Smuggling, Riots & The Sampford Peverell Ghost

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In the heart of Devon, in the quaint village of Sampford Peverell, an information board refers the curious tourist to a now demolished building that had once been known as “The Ghost House.” The scene of an early 19th century haunting that had shook the walls for several months, before falling to a curious silence, the history of the ghost house told the story of a terrifying haunting. Or did it? It seemed the house had more history to it than the new owners liked to admit. SOURCES Colton, C. (1810) Sampford Ghost, A Plain & Authentic Narrative. T. Smith, Tiverton, UK. Colton, C. (1810) Sampford Ghost, Stubborn Facts Against Vague Assertions. T. Smith, Tiverton, UK. Marriott, John (1810) Sampford Ghost!!! I, Norris, Taunton, UK. York Herald (1810) Sampford Ghost. York Herald, Sat 01 Sep 1810, p2. York, UK. The Morning Chronicle (1810) Tale of Mystery. The Morning Chronicle, Thur 2 Aug 1810, p2. London, UK. Law, Susan C. (2023) The Dark Side of the Cut. The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK. Bristol Times & Mirror (1811) Alarming Riot at Sampford Peverell. Bristol Times & Mirror, p2, Bristol, UK. Salisbury & Winchester Journal (1811) Salisbury. Salisbury & Winchester Journal, Mon 6 May 1811, p4. Salisbury, UK. Harding, William (1845) The HIstory of Tiverton Vol. I. UK. Dent, Susie (2012) Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable 19th Edition. Chambers Harrap Publishers. UK Davies, Owen (2007) The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts. Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK. ------- This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, check out betterhelp.com/darkhistories to get 10% off your first month. ------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In the heart of Devon in the quaint village of Sanford Peril, an information board refers to curious tourist to a now demolished building that had once been known as the ghost house.
0:11.0	The scene of an early 19th century haunting that shook the walls for several months
0:15.9	before falling to a curious silence. The history of the ghost house told the story of a
0:20.8	terrifying haunting. Or did it? It seemed the house had more history to it than the new owners liked to admit.
0:29.7	This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:34.0	Hello and welcome to Dark Histories, season 8, episode 15.
0:42.0	I'm Ben as always and this week we got a kind of
0:46.1	interesting story actually it wasn't going to be this episode I was doing a
0:49.4	completely different episode and then I I couldn't get out of a source and it was one that I well
0:55.2	I felt it was really important to get to check fact check something basically
0:59.3	before it went into the episode and so I bench that episode and I bought in another episode that I've sort of
1:05.1	started in the past and never quite got around to doing but it's a cracking story it's a really
1:10.0	obscure one I don't I don't think too many people will have heard of this so yeah let's
1:15.6	get into it I hope you enjoy it it's called smuggling riots and the
1:20.3	Sanford Pevereral ghost.
1:27.0	In the shadows of Britain's rugged coastlines, a clandestine war has raged for centuries.
1:30.0	From moonlit beaches and hidden coves,
1:32.0	smugglers fueled by greed and necessity, have battled with an ever oppressive crown, who, frequently fighting expensive foreign wars across Europe, were in desperate need of funds.
1:44.6	From its fairly small-scale beginnings in the 13th century to its boom in the 17th century,
1:50.2	the history of smuggling in the British Isles has been a long winding path with more than a few strange stories along the way.
1:57.0	Prior to the 13th century, trade was largely local and completely unregulated and as such there was just simply no need for a smuggler to exist.
2:07.0	By the 13th century, international trade had grown across Europe enough so that the government saw fit to introduce customs duties
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