Apparently, any child christened “Joanna” at Parchaple Well will be “a fool and ill-omened”. This is due to a lady named Joanna that once reprimanded the saint for fishing on a Sunday.

Witnesses have reported a ghost ship sailing towards the shore. However, once it reaches the shoreline, it continues approximately half a mile inland on its journey.

Hella Point was once known as Nancy’s Garden, named after a farmer’s daughter who fell in love with a boy who went to sea. Each day she would stand at the point hoping to catch sight of her true love returning. One night she dreamed that she heard him call to her. She went out and was never seen again. It was later discovered that he had drowned at sea that night. It is believed that either or both of them still haunt that spot.

The seabed between Hella Point and Land’s End is called Lyonesse, and is a country in Arthurian legend, particularly in the story of Tristan and Iseult. Lyonesse was once supposed to have stretched to the Isles of Scilly and had 140 churches, but a flood devastated the land leaving only one man and a white horse to escape with their lives. The man was the founder of the Trevelyan family. A number of people (including Miss Edith Oliver as named by the author Coxe in 'Haunted Britain') claim to have seen the church spires, towers and battlements out at sea.