Ye Olde Crime

What happened a century ago, may explain what's happening today.

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Youtube - ‘Most Haunted Unseen - The Mermaid Inn’ - uploaded by most haunted vids - September 17th, 2012


Youtube - ‘Eerie Encounters: Inside Mermaid Inn - World's Scariest Hauntings - S01 EP6 - Paranormal Documentary’ - uploaded by Banijay Documentaries - September 22nd, 2023 


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Wayback Machine - The Mermaid Inn, Rye - https://web.archive.org/web/20110815231924/http://www.mermaidinn.com/history.html 


Little House of Horrors - THE MERMAID INN  - By Sonja - June 14th, 2025 - https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/the-mermaid-inn/


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