Whiteford Sands, Gower Peninsula, South Wales

In 1956 the Gower Peninsula in South Wales was the first place in the U.K. to be designated an ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ (AONB).

Its distinctive, rugged coastline is frequently visited by severe storms during the winter months, and over the centuries has seen more than two hundred and fifty shipwrecks in the treacherous sea that surrounds it.

There have been many wrecks along this beach and following a storm in January 1868 the beach was strewn with bodies from the four wrecked vessels that were lost in a single day, taking nineteen lives with them.

Not surprisingly there have been many reports of hauntings – one being the thunderous sound of horses’ hooves along the two mile stretch of sand.