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Friday 9 February 2018

Ghosts of Devon.source ..http://www.mystical-www.http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/

BERRY POMEROY CASTLE
Berry Pomeroy
Devon
Although visible apparitions have not been experienced here for a few years, the persistent phenomena of the sound of a baby crying continues as a reminder of the ghost who used to haunt a particular arch. The phantom was that of a woman in a long, blue cape complete with a hood and was accepted as that of one of the Pomeroy daughters who murdered her own illegitimate child. According to several tourists and visitors to the ruins 'the feeling of absolute desolation, even stark evil, in those arches is overpowering'. In 1968 the curator was shown photographs taken by two separate groups of visitors which illustrate the phantom of a man in a tricorn hat and in the other the profile of a young woman in dark clothes. Both photographs were taken near the entrance to St. Margaret's Tower.
© Andrew Green
BIDEFORD ROAD
Torrington
Devon
The village of Little Torrington and the nearby town of Great Torrington were both, at one time, affected by visitations of a ghostly black dog. There have been no reports of this being witnessed recently. On 16 February, 1646 a force of 5, 000 men, the majority of whom were cavalry men under Lord Hopton, fought desperately to retain the town against the attacks of Lord Fairfax. In quoting from Battles in Britain by William Seymour, it is hoped to provide information relevant to the experiences of a few residents and a couple visiting the town during the Whitsun of 1976. 'After a brief struggle some of Hopton's cavalry, fighting in narrow streets unsupported by infantry, broke and would have been unable to hold the town even if its entire of stock of powder, stored in the church, had not blown up'.
In 1976, Joan White of Chatham with her husband and two children stayed in the small cottage which had once served the village as a public house. She read with interest in a tourist brochure that 'a disastrous fire all but destroyed the town in the seventeenth century'but no other detail was provided.
On their last day Mrs. White was woken 'just before dawn', by a 'peculiar light in the bedroom. It swung from side to side', she said, 'moving from the back wall to the front. It was soft and golden, swinging in rhythm. When it reached the bedroom floor I heard a woman's voice shouting in a language I could not understand. Then two or three began to protest and then came the noise. It sounded like a group of motor-cyclist roaring past the house, the noise increasing with great speed in a roaring crescendo, then suddenly it stopped, leaving Devonshire peace to reign`. At breakfast her teenage children complained that they too had heard the noise. 'It sounded like a lot of motor-cyclists speeding up the tiny street', or, one might suggest, an explosion of gunpowder. But the streets were empty of humans at the time.
© Andrew Green
CHAMBERCOMBE MANOR
Ilfracoombe
Devon
According to James Turner in 'Ghost of the South West', a secret room was discovered in this fourteenth century building in 1865 which contained a four-poster bed with rotting curtains still drawn round it. When the material was moved aside the skeleton of a young woman was revealed. The remains were buried in the local churchyard after the usual enquires had failed to establish the cause of death or the identity of the girl. More recently, a tunnel was discovered which leads from the nearby manor farm to Hele Beach but whether either of the these incidents are connected with the haunting is unlikely to be established. The ghost remains unknown and, unfortunately, unseen, but her footsteps are still heard walking the corridors of the manor, to the chapel and to the cobbled courtyard. 'Weird moans', are also heard issuing from the former secret room, now only visible through a small window situated between two bedrooms.
© Andrew Green
CHARDSTOCK CHURCH
Chardstock
Devon
Only two miles from the formerly haunted Forde Abbey and within a stone's throw of the Somerset border, travellers find the small village of Chardstock, once governed by the Diocese of Salisbury.
No-one knows who the ghost is that haunts the area round the church or even if she is actually connected with it. However, one or two residents and an occasional friend have noticed a 'middle-aged woman in an old-style long grey dress'moving from the vicarage path towards the church. As she nears the gate she 'just fades away'. She has only been seen as dusk approaches 'usually about 5.30 p.m.'.
© Andrew Green
COWICK BARTON INN
Cowick Lane
Exeter
Devon
Formerly a farm which was renovated in 1963 to become a popular pub the 'Cowick Barton'is haunted, not really surprisingly, by a monk. The area on which the farmhouse existed once contained the monastery of St. Thomas. Mrs. Hayman and Mrs. Jenkins of nearby Wellington Road, told the 'Exeter Express' that the figure of the monk had appeared in their bedrooms. He has also been seen 'in broad daylight'by a small number of residents and a few visitors, walking across the fields to the river.
© Andrew Green
EXETER CATHEDRAL
Bedford Street
Exeter
Devon
The mysterious figure of a nun haunts the cloisters here. Normally seen at about seven o'clock in the evening, she suddenly appears at a spot in the south wall of the nave, walks a few yards to the Church House and vanishes. No-one knows who she is. Although her head is slightly bowed down as if in deep thought, there is no suggestion of great tragedy or horrifying crime being associated with her. One of the most recent sightings was by a couple of members of a group of visiting tourists from France who expressed considerable interest in the nun and asked to which order she belonged.
© Andrew Green
EXETER PRISON
New North Road
Exeter
Devon.
In 1973, two inmates serving long sentences were walking back to their cells when they noticed the figure of a middle-aged man moving along an upper gallery. On reaching a particular cell door he suddenly vanished. The two witnesses were so upset by this incident that they asked to see the Governor of the prison, who understandably dismissed the story as imagination. The two men, however, persisted in their report and the details they related were so identical that the officer was persuaded to examine some old architectural plans of the building, and earlier scheduled of inmates. All three men were surprised to learn that the figure was that of the last murderer to be kept in 'Death Row'the site of the haunting, before being hanged. The Governor immediately arranged for the affected cell and the one immediately below to be cemented over and the end of the gallery to be sealed off. Nevertheless, inexplicable footsteps are still heard in the locality.
© Andrew Green
EXETER UNIVERSITY
Prince of Wales Road
Exeter
Devon
In 1967 several students a few members of the staff were surprised to see the apparition of 'a tall man in a long , white coat' in one of the corridors of this modern university. His identity remains a mystery even though he was also witnesses in 1969, 1970, and 1973 but is thought to be one of the decorators who helped complete the buildings years earlier. There is a possibility, of course, that this might be another phantom of the living, for it is known that one of the team was intensely proud of his work.
© Andrew Green
HOLCOMBE
Near Tiegnmouth
Devon
A stretch of this once major road continues to be haunted by the ghost of a middle-aged man in a long grey overcoat carrying a torch with which he 'flags down'evening motorists. Two local papers have published numerous reports by readers and other statements have been lodged elsewhere, including with the local police. The main area affected seems to be that in the Heatherton Grange Hotel region. A Mrs. Swithenbank of Taunton saw the figure as she drove round the bend of the road near the hotel and was convinced that she had collided with the man. When she went to investigate the road was found to be empty. One of the latest incidents was in 1978 when a motorcyclist had a similar experience but a week earlier a motorist had claimed that he had witnessed the phantom at White Ball, a few miles away.
© Andrew Green
OLD SMUGGLER'S INN
Coombe Cellars
Teignmouth
Devon
To account for the occasional witnessing of the apparition of an 'elderly woman'in one of the bedrooms is the belief that an overnight guest from London was murdered here in the 1700's. From the description given, she is certainly too well-dressed to be the average rural visitor, for she wears a 'pale blue gown and what appears to be jewellery round her neck'. Presumably it was for this that she was killed. The phantom was last seen or at least reported in August, 1972.
© Andrew Green
ROYAL CASTLE HOTEL
The Quay
Dartmouth
Devon
Occasionally the sound of horses'hooves and the crunching of coach wheels have been heard at 'about two in the morning', both by guests and resident staff. Footsteps are also part of the haunting which takes place in the hallway. The original building was extended some many years ago and now incorporates the original coach yard. 

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Most haunted places in Cornwall

Cornwall's wild landscape and history of wrecking and smuggling lends itself to tales of ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. Myths and legends abound, from the ghost of Merlin, said to inhabit a creepy cave beneath Tintagel Castle, to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, accused of savaging livestock in the dead of night. Here we have selected ten of Cornwall's spookiest locations in order to help you get the very most out of our ghosts.
  • Jamaica Inn

    Smugglers Bar - Jamaica Inn
    Smugglers Bar - Jamaica Inn

    Built as a coaching house in 1750 and located right in the middle of Bodmin Moor, Jamaica Inn is alleged to be one of the most haunted places in Britain. 'Resident' ghosts include a malevolent highwayman in a three cornered hat who walks through locked doors, an anguished young mother with a baby who inhabits the mirror in room five and a murdered young smuggler who paces around the courtyard in the middle of the night. Daphne DuMaurier's famous novel about the inn, later made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock, focuses on it's colourful history as a smuggler's den.
  • Pengersick Castle

    Pengersick Castle, Praa Sands
    Pengersick Castle

    There is evidence of five thousand years of history at Pengersick Castle, which is just inland from the beach at Praa Sands. The oldest remaining structure is a four-storey tower that dates back to the sixteenth century and was part of an extensive, fortified Tudor manor that belonged to the notorious Pengersick family. The family's murderous exploits gave rise to countless legends, including that of a black-robed monk who is said to wander the grounds at night. Pengersick was a favourite with smugglers, who unloaded their contraband on the west end of the beach into a tunnel that led straight to the castle.
  • Bodmin Moor

    Garrow Farm - Bodmin Moor
    Garrow Farm - Bodmin Moor

    The bleak, windswept landscape of Bodmin Moor is imbued with more than it's fair share of myths and legends. At Dozmary Pool, said to harbour King Arthur's sword, the ghost of the hapless Tregeagle can still be heard howling across the moors, while the ghost of Charlotte Dymond, murdered by her crippled lover, is regularly seen on the slopes of Roughtor clad in a gown and a silk bonnet. Hard evidence exists of a huge, black, panther-like cat, known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor, which has been seen more than sixty times and is given to savaging livestock in the dead of night.
  • Bodmin Jail

    Bodmin Jail - haunted
    Bodmin Jail (photo: Tony Atkin)

    Built in 1778, Bodmin Jail has a dark and sinister past, famous for the hugely popular and well-attended public hangings that took place outside until 1862. The jail is popular yet, having been turned into a museum with information about notable prisoners and details about their grisly crimes and sentences on display alongside the cells. Even just glimpsed from the road, Bodmin Jail is a creepy place. Descend into the cold and gloomy underground passages and it is immediately clear why the jail was chosen to be part of a recent TV series about the most haunted places in Britain.
  • Chapel Street - Penzance

    Historic Chapel Street - Penzance
    Historic Chapel Street - Penzance

    Chapel Street is the oldest street in Penzance and stuffed with historical buildings, including four pubs, each with a tale to tell. The Union Hotel shelters the remains of the oldest Georgian theatre in the country as well as the town's original assembly room, built in 1791. The Regent is one of the oldest buildings in Penzance, a former temperance hall that dates back four hundred years. The Turk's Head, a little further down the street, is the oldest pub in Penzance, while the Benbow, named after a famous seventeenth century admiral, is decorated with authentic cannons and figureheads brought up by divers from local wrecks. Look out for the figure of a smuggler with a gun lying on the roof.
  • Kennal Vale

    Kennal Vale powder mills
    Kennal Vale powder mills

    Kennal Vale is a hidden valley nestling in the countryside between Redruth and Falmouth that was once home to one of the largest and most complete gunpowder works to be found anywhere in Britain, producing explosives for use in the nearby mines. Kennal Vale is now managed as a nature reserve by Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Rusty, moss-coated water-wheels, broken millstones and the creepy ruins of massive granite mill buildings all help to create an atmopshere charged with history. Information boards detail an appalling accident that occurred in 1838 when five mill buildings blew up in succession. Part of a roof was found a mile from the premises and one man died of his injuries, leaving a widow and ten children
  • Pendennis Castle

    Pendennis Castle - Falmouth
    Pendennis Castle - Falmouth

    Pendennis Castle, just outside Falmouth, was built by Henry VIII to protect the Carrick Roads from invasion by France and Spain. In 1646 the castle was the site of a famous siege, during which Royalists were trapped inside for six months and forced to eat their horses and dogs before surrendering. The piercing screams of a kitchen maid who fell to her death while carrying a tray of food have been heard by numerous visitors, as have strange footsteps on a staircase that no longer leads anywhere.
  • Tintagel

    Tintagel Graveyard
    Tintagel Graveyard

    Tintagel is home to the ruins of a twelfth century castle with strong mythical associations to King Arthur, and at least five well-known ghosts. Three of these reside at the Camelot Castle Hotel, indulging in such activities as throwing paintings from the walls, waking people up in the dead of night to give them a bed bath and going through the hotel's bins. A fourth is a former employee of the hotel, who died about seventy years ago and can often be seen walking along the path to the hotel from his cottage, which was once owned by Kate Winslet. Tintagel Castle itself is set on a dramatic headland under which lurks a dark, dank cave thought to be haunted by the ghost of Merlin.
  • Prideaux Place

    Prideaux Place - Padstow
    Prideaux Place - Padstow

    Prideaux Place, near Padstow, is an Elizabethan manor house completed in 1592. It has been in the Prideaux-Brune family ever since. Reported paranormal activity includes the ghost of a scullery boy given to running around the kitchen, the ghost of a woman dressed in nineteenth century clothes who sits and sews in the morning room and the ghost of Honor Fortescue, wife of Humphrey Prideaux, who threw herself off the upper balcony following the death of her husband and has since taken to wearing a green dress and chasing people out of the bedrooms.
  • Wheal Coates

    Cliffs near Wheal Coates
    Cliffs near Wheal Coates

    The mine at Wheal Coates, near St Agnes, goes all the way down to the sea, which can be heard crashing against the rocks through a grate in the floor of the ruined Towanroath engine house, probably the most famous industrial building in Cornwall. The mine shaft is accessible at low tide through a large cave at the far end of Chapel Porth beach. Legend has it that the mine is haunted by the ghosts of the many miners who died there working in extreme and dangerous conditions.