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Top 10 Haunted Places

Most haunted places in Cornwall

Cornwall's wild landscape and history of wrecking and smuggling lends itself to tales of ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. Myths and legends abound, from the ghost of Merlin, said to inhabit a creepy cave beneath Tintagel Castle, to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, accused of savaging livestock in the dead of night. Here we have selected ten of Cornwall's spookiest locations in order to help you get the very most out of our ghosts.

• Jamaica Inn

  

  Smugglers Bar - Jamaica Inn

  
  Built as a coaching house in 1750 and located right in the middle of Bodmin Moor, Jamaica Inn is alleged to be one of the most haunted places in Britain. 'Resident' ghosts include a malevolent highwayman in a three cornered hat who walks through locked doors, an anguished young mother with a baby who inhabits the mirror in room five and a murdered young smuggler who paces around the courtyard in the middle of the night. Daphne DuMaurier's famous novel about the inn, later made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock, focuses on it's colourful history as a smuggler's den.

• Pengersick Castle

  

  Pengersick Castle

  
  There is evidence of five thousand years of history at Pengersick Castle, which is just inland from the beach at Praa Sands. The oldest remaining structure is a four-storey tower that dates back to the sixteenth century and was part of an extensive, fortified Tudor manor that belonged to the notorious Pengersick family. The family's murderous exploits gave rise to countless legends, including that of a black-robed monk who is said to wander the grounds at night. Pengersick was a favourite with smugglers, who unloaded their contraband on the west end of the beach into a tunnel that led straight to the castle.

• Bodmin Moor

  

  Garrow Farm - Bodmin Moor

  
  The bleak, windswept landscape of Bodmin Moor is imbued with more than it's fair share of myths and legends. At Dozmary Pool, said to harbour King Arthur's sword, the ghost of the hapless Tregeagle can still be heard howling across the moors, while the ghost of Charlotte Dymond, murdered by her crippled lover, is regularly seen on the slopes of Roughtor clad in a gown and a silk bonnet. Hard evidence exists of a huge, black, panther-like cat, known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor, which has been seen more than sixty times and is given to savaging livestock in the dead of night.

• Bodmin Jail

  

  Bodmin Jail (photo: Tony Atkin)

  
  Built in 1778, Bodmin Jail has a dark and sinister past, famous for the hugely popular and well-attended public hangings that took place outside until 1862. The jail is popular yet, having been turned into a museum with information about notable prisoners and details about their grisly crimes and sentences on display alongside the cells. Even just glimpsed from the road, Bodmin Jail is a creepy place. Descend into the cold and gloomy underground passages and it is immediately clear why the jail was chosen to be part of a recent TV series about the most haunted places in Britain.

• Chapel Street - Penzance

  

  Historic Chapel Street - Penzance

  
  Chapel Street is the oldest street in Penzance and stuffed with historical buildings, including four pubs, each with a tale to tell. The Union Hotel shelters the remains of the oldest Georgian theatre in the country as well as the town's original assembly room, built in 1791. The Regent is one of the oldest buildings in Penzance, a former temperance hall that dates back four hundred years. The Turk's Head, a little further down the street, is the oldest pub in Penzance, while the Benbow, named after a famous seventeenth century admiral, is decorated with authentic cannons and figureheads brought up by divers from local wrecks. Look out for the figure of a smuggler with a gun lying on the roof.

• Kennal Vale

  

  Kennal Vale powder mills

  
  Kennal Vale is a hidden valley nestling in the countryside between Redruth and Falmouth that was once home to one of the largest and most complete gunpowder works to be found anywhere in Britain, producing explosives for use in the nearby mines. Kennal Vale is now managed as a nature reserve by Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Rusty, moss-coated water-wheels, broken millstones and the creepy ruins of massive granite mill buildings all help to create an atmopshere charged with history. Information boards detail an appalling accident that occurred in 1838 when five mill buildings blew up in succession. Part of a roof was found a mile from the premises and one man died of his injuries, leaving a widow and ten children

• Pendennis Castle

  

  Pendennis Castle - Falmouth

  
  Pendennis Castle, just outside Falmouth, was built by Henry VIII to protect the Carrick Roads from invasion by France and Spain. In 1646 the castle was the site of a famous siege, during which Royalists were trapped inside for six months and forced to eat their horses and dogs before surrendering. The piercing screams of a kitchen maid who fell to her death while carrying a tray of food have been heard by numerous visitors, as have strange footsteps on a staircase that no longer leads anywhere.

• Tintagel

  

  Tintagel Graveyard

  
  Tintagel is home to the ruins of a twelfth century castle with strong mythical associations to King Arthur, and at least five well-known ghosts. Three of these reside at the Camelot Castle Hotel, indulging in such activities as throwing paintings from the walls, waking people up in the dead of night to give them a bed bath and going through the hotel's bins. A fourth is a former employee of the hotel, who died about seventy years ago and can often be seen walking along the path to the hotel from his cottage, which was once owned by Kate Winslet. Tintagel Castle itself is set on a dramatic headland under which lurks a dark, dank cave thought to be haunted by the ghost of Merlin.

• Prideaux Place

  

  Prideaux Place - Padstow

  
  Prideaux Place, near Padstow, is an Elizabethan manor house completed in 1592. It has been in the Prideaux-Brune family ever since. Reported paranormal activity includes the ghost of a scullery boy given to running around the kitchen, the ghost of a woman dressed in nineteenth century clothes who sits and sews in the morning room and the ghost of Honor Fortescue, wife of Humphrey Prideaux, who threw herself off the upper balcony following the death of her husband and has since taken to wearing a green dress and chasing people out of the bedrooms.

• Wheal Coates

  

  Cliffs near Wheal Coates

  
  The mine at Wheal Coates, near St Agnes, goes all the way down to the sea, which can be heard crashing against the rocks through a grate in the floor of the ruined Towanroath engine house, probably the most famous industrial building in Cornwall. The mine shaft is accessible at low tide through a large cave at the far end of Chapel Porth beach. Legend has it that the mine is haunted by the ghosts of the many miners who died there working in extreme and dangerous conditions.

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CHEDDAR MAN

First modern Britons had 'dark to black' skin, Cheddar Man DNA analysis reveals The genome of Cheddar Man, who lived 10,000 years ago, suggests that he had blue eyes, dark skin and dark curly hair    The first modern Britons, who lived about 10,000 years ago, had “dark to black” skin, a groundbreaking DNA analysis of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton has revealed. The fossil, known as Cheddar Man, was unearthed more than a century ago in Gough’s Cave in Somerset. Intense speculation has built up around Cheddar Man’s origins and appearance because he lived shortly after the first settlers crossed from continental Europe to Britain at the end of the last ice age. People of white British ancestry alive today are descendants of this population. Combing human genome reveals roots of hair diversity It was initially assumed that Cheddar Man had pale skin and fair hair, but his DNA paints a different picture, strongly suggesting he had blue eyes, a very dark brown to black complexion and dark curly hair. The discovery shows that the genes for lighter skin became widespread in European populations far later than originally thought – and that skin colour was not always a proxy for geographic origin in the way it is often seen to be today.  Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the project, said: “It really shows up that these imaginary racial categories that we have are really very modern constructions, or very recent constructions, that really are not applicable to the past at all.” Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist at University College London and another member of the project’s team, agreed, saying the connection often drawn between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth. It has always changed and will change”. The findings were revealed ahead of a Channel 4 documentary, which tracked the ancient DNA project at the Natural History Museum in London as well as creating a new forensic reconstruction of Cheddar Man’s head. 850,000-year-old human footprints found in Norfolk To perform the DNA analysis, museum scientists drilled a 2mm-diameter hole into the ancient skull to obtain a few milligrams of bone powder. From this, they were able to extract a full genome, which held clues about this ancient relative’s appearance and lifestyle. The results pointed to a Middle Eastern origin for Cheddar Man, suggesting that his ancestors would have left Africa, moved into the Middle East and later headed west into Europe, before eventually crossing the ancient land bridge called Doggerland which connected Britain to continental Europe. Today, about 10% of white British ancestry can be linked to this ancient population. The analysis also ruled out an ancestral link with individuals inhabiting Gough’s Cave 5,000 years earlier, who appear to have performed grisly cannibalistic rituals, including gnawing on human toes and fingers – possibly after boiling them – and drinking from polished skull cups. Britain was periodically settled and then cleared during ice ages until the end of the last glacial period about 11,700 years ago, since when it has been continuously inhabited. Until now, though, it hasn’t been clear whether each wave of migrants was seeded from the same population in mainland Europe; the latest results suggest this was not the case. The team homed in on genes known to be linked to skin colour, hair colour and texture, and eye colour. For skin tone, there are a handful of genetic variants linked to reduced pigmentation, including some that are very widespread in European populations today. However, Cheddar Man had “ancestral” versions of all these genes, strongly suggesting he would have had “dark to black” skin tone, but combined with blue eyes. Scientists believe that populations living in Europe became lighter-skinned over time because pale skin absorbs more sunlight, which is required to produce enough vitamin D. The latest findings suggest pale skin may have emerged later, possibly when the advent of farming meant people were obtaining less vitamin D though dietary sources like oily fish. Cheddar Man would have lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, making sharp blades from flints for butchering animals, using antlers to whittle harpoons for spear fishing and carving bows and arrows. First Brit: Secrets of the 10,000 Year Old Man will air on Channel 4 on 18 February Topics Genetics Evolution Archaeology Anthropology Fossils Biology news.
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100 years right for women to vote in Britain

A century after women first won the right to vote in the UK, politicians, activists and social media users have paid tribute to the women who helped to force a change in the law. The hashtag #100Years is trending worldwide, used more than 40,000 times on Twitter. Some social media users celebrated the contribution of women who campaigned for the right to vote. Others marked the occasion by highlighting work still to be done. Who are people talking about? The names of several prominent suffrage campaigners have been trending. BBC Radio 4 listeners voted Suffragist Dame Millicent Fawcett as the 'most influential' woman of the past 100 years , but Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst has been mentioned almost 3,000 times on Twitter in the past 24 hours. Suffragettes and Suffragists both campaigned for a change in the law which would grant women the right to vote, but favoured different methods.   Tributes to other campaigners, including Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst, and Emily Davison, a Suffragette who died when she ran in front of the King's horse during the 1913 Epsom Derby, have also been made by thousands. What are women in politics saying?   Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley Jess Phillips was among scores of politicians from all parties to mark the centenary online. The Prime Minister shared a picture of female MPs gathered in Parliament. "I'm proud that there are over 200 female MPS," she wrote. "Our democracy is stronger as a result." Arlene Foster, leader of the DUP, the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP First Minister of Scotland, also paid tribute to Suffragist and Suffragette campaigners. Reality Check: What if women hadn't been allowed to vote? Video: How the Suffragettes woke us up The female protesters against giving women the vote Prominent individuals outside of politics have also marked the anniversary. Sir Paul McCartney referenced his Wings song Jet in congratulating "all of us on the 100th anniversary of the Suffragette movement". More to be done? Many people marked the centenary by highlighting progress they say has yet be made. Channel 4 News presenter, Cathy Newman, pointed out "fewer than one third of MPs are female" and "all chancellors to date have been men," adding, "history still needs to be made". Referencing the exclusion of some women from enfranchisement in 1918, novelist and broadcaster Bonnie Greer said political life for a woman is still "different, harder, less rewarding, more dangerous than it is for a man" . The Jo Cox Foundation, a charity set up after Ms Cox's murder in 2016, shared pictures of the former MP as a 14-year-old visiting Downing Street on a school trip. By UGC and Social News team More on this story Votes for women: Pardoning suffragettes 'complicated' 06 February 2018 100 Women: The female protesters against giving women the vote 06 February 2018 Suffrage:

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Possible Ghostly encounter.

On Sunday  4th February  2018 on our bungalow in rural Holsworthy Devon  my wife  ENID  believes she may had a experience  of a supernatural  .Whilst  in her chair she heard adult  footsteps  coming  towards  her in the front  room  she shouted out to ask if anyone  thier  but no reply. As she was starting  to  get  her adjustable  chair ready  to  get  her up she heard  the footsteps  going  back to  the front door. Myself and  Shane. .Ends son ..my step  son..we're out at time walking  our jack Russell  called  Mitz. So it could  be  the following  1 Ghostly encounter. 2 Trick of the mind.3 possible  intruder  .So that's good over the possibilities  I don't think it was 3 as why would anyone wish to intrude an less up too no good  .2 possible  as when  tired or half asleep  your  mind  can trick you.1 possible  Ghostly encounter  I think yes bit no proof  so up to you  what you  believe  .

Cryptzoology in Devon and Cornwall

Exmoor

For decades, sightings of big black panther-like or brown puma-like cats have been filed all over Britain, but the most famous is the Beast of Exmoor, reported since the early 1980s from this huge moorland overlapping Devon and Somerset, and blamed for many sheep kills. Similar Westcountry-based reports have also been filed from Dartmoor and Bodmin, but if there are big cats here, escaped/released from captivity, they continue to elude capture. Wild but beautiful locations well worth a visit.

Mawnan Old Church

Since the 1970s, the woods surrounding the old church in the Cornish village of Mawnan have been the scene of several alleged sightings of a bizarre feathered flying entity nicknamed the owlman. For although it resembles an owl, it is as tall as a man and stands upright. Zoologists speculate that it may be an escapee European eagle owl, but eyewitnesses have discounted this. A dark, mysterious, and not a little eerie place.

Exmoor and Cannock Chase

Images by Matt Neale & Brian Taylor

Falmouth Bay

A very large, long-necked sea monster reminiscent of Nessie and nicknamed Morgawr has been reported from Falmouth Bay, Cornwall, by a number of eyewitnesses since the 1970s, and is even depicted in two controversial photographs snapped by the equally mysterious, anonymous ‘Mary F’.

Cannock Chase

This extremely large expanse of woodland around Cannock, Staffordshire, is reputedly home to a wide variety of cryptozoological mysteries, including big cats, a pool-inhabiting crocodile, some troll-like or bigfoot-like humanoid entities, phantom black dogs, and even a werewolf! Don’t stay here alone overnight!..credit to Dr.Karl Shuker as information taken off 10 weird and wonderful cryptzoology linked locations in Britain.

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