Bodmin Moor at midnight - the old tin mine

Been meaning to write this up properly for months. Last August (2023) I went to Bodmin for a week and decided to visit the abandoned tin workings near Crowdy Reservoir. Local history buff, wanted to see them properly. Made a proper day of it - brought a torch, maps, the lot. Thought I'd stay till dusk, maybe see the landscape in different light.

Big mistake. Once the sun went down properly, the atmosphere changed completely. And I mean completely. It went from 'pleasant moorland walk' to 'deeply uncomfortable' in about fifteen minutes. The temperature dropped so much I could see my breath. I wasn't alone out there - I could hear footsteps on the gravel paths behind me, but whenever I'd turn round with the torch, nothing. Just empty moor.

Then I found an old workers' cottage, half-collapsed. And there was singing coming from inside it. Not music - actual voices, like miners singing a work song, but distorted somehow, like an old recording played backwards. I noped out of there so fast. Got back to my car shaking like a leaf. The whole drive back to Bodmin town I felt watched.

Anyone else had experiences out on Bodmin at night? I'm not naturally superstitious but that was genuinely terrifying.

The tin mines have a dark history - dozens of workers died in those places. Cave-ins, flooding, accidents. That area's thick with residual energy if you believe in that sort of thing. Voices are incredibly common in locations with traumatic deaths.

Mate, you went to Bodmin Moor alone at midnight looking for haunted cottage. You're basically asking for a bad time. Wind does weird things in abandoned buildings - creates harmonic frequencies that sound like voices. Entirely explainable.

This is the third report from that specific location in two years. I'm collating data for a proper study. Would you be willing to fill out a detailed witness statement? Dates, times, exact grid references if possible? We're trying to establish whether the phenomena is consistent or just random atmospheric weirdness.

Did you feel any physical contact? Any cold spots when you were near the cottage? The singing is fascinating but I'm more interested in whether there was actual paranormal contact or just auditory phenomena.

The singers might not be miners at all. Bodmin's got folklore going back to the Dark Ages. Could be something older than the mining operations. Just a thought.