The Ship Inn and the cottages next door are now all together and are The Galleon Inn.
Sarah Smith remembers when the buildings were The Galleon and Galleon Cottage. It was her Grandad who knocked into one, the several cottages down the alleyway to make Galleon Cottage, where she lived as a child.
Sarah and her brother David would cartwheel down the long, upstairs corridor. There was a bathroom at the end. It was in the end bedroom that the 2 children would often see "a man dressed all in black, with a long coat and tall black hat, sitting in a rocking chair just rocking away."
'It really was scary, as none of the adults could see him."
Sarah saw Steve Nosworthy's photograph (above) of The Ship Inn when it was recently published on the Starcross News Facebook page. There's a man standing in front of the cottage window. Sarah realised that "He looks exactly like the ghost we saw."
The present landlord of The Galleon is aware of several stories about deaths in The Galleon, but he hasn't seen any ghosts, doesn't believe in ghosts and would rather not have his name associated with ghost stories.
This isn't the only Starcross ghost story. There's more to come...
