Haunted castle, Templar inn, lighthouse, and more!

What a marvellous day’s exploring! Haunted castle, Templar inn, lighthouse, tall ship, medieval ruins… and home early in the afternoon, and in time to do a full day’s/night’s work…

I did not feel at all compelled to do the tour – the entire place felt so incredibly sad…

From their website, here is a little of the history of the hauntings…

“It is for many years said to have been visited by the Devil, so many people from the surrounding area are nervous to enter the place after dark.

Legend has it that during a storm at sea, a dark stranger approached the Hall on horseback after his ship was driven into nearby slade Harbour with rough seas. He was invited in to seek shelter and spent some days with the Tottenham Family who were living at the Hall at the time. The young Lady Anne Tottenham was especially taken with this dark stranger and fell head over heels for him. One night during a card game, she dropped a card and upon bending down to retrieve it, she noticed that this dark stranger had cloven hoofs instead of feet. As soon as he realised what she had seen, he shot through the roof in a ball of flames.

Anne never recovered, she went into a state of shock and madness and her family locked her in the tapestry room for fear that anyone would see her.

She died a couple of years later, still quite young, but her death was no release as servants and family members reported seeing her wandering through the house at night. The family had the local catholic priest Fr. Broaders exorcise the Hall but he could not exorcise the tapestry room.”