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I think I remember the one! Are you in Cornwall then? Me too, and FF husband.
Hi Leonora. No but I used to visit once, possibly twice a year for nearly 30 thirty years. Still hoping to move down there in the future. I normally stayed with a relative but unfortunately spent a couple of nights in a hotel on the north coast. Absolute nightmare! Often park in the station yard at Perranporth. :)
 
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Is there radon there under where that hotel was?
Hi. I've no idea to be honest. Ironically, I laughed at the ghost society certificates on the wall in the reception; I'll never do that again! Truly a terrifying night with three different 'events' happening. I 'discussed' the situation quite vigorously with the hotel's owner in the morning! We actually had a TV documentary crew come and interview us about the events a few months later. I've included that night in the book absolutely verbatim as it happened. All very odd but 20 years later a great start for a manuscript :eek:

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Hi. I've no idea to be honest. Ironically, I laughed at the ghost society certificates on the wall in the reception; I'll never do that again! Truly a terrifying night with three different 'events' happening. I 'discussed' the situation quite vigorously with the hotel's owner in the morning! We actually had a TV documentary crew come and interview us about the events a few months later. I've included that night in the book absolutely verbatim as it happened. All very odd but 20 years later a great start for a manuscript :eek:

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You bet. Tom Lethbridge suggested some of the most haunted places have underground water, or other very strong electro-magnetic influences, producing weird effects on the amygdala. He called them naiad fields...there's a famous one in Ladram Bay. Nasty thing there, he called it a "ghoul" and a history of suicide. He was a classically trained archaeologist who turned his attention to haunted places, and had many ghostly encounters himself, some OK and some not.
 
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