Stuart Broad
Langham Hotel offers more than just being another London hotel. Celebrity sightings are quite natural. From Lady Gaga to cricketers, this hotel is the first choice for many. However, in 2014, Stuart Broad suddenly complained and requested that his rooms be shifted when the England team was staying at the hotel. Not only Broad, but Ben Stokes also claimed to have seen a ghost.
“During the Sri Lanka Test, I had to move rooms. It was so hot in the room I just couldn’t sleep. All of a sudden the taps in the bathroom came on for no reason. I turned the lights on and the taps turned themselves off. Then when I turned the lights off again the taps came on. It was very weird. It really freaked me out. I ended up asking to move rooms. Bealey [Broad’s girlfriend] was pretty spooked, too, and I know Moeen Ali’s other half won’t stay there because she’s so frightened of the ghosts,” Broad was quoted saying by English newspapers
“During the Sri Lanka Test, one night I woke up in the middle of the night, around 1.30 a.m. and I was convinced there was a presence in the room. It was the weirdest feeling. Ben Stokes has had some problems sleeping as well. He’s on the third floor, which is where a lot of the issues are. I’m telling you, something weird is going on,” Broad added.
Langham opened in 1865. They have served Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and is one of the most renowned haunted hotels in the world. According to reports, Room No. 333 is the epicentre of everything. The hotel’s website states: “In 1973 a BBC radio announcer James Alexander-Gordon awoke suddenly in the night to see a fluorescent ball which slowly took on the shape of a man wearing Victorian evening wear.
The announcer asked the ghost what it wanted and it began to float towards him, with its legs cut off some two feet below the ground, arms outstretched, eyes staring emptily. At this point, the announcer got up and fled.”