Letters From The Time Traveler: The Blue Lady of Pomeroy Castle

Dearest,

They call her the Blue Lady. But her real name was Elizabeth. As my grandmother told it, this takes place in the 1300s. Pomeroy castle was built around 1100 and the Pomeroys lived there for centuries.

Berry Pomeroy castle is perched high on a hill, overlooking the moors. A deer park surrounds the castle. It is quite hidden and hard to find.

Here is how the story was told to me: Elizabeth is said to be the spirit of the daughter of an early Norman lord, who after a brief relationship with a farmhand, she gave birth to a child.

The farmhand was poor and would never have given Elizabeth’s child the life it deserved. Elizabeth’s father Hugh decided to take matters into his own hands, literally. Shortly after its birth, her father strangled the baby in one of the upper rooms of the tower. He buried the body in the walls of the sewing room. At various times, the cries of the murdered infant can be heard throughout the castle.

Elizabeth went mad after this and bribed one of the servants to poison her father’s food in revenge. He died a few days after her infant died.