The Ghosts at the Newsagents

In the heart of Exeter’s Cowick Street, where South Devon’s ancient pulse beats beneath a bustling parade of shops, a modest newsagents hides a chilling secret within its walls, a haunting born in 1789 when a seamstress and her young son met a violent end, their bodies concealed in an under-stairs cupboard. By 1955, the unsealing of that forgotten space unleashed their restless spirits, a skeletal spectre rushing from the dark, a black-haired boy gliding through unseen windows, binding the shop to a legacy of tragedy that whispers through its shadowed corners. The tale of Penrose’s News endures, its staff wary of the staircase’s chill, where echoes of a mother’s scream and a child’s fear linger on rainy nights, a testament to a crime that time cannot erase.