In the early part of the 1960s the landlord of the Green Dragon in Gravenhurst was a Mr Mills who lived there with his wife Mona. One night she awoke to see a figure of a young man with long fair hair standing in the bedroom. He did not move or make a sound but as Mrs Mills watched he slowly faded away. A few weeks later he appeared again but this time Mrs Mills roused her husband but by the time he was awake the figure had gone. Mr Mills did not believe her but her twenty-eight year old son did as he had experienced the figure whilst sleeping in the same room but had not mentioned it as he thought he would not be believed.

The figure was not the only strange thing to occur at the Bell. Objects would disappear, footsteps were heard overhead on more than one occasion when there was no one upstairs and doors would open of their own accord.

The Mills weren't the only people to experience strange things at the Green Dragon. In August 1975 Brian Reed became landlord and was getting ready to move in, with his wife Sheila, when a light bulb fell into a waste bin but it had to move quite some way sideways to do so and a box of screws went missing from upstairs only to appear downstairs. One morning an empty glass, which was normally stored in a rack, was found standing in the middle of the bar.

Locals say that the ghost is that of a Cavalier who they have named Hector.

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