it was late and I was very tired so I stopped at the lovely Royal Oak Hotel in Betws Y Coed.
The hotel was superb even though I saw a ghost during the night, which I hasten to add did not bother me.
I walked around the town in the evening before eating and this was the result:
Oh and I think I found the reason for the ghost the following moring when walking around! A Woman had died just opposite the hotel on the green. Did not find out the story.
We often overnight at Betwesycoed on our way through and we always stop at the far end of the Station carpark.
Here are a couple of pictures there with our previous van.
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Brilliant photos.................tell us more about the ghost ?
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À tous mes amis du forum thankyou pour toutes vos pensées agréables et avec son amour derrière moi je lutterai contre mon conflit avec un esprit de postive et le triomphe
In common with many buildings which have enjoyed such a rich history, Gwydir has acquired a reputation for being one of Wales' most haunted houses. However, lest the sceptical be inclined to dismiss this page and move on, it should be pointed out that stories relating to Gwydir's various ghosts were recorded already in the nineteenth century and are therefore not, as is so often the case, of recent fabrication. In fact many people (friends and visitors alike) continue to feel, see and even smell a range of paranormal things here, which are always uncannily consistent in terms of location and recorded experiences.
Perhaps the most significant, and most certainly most widely reported, of the ghosts is that of a young woman who haunts the north wing and the panelled corridor between the Hall of Meredith and the Great Chamber. In the nineteenth century the room behind the panelling was called the 'Ghost Room'. A white or grey woman was said to have been frequently seen in the room and the adjoining passageway, accompanied by a foul smell of putrefaction. Whilst the apparition has not specifically been seen in recent years, its presence continues to be felt and some have claimed to have been touched on the shoulder whilst at the same time experiencing a considerable drop in temperature. In addition, the extraordinary smell associated with the sightings continues to be experienced, always in the same part of the passageway.
Whilst we are not certain of the ghost's identity, an account published in 1906 provides a vivid (and rather horrific) explanation for the sightings and their associated smell. Apparently Sir John Wynn (either the first or fifth baronet - this remains unclear) seduced a serving maid at Gwydir in his youth. When the relationship became…complicated, the unscrupulous Sir John murdered the girl and had her body walled-up within a large void in one of the chimney breasts. The smell of the decomposing body, it is said, lingered for months as an unfortunate reminder of his former amour. Significantly, a hollowed-out space was found earlier this century within the large chimney breast which backs onto the Ghost Room at the hall end of the passage. This, long called the 'priest hole', is where the body was said to have been secreted; and it is in this area that the smell is always at its strongest.
The fifth baronet is said to have made a deathbed confession to a murder committed at Gwydir during his youth in the mid seventeenth century. But the first baronet (1553-1627) is an equally likely candidate for the girl's murder. His (much-exaggerated) reputation as a local tyrant was established already in folklore when Thomas Pennant, the antiquary, visited the area in the 1770's. He recounts a tradition (which continues to this day) that the spirit of the old baronet remains trapped beneath the waterfall near Betws-y-Coed called the Swallow Falls, 'forever to be purged, purified and spat upon (by the waters) for the evil deeds committed by him in his days of nature'.
Sir John himself ranks amongst the many other reported ghosts. He has been sighted on a number of occasions on the spiral staircase leading from the Solar Hall to the Great Chamber; his portrait hangs in the Lower Hall. A detailed account of all the other sightings would prove exhaustive, but amongst them children have been heard crying, a Ghost Dog has frequently been seen (incredibly, its bones were unearthed in the cellar in 1995), and a procession has been seen at night on the Great Terrace, near Sir John's arch.
À tous mes amis du forum thankyou pour toutes vos pensées agréables et avec son amour derrière moi je lutterai contre mon conflit avec un esprit de postive et le triomphe
I was very tired when I arrived and had dinner fairly early. I went to my room which was a large suite at the front of the Hotel and on the first floor.
Layed on top of the bed with the TV on and fell asleep. It was suddenly just after midnight. You know how these things happen!
Got into bed, switched off the light and pulled the covers over me. As I did so I saw inches from my face a girl or young Woman with long blonde hair screaming!
Fortunately this sort of thing does not bother me and I went to sleep. However I awoke at about 01:30 having had an awful nightmare about children. It was very vivid and not nice!
I spoke to the staff in the morning and they had not heard of anything in that room, but had in others.
Having realised the beauty of the place I decided that I did not want to leave without having a good walk around taking lots of photos.
As I was heading back to the Hotel on the opposite side of the road and taking photos on what I can only describe as a very large village green, big enough for many football pitches, I came across a bench. On the bench were lots of cards and flowers with best wishes to a Dawn!
I went back into the hotel and asked them about it, but nobody knew anything. I can only assume that this was whom I saw.
I look forward to going back and want to stay in the same room.
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