Pluckly's Ghosts
The ghost of a teacher has allegedly been seen swinging from the branches of a tree in a remote part of the village. The teacher hanged himself, and was found in the by a group of his students on their way to school in the 1920s, the reason for his suicide was unknown.
The Black Horse Inn is reported to be haunted by a girl who appears in the fireplace, an unseen hand that lifts cutlery from the dresser and a cold spot in the kitchen. The ghostly prankster delights in hiding the personal possessions of staff and customers alike, it has locked the landlady out of her pub on more than one occasion. Landlords have complained of glasses on the shelf above the bar moving and dogs barking at something only they can see. The pub also featured on TV's Most Haunted program, they held a seance in the attic.
Laura Gambling took over the pub in November 1997 and on her first Sunday was enjoying a cup of tea just prior to opening for the busy Sunday lunchtime session. She noticed a glass on the shelf above the bar move just a little. As she watched it she was astonished when it began to slide along the length of the shelf, stopping only when it reached the edge.
At the Crossroads Bridge the ghost of an old woman has been seen, during her life she used to sit on the bridge, smoking her pipe, drinking gin and selling the watercress she had gathered from the stream. The old woman, is supposed to have burnt to death when, saturated in gin, she accidentally set herself alight.
Pluckley 's most intriguing ghost story concerns Robert du Bois, a murderous highwayman who frequented the area, surprising his victims by using an old hollow oak tree at the crossroads, fittingly called Fright Corner. When his victims passed by he would emerge from the tree and rob them of there possessions, Du Bois however, made the mistake of using his trick once too often. It had become common knowledge in the district that the oak could yield a nasty surprise for the unwary, so one traveler took no chances and ran his sword through the tree when he reached it; Du Bois was killed in his hiding place. The old oak tree is long gone, but it is said du Bois still haunts the crossroads.
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