England cricketers' recent poor performance in the home series against India might reportedly be due to the presence of ghosts in their five-star hotel in London.
According to Daily Mail on Sunday, the players' wives and girlfriends have refused to stay at the famous Langham Hotel during London Test matches this summer after complaints of mysterious goings-on at night.
England paceman Stuart Broad reportedly changed his room at the Langham Hotel in Marylebone after being freaked out. Broad said that he woke up in the middle of one night, and was convinced that there was a presence in the room, Metro.co.uk reported.
The fast bowler said that it was the weirdest feeling, adding that all of a sudden the taps in the bathroom came on for no reason and when he turned the lights on, the taps turned themselves off. Broad added that when he turned the lights off again the taps came on and it really freaked him out so much that he ended up asking to move rooms.
The hotel apparently hosts seven ghosts. Even Ben Stokes has had problems sleeping and the hotel's own website even tells of one guest's haunted encounter.
London's Langham Hotel that opened in 1865 is on the list of one of the most haunted hotels in the world and has been patronised by several literary greats, including Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Reportedly, Room 333 is believed to be the most haunted with the hotel's own website stating: "In 1973 a BBC radio announcer James Alexander-Gordon awoke suddenly in the night to see a fluorescent ball which slowly took on the shape of a man wearing Victorian evening wear. The announcer asked the ghost what it wanted and it began to float towards him, with its legs cut off some two feet below the ground, arms outstretched, eyes staring emptily. At this point the announcer got up and fled."
