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Coventry city centre is rife with eerie happenings, including phantom footsteps, a ghostly maid who dislikes men, and a pub cellar that dogs won't dare enter. Dr Paul Lee, an author,
has chronicled 12 haunted locations within the ring road, extending to the broader Coventry and Warwickshire area. After a decade of meticulous research, Dr Lee documented over 5,500
hauntings nationwide, which can be explored on our map below. READ MORE: 30 QUESTIONS TO TEST YOUR MOVIE KNOWLEDGE Among the most chilling locations in Coventry is the Old Dyers Arms, where
objects have been hurled around the cellar, a place the pub's dog adamantly avoids. A cleaner in a back room abruptly left when her apron was torn off her, spinning her around, and a
visitor reported seeing a young girl in the men's lavatories. The Old Windmill has had reports of poltergeist activity, with one individual claiming to have been shoved towards the
fire. The Slug and Lettuce, formerly a medieval jail and cemetery, has had sightings of 'dark figures' on the terrace. In 2013, the bar manager claimed she saw a child
'crouching by the bar after closing', reports we previously reported. You can take a look through the haunted activity in Coventry and the wider area in our special tool below.
Cathedral Lanes is rumoured to be haunted, and it's widely known that those standing in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral occasionally hear the sound of aircraft engines and explosions, a
ghostly echo of the Luftwaffe's attack during the Second World War. Beyond the city centre, there have been reports of a phantom coach seen and heard around the A45 at Canley. The
account states that the coach is driven 'at breakneck speed, with the passengers screaming in a state of alarm'. The tale goes: "The legend is that two centuries ago a coach
failed to arrive at its destination and a search found its tracks leading into the marshes, but of the coach, horses or humans, there was never any sign. The pub is said to stand on the site
of an old coaching inn, and some say that the coachman of that doomed journey, named Charlie, haunts the pub too.