The Mount Hotel in Wigan appears in regional directory listings of haunted locations as the site of several distinct reported ghosts, gathered together under one roof rather than built around a single dominant legend. A smiling young girl is reported seen on the hotel's balcony, her demeanour in the story notably cheerful rather than distressing, which sets her apart from the hotel's other reported figures. On or near the same staircase, a considerably sadder presence is reported: a man believed, in the story as told, to have hanged himself there.
A further and apparently separate strand of activity involves sobbing heard around the hotel, attributed by those who report it to a pregnant woman said to have died on the premises, though no further detail, name, or date accompanies this claim in the sources consulted for this entry. The hotel's cellar has its own separate reputation, with strange and unexplained noises reported there and a local belief that the space was once used for storing bodies, a claim that likewise carries no corroborating historical detail in the material consulted here.
Taken together, these four separate reported figures, the girl, the hanged man, the sobbing woman, and the body-storage cellar, read as a fairly typical accumulation of unconnected hotel ghost lore rather than a single coherent legend, and none of the individual claims is supported by a named witness, dated incident, or documented death in the sources available for this entry. Given that thinness across the board, this entry is rated dubious, included in keeping with the relaxed research bar as an honestly thin example of a very commonly recurring pattern in English hotel ghost-story collections.
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