Incident: 18 January 2025 for the reported picture-frame incident; other episodes not precisely dated. Sources reviewed 13 November 2026. Historical case addition; publication date is not the incident date.
A January incident behind a February headline
The Fox & Hounds in Eckington parish attracted attention when manager Sian Smith described falling glasses, a picture frame and other disturbances. In the Kennedy News account carried by LADbible on 18 February 2025, she recalled discussing a quiet spell on Friday 17 January and the frame falling the following morning. That places this particular incident on 18 January, rather than the article’s publication date.
What the manager said
Smith explained that staff had nicknamed the supposed ghost Paul and treated the story as a running joke. She also described glasses falling at different times and repeated hand-dryer activity. Those other incidents do not all have securely specified dates in the reviewed account. The nickname is not an identified deceased person or an independently established presence.
What CCTV can and cannot decide
The source presents CCTV clips and attributed witness comments. UKPX has not examined a complete original export, camera configuration, frame fixing or the physical objects. A video showing an object moving would establish a visible event, but assigning its cause would require more information about what supported it and what forces could act on it.
For a falling picture frame, the condition of the fixing, how it was hung and the uncut sequence beforehand are especially relevant. Those are possible investigation questions, not a finding that a particular defective fixing caused this fall. A camera’s failure to show a person touching something is not equivalent to excluding every ordinary mechanism.
Why the competing suggestions remain suggestions
Online comments quoted by the article proposed vibration and other ordinary causes. No test results were supplied establishing those mechanisms for the specific incidents. UKPX therefore does not recast the story as either a proven haunting or a conclusively solved hoax.
The same discipline applies to the electrical claims. A recollection about a hand dryer cannot replace an inspection record or a documented test of its power supply and sensor behaviour. Combining several unexplained household events may make a compelling story, while leaving each event in need of its own evidence.
Assessment
Insufficient evidence describes the present source trail. The article preserves a dated 2025 episode and the manager’s interpretation without inventing a spirit identity or a completed investigation. The exterior photograph is an older view of the venue, not a CCTV still or an image of an apparition.
Map reference: Public-facing pub exterior reference from the checked photograph location. Not an interior camera position or proof of an apparition. Access is not designated as a verified public-place listing.
Sources and review trail
Kennedy News account carried by LADbible, Saskia Calliste, 18 February 2025. Attributed manager interview and syndicated CCTV story; read 13 November 2026. No independent physical inspection claimed.
Eckington Parish Council, autumn 2025 newsletter. Locality check identifying the Fox & Hounds at Marsh Lane; not evidence of the haunting claim.