'Wine snob ghost' lurks in Birmingham pub

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A 'wine snob ghost' has reportedly set up home in a Birmingham pub.



Corky is believed to be the spirit of a man who died on the site of the Court Oak pub in Harborne, back when it was a 17th century hanging ground, PA Reports.

Pub manager Anne Tyler claimed that the ghost had smashed bottles of house wine for several years on Halloween until the quality of the selection was improved.

Nuala Gallagher of Sizzling Pubs, said: "It isn't so much things that go bump in the night as things going smash in the night at the Court Oak.

"People have spotted the figure of a man, aged about 60, behind the bar and the staff have felt his presence numerous times over the years."

She added: "But it is Corky's insistence on certain wines that set him apart as a spirit. It only ever happens at this time of year when Halloween is in sight.

"If the pub has a house wine that is not to his liking, he makes his feelings known by smashing bottle after bottle of it in the cellar until it is changed for a wine he approves of. He's a bit of a wine snob, which is why he's been named Corky by customers."