Great aspirations come crumbling down.

Ghosts, Ghoulies and Things That Go Bump in the Night brings nine people together as they tell tales of their experiences with the supernatural over dinner at Berry Pomeroy Castle in Totnes. Reported to be one of the most haunted castles in Britain with stories of the Blue Lady, said to be a Pomeroy daughter who, having become pregnant by her own father, smothered her baby the moment it was born, and is now condemned to wander the ruins at night in eternal remorse. The White Lady, said to be Margaret Pomeroy imprisoned by her older sister Eleanor, wanders the tower at night and two armour-clad Pomeroy brothers have been seen with blindfolded horses as they spurred them over the ramparts to their deaths instead of being captured by Edward VI army.

The Pomeroy family came to Devon with the Norman Conquest building the castle in the 1400s. Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset brother of Jane became Lord Protector of his nine year old nephew King Edward VI, purchasing the castle in 1547. After his execution his son from his first marriage inherited and in 1560 built a four story Elizabethan manor within the walls of the Tudor castle. Further enlarged in 1600, struck by lightning in 1685, abandoned by 1700, the house was never to be completed due to financial troubles by a divide in the family. Demolished by Sir Edward Seymour V known as Speaker Seymour due to his Parliamentary aspirations. The house was essentially gutted timber beams were removed, flagstone floors lifted, lead stripped from roofs, glass torn from windows and decorative stonework removed.