I am a writer and my latest books are about ghosts. To get all the information I need for my books I travel around the country. 1. I've been to several haunted houses and you can scarcely imagine the experiences I've had, many of them quite frightening.
A few months ago I was staying with friends near Land's End. 2. One evening someone mentioned The Smuggler's Arms, an inn outside the village. “The inn's nearly 400 years old and they say it has a ghost. I've never seen it, of course, but you can ask the man who owns the place. His name is Tregeagle. He won't mind you asking him questions.”
The next day I went out to the inn. Tregeagle could hardly tell me anything about the history of the place. 3. I had a few drinks with him in the bar and at a quarter to eleven we went upstairs to wait. Soon we heard footsteps in the room above us. It sounded like the footsteps of several men walking around. 4. There was nobody in the room.
The next morning I went to the local library to look for some books on the history of the area. 5. It turned out that the inn was once a place where smugglers met. The owner was a smuggler and died there in the 18th century. Many years ago people found a secret room in the roof where the smugglers used to hide.