The chapel is one of the oldest buildings on Herm, and still used for services. Of all the monk sightings on the island it is the one with the most fitting setting: a figure in a habit kneeling at the altar of a medieval chapel, seen by someone who worked on the island and had no reason to be there for a ghost hunt.
The report is brief. The foreman saw the monk, looked again, and he was gone. PIGS collected it with other Herm reports, most of them about monks in brown or dark habits seen elsewhere on the island, in the valley below the manor, at a cottage window and on the hotel lawn.
The tradition of a plank crossing from Guernsey, which MacCulloch noted as a story explaining how the sea had widened between the islands, gives the chapel an old connection to Guernsey's parish of St Sampson. The chapel is open to visitors.
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