Jen Bowman in her room where she saw a ghost

Jen Bowman says that the man pictured in this old photograph, resembles the spirit that has manifested sitting on her bed.
She is not the only person to report ghostly sightings in her neighborhood.

The man who is in a picture which hangs in the pub

A KENDAL landlady says she is haunted by the ghostly spectre of a man featured in an old photograph in her pub.

Jen Bowman, of the Prince of Wales Feathers, in Wildman Street, is one of several people to report ghostly goings-on in the boozer, and hopes Westmorland Gazette readers can help shed some light on the mystery.

Jen, who lives upstairs at the Feathers with business partner Tom Hartley, 63, said the ghost regularly emerges from behind locked doors.

Staff and punters have also seen the apparition near the gambling machine.

The short grey-haired ghoul, who appears dressed in a shirt and tweed trousers, is the dead-ringer of a man featured in a photograph in the Feathers’ games room.

Although a friendly presence, things got too much when Jen walked into her bedroom to find him sat on the end of her bed as plain as day.

“I was looking down when I went into my room. I saw a pair of shoes moving around the floor. I looked up expecting to see Tom, but it wasn’t,” said Ms Bowen – suddenly face to face with the phantom of the man in the photograph.

“I screamed, threw my coat at it and ran off, but he’s been seen so many times now that it doesn’t faze me at all,” she said.

The spirit likes to lift toilet seats up and down ‘to let us know he’s there’, and even turns the television off at request said Ms Bowman, who wants readers to help her find out who the restless soul is.

There are rumours that a young boy fell to his death from the upstairs window of the Feathers, while a lady is also believed to have committed suicide in the pub.

Ms Bowman went to see famed TV medium Derek Ancora, who advised she get a reputable psychic investigator to look into the mystery.

She is certain the ghost is the same man in the photograph, and points to another strange incident as proof.

One morning she went downstairs into the bar to find a silk scarf laid out on the floor in the shape of a capital ‘N’ – leading her to think the ghost may be one John Nowell – a former landlord of The Feathers whom she believes to be the man playing bowls in the photograph.

“Whoever the ghost is, he’s friendly enough. I just want to get to the bottom of it,” she said.

Full source: West Morland Gazette