In York, many locals claim their city is the most haunted city in Europe.  It certainly has a strong tradition of ghostly hauntings and spooky sightings.
There is a legend that the ghost of Bettys' founder, Frederick Belmont, a Swiss emigrant who established the first Bettys tea room in 1919, walks the corridors of the branch.
Meanwhile, hidden around town are spectral sculptures of ghostly hauntings.
Some eerie wire frame installations appear around York where you least expect them, representing ghostly images from York's history with monks in the graveyard, nuns in the museum garden, even a bear.
The story goes that a bear escaped from York museum and chased the curator around the garden though both survived the incident.
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