Patrons and staff have passed down several chilling anecdotes. One common story has a guest in Room 6 (the reputedly most haunted room) waking in the night to see a misty female figure in old-fashioned clothes at the foot of the bed, wringing her hands in despair before vanishing. In another tale, closing staff hear a gentle lullaby being hummed near the empty upstairs corridor – as if a mother were trying to soothe a baby. The apparition herself is described as wearing a simple grey dress with soot-stains, consistent with someone who suffered a fire. She’s often glimpsed moving toward where the old nursery was thought to be, then disappearing by a particular wall. Some nights, around 2 AM, a distinct scent of burning wood drifts through the pub with no source, followed by soft weeping sounds – locals say this is the mother reliving the fateful fire. These rich narratives keep the Green Man’s ghost lore alive, passed from each generation of landlords to the next.