An Irishman believes a ghost saved his Irish pub in Pennsylvania from burning to the ground after a fire broke out .
Neville Gardner, who runs McCarthy’s Red Stag Pub and Whiskey Bar in the town of Bethlehem, said his eatery suffered minor damage when a bag of clothing caught fire in a utility room , but the flames then ruptured a water pipe, which doused them.
The boozer is expected to be shut for up to a week while repair works are carried out following the blaze.
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He said: “Something got left too close to it, like a dirty laundry bag of rags that were going back to be laundered.
“It caught fire, but the great part was that the waterline right above it ruptured and put the fire out.”
He said he believes this is directly down to “poltergeist” energy and specifically the ghost of Liesel Boeckel. She is the daughter of Georg Friedrich Boeckel who owned the property during the Revolutionary War.