The Old Beams in Stourport-on-Severn carries the story of Old Amos, remembered as a farm labourer and a genuine regular fixture at the pub right up until he was arrested and hanged, an outcome the surviving account never actually explains beyond simply calling it a criminal matter, occurring some two hundred years before the story was formally recorded for later generations.
Rather than being reported as any kind of frightening presence, Amos is instead described consistently as a genuinely mischievous one, given to sidling up quietly behind unsuspecting customers and touching them lightly on the arm or shoulder before vanishing entirely, a gentle, almost playful haunting rather than anything meant to alarm.
The lack of any specified crime is genuinely unusual and slightly frustrating for a story that otherwise gives a name and a fairly firm sense of historical period; capital punishment for offences well short of actual murder was common enough throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that almost anything from simple theft upward could plausibly fit his case. No documentary trace of an execution actually matching the story has ever been found to confirm it against any surviving record.
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