Footprints in the Snow at Penrae House

In the frost-kissed hills near Liskeard, where Cornwall’s wild heart merges with Bodmin Moor’s stark beauty, Penrae House stands—a time-worn manor of stone and secrets, once a covert haven for 17th-century Orange loyalists, now haunted by a spectral mystery etched in winter’s embrace. In 1692, Mistress Anne Trevelyan, a widow undone by solitude or forbidden love, fell to her death from its snow-laden roof, her size 5 footprints frozen in the icy shroud, her spirit forever bound to the manor’s ancient beams. By 1955, when a blizzard cloaked the house, those same delicate tracks reappeared, glimpsed by a startled maid and her hosts, stirring dread as dogs shunned shadowed rooms and eerie sounds whispered of Anne’s restless soul, weaving a chilling thread through Penrae’s history that echoes in the silent snows of Cornwall’s nights.