Haunted Plymouth

Haunted Plymouth gathers reported ghost stories from the city and its surrounding districts, combining historical traditions with contemporary accounts and investigation records. Its three sections cover the Historic Barbican, the city and locations beyond it, placing each report within Plymouth’s streets, buildings and maritime past.

The stories include claims of Sir Francis Drake’s ghost on Plymouth Hoe, a child and young girl associated with the Elizabethan House, poltergeist activity at an Elizabethan inn, and a lady in white at Widey Court. Other accounts concern French prisoners of war at Devonport Dockyard and a phantom pair of legs in a Mutley house. Eyewitness interviews, the author’s investigations and more than 100 photographs add detail to this local collection.