LONG CROSS HOTEL

From reports guests have been woken in the night by strange noises and an unknown woman's ghost has been seen. One particular room located at the front of the hotel seems to be most active. A door handle has been seen to turn, but when the witnesses opened the door they found no one there. The ghost that is believed to haunt the hotel is that of a maid who is likely to have worked in the hotel during the early 1800's. The very old Victorian Gardens are also haunted. There are many stories of ghostly happenings in the old gardens. At night the gardens do change from a very warming place to a place of unease. One of the ghosts believed to haunt the gardens may be of a skeleton that was unearthed when a new pond was being fitted in the gardens. The actual history of this is very unclear however some believe it was a child that was murdered many years ago

MOLESWORTH ARMS HOTEL

This appears to be a yearly haunting. At midnight on New Year's Eve to be exact, it is said that a coach driven by a headless coachman enters the courtyard of this Wadebridge hotel.

MANOR HOUSE INN

Heard coming from upstairs, these footsteps are always tracked down to the same empty bedroom.

OLD CHURCH HOUSE INN

Many years ago, a man sleeping in the bar one night (the inn being full up) woke in the early hours with a feeling of 'something odd', looked around the room and saw the seated figure of a monk. As he got up to take a closer look it seemed to dissolve into the wall behind it. The following is an extract from a letter received from a rather surprised customer when staying in the Inn one night "I woke up in a hot sweat about 4 'o'clock in the morning. I believed someone was standing beside the bed next to me.....I looked again to the side of the bed where my husband was sleeping and saw a bald man walk past the side of the bed and disappear....." The monk taking another walk perhaps? Another was seen here by a new local policeman who came in one evening (presumably wide awake) to get to know the locals. Indicating one of them, he asked the Landlord who the old man was, only to be told that there was nobody there.

PENGERSICK CASTLE

The most frequently seen ghost at the castle is that of Mr. Millington, who owned the castle during the reign of Henry VIII. He had, in his opinion, a 'troublesome' wife, and wanted to remove her from his life. It seems he was willing to try anything to achieve this aim, including murder. One night, as he sat down to eat the evening meal with his wife, he secretly added poison to her goblet of wine, and sat triumphantly waiting for the poison to work. Unbeknown to him, his wife was aware of his evil plans and had switched the goblets. Perhaps justice was served as he died that night, and his unhappy ghost has wandered the castle battlements ever since.

PENZANCE YOUTH HOSTEL

This was the former home of the Borlase family, including the famous antiquarian William Borlase and is primarily a Georgian building, dating back to 1720. The house is said to have been built on top of a Norman Keep, which itself was predated by a prehistoric settlement. The Methodist: John Wesley was imprisoned here at one stage, overnight, according to reports. It has also been claimed that Margaret Borlase, a figure in the kitchen, a child and others, haunt the building.

PORTHMEOR BEACH

There are many ghosts in and around the town of St Ives, some of them very well-known. The western end of Porthmeor Beach is frequented by a less well known group of ghosts.There have been numerous witnesses to this manifestation, none of whom have prior knowledge of the sightings.The manifestation always follows the same pattern. People see a small boat beach itself, and a group of bearded men wearing long cloaks disembark. The men are observed to be talking animatedly, though no sounds are heard. They walk to the cliffs at Carrick Du point, and begin clambering up the rocks. When they reach the top they stop, form a huddle, and look as if they are deep in prayer. At this point, without warning, they suddenly vanish completely.A typical sighting of these figures was reported by a couple on holiday in 1993. As they were walking across some rocks in the area of Porthmeor Beach, they were shocked to observe events exactly as just described. They watched for several minutes, as the group went through their ritual, and were extremely unnerved by their experience.