Wilfred Owen at Scarborough.
Because my latest WIP 'Ellis' is set in Scarborough in the early 1900s, I've been looking through books about Scarborough in the past and to my delight, I discovered that the Great war poet Wilfred Owen spent some time there in 1917. He stayed at the Clifton Hotel
The Clifton Hotel was then known as The Clarence Gardens and at the time of the Great War it served as an officers mess. Owen occupied one of the turret rooms, and it was here that he wrote his poem 'Miners' which came to him from visions he saw in the glowing coals.
I have also been reading about the ghosts of Scarborough and there are many connected with the Castle here. Apparently, a young woman who had a child 'out of wedlock' threw herself and her baby from the cliffs on which the castle stands. And.....she re enacts this tragic event every so often. Her ghost is joined by the mischievous spirit of Piers Gaveston, the lover of Edward 11. If you go to Scarborough Castle and you hear strange laughter or 'someone' tries to push you off the castle keep....it may be Piers having a lark.
However, although there are reports of ghosts at the Clifton Hotel...I don't think Wilfred Owen is amongst them. His legacy to us is his wonderful and haunting poetry. Perhaps he thinks that is enough.