Category: Devon

 Pools of water set puzzle. Strange happenings at St Dominic cottage. Pools of water appearing in the ground-floor rooms of an old semi-detached cottage at St Dominic are puzzling inhabitants of this Tamar Valley village.

 Washford Pyne. “I am thy father’s spirit, and could a tale unfold.” Country life has many attractions, magnificent scenery, rippling streams, winter torrents, scented clover, and pure air, yet it occasionally gets monotonous, and we

 Chagford – This much retired parish has been much excited for the last three weeks, in consequence of a supernatural visitation. On Saturday, the 14th ult., the parishioners assembled in the church for the purpose

 The Police Station was formerly on Southfield Road. Police station ‘haunted’. By Stephen Lynas. Woman police officer Jane Goodington has no fears of patrolling the streets alone at night, but when it comes to sleeping

 A Devonshire Ghost Story. A story comes from Rattery, near Buckfastleigh, serving as material for a real Christmas ghost story. For some days remarkable noises have been heard in a house there. They appear to

Chardstock. A ghostly visitor. Recently the peace of the mind of the good people o fChardstock has undergone some perturbation in consequence of the belief held by many of them that hovering about their midst,

 Extract of a letter from Plymouth, Nov. 21. “The conversation of this town in engrossed with a surprizing affair that has happened here, something similar to the Cock-lane ghost: – A gentleman of the law

 The Luffincott Ghost. A Launceston Exploring Party. Mysterious tappings: Was it rats? By one of our reporters. On Monday two friends with myself decided to pay a visit to Luffincott, the same night with an

 The Fourth Relation. Giving an account of the Daemon of Spraiton in the county of Devon, Anno, 1682. That which was published in May 1683, concerning the Daemon, or Daemons of Spraiton, was the extract

 Torquay woman hopes she has laid a chair ghost – with her axe. Two Torquay houses are having “ghost trouble” and the occupiers are wondering if the chopping up of a “haunted” chair will bring