Williamson retired in 1996 , selling the museum to Graham King and Liz Crow . A practicing Pagan with interests in witchcraft , King owned a business manufacturing specialist cameras in Hampshire when he discovered that the museum was for sale in a newspaper article . King and Williamson finalised the purchase at midnight on Halloween 1996 . King and Crow reorganised the museum and removed some of the more sensationalist exhibits , such as a partially clothed female mannequin which had been laid on an altar to represent the Black Mass . King appeared on BBC television series such as '' A Seaside Parish '' and '' Antiques Roadshow '' . He organised the burial of Joan Wytte , a woman who died in Bodmin Jail under accusations of witchcraft in 1813 , and whose corpse had been at the museum for many years . She was buried in a local area of woodland in 1998 . The museum was damaged during heavy floods in August 2004 , resulting in it being closed for repairs until March 2005
heavy floods
Boscastle flood of 2004
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic