Spooky experiences for This Country stars in Cannock’s previous pub

An evening in a supposedly haunted pub proved fairly the spooky expertise for This Country creators Daisy May Cooper and her brother Charlie.

The pair stayed at The Four Crosses, a historic seventeenth century teaching inn in Cannock, Staffordshire, for an episode of their new sequence Nightwatch the place they sleep over at a few of the UK’s spookiest locations.

The previous pub was in-built 1636, is located alongside an previous Roman highway, and is reportedly residence to a poltergeist known as Drunk Charlie.

“There was definitely an atmosphere,” Ms Cooper mentioned. “It was one of the spookiest places, I think,” her brother mentioned.

“There was like a cellar where they would all kind of meet, the highwaymen, and it was just very spooky,” Ms Cooper mentioned.

“I felt like something sat down on my bed in the night, like somebody.”

However, her brother identified it might need been her sizzling water bottle flipping over.

The sequence had taken them to some superb historic locations, Mr Cooper mentioned.

“Me and Daisy go on a bit of ghost hunt, but ghost hunt in a very loose sense of the term – there’s not a lot of ghost hunting,” he mentioned.

“It’s about us reconnecting through our love of the paranormal,” Ms Cooper mentioned.

She mentioned the pair used to like the sequence Strange But True, and that their household would usually take them to psychic nights.

“I remember we went to one where there was a guy who would do psychic readings and then in between he’d start singing Elvis songs,” she mentioned.

Other places within the sequence embody Chillingham Castle in Northumberland and Carew Castle in Wales.

“Because we filmed it in January and February, we were just cold the entire time,” Mr Cooper mentioned. “That didn’t help the nerves.”

NightWatch, that includes The Four Crosses in Cannock, will air on Sunday at 21:30 GMT on BBC 2 and could be seen on IPlayer.