The Railway Hotel in Blyth is one of a small cluster of the town's own pubs carrying a reputation for unexplained activity, in this particular case centred on a poltergeist that staff and regulars have affectionately nicknamed Peter. As is genuinely typical of pub poltergeist stories recorded throughout this collection, the activity attributed to Peter tends to be mischievous rather than threatening: small disturbances, movements, or noises with no obvious cause behind them, exactly the kind of low-grade oddity that gradually builds into a genuine staff in-joke and eventually hardens into a fixed part of the pub's own working identity.
No specific date, named witness, or individual incident report accompanies the Peter story anywhere in the available sources, which is entirely typical of pub ghost folklore built up gradually through repeated small experiences over time rather than through any single dramatic founding event.
It is included here as an honestly thin, single-source piece of local haunted-pub tradition rather than as any kind of well-documented case, Peter's own name and mischievous reputation standing as the entire substance of a story that has, over the years, simply never needed anything more elaborate to remain a genuine, living part of the Railway Hotel's own character.
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