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.
Old White Swan Inn
📍 80 Goodramgate · YO1 7LF
The haunting
Stories centre on a fireplace where shadowy laughing figures or a presence have been reported.
Peveril of the Peak
📍 127 Great Bridgewater Street · M1 5JQ
The haunting
At Manchester’s Peveril of the Peak, staff describe glasses moving towards the washer, ashtrays clearing themselves and chairs scraping. Customers report phantom nudges and feeling watched, while a shadowy presence is associated with the cellar.
Plumbers Arms
📍 14 Lower Belgrave Street · SW1W 0LN
The haunting
Plumbers Arms is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Prospect of Whitby
📍 57 Wapping Wall · E1W 3SH
The haunting
At Wapping’s Prospect of Whitby, staff and customers report apparitions associated with executed criminals. Judge George Jeffreys also features in the tavern’s folklore, alongside stories rooted in the riverside area’s history of smugglers and sailors.
Red Lion, Barnet
The haunting
Red Lion, Barnet is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Red Lion, Norton
The haunting
Norton’s Red Lion has reports of a phantom gunshot from its rear. Tradition connects it with an 1812 duel after a ball in the neighbouring house, later incorporated into the pub.
Red Lion, York
📍 2 Merchantgate · YO1 9TU
The haunting
This historic Merchantgate pub carries Dick Turpin folklore and a separate report of a male ghost associated with the closed pub interior.
Ringlestone Inn
📍 Ringlestone Road · ME17 1NX
The haunting
Local accounts describe a mischievous child, an old couple and a booted male figure reportedly seen around the historic inn.
Ring O' Bells
The haunting
Witnesses describe a figure called Walter near the fireplace and taps reportedly turning on without visible cause.
Rising Sun
📍 38 Cloth Fair · EC1A 7JQ
The haunting
Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with Rising Sun, Cloth Fair, adding to its haunted reputation.
Roman Bath public house
📍 9 St Sampsons Square · YO1 8RN
The haunting
Phantom splashing has been reported from the Roman baths below the pub.
Royal Oak, York
📍 18 Goodramgate · YO1 7LG
The haunting
Reports include a tall gaunt man, an older woman in the front bar, phantom children, a girl and two female spirits named Alice and Mary.
Royal Standard of England
📍 Brindle Lane · HP9 1XT
The haunting
A spectral drummer boy, a Civil War Cavalier and Auntie Peggy are among the ghosts reported at the Royal Standard of England, one of Britain’s oldest pubs.
Rummer Tavern
📍 14 Duke Street · CF10 1AY
The haunting
Cardiff’s Rummer Tavern has a tradition of a sailor returning to find his wife with another man. Accounts disagree about his death, while staff and drinkers report cold spots, flickering lights, footsteps and a white-clad figure.
Ship and Royal
📍 Clifton Street · FY8 5EH
The haunting
The site is associated with a mischievous ghost called Charlie, sobbing, running water and apparitions linked to a drowned mother and son.
Ship Inn, Acaster Malbis
📍 Hauling Lane, Acaster Malbis · YO23 2UH
The haunting
The Ship Inn has a well-developed local haunting tradition centred on a former regular and poltergeist-like disturbances.
Ship Inn, Shaftesbury
The haunting
The Ship’s tall, dark-suited apparition resembles an undertaker and reportedly crosses bar walls. Other activity centres on a passage beneath the stairs, traditionally believed to lead towards Shaftesbury Abbey.
Silver Cross Tavern
📍 33 Whitehall · SW1A 2BX
The haunting
Accounts connected with Silver Cross Tavern describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.
Skirrid Mountain Inn
📍 Hereford Road · NP7 8DH
The haunting
An overnight visitor reported an icy bathroom, a door apparently pushed from the other side, loud unexplained noises and choking sounds.
Smugglers Den Inn
📍 Trebellan, Cubert · TR8 5PY
The haunting
‘Black Face Kelly’, a violent smuggler supposedly vanished with tubs of gold, is traditionally the Smugglers Den’s resident spirit. His ghost is reported around the sixteenth-century inn at Trebellan.
Smugglers Inn
📍 Osmington Mills · DT3 6HF
The haunting
Smugglers Inn folklore pairs Pierre Latour with a revenue officer who supposedly overheard him from a chimney. Both allegedly died confronting each other; their figures reportedly appear in 18th-century maritime dress.
Snickleway Inn
📍 47 Goodramgate · YO1 7LS
The haunting
Reported tradition: The pub's stories include a little girl on the stairs, a more sinister basement presence and a phantom cat.
Star Bar, Edinburgh
📍 1 Northumberland Place · EH3 6LQ
The haunting
Edinburgh’s Star Bar has a cellar skull whose origins remain unknown. Tradition associates it with an earlier burial ground and claims that disturbing it brings misfortune; the skull, rather than an apparition, is the focus of the story.
Station Hotel
📍 Castle Hill · DY1 4RA
The haunting
Reported spirits include a battered woman, a man called George and children, with further unexplained activity associated with Room 214.
