For nearly 150 years, Bodmin Jail was the kind of place you entered through those imposing gates, and prayed you’d one day leave again. Because not everyone did.

And perhaps this is the reason why the now-luxury hotel and visitor attraction is said to be haunted by former inmates, staff, and possibly… something far darker.

SOURCES

📚 The History Of Bodmin Jail, by Bill Johnson

📚 Haunted Bodmin Moor, by Jason Higgs

📚 Peter Underwood’s Guide To Ghosts & Haunted Places, by Peter Underwood

📚 A Ghostly Almanac of Devon & Cornwall, by Nicola Sly

📚 Haunted Places of Cornwall, by Sheila Bird

📚 The Hanging Pit: The Haunting Of Bodmin Jail, by Richard Estep

📃 The Life of the Death of 'The Fighting Fairy Woman of Bodmin', Helen Cornish, 2013, in Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

💻 https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/object/24-skeleton/

💻 https://architecturemagazine.co.uk/2022/02/03/case-study-bodmin-jail-by-twelve-architects/

💻 https://brian-haughton.com/ancient-mysteries-articles/anne-jefferies-and-the-fairies/2/

💻 https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/last-man-executed-cornwall-strangled-6150948

📺 Most Haunted, first aired 2005

🎙️ The Paranormal Monkey Podcast interview with Joseph Carter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9ntAgqYuI&t=2s

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