The Anchor Inn at 13 George Street in Hastings Old Town is described as the second oldest pub in the area. The building was a courthouse before it was an alehouse. A local directory listing says it is haunted by the ghost of a man once sentenced there.
Other retellings suggest the man may have been a smuggler, which would fit Hastings, a major smuggling centre, but the listing I read names no crime, date or witness.
No dated sighting or named witness is given, so the story is kept as thin local legend.
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