A child hanged for a loaf of bread is a widely repeated motif in British ghost lore, and no record of such an execution is cited here. The other two ghosts are more specific. The inn served the Royal Mail coach on the London to Glasgow road from July 1788 for about sixty years, which makes a killing by a coach on the main street plausible as a real event. Crawford is often described in ghost roundups as one of the most haunted villages in Scotland, though that description comes from the same few local stories.
Hauntings
The Three Ghosts of the Old Post Horn Inn, Crawford
Old Post Horn Inn, Main Street, Crawford
Undated; the coachman is said to have died in 1805
The Post Horn has closed as a public house and hotel.
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- No public access
- Location
- 55.470, -3.653 (Sited to the village)
Sources: Wikipedia, "Crawford, South Lanarkshire" [other]; Crawford and Elvanfoot Community, "The Post Horn" [other]
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