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So I was interested to see that The Ship Inn, in Fowey, Cornwall, no longer boasts about its haunted room. When I visited the elderly pub with rooms, over a decade ago, all the guests knew about the 16th century paneled room that could never be painted or plastered without the refurbishments peeling off, virtually overnight.

I've noticed lately that the spookiest places are not the ones that brag about their ghosts and haunted chambers but the ones that don't make much of a fuss about it. The shiveriest experiences I've had have been in unexpected places where no one warned me but locals nodded knowingly after.

My own stay at the inn, possibly connected to Sir Francis Drake, was uneventful. But I notice that now the place still promotes the 16th century paneled room but makes no mention of the ghost...Hmmm. possibly worth checking out this Halloween?

While there, I met a couple celebrating their 25th anniversary in the same room where they had spent their honeymoon. "Wanted to stay in the 'aunted room but me lady spouse would 'ave none of it," the husband told me in a rich, elderly style cockney accent. "Wanted to stay in it on me 'oneymoon 'n all, but 'herself weren't 'avin none of it then neither."