The most gruesome story surrounding the Dolphin is that of the young doctor who, in the 18th Century, had a body secretly delivered by two body-snatchers in the dead of night. He took the body, that of a young woman, into the cellar under what is now the lounge. In those days that part of the building was a lodging house in which the doctor had rooms. He began to dissect her by opening up her stomach and pulling out her entrails. It was this moment that she awoke, having been buried alive (probably in a coma). She leapt up from the table and ran round the cellar screaming hysterically, dragging her entrails behind her until she sank to the ground, dead from shock and loss of blood.
The young doctor stood shaking in the corner, splattered in blood and out of his mind; his hair had turned white. His well to do family hushed up the incident and had him put in a lunatic asylum, but the ghost of the girl still screams in the dead of night.

A strange apparition seen by a number of people in the 1950's (some of whom still frequent the Dolphin) in the passage that runs through the middle of the inn. They claim to have seen a man in Highland regalia, armed with a sword, running through the passage carrying a woman on his back piggback style.
It is interesting to remember that the Dolphin billeted a number of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highland army during their brief stay in 1745.

There are numerous stories about the identity of the Blue Lady, but the most colourful of them claims that she had an affair with Dick Turpin. Her husband, the then landlord of the Dolphin, discovered the affair when he noticed his wife wearing a new blue dress which was reputedly given to her by Turpin.
Shortly afterwards she disappeared, never to be seen again. Some say she eloped with her lover, but a more probable explanation is that she was murdered by her husband and he concealed the body in the fabric of the Dolphin.

The ghost of a small girl that has been seen sitting upon the stairs leading to the restaurant.