Following the outbreak of World War I, the number of prisoners drastically depleted, the last male inmate left Bodmin Jail in 1916 and it was officially decommissioned in 1927. Notorious for its dark and sinister past, the creepy jail has been transformed into a museum, and much of its eerie charm remains. The museum delves into the gruesome and ghostly stories of some of the jail’s former inmates and is one of Cornwall’s leading visitor attractions.

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