Spooky Pubs
Browse haunted pubs, inns, taverns and bars across Britain and Ireland, search by place or postcode, and read the ghost stories behind them.
Cock Tavern
📍 Great Portland Street
The haunting
Ghost stories linked to Cock Tavern, Great Portland Street include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.
Coylet Inn
📍 Loch Eck · PA23 8SG
The haunting
The Blue Boy is said to haunt the corridors after sleepwalking towards Loch Eck and dying in the cold. Guests also report phantom footsteps, whispers and objects moving in empty rooms.
Crocker's Folly
📍 24 Aberdeen Place · NW8 8JR
The haunting
Local legend says founder Frank Crocker haunts the former pub around the tills. The often-repeated suicide story is later folklore: records indicate Crocker died naturally.
Cromwell Hotel
📍 High Street · SG1 3AZ
The haunting
Investigators heard a man sigh in the Fairfax Room and a bell ring in an empty office. Other reports include rattling hangers, children’s laughter and poltergeist activity in the cellar.
Crown and Pepper
The haunting
Staff and visitors report limping footsteps, a wounded soldier-like apparition and phantom horses reportedly heard or seen around the pub.
Crown Liquor Saloon
📍 46 Great Victoria Street · BT2 7BA
The haunting
Staff and visitors report unexplained footsteps, moving objects and fleeting apparitions at Crown Liquor Saloon, adding to the building's long-standing haunted reputation.
Darkey Kelly's
📍 19 Fishamble Street · D08 PD8W
The haunting
Reports include the feeling of being watched, strange sounds and objects reportedly moving by themselves inside the pub.
Davy Byrne's Pub
📍 21 Duke Street · D02 K380
The haunting
Witnesses describe James Joyce's shade reportedly appearing in mirrors inside the famous Dublin pub, with the activity reported around the location over many years.
Dog and Whistle
📍 112 Fore Street · SG14 1AB
The haunting
Witnesses describe the feeling of being watched, an unexplained taste of blood, drifting shapes and doors opening by themselves.
Dolphin and Anchor
📍 West Street · PO19 1QD
The haunting
Witnesses describe a young girl, a former landlord and unexplained movement of glasses or furniture around the historic inn.
Dolphin Tavern
📍 Quay Street · TR18 4BD
The haunting
Witnesses describe a tricorne-hatted sea captain, an old-fashioned woman and disembodied voices reported around the harbour inn.
Drovers Inn
📍 The Drovers Inn, Inverarnan · G83 7DX
The haunting
Room 6 is linked with a drowned girl whose cold, wet presence guests report beside them in bed. Elsewhere, Angus the Drover is said to roam the corridors, screaming.
Eagle and Child Inn
📍 PR25 3AA
The haunting
Staff and visitors report unexplained footsteps, moving objects and fleeting apparitions at Eagle and Child Inn, Leyland, adding to the building's long-standing haunted reputation.
Eclipse Inn
📍 25 The Square · SO23 9EX
The haunting
Lady Alice Lisle reportedly appears in a grey dress after spending her final night here before execution. Hammering and sawing are said to echo the building of her scaffold.
Feathers Hotel, Ludlow
📍 24–25 Bull Ring · SY8 1AA
The haunting
A ghostly man and dog reportedly pass through the wall between Rooms 232 and 233. Room 211 has accounts of hair pulling, unexplained water and touches from an unseen presence.
Ferry House Inn
📍 ME12 4BQ
The haunting
Ghost stories linked to Ferry House Inn include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.
Fisherman's Cot
📍 Bickleigh · EX16 8RW
The haunting
A giggling woman in white is said to wander the corridors and sit on guests’ beds. Outside, a headless horseman reportedly rides from the nearby bridge before vanishing at the inn.
Five Bells Inn
📍 TN25 5LP
The haunting
Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with Five Bells Inn, East Brabourne, adding to its haunted reputation.
Former Crown pub, Dillington
📍 Dillington, Great Staughton (former pub; area marker)
The haunting
In January 1971, Tom and Hazel Green described disturbances at the Crown pub, which they had recently taken over. Hazel said a wall clock shot from its fixing while customers discussed ghosts. The family also reported bottles rattling in the empty bar and clothing disappearing before returning. Their experiences appeared in the Cambridge Daily News; a village walking guide identifies the former pub at Dillington.
Former Queen Pub Site
📍 81 Neate Street, now Burgess Park · SE5
The haunting
Before demolition, the empty Queen pub was reportedly heard full of voices and music; witnesses approaching found the abandoned building dark and silent.
Fox and Duck
📍 The Green · SG8 9PN
The haunting
Staff and visitors report a shadowy bar figure, scraping chairs, whispered names and an apparition seen in a mirror before disappearing.
Fox and Hounds
📍 3 Chapel Street · CB9 7DQ
The haunting
Publicans at the Fox and Hounds in Steeple Bumpstead described moving objects, footsteps and doors opening in a 1973 newspaper report. Earlier occupants had nicknamed the supposed presence Cedric.
Fox on the Hill
📍 149 Denmark Hill · SE5 8EH
The haunting
A barmaid reported repeated footsteps on the stairs and landing outside her room, part of a local haunting tradition attached to this Denmark Hill pub.
Freke Arms
📍 Swanborough · SN6 7RN
The haunting
Local accounts describe a Victorian woman known as Florrie, unexplained footsteps and other sounds heard around the pub.
