A regularly told incident is that of a man came into the pub one evening in the late 1980’s and ordered a pint. The pub was quiet and the man sat at the bar chatting to the barmaid, his pint on the bar next to him. The glass then seemed to have moved two feet along the bar when he went to reach for it. No one else was around to have moved it and it was too far away for him to have put it there himself. He ignored the strange occurrence the first time but it happened again this time further away. He realised that something weird was definitely going on. Upon comment to the barmaid they both watched the glass for a few moments. They watched in amazement how the glass moved slightly, all on its own away from the man.
In the early 1990s one evening a group of people watched an ashtray levitate in into the air from one of the tables in the snug room, float several yards through mid-air and settle on the bar. Possible the ghost was hinting the ashtray was full and needed emptying or it was a no smoking area!

Staff at the Salutation regularly sees glasses fall of shelves and falling onto the floor. These breakages are no ordinary and can often be quite frightening and unnerving. Objects often end smashing on the floor quite a distance from the shelf, meaning they would have had to float through the air to get there, and then smashing behind someone, scaring them.

A former landlady has told of the problem, which staff still encounters in the cellar of the inn. This was one of the man-made sandstone caves, a long oblong in shape, with just a single doorway at one end. The cave was well packed with barrels, crates of bottles, kegs and such like, so that just one pathway along the middle of the cave was kept clear for access. Staff often had to come along her to fill up ice buckets or bring up crates up to the bar. As they walked down the narrow pathway and got what they needed they would find their access blocked. With nobody else with them in the cellar it couldn’t be explained how they had got there. The most common item blocking their way would be a gas cylinder, which are used to pressurise the beer kegs and were very heavy usually kept chained to the wall. They were that heavy and hard to move that some female staff had difficulty putting them back in their correct place in order to get out of the cave. This obviously could be a very uncomfortable and unsettling time for staff.