Whilst Henry Hardwick may be harmless, there is one in particular ghost at the Cooperage that people are warned to avoid at all costs. Sometime in the 1800s, the murder of an alleged child killer from Gateshead took place in the Cooperage after he fled into building pursued by four men intending to hand out some vigilante justice. The man attempted to conceal himself on the middle level, which used to be a Coopers workshop back then, but was eventually found by the posse and subsequently murdered, having his jugular savagely sliced with a dagger, showering the room in blood after enduring a vicious beating at the hands of the quartet. Unable to carry the man out of the building, he was propped next to where the toilets are now, his body stuffed into a barrel before being dispatched to his final resting place - the River Tyne. Now the man is said to materialise as a black mass wearing an old waxed fishing hat, which looks like a hood, hanging over the side of his face. And if that's not enough to give a person a heart attack, anyone in the man's presence will experience the same revolting, metallic taste of blood he did on the night of his brutal death. Tasty. Are there any others we've missed? Let us know in the comments your own tales of terror!
