Paranormal

A Beer Glass Explodes On Its Own At A Prescot Pub

A casual drink at his local turned into a paranormal incident when a pint of beer randomly exploded without being touched and amazingly, the landlord caught the whole thing on CCTV.

March 03, 2017

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The video was captured by the Derby Arms' CCTV camera and shows a regular sat on his phone texting at the pub in Prescot before his pint randomly explodes right before his eyes.

The pub's landlord, Dave McGinn wasn't convinced that the glass smashed of its own accord and decided to check out the pub's security camera footage hoping to prove that the customer had simply knocked the pint over himself.

However, after reviewing the footage, the landlord start to suspect paranormal activity and according to Dave, it's not the first time something spooky has happened at the pub.

He told the Liverpool Echo that there's often been stories told about strange goings on at the pub, "over the years a few cleaners have said they've seen people walking past or felt things moving and we've had the odd glass fall off the shelf but we've never caught it on video."

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After watching the video, Dave went on to say that "you can see that he's not touching the glass. He's just sat there texting and then it explodes."

“To be honest I keep an open mind with this sort of thing but the video is really hard to explain.”

While the staff and regulars at Derby Arms might not be able to explain this, personally I think it's pretty easy to get to the bottom of. The landlord claims that "there's no explanation for it" but there is and I've actually witnessed this myself before.

It all comes down to simple science. The glasses that pubs use tend to be quite thin, they get dropped frequently so heavy expensive glasses are a waste of money. It means that pub pint glasses break easily.

Obviously you can break a glass by dropping it but it's also pretty easy to smash a glass by subjecting it to sudden changes in temperature. You've probably experienced it yourself, when you've gone to a busy bar, ordered a drink and the glass feels warm to the touch because it has come straight from the glass washer.

When a cold beer is poured into the warm glass it dramatically lowers the temperature of the glass it encounters causing it to suddenly contract and because glass is brittle and not very elastic, this can cause it to break.

The landlord is reported as saying "he ordered two pints of Carling and went and sat down and next minute he says it’s just randomly exploded." So we know his glass has come straight from the bar and is currently undergoing that thermal stress. It all adds up.

A few years ago the exact same thing happened to a friend of mine while we were out drinking at a nightclub in Bristol. She was holding her glass at the time but she didn't apply any force, move it violently or hit it on anything, it just randomly shattered in her hand. She went back up to the bar and the staff didn't claim the club was haunted, they just said that sometimes that happens with freshly washed glasses.