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During
the early 1900s the Inn was used as a temperance house but
there have always been spirits of a different kind at Jamaica
Inn. You might have seen the programme on Living TV's Most
Haunted!
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On a moonlit night, when all is still, how can any
earthly person explain the sound of horses' hooves
and the metal rims of wheels turning on the rough
cobbles of the courtyard? Yet there is nothing to
be seen!
Who
can explain the uneasy footsteps heard pacing the
corridors in the dead of night? Who is the strange
man in a tricorne hat and cloak who appears and then
walks through solid doors?
Previous
managers of Jamaica Inn have heard conversations uttered
in a foreign tongue. Could this be the Cornish language?
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For
years there have been many stories of hauntings at
Jamaica Inn and recently the Ghost Society has made
in-depth investigations and compiled a report based
on their findings. The areas of substantial interest
to the investigation were, The Smuggler's Bar, The
Stable Bar, the restaurant and upstairs in bedroom
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Murder
at the Inn
Many years ago, a stranger stood at the bar enjoying a tankard
of ale. Upon being summoned outside, he left the half finished
ale and stepped out into the night. That was the last time
he was seen alive. The next morning his corpse was found on
the bleak moor but the manner of his death and the identity
of his assailant still remain a mystery.
Previous
landlords, upon hearing footsteps tramping along the passage
to the bar, believe it is the dead man's spirit returning
to finish his drink.
Who
is the stranger sitting motionless on the wall outside?
In 1911 there was much interest and correspondence in the
press concerning a strange man who had been seen by many people,
sitting on the wall outside the Inn. He neither spoke nor
moved nor acknowledged a greeting but his appearance was uncannily
like the murdered stranger.
Could
this be the dead man's ghost? And what strange compulsion
drove it to return to the same spot so often?
With such
an extensive history, including several centuries of smuggling,
Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn is probably closer to the
truth than we care to believe. It would explain the clatter
of horses hooves on cobbled ground heard in the depths of
night...
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