The Great Bed of Ware

A large bed made around 1590 to draw visitors to the inns of Ware, Hertfordshire, and now held by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Of its sources, only Wikipedia calls it haunted.

The Ware Museum says the bed was probably built around 1590, under Elizabeth I, as a tourist draw for Ware's inns. The Victoria and Albert Museum dates the first mention of it to 1596, when Ludwig of Anhalt Kohten, a prince from Germany, wrote about it in his diary. The Guardian says he was a guest at the White Hart.

The bed soon became famous. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, first staged in 1601, has Sir Toby Belch speak of a sheet of paper as big as the bed. The V&A says the name Great Bed of Ware dates from at least 1609, when Ben Jonson used it in a play; the Guardian names that play as The Silent Woman and adds George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer of 1706. According to Wikipedia, the V&A lent the bed to Ware Museum for a year in 2012 and 2013.

The ghost story comes from Wikipedia's article on Ware, which calls the bed "reputedly haunted". It names the ghost as Jonas Fosbrooke, whom it describes as the bed's alleged maker, and says he harasses anyone without royal blood who tries to sleep in it. None of the other sources here mentions a ghost.