The Schooner Hotel is a 17th-century coaching inn on Northumberland Street in Alnmouth, infamous in paranormal circles for claims of 60+ apparitions and thousands of reported experiences. The hotspot is Room 28, tied in local lore to a family massacre by smugglers, with guests reporting children crying and a woman screaming/begging alongside an overwhelming “someone’s in here” dread. Rooms 16 and 17 are another repeat focus—linked to sightings of a figure at the end of the bed and a blocked/hidden doorway discovery—while broader reports include a phantom maid on the stairs and a uniformed soldier moving the corridors; the hotel’s reputation was amplified by Most Haunted filming here in 2003