The Wagon and Horses Disturbance

The following story was related to me by my Brother-in-law Philip Moss who was told the story first hand on the day that it occurred, which was the 10th March 2007.

Photo by Gary Tacagni

He had called in for a drink at the Wagon and Horse’s public house on the A34 Congleton to Manchester road, about 1 mile outside the town of Congleton, Cheshire, U.K. The Landlady of the pub knew Philip, and being in  a state of distress felt that she was able to relate the following incident which had taken place earlier that day. It transpired that earlier in the day she had gone into the back room of the pub to answer a ringing telephone that was in there, upon lifting the reciever she found that there was no one on the other end of the phone, to avoid having another wasted journey should the phone ring again, she unplugged it and started to bring it through to the bar, while doing this an unexplained gust of wind blew past her in the corridor, even though all the windows and doors were closed at the time. Once the phone was plugged in at the bar the Landlady went about her business again, only to discover a few minutes later that the phone she had removed and brought through to the bar was ringing again, only the noise was coming from the back room where it had been removed from!

Another unusual occurrence happened here when one of the waitresses saw an elderly woman sitting in the restaurant, even though it was closed at the time, she reported this to the Landlady who came to confront the old woman only to find that she had vanished.

After relating these happenings to a friend of mine Keith Pay, who founded the Congleton Paranormal Society, he went on to tell me that behind the public house there had used to be a monastery and also an ancient carp pool which would have provided fish for the monks, however these days nothing remains to show this, but a recent change has taken place as the company known as Tarmac has taken over this field and started to excavate it to remove the large quantities of sand that can be found here. It is these disturbances which may have triggered this phenomena as well as ghostly sightings being seen, similar disturbances took place at Fools Nook which I will write about soon when a local company started quarrying in a place called the Fairy Hough, strange lights were seen coming out of the ground and a negative energy now affects this place.

The Excavation behind the Wagon & Horses public house, is this what triggered the disturbances? The pub can just be seen on the horizon. Photo by Gary Tacagni