The story is told in a roundup of Warrington hauntings credited to the investigators of Night Vision Investigations. It calls the Black Horse Inn on Liverpool Road the town's oldest public house and says it was once a stabling yard run by a blacksmith named Giles Boston.
According to the account, one night Cavaliers entered the yard and demanded the horses. A fight followed, and the leader of the Cavaliers shot Giles in the chest. He is said to have crawled about two hundred yards to raise the alarm and died on the road moments later. The piece says that for more than 200 years witnesses have reported a sad figure holding one hand to its chest outside the pub.
Warrington was a contested town in the Civil War, so the setting is plausible, but the source gives no date, no witness names and no record of a Giles Boston outside the story. The pin is on Liverpool Road in the town centre and may not be exactly on the pub.
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