Leicester
LE4 5PF
History
Built in the early 1600s, The Talbot was named after a now extinct hunting dog called a Talbot hound and it was a dog used for security to deter highway men and robberies.
The Talbot used to be a 3 storey building but when a fire in the 1950s spread through the building, the third storey was unable to be saved and is now a 2 storey building.
It’s said that the Talbot used to provide criminals due to be executed (hung or burnt at the stake) with their last meal, they was then taken to red hill gallows.
Some of the bodies whether they was innocent or guilty was returned to the Talbot where they was examined and used for scientific research in one of the outbuildings, before they was finally put to rest.
Reported Activity
A young child sits on a bar stool.
A phantom woman vanishes into the wall. Possibly an old landlady called Mary Dawson who died in 1764, she has been nicked named ‘Hairy Mary’
An old man in a large raincoat walks towards the bar before disappearing.
A shadowy figures lurk in the car park.
Banging, footsteps are heard, some staff have reported that they have been locked in the cellar.
Temperature fluctuations.
The balls on the pool table have been reported to knock together of their own
