I've been to England twice and each time I visited I encountered a lot of ghosts who stayed behind for various reasons. The Travel channel has put together the most haunted hotels in Wales. I also had the pleasure of visiting the UK and you can read about my encounters with the ghosts there in my book "Ghosts of England on a Medium's Vacation," available on Amazon. Here's this week's haunting: Recently Cornwallis Live shared a story about a very haunted pub near "Land's End" in England. Here's the story:
Ghosts and smugglers and the First and Last pub at the end of Britain
It's not just the fact that it's the last pub in England that makes Sennen's First and Last Inn so famous. The pub which has seen many stars pop in for a pint over the years is steeped in local history.
Since the 17th century the pub has gained a notorious reputation as a headquarters for smugglers and wreckers - and is even said to be haunted by its own ghost.
According to its website, Joseph and Annie George ran the First and Last in the 1800s and managed to blackmail the landlord, Dionysius Williams, a wealthy farmer, into letting them live rent free, due to their knowledge of his local smuggling business.
The story goes that Williams eventually decided to remove the couple from the First and Last, which infuriated Annie, who then turned King's evidence against him and he was sent to prison.
But Annie didn't stop there and her enemies increased as she turned on others, including Christopher Pollard of Madron, who was found not guilty, the Vingoe family and even Joseph's brother, John George, following an argument over a tobacco deal. He was said to have been convicted and hanged as a result.
The villagers of Sennen soon had enough of Annie for turning against them and took their revenge. To punish her, they staked her out on the beach at low tide, where she drowned as the water rose.
Her body was placed in her bedroom before she was buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery next to the pub. According to the website, Annie still has her own room at the pub that she doesn't like anyone else to sleep in.
And the First and Last has had an unusually large number of landlords over the years which may or may not be due to the infamous ghost spooking them.
Kate Craven, the current landlady, said one of her predecessors "up and went" after claiming she saw the ghost of Annie.
She added: "She is supposed to haunt the pub and I have heard a lot of stories from people who say they have seen strange things over the years, like glasses coming off the shelves.
"But I haven't seen anything, I guess she must like me."
The pub is home to smugglers' tunnels which run down to the cliffs of Sennen. The tunnels were used when Annie ran smuggling and wrecking operations with the local parson.
Visitors to the pub can look down into the tunnels which are now filled with water and see goldfish swimming around.
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