History & Haunting of: Royal Castle Hotel, Dartmouth, Devon, England Dartmouth has retained many of its ancient buildings and heritage. The hotel is of the early Georgian style but with a Victorian facade, four stories with an attic, painted white, built as two separate merchant houses. Haunted by several apparitions, including two men fighting in the courtyard, the sound of a horse drawn carriage, a female form and poltergeist activity in room 22. The hotel was built in 1639, but there was evidently a previous hotel or inn here because Sir Francis Drake stayed there. Charles II is also linked to the building, and many of his mistresses stayed at the hotel. In 1688, Mary stayed at the hotel after she and her husband William (who later became William III of England) arrived in England from the Netherlands to claim the throne. Edward VII and Cary Grant were also amongst its high-profile guests. Agatha Christie, another guest, changed the name of the hotel to the Royal George for her novel Ordeal by Innocence. The hotel is reputedly haunted by an old stagecoach which draws up to the front door to collect phantom passengers in the night.Carriages served the hotel until 1910. Horse hooves, the opening and shutting of a carriage door and footsteps have been heard by guests. Apart from the stage coachs arrival, sounds of horses clattering on the cobble stones are also heard, particularly during the early morning hours of the autumn season. The story linked to this paranormal phenomenon is that William and Mary were to stay at the Royal Castle Hotel in 1688 but as a storm prevented William from reaching the hotel, he lodged nearby in Torbay. Mary, however, reached the Royal Castle Hotel in a carriage at 2 AM and from that time onwards, the stage has started appearing in paranormal form at the entrance to the hotel. Along with whip cracking and horse whining, an invisible clock chimes twice in a back street of the hotel following the departure of the carriage. The hotel is a grade II* listed building en.wikipedia.org haunted-isle.blogspot.co.uk/ PHOTO 1 BY Brownie Bear https://flickr/photos/browniebear/8039707574/ Photo 2 by mapyourbusiness.co.uk-
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:40:15 +0000
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