Angel Row's Bell Inn sits above one of Nottingham's many pockets of sandstone caves, in this case traditionally linked to Carmelite friars from a medieval friary once nearby, who are said to have carved out the tunnels and deep wells that survive beneath the pub today. The caves themselves are a genuine and interesting piece of the city's underground heritage, regardless of what may or may not haunt them.
The haunting claims attached to the Bell Inn are considerably less solid than the caves themselves. Descriptions amount to little more than a general sense that the pub, given its age and its monastic-associated cellars, ought to be haunted, without a specific figure, date, or reported sighting to anchor the claim. It is the kind of reputation that accrues to almost any sufficiently old building with atmospheric cellars in a city as thoroughly promoted for ghost tourism as Nottingham.
This entry is included for the sake of geographic and thematic completeness within Nottingham's old town, and in keeping with this project's approach of recording thin stories honestly rather than dropping them, but readers should treat the underlying haunting claim as essentially undocumented beyond a generic "old pub, old caves, must be haunted" reputation.
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