Watch moment 'ghost shatters thick pint glass at haunted' West Country pub

The mysterious footage has baffled people for years

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CCTV footages shows the moment a pint glass burst up into the air and shattered into a dozen pieces while no one was around. The incident happened at the West Country's 'most haunted pubs' in 2021.

This mysterious clip shows the apparent spontaneous explosive crushing of a Guinness pint glass sitting on a shelf behind the bar - scaring the landlords who had lived there for 10 years. The Longs Arms pub in South Wraxall is no stranger to paranormal activity, reports Wiltshire Live.

Anything from phantom children, self-flushing toilets, self-opening doors and resident ghost tales had been recounted by the owners Rob and Liz Allcock. Customers are often said to attempt to pick up a phantom dog and turn red when they realise there is nothing there.

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However, when this went down, the pair watched the video over and over again to try to rationalise the illogical event. Finally, Rob posted it to Twitter - and a myriad of hypothesis came flooding in, including that something must have fallen onto the glass.

The landlord said: "That's not possible, because it's a single glass- they're not touching and this is a toughened Guinness glass, with the bottom blown out of it. The glass was placed upside down, on a hygienic drip mat with a gap underneath to allow the glass to dry. "There's no way anything could have hit it."

According to Rob, the toughened glass at the bottom, which is not supposed to shatter, burst - "It was like someone had crushed it from the top. "It's just really odd and you can see from my wife's reaction, she's pretty freaked out," he added.

The accounts of ghostly happenings at The Long Arms are like no other haunted pub in Wiltshire - with the sightings so regular, they are part and parcel of everyday life in the building.

Husband and wife Rob and Liz have run The Longs Arms in South Wraxall for 10 years, becoming custodians near-on four years ago.

In that time an inordinate number of phantoms have presented themselves to regulars, visitors, customers and of course the owners, according to Rob.

He recounts scenarios where children have been seen sat with customers, eating dinner. When a customers goes to leave, they'd say to Rob: "Wasn't that little boy really well behaved?" And he'd explain there was just two adults sitting there, there were no children.

People have been pushed into the toilets from the back of their heads, while others have seen men in the garden, picking apples up.

Things around the pub have been known to move around, but no glass has ever spontaneously burst before.

"Normally, you see things and then you look back and there's no one there. I'll be walking through to the kitchen, which has a door that opens both ways, and it will open as if someone is on the other side, pulling it - you get used to things like that."

Most famously is the little black and white dog, that has been seen so vividly by all people and children a-like that they actually attempt to pick him up, and kids chase him round the tables, "even though there's nothing there."

Rob explained that when he reveals to people that the dog isn't there, they get "quite freaked out."

"But they've seen it, and you can't argue with someone once they've seen it," he added.

An old photograph of a former landlord called George standing next to a small black and white dog hangs from a wall inside - so whenever something 'unnatural' happens, they just say "you alright George?"

He added: "Growing up in pubs in Liverpool, my mum always used to tell me, don't be afraid of the ghostly things you see, be scared of the living.

"I've always kept that with me - what are they going to do? It's not a horror film, it's just what it is. I can't explain it, I just don't feel like they're going to harm us."

Rob recalls the first time he ever "saw somebody," he was looking out his window, into the garden and saw two men stood underneath a big apple tree, wearing "massive" black hats, bent down putting apples into a cart.

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He called for his wife Liz, "come and have a look at these two blokes in our garden," and when he looked back, they were gone. The landlord claims that he didn't tell anyone about the things he saw back then, not wishing to be confused for being "nuts."

But later, Rob's dad looked after the pub while the two were on their honeymoon and when they returned, he recounted seeing two men in the garden, looking up at the pub. Rob asked his dad what they were wearing, and he replied "black and white clothes, with big black hats," - to which Rob thought "Oh my god."

"So it's not just us, other people do see things, which is a bit bizarre," he added. Although over the years, loads of people have told Rob and Liz, they ought to get a ghost hunter in, Rob says "no way."

"We might see things, hear things, feel things, but it's all good - I don't want to start upsetting anything - I'd rather just let things be." It is hypothesised that The Longs Arms dates back to the 16th century, however, it is not exactly known - although it is clear that the building has been an inn since 1870. The Allcocks are the only other family after the Long's that have owned the pub in 140 years.

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Watch moment 'ghost shatters thick pint glass at haunted' West Country pub