User:JoshuaWestfalen/Mother Macs

Mother Macs, Public House, 33 Back Piccadilly, Manchester UK
Mother Macs, formerly 'The Wellington Inn' was renamed after the new proprietor Mrs McLellan or Mother Mac as she was known. The pub is one of the oldest in Manchester and is notorious for its chill.

On a more sinister note there is an intriguing story about the pub. The story goes that whilst still named the Wellington Inn, in the 1960s the owner of the pub caught his wife cheating on him and in a fit of rage he set her on fire in the basement, threw their two children on top of her then killed himself. Since that day the pub has had an almost supernatural chill about it, even when the real fire it has is fully ablaze.

However, after researching this story no corroborating information has come to light. There has however, a further story been noted, many years ago there was a fire in Mother Macs which started mysteriously. Once the blaze had been put out, the fire brigade began their investigations into why and where the fire had originally started. The pub had a dumb waiter for moving food from one floor to the next. When the dumb waiter was inspected, the cut up bodies of the landlords’ wife and children were found inside. The fire had been started deliberately but things had not gone quite as planned and the landlord had vanished.

There are also unsubstantiated reports of a strange shadowed figure being seen in the proximity of the pub, usually in the roads and alleys close-by, and always when it its dark. These reports coincide with muggings, assaults and violent happenings in the area. So are they urban myths, or did they happen, is the pub or the local area haunted? Please submit any information, rumours or relevant content.