19/12/2025
Ghost Hunt at Ye Old Trip To Jerusalem.
This was a paid event I attended with Spiritual Paranormal Society.
We experienced a few taps, a light that seemed to be coming from nowhere, I felt really dizzy in a certain part of the building and when we were heading upstairs for our free time we heard a group of people laughing and chatting, we fully expected another group to already be there but we opened the door to no one and the sound stopped instantly.
What an absolute gem of a place though that's steeped in history!
As England's oldest inn, the pub is nestled beneath the cliff on which Nottingham's historic castle stands, and was once a well-known pit stop for crusader knights. It is said that King Richard the Lionheart and his men are more than likely to have gathered at this historic royal dwelling before journeying to Jerusalem in 1189AD, thus giving the pub its unusual name.
Beneath the pub, cave cellars root deep into the sandstone cliff and, like many of Nottingham's 800+ caves, have for centuries been used for storage of ale. Also located in the cellars is an old cockfighting pit and part of the Castle Gaol was said to be housed in the cellars at one time. This included the condemned cell, a small cell with a very low ceiling with small holes drilled to allow a little air to circulate.
