CROMWELL came to Torrington during Saturday's night's commemoration, in the form of descendant and TV psychic medium Gavin Cromwell.
He joined paranormal investigators from Haunted Devon, hoping the noisy re-enactment night would raise some of Torrington's ghosts of the past.
They investigated key sites, joined by members of The Sealed Knot re-enactment group and local Civil War historians from Torrington 1646.
Byron Jackson of Haunted Devon said they had had an interesting evening with some good recordings and visuals such as lights at two of the town's pubs, the Black Horse and The Cavalier.
Among these, he said, Gavin had experienced a pain and reddening on the right side of his face while in The Black Horse, but which ceased when he left the pub. The pub is believed to have been the headquarters of Royalist general Lord Hopton, who suffered a pike blow to the face during the conflict.
The medium had also commented about a castle at Barley Grove "which should not have been there." Information from the 1646 centre revealed that, indeed, a castle had been built, pulled down, rebuilt and pulled down again, having not been given the necessary permission by the king, said Mr Jackson. "This was not a well-known fact and not something that Gavin could have known in advance."
They had also picked up on children in upper rooms at The Cavalier and the scent of lavender at The Black Horse, which two mediums independently attributed to a long-gone flower seller named Emma, he said.
They would be back.
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