In the early part of the 20th century, a phantom woman in a blue gown locals knew it to escort a man named ‘Old John’ back from the Longe Arms every night. This apparition waited outside the front door of the pub, with walked beside him to his home. After Old John died, she was never seen again. Although There are reports , that she might still be heard crying on stormy nights in the lanes around the Longe Arms. The Spixworth Manor Ghost is a local legend of the phantom Judge Peck, who travels the area in a coach and two horses on nights of the full moon. This may well have been William Peck, also a sheriff of Norfolk, who built Spixworth Hall in 1607.