Staff at the Lincoln Castle’s cafe shop were investigating the boarded up cellar and found a creepy message that apparently hasn’t been seen in decades.

The message warns about a ghost sighting that happened in that location 100 years ago. To the day.

Full source: thisislincolnshire.co.uk

Staff at Lincoln Castle had a shock when they opened a cellar which had been boarded up for decades and found a mysterious message.

It sounds like something from a Hammer horror film but for the castle workers it all seems spine-chillingly real.

They were sent to inspect the cellar beneath the historic building’s cafe which had lain unopened for at least 30 years.

There were no lights down there so they had to explore by torch alone.

Swinging the beam around they found an inscription warning that a ghost had appeared there 100 years ago to the day.

No sooner had they read the century-old message than their only mobile phone mysteriously went dead.

It was probably nothing.

But the experienced workers were in no mood to hang around – and fled upstairs.

Will Mason, district manager at Lincoln Castle, said the experience had given him sleepless nights.

“It was a little bit weird,” he said.

“I have always had an open mind about things like this.

“Perhaps I would call myself a healthy cynic.

“But if there’s a place that is going to be haunted, it is Lincoln Castle.

“A site where people have been hanged for crimes – this is the kind of place where you might find a ghost.”

For more on the ghost, see Saturday’s Echo.