Haunted Harbour: The Looe Ghost Guide

Haunted Harbour: The Looe Ghost Guide gathers reported hauntings, local legends, witchcraft traditions and historical oddities from Cornwall’s harbour town and its surrounding landscape. Jonathan Boakes leads the account through the medieval streets of East and West Looe, combining stories of phantom carriages, grey ladies, monks and smuggler ghosts with maps, vintage photographs and archive material.

The guide also travels beyond the town to places including Kilminorth, Talland Bay and Lanreath, where other accounts involve ball lightning and a threatening black cockerel. Local testimony, Cornish archives, heritage records, historic plans and antique maps give the stories a strong sense of place, presenting Looe’s darker folklore alongside the landscapes and buildings associated with it.