LIVING TV’S MOST HAUNTED VISITS JAMAICA INN AND FINDS 15 GHOSTS!
Jamaica Inn has long been considered to be one of the most popular hotels in Cornwall but it is also considered one of the most haunted! Yvette Fielding and the team from Living TV’s hugely successful series Most Haunted would probably agree after spending a night there recently and finding 15 ghosts including an American pilot who is believed to be trying to get back a photograph he left at the Inn of his wife and child.

The Most Haunted team found the most frightening area of Jamaica Inn was the boiler room. Because that room is due to be site of the new reception area when the hotel adds its extra 10 bedrooms, Most Haunted is considering returning to conduct an exorcism.

For years there have been many stories of ghostly sightings at Jamaica Inn and 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 four.

Wendy James who worked on the production said, “It was really exciting and a very successful shoot. There was a lot of screaming and it was one of the scariest to date!”

Some say ghosts frequent Jamaica Inn because of its rich and lengthy history. Some say they are attracted there because they became lost on the treacherous Bodmin Moor. Whatever the enticement, a number of ghosts are regular "visitors" to the Inn.

People staying at Jamaica Inn have frequently reported hearing footsteps, unexplained movement of doors and other objects. Ghost hunters and psychics brought to Jamaica Inn including the Ghost Society have determined that there were several ghosts there the most reported sighting is of a man who has been seen by many people, sitting on the wall outside the Inn. He neither speaks, moves or acknowledges a greeting but his appearance is uncannily similar to a man who disappeared from Jamaica Inn in the 19th century and was found dead on the moor nearby.

MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES AND VICTORIAN TAXIDERMY SELLS FOR OVER £500,000
One of the most extraordinary collections of Victorian taxidermy and other curiosities was auctioned at Jamaica Inn in September 2003 and raised over half a million pounds.

The Jamaica Inn has been home to The Potters Museum of Curiosities for the past 16 years. The fascinating and eclectic collection of over 10,000 items includes around 6,000 pieces of taxidermy created mainly by the famous Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter from Bramber in Sussex. Kevin Moore of Jamaica Inn says: “Taxidermy was extremely popular in Victorian times and this eclectic collection is a fine example.”

Walter Potter was born in 1835 and developed an interest in taxidermy at the age of 14. He quickly began to get commissions and became prolific, eventually becoming a leading exponent of humanised taxidermy. Despite using arsenic all his working life, he lived to the age of 83.

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