"Mr Crowley, what went wrong in your head? Oh, Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead? Your life...

Here at WASD we recently ran a short piece on the Teignmouth poltergeist, a story that was featured in the...

Here at WASD we love a bit of local weirdness so here’s a clip from the 2001 London Weekend Television...

Is South Devon still Christian? It looks like older residents believe it is while millenials - those aged 18-24 -...

On December 27 we lost Carrie Fisher. None were more upset by the news than Torbay’s Jedi community – and...

"The wildest farrago yet to have come out of the demonology genre", Monthly Film Bulletin Here at WASD we have...

While it was the visiting wives and relatives of naval officers that initiated Torquay as a tourist town, it was...

This is the story of Saul, one of those Torquay characters that we seem to have so many of. You’ve...

In 1954 the author Nancy Mitford wrote an essay, ‘The English Aristocracy’ for the magazine Encounter. She provided a list...

A railway station serving Torquay was opened on 18 December 1848, but this station was far from the harbour at...

On September 18, 1961, Torquay was the proud host of the Second European Postal and Telecommunications (CEPT) Conference. Fair enough,...

Here in Torquay we like to think of ourselves as being welcoming to tourists. However, this wasn’t always so. For...

Here at WASD we like to remember Torquay folk who have made their mark on the world. This time it’s...

“Deep night, dark night, the silence of the night, spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves”, William Shakespeare Night-time...

  On October 8th 1834 the darkness was banished from Torquay. Forty gas lamps were installed in our main thoroughfares...

Hidden away on the outskirts of Torquay is Orestone Manor, a boutique country hotel & restaurant with an interesting past....

“I resent Mrs Langtry, she has no right to be intelligent, daring and independent, as well as lovely”, Torquay resident...

  In 1973 Trevor Ravenscroft (pictured), who would later live in Torquay, wrote a book called ‘The Spear of Destiny’....

Continuing our WASD theme of South Devon’s weird landscape, let’s turn our attention to our haunted coastal route - the...

Continuing the WASD theme of South Devon’s weird landscape, here’s the story of Kingskerswell’s Creeping Coffin. During the mid eighteenth...