Once an 18th-century coaching inn and later a courtroom and prison, The Hanbury Hotel & Museum is closely associated with reports of a male apparition in period clothing seen on the staircase and in the former cells. Visitors and staff have reported unexplained footsteps, doors opening on their own, and voices echoing after hours, particularly near the old holding areas. The building’s judicial past which included public inquests and imprisonment forms the core of its haunting reputation. Today, it stands as one of Pontypool’s most historically grounded paranormal sites.