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Harri Evans & Charlie Duffield

Inside mysterious 'spooky house' that casts an eerie spectre on UK town's coast

Situated on a rocky headland, a neo-Georgian style property known locally as the 'spooky house' casts a gloomy atmosphere over one coastal town in Anglesey.

Craig Y Môr has a dramatic position on the coast of Holy Island in Trearddur Bay, where it has been situated for more than one hundred years.

It was designed by the Liverpool architect FG Hicks, with construction of the house staring in 1911.

The work stopped during the First World War and the house was finally finished in 1919, North Wales Live reports.

It was constructed for a wealthy Englishman named William Smellie, who at the time was one of many people to build holiday homes around Porth Diana.

An aerial shot of bull bay in Anglesey (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Until the late 1920s, Carig Y Môr was used as a summer house, when William Smellie was ill and decided to move there permanently with his wife, Ethel.

Mr Smellie died in 1955, followed by Mrs Smellie six years later, and the house was later passed to their third daughter, Ruth, in 1978.

The house then fell into the hands of hers and Edward Jones' children and it continues to be owned by the Jones family today.

As well as being the home of the Smellies, Craig Y Môr also housed soldiers who were stationed at the Cliff Hotel for a brief period during the Second World War.

It has most recently been used as a photo shoot and film location and featured on the ITV crime drama Safe House a few years ago.

Earlier this week, television presenter Tmmy Mallett visited the house and tweeted a picture of it with the caption: ""Is this the Psycho house? Spooky!"

Its austere design and its elevated position on the headland makes it eerily similar to Norman Bates' house and it's clear to see why it has proved a popular location for filming and photo shoots in recent years.

Craig Y Môr became a Grade II listed building in 1998 for being a "boldly designed early 20th century house, ambitious in scale, dramatic in massing, and refined in detail; prominent local coastal landmark."

The house has remained largely untouched over the years and looks almost exactly the same - both inside and out - as it did back in 1919, but the sense of mystery that surrounds it continues to grow each day.

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