The Ancient Ram Inn possesses a genuinely chilling aura, and a reputation that is so menacing that many local people won't even walk past it at night. The building is thought to date from around 1145, and served for a time as a priest' s house before converting to an inn. After it closed for business in 1968 John Humphries, the sole living occupant, purchased the building from the brewery. The Inn supposedly contains a number of haunted rooms, including the "Men' s Kitchen" which reputedly stands on the site of a pagan burial ground, and where the disturbing sound of a baby crying is often heard. The most active room is the oppressive and terrifying Bishop' s Room, which resides on the first floor. Here activity has included a medium being flung across the corridor, apparitions of a ghostly cavalier and 2 monks, the terrifiying screams of a man who was murdered there, a phantom shepherd and his dog and most natably an incubus or a succubus (demons that have intercourse with people sleeping in the room).