Lucy Lightfoot

Lucy Lightfoot is the name of a fictional girl who supposedly disappeared mysteriously from the Isle of Wight in 1831.

The story was fabricated by James Evans, the vicar of St Olave's Church, Gatcombe, in the early 1960s, as he himself later admitted.

After the storm had abated, her horse was found tied to the gate at St Olave's Church in Gatcombe.

Also of note is the detail that a steel misericord attached to a wooden effigy identified as "Edward Estur" was found shattered after her disappearance.

One Sir Edward Estur was listed as being accompanied by a girl with the same name as Lucy, from Carisbrooke Castle.