Cobbs Creek in Colwyn

History & local legend

Anne’s Rock is a local landmark beside Cobbs Creek in Colwyn. The story told about it concerns a young woman named Anne and the lover she met beside the water. When her father discovered them together, the tale says, she jumped from the rock into the creek and drowned. Her spirit is said to remain there waiting for her lover.

In 2009, the Tri County Paranormal Research Society visited with a woman who had grown up in Colwyn and knew the story. The investigators felt watched from the trees and used a radio-scanning device, often called a ghost box, to ask questions. They interpreted one response as a man saying he could not leave. The voice they thought they heard did not fit the woman in the legend, leaving the visit with a different mystery from the one they had come to investigate.