The Sandbrook Vaults in Market Drayton has a single, specific reported encounter behind its inclusion in local ghost lists, rather than the accumulated staff testimony or repeated sightings that characterise many of the pub hauntings collected elsewhere in this record. A joiner named Eddie Chapman Smith, working on the building carrying out repairs, reported seeing what he described as a misty outline while going about his ordinary work.
Believing for a startled moment that he might have accidentally driven a nail into a person rather than into the pipework he had actually been working on, he rushed to the spot to check, only to find that the mist had already vanished entirely and that nothing at all was amiss with the pipes he had been repairing.
This is a slight but distinctively concrete story, built around a named witness describing a specific, almost comic moment of alarm rather than a vague or generic sighting, which is exactly the kind of thin but honestly and precisely told account worth preserving even without any wider corroboration from other witnesses.
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