Haunted North Cornwall

Haunted North Cornwall gathers reported apparitions and other uncanny experiences from the county’s northern coast and countryside. Michael Williams covers places including Bodmin Moor, Tintagel, Morwenstow and Bude Castle, setting their stories against the landscapes and histories that shaped them.

The accounts range from human footsteps and horses’ hoofbeats to a ghost train said to run on schedule, a van that disappears from a narrow lane, and a black dog seen near Tintagel. Williams also considers tales associated with Robert Stephen Hawker, Cornish saints, smugglers, highwaymen and the Civil War. Drawing on his paranormal investigations, interviews and previously unpublished material, the book presents North Cornwall’s ghost lore as a mixture of local memory, historical setting and unresolved report.