Murderous woodcutter Michal Morey who killed his young grandson in cold blood, was tried and hanged at Winchester, and his corpse brought back to Arreton, in 1737. It was left rotting on the Downend gibbet at the crossroads at Gallows Hill, near the Hare and Hounds, until it became "an offence to eye and nostril". The gibbet cross-beam, complete with a notch cut in it beside the date of his execution, can be seen in the pub. Morey's restless spirit can also be seen, roaming Gallows Hill, carrying a large axe, its head lolling grotesquely, great dark sockets where eyes should be, and shreds of something, hanging.