10 Cursed Inns In England Where Guests Vanished And Never Checked Out

In December 1926, Britain's most famous crime writer vanished. Over a thousand police officers and 15,000 volunteers searched for her, and lakes were dredged. Eleven days later she turned up in a hotel, signed in under another woman's name. English inns have been swallowing guests for almost a thousand years. A soldier beaten to death over a game of cards. A girl buried under a bar floor. A landlord with a trapdoor under his best bed. A king who left his bed at an inn in Leicester, rode out to battle, and wasn't found for 527 years. These are 10 English inns where guests checked in and never checked out. Most are still open, and you can book a room tonight. Where something is on the historical record, I'll tell you. Where it's only a story told over the bar, I'll tell you that too. Have you stayed at one of these inns, or do you drink at one that didn't make the list? Tell me in the comments. I don't mean the story on the menu. I mean what the regulars say once the tourists have gone home. 🔔 Subscribe for the next one: places people were told never to go back to.