200-year-old house haunted.
The 200-year-old coastguard station at Coverack (Cornwall), now converted into a house, is haunted. Mrs G. Maule, who lives there, thinks so, anyhow, and blames it on the Cornish pixies. Doors make sounds like souls in torment; footsteps are heard on the stairs; there are tappings and knockings at the windows, even on quiet nights. On some days fires won’t light and water won’t run in the taps.
Dogs who live there with Mrs Maule refuse to go in some of the rooms; their coats bristle even when they go near them. Some say the house is haunted by the ghosts of shipwrecked sailors, whose bodies used to be laid out in the lower rooms when the house was a lifeboat house. But Mrs Maule thinks it’s pixies.
Daily Mirror, 16th January 1939.