The Jamaica Inn, Cornwall, England
This isolated old coaching inn on bleak and treacherous Bodmin Moor claims to be one of England’s most haunted pubs. Horses hooves are often heard late at night on the cobblestones and a man in a tricorne hat has been witnessed walking through doors.
Strange voices can sometimes be heard whispering in what’s thought to be the old Cornish language of the region.
The historic inn was also a notorious smuggling spot, used as a base for taking contraband through moorland tunnels. It was where Daphne du Maurier set her novel of the same name about Cornish pirates and smugglers.
The inn has a fascinating smugglers museum onsite where you can discover more murderous tales of Cornwall’s wreckers and see the author’s original writing desk.
