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The Funeral Procession of Lady Margaret
Godolphin
Godolphin House
Godolphin House is said to be host to the spectre of Lady Margaret
Godolphin, wife of the first Earl, who died at 25 during childbirth in 1678.
The legend is that on the anniversary of her funeral her apparition walks the
path leading from the house to the chapel, and is often accompanied by her
ghostly funeral cortege. Some say that the spirit comes out of a coffin carried
by the procession.
The monument, erected by public subscription, that marks the site of Charlotte
Dymond’s murder. Collection of Linda Stratmann, true crime writer.
The Haunted Bridegroom
Godolphin House courtyard. Photo courtesy of The National Trust.
After being encouraged by her lover, a man known as Yorkshire Jack, to poison
her ‘jealous-hearted’ husband with arsenic, Ludgvan’s Sarah Polgrean was Pengersick Castle
sentenced to be hung in 1820.
At the scaffolding, the lovers said their farewells, Jack promising, in Sarah’s The castle seems to have a multitude of ghost stories, many rather convoluted
final moments, to make her his wife, alive or dead. Soon after the execution and fantastical.
Yorkshire Jack took to a life on the sea in an attempt to escape the It has, despite this, earned the reputation as one of the most haunted
remembrance of his indulgent oath. Sarah, the tale goes, was not so keen for locations in Britain due to the sheer number of ghosts said to reside here. It
her betrothed to forget. cannot be disputed that Pengersick’s history is a turbulent and bloody one.
Disasters surrounded any ship upon which Yorkshire Jack sailed, until Just some of the tales of spirits are of a 13 year-old girl who is said to have
years later an almighty storm besieged his vessel halfway across the danced to her death from the battlements, a monk in a wide-brimmed hat,
Atlantic. Sailors looking out saw two figures, those of Sarah and the devil, two women who were murdered, and a man who was stabbed and
following behind, until a giant wave washed Jack from the deck. His strangled to death in front of a fireplace in the 16th-century. There are also
crewmates saw the spirit of Jack fit in between the pair as his promise, rumours of past devil-worship and a demon dog, which have been largely
presumably, was finally fulfilled. rejected by those close to the castle.
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