Category: Cornwall

 The Galloping Horse. The usually quiet and peaceful district of Polgear, Wendron, has been disturbed by the apparently aimless eccentricities of what is termed by superstitious people, a ghost. This fortunately rare commodity has favoured

 Mysterious Occurrences Near Mevagissey Incendiarism at St. Gorran. At eight o’clock on Sunday evening at Trelispan farm a stack of straw in the farmyard was discovered on fire. This soon burnt itself out, and P.C.

 Wife ‘driven from flat’ by eerie noises. By Noel Perry. Mystery surrounds strange noises, smells and other sensations at a Helston flat which, according to one neighbour, drove a woman out of her home. The

 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

 Mysterious tappings at Gulval. The vicar’s experiences. As a general rule stories of rappings on the wall and similar mysterious happenings are taken with a grain of salt, so often have they proved to be

 A Ghost! A Ghost!! In this year of grace 1869 the usually quiet little town of St Just was disturbed from its wonted equanimity, a few days since – by a rumour to the effect

 Mysterious occurrences at Falmouth. Early on Tuesday morning some evil-disposed person commenced target practice on the windows of the “King’s Head” hotel, in the occupation of Mr Thomas. A brickbat, hurled with unerring aim, smashed

Odd happenings in ancient Cornish house. Mystery of old cedar chest. Queer occurrences in an old Cornish manor house have led to efforts to trace the history of a carved cedarwood chest thought to be