The Cursed Chest of Cornwall

"Western Morning News," January 8, 1949, via Newspapers.comIn late 1948, Trevor Ley of Stanbury Manor, Morwenstow, bought an old hand-carved, cedarwood chest from a Cornwall antique shop. The woman who owned the shop let him have the chest for a low price, explaining that since she had acquired it, anything placed on the walls kept falling to the ground. She thought that “some sort of ghost seemed to be attached to it.”This purchase soon led Trevor to question his life choices. As the shop owner had warned, wherever the chest was placed, the most damnable--literally--things began happening. Six antique shotguns that were securely fastened to the wall suddenly smashed to the floor, even though the nails and wires that had held them were still intact. A heavy painting leaped two feet from the wall, hitting Trevor on the head. Two other large pictures which had been “hanging safely for generations” also propelled themselves into the center of the room. In another bedroom, a painting did…