As we approach Halloween, we can announce that Sheffield’s Carbrook Hall Starbucks has just been named the UK’s most haunted coffee shop.
Carbrook Hall is a Grade II listed building, dating back to the early 1600s, and professional ghost hunters Lee and Linzi Steer, who have 2.2 million followers on Facebook, visited to investigate and verify historic reports of its ghostly activity.
Customers wanting an extra fright with their Frappuccino® Blended Beverage can visit Starbucks Carbrook Hall store Monday – Sunday from 6am – 10pm to try the new beverage and experience the spooky atmosphere first hand!
“As a keen ghost hunter myself, working at Starbucks Carbrook Hall is a dream – the store has such a rich history and I love chatting to our customers about its uniqueness! Several of us have heard footsteps around the building when there’s no one else around, as well as unexplained voices being called out to us. We’ve also noticed coffee beans mysteriously falling off shelves with no other explanation.”
Starbucks partner Emma Bodley, who has worked at Starbucks Carbrook Hall as a Barista for three years
Lee and Linzi Steer, Professional Ghost-Hunters, investigation findings
“In the time we’ve spent investigating Carbrook Hall, the sheer amount of evidence of that there are spirits there is shocking. This building hasn’t been investigated for a long time and we sensed that the spirits were eager to talk to us. We even heard one say ‘the siege’, which is incredible knowing the Carbrook Hall was a meeting place during the siege of Sheffield Castle.
Our specialist equipment was reacting quickly and with strength – the most we’ve seen in a while and in more than one room, including the wood panelled Oak Room where we often come to enjoy a Starbucks coffee. We’d undoubtedly say this is the most haunted coffee shop in the UK.”
Carbrook Hall’s famous Oak Room
The Oak Room is twenty-two feet long by eighteen feet wide and panelled with original 17th century oak on three walls. The centre piece of the room is a spectacular stone fireplace with an inscription that gives the building its Grade II listed status.
