Another barmaid saw the same ghost a few weeks later. News of the haunting reached the Kidderminster Times, who decided to look into the history of the building. They found that Harvey's Wine Bar was built on the site of the Clarence Inn. In 1851 the stable floor, which was in the process of being repaired, gave way, revealing a vault filled with human and animal remains. Also among the grisly contents of the vault was a black bottle, a glass, a pickaxe and tobacco pipes.
Local historians believe it was once the crypt of the chapel of the nearby manor-house.