BOO! In prep for the spookiest day of the year, Nikolai, DaVinci and myself have been visiting some very "haunted" places in South West England. On our recent trip down to mystical Celtic Cornwall, we stayed in the ancient village of Lydford at the 16th Century "Castle Inn". The Inn is situated next to a spooky Castle ruin which once hosted a gruesem court, a dungeon where the prisoners were held and a hill where those found guilty were publically "hung and quartered".

Although we didn't see anything, I am sure that some restless souls perhaps still haunt that hill and the Inn next door ;)

In Cornwall, the boys got to visit the 4500 year old Stone Circles where ancient rituals once took place and where it is rumored the Druids still meet-up on full moon nights and the Solstices.

On the way back to Oxford from Cornwall, we stayed at one of England's most haunted Pubs - the Jamaica Inn - the secret gathering point of Pirates and Smugglers of the mid 18th-19th Centuries. Many a mystery and murder took place here. Indeed its eerie tales inspired Daphne Du Maurier's epic novel "Jamaica Inn" which was then turned into a thriller film by Alfred Hitchcock.