The Ancient Ram Inn in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, is a 12th-century building that many paranormal investigators consider one of the most actively haunted locations in Britain. Built in 1145 — originally as a priest's house, later becoming an inn — the building sits on what is believed to be the intersection of two ley lines and, according to local tradition, the site of an ancient pagan burial ground. The combination of extreme age, dark history, and alleged occult geography has made the Ram Inn a magnet for those seeking supernatural encounters.
The building's most disturbing feature is the Bishop's Room, where the bones of children were discovered beneath the floor during renovation work in the 1960s. The remains were found alongside broken daggers, leading to speculation about ritual sacrifice — claims that archaeologists have neither confirmed nor definitively debunked. The room is the site of the inn's most intense reported activity, including violent physical encounters with an unseen force that has reportedly dragged people from beds and thrown them across the room.
John Humphries, who purchased the building in 1968 and lived there until his death in 2017, claimed to have experienced supernatural phenomena virtually every night for nearly fifty years. On his first night in the building, he reported being dragged from his bed by a powerful, invisible force. He maintained that a demonic presence — a succubus — visited the Bishop's Room, and that a spectral high priestess appeared in the attic. Other reported phenomena include a phantom cavalier, the ghosts of two monks seen in the kitchen, and a spectral cat. The inn is no longer a functioning pub but remains open for ghost hunts and paranormal investigations.