THE HAUNTING:

Built in 1683, the now Grade-ii listed 4* hotel was originally built to facilitate business between merchants. The Duke’s Head has been renovated and extended over the centuries and during a refurb in 2011, cat bones fell from the ceiling of room 10! Cats were sometimes buried within new buildings during the 1600s to ward off evil spirits and witches, and as the establishment overlooks King’s Lynn’s famous Tuesday Marketplace – where women thought to be witches were burned at the stake – you can see why the building’s architects might have been superstitious.

In 1531, a maid accused of poisoning her mistress was boiled to death in a large pot in front of a baying crowd, and her weeping ghost has allegedly been seen wandering the hotel. However, the Duke’s Head’s most famous apparition is the Red Lady, a guest so torn between two lovers that she ended her life in room 28. She has been spotted swishing through the hotel’s corridors and leaning over the grand staircase.