25 Haunted Places in United Kingdom
Every case file on record in United Kingdom — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
The Ancient Ram Inn
A · Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom — A 12th-century coaching inn claimed to sit on a pagan burial ground — alleged child sacrifices, a witch, and a portal.…
Ballygally Castle — The Lady in the Turret
B · Ballygally, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — A 1625 Scottish baronial castle on the Antrim coast road — Northern Ireland's most haunted hotel, whose corner turret is kept as a ghost room for the lady said to be searching for the child taken from…
50 Berkeley Square — The House That Kills
B · Mayfair, London, United Kingdom — A discreet Mayfair townhouse that Victorian London agreed was too dangerous to sleep in — the attic room's unseen tenant was said to frighten trespassers to death.…
Berry Pomeroy Castle
B · Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom — An ivy-strangled Tudor ruin in a Devon valley, home to two of England's most spiteful ghosts — a starved sister in white and a fatal blue lady who beckons from the tower.…
Bodmin Jail — The Prison That Never Emptied
B · Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom — Cornwall's 1779 county prison, where more than fifty judicial hangings were carried out before 1909 — now half dark-tourism attraction, half luxury hotel, and by common consent the county's most haunt…
Borley Rectory
A · Borley, Essex, United Kingdom — 'The most haunted house in England' — burned down in 1939, its legend only grew.…
Culloden Battlefield — The Moor That Keeps Its Dead
A · Inverness, Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom — The moor where the Highland clan system died in under an hour on 16 April 1746 — now a National Trust for Scotland memorial where visitors report the battle has never entirely stopped.…
Edinburgh Castle & the Vaults
S · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom — A fortress on volcanic rock above haunted underground vaults — home to the best-controlled ghost experiment ever run.…
Fyvie Castle — The Green Lady and the Weeping Stone
B · Fyvie, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom — Five towers raised by five families in Aberdeenshire, held by the National Trust for Scotland — and haunted by a Green Lady whose name a grieving husband carved in stone, beside a stone said to weep b…
Hampton Court Palace — The Screaming Gallery
A · Richmond upon Thames, London, United Kingdom — Henry VIII's palace on the Thames, home of England's most royal ghost story — a teenage queen dragged down this corridor to her death, and a 2003 CCTV figure that made the evening news worldwide.…
Windsor Great Park — Herne the Hunter's Oak
A · Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom — The antlered spectre of Windsor Forest — a hunter who hanged himself from an oak, gallops the Great Park at the head of the Wild Hunt, and first rides into history through Shakespeare.…
Highgate Cemetery
A · London, United Kingdom — Victorian necropolis of crooked tombs where a 'Vampire' panic gripped London in the 1970s.…
Margam Castle — The Gamekeeper's House
B · Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot, United Kingdom — A vast Tudor-Gothic country house in Welsh parkland, branded one of Britain's most haunted buildings — anchored by the documented 1898 murder of the estate's gamekeeper.…
The Mermaid Inn — Rye's Smugglers' Stronghold
A · Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom — Cellars from 1156, a rebuilding of 1420, secret passages and a rocking chair that moves on its own — England's most famous medieval inn, run today as a hotel that rents its ghosts by the room.…
Muncaster Castle — Tom Fool's House
A · Ravenglass, Cumbria, United Kingdom — Eight centuries of one family on the Cumbrian coast, and a haunted reputation built on a real court jester — Tom Fool — whose cruel jest is said to have ended in murder.…
Overtoun Bridge — The Dog Suicide Bridge
A · Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom — A category B-listed bridge on a Victorian estate where, by decades of local count, hundreds of dogs have leapt from the same parapet since the 1950s — a mystery the New York Times came to Dumbarton to…
Pendle Hill — Witch Country
A · Lancashire, United Kingdom — In 1612 ten 'witches' were hanged after England's most famous witch trial — their ghosts still draw hunters each Halloween.…
Pluckley — The Drowning Man's Village
A · Pluckley, Kent, United Kingdom — Listed in a 1989 Guinness Book of Records edition as England's most haunted village — home to 12-plus resident ghosts.…
Raynham Hall — Home of the Brown Lady
S · Raynham, Norfolk, United Kingdom — The most famous ghost photograph ever taken was captured here — the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall.…
The Real Mary King's Close — The Street Under the City
A · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom — A 17th-century alley of tenements sealed beneath Edinburgh's Royal Exchange in the 1750s, forgotten for two centuries — now an official underground attraction with a plague myth and a ghost girl showe…
The Skirrid Mountain Inn
B · Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom — A Welsh mountain inn claiming to be the oldest pub in the country — and, by legend, a courtroom whose stair beam hanged as many as 180 condemned men.…
Tower of London
S · London, United Kingdom — 1,000 years of executions, torture and royal prisoners inside England's most famous fortress.…
Treasurer's House, York — The Roman Legion
S · York, England, United Kingdom — In 1953 an apprentice plumber watched a Roman legion march out of a wall — below the level of the floor.…
Warwick Castle — The Ghost Tower's Poet
B · Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom — England's medieval showpiece castle, where the tower now officially branded the Ghost Tower belongs to a Jacobean poet-statesman stabbed there by his own servant in 1628.…
Woodchester Mansion
B · Nympsfield, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom — A Victorian Gothic mansion abandoned mid-construction in 1873 — complete outside, hollow inside, with ladders still propped against walls that never received their floors.…