The Octagon is situated just off Plymouth's famous Union Street, it was here during the aftermath of a devastating air raid over Plymouth during the second world war that two young children had a first hand encounter with a spectre.
A ten- year old girl accompanied by her eight-year old brother walked amongst the smouldering rubble, in search for the missing family cat. Whilst they carried out searching intensively for there beloved feline, a woman joined them and too began to search along side the two children. A few moments went by when all of a sudden the woman lost her footing and began to stumble upon the small mountain of rubble, instinctively one of the children went to grab her hand to offer assistance, and at this point she faded and completely vanished before the children's very eyes.
It was not until the shocked children returned to there family and retold there odd experience with the woman, that they realised the woman never once spoke to either of the children whilst she assisted them in searching for the family cat.
Photograph kindly provided by Derek Tait
