Berry Pomeroy Castle

[Spooky]

I just realised the castle wasnt in our list.

Here is a tale from another group of Ghost watchers.

www.hauntedinns.co.uk/bpc.htm

The following text is form an email from Susan Horne, Team leader of Ghosthingych.

"This castle, which is situated just outside of Totnes in Devon, is one of the most haunted sites in Britain. It is a very dangerous site to investigate as some of the haunting are VERY malevolent. Our team has experienced one such haunting ourselves at this site. The haunting in question was not actually at the castle but in the woods around the site. We all experienced a very tangible danger to ourselves and saw a very bright flash which contained what I can only describe as one of the most evil beings we have ever encountered. This is one site that the team will NEVER go back to as we all feel that we have been marked by this entity. We left the site very quickly as we all felt that the entity was approaching us to do us harm and as we left the site in our vehicle we were very narrowly missed by an enormous lightning bolt which was so close that the vehicle was flooded by purple light surrounding the bolt. There was no rain, no thunder and there was no other lightning before or after this bolt."

[Spooky]

www.simonday.com/berry_pomeroy_ghosts.htm

www.simonday.com/berry-pomeroy-ghosts/ghost-faq.htm

www.ghost-story.co.uk/stories/berrypomeroy.html

www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/castles/berry%20pomeroy.htm

www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/berry_pomeroy.html

www.dawnmist.demon.co.uk/berryp.htm

www.castlexplorer.co.uk/england/berrypomeroy/berrypomeroy.php

www.cropcircleresearch.com/enigma/issue3/pomeroy.html

www.theghostclubsociety.co.uk/ghostguide/pomeroy.html

[Spooky]

It did ring a bell when I saw it this afternoon. A little OTT with the thunderbolts but then who knows....

[Spooky]

Huge beech trees tower over this rambling ruin of a castle that perches on a cliff edge above a thickly wooded ravine. It was built in the late 15th century and was the seat of the Pomeroy’s an ancient Baronial family who arrived in Devon at the time of the Norman Conquest. In 1547 the Castle was purchased by Edward Seymour, first Duke of Somerset uncle of Edward V1 and Protector of England. Following his execution in 1552 his eldest son Edward headed for a new life in Devon and built the splendid manor house the gaunt, hollow shell of which still stands surrounded by the original castles outer defences.

A ghostly blue lady has been seen drifting among the melancholic ruins. She is reputed to have been a member of the Pomeroy family who had a child by her own father and in her shame strangled the unfortunate baby. She has been sighted in the Castle grounds beckoning to startled onlookers. Some visitors have heard the sound of doors being mysteriously slammed, despite the fact that there are no doors here whilst others have been disturbed by the sound of a baby’s heart rending cries accompanied by a decided drop in temperature.

But the eeriest part of this eeriest of ruins has to be the 15th century Margaret Tower where a twisting stone staircase spirals down into a dank, dark dungeon where a feeling a dreadful foreboding hangs heavy in the chill air and where the moss covered walls cackle with atmosphere.

It was here that the beautiful Margaret Pomeroy was imprisoned by her less alluring sister Lady Eelana when the two fell in love with the same man. Determined that Margaret's good looks would not steal her love from her, Elana allowed her sibling to starve to death in the cramped confines of this claustrophobic little dungeon.

But on certain nights of the year, when the full moon bathes the grey walls in its ethereal glow, Lady Margaret's ghost rises from her prison and, resplendent in flowing white robe drifts through the still night calling upon anyone who sees her to follow into her subterranean cell where those who accept will be rewarded with either death or insanity.

[Spooky]

First ref to a full moon, I knew my spidey sense were right we need ot go down on a full moon ;D