Category: Cornwall

 Sweet shop ghost hunt. By Carolyn Thomas. Sinister goings-on involving spooky shrimps at a Truro sweet shop could be linked to the store’s grizzly past. Wendy and Don Brown who run Sweet Inspirations are becoming

Rappings on the wall. Cornish village’s ghostly story. “Spirit of Mrs Peggy Taylor”. Sounds heard by reporter. Is there a ghost in the little village of Townshend near Penzance? Happenings there have been so strange

 ‘Ghost’ Drives Out Family. Prayers by Rector. A pair of semi-detached council houses in the hamlet of Horning Tops, near Liskeard, is the scene of strange happenings attributed by the two families concerned to supernatural

 A Cornish “Ghost” Story. A “true ghost story” has been forwarded to the “Daily Chronicle” by its Truro correspondent. An old woman (he says) residing in a village, near Truro, recently died. She had long

Bodmin. Superstition. At Halgavon, one mile distant from the town, there lives an elderly man named Clymo. He is a mason by trade, and his house is said to have been haunted with the spirit

 Superstition in Redruth. Thomas Medlin, sawyer, lives with his wife, married daughter and two children, in two upper rooms of a small house close to the ‘Round House,’ a well-known building situated near the Gas

 Who’s Dat Knocking? A mysterious, and as yet unexplained occurrence has set the good people of Penryn “all agog.” On Thursday evening last, much alarm was caused by a strange knocking in a house opposite

 The Wadebridge Ghost. For some time past a tale has been current among the superstitious of Wadebridge and neighbourhood, that a house situated in Trenant Gurt, in the parish of Egloshayle, is haunted by night.

 “Ghost” Antics. A supposed invisible visitor is causing distress to a Penzance (Cornwall) family. They have already removed from one house, which they sold to escape his activities, and they now propose to move again.

The Ghost of Gas Hill. Truro has been excited beyond measure by the uncanny doings of a ghost, which has taken possession of a little cottage at the corner of Gas-hill and Fairmantle street, in