A GREAT Sankey pub has not just one, but three ghosts - and landlord Robert Wright has just a particularly strange experience.

He noticed a rosebowl by a window had suddenly been moved - and neither he nor his wife had touched it.

"My wife said, do you think somebody is trying to tell you something?" said the 57-year-old.

"Anyway, three days later, I got a call to say my aunt had died. I can't explain it, but that's what happened."

The most famous ghost at the pub is supposedly a cavalier who was stabbed during the civil war but managed to make it to the pub before dying.

Mr Wright heard the footsteps banging up and down the corridor before he had even heard the story from his barber. There is also an old man who sits at one end of the bar.

Mary Pimblett, aged 52, from Liverpool Road, said: "I was standing near the bar and I just felt this cold presence. I started going cold from my feet upwards. I was just frozen to the spot."

Her future son in law, thought he saw a man at the end of the bar but there was no-one there.

When he walked round, that side of the room felt icy cold.

There is also a little boy dressed in a white gown who has appeared to Mr Wright's wife in their bedroom.

And Pamela Cholmondley, aged 62, from Liverpool Road, had a close encounter in the toilets.

She felt something cold and white brush past her in the women's toilets."