Hauntings Database

Colchester Roman Wall

Ghost stories linked to Colchester Roman Wall include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.

Colchester Town Hall

📍 High Street · CO1 1PJ

Colchester Town Hall is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.

Colindeep Lane

📍 Colindeep Lane · NW9 6BU

Mrs Griffiths is said to haunt Colindeep Lane after drowning in a nearby pond. Another local tale describes a mysterious little man who vanished while being pursued by a policeman.

Collins Barracks

📍 Benburb Street, Stoneybatter · D07 XKV4

Staff and visitors report Napoleonic soldiers, ghostly gunshots and the sounds of spectral horses reported around the former military barracks.

Colwick Hall Hotel

📍 Colwick Park, Racecourse Road · NG2 4BH

A pale woman linked with Mary Ann Musters, who fled the 1831 riots, is said to haunt the east wing and gardens. Other reports include children’s voices in former servants’ quarters.

Comiston House

📍 Comiston House, 62–68 Camus Avenue · EH10 6QX

Robert Louis Stevenson recorded a tradition of a carter encountering a woman in white near Comiston’s back gate. She looked at him and vanished. Comiston House is now private residential property; the marker is approximate and does not identify the old gate.

Commodore Hotel Cobh

📍 4 Westbourne Place · P24 WR60

Reports from Commodore Hotel Cobh include strange sounds, fleeting apparitions and unsettling night-time experiences that have contributed to its haunted reputation.

Cong Abbey

📍 Abbey Street

Visitors to Cong Abbey report unexplained footsteps, fleeting figures and an eerie atmosphere, particularly around the older parts of the site.

Connaught Theatre

📍 2 Union Place · BN11 1LG

Staff and visitors report apparitions linked to a former projectionist and actress, together with unexplained backstage sounds and movement.

Connolly Station

📍 1 Amiens Street, North Wall · D01 V6V6

Staff and visitors report a grey-uniformed soldier reportedly walking along a disused platform before fading from sight.

Constitution Hill

📍 Cliff Railway House, Cliff Terrace · SY23 2DN

Reports include a Victorian-dressed woman walking the hill before vanishing over the cliff or disappearing toward nearby woods.

Conwy Castle

📍 Rose Hill Street · LL32 8AY

Two ghostly monks in grey robes are said to appear on the turrets, castle grounds and quayside. Their footless figures and hollow faces are traditionally regarded as omens of disaster.

Coombe Abbey Hotel

📍 Brinklow Road, Binley · CV3 2AB

Reports include a hooded monastic figure, unexplained slamming doors, corridor pacing and a heartbroken stable girl tradition.

Cooneen House

📍 Cooneen, County Fermanagh (historic cottage site)

The Murphy family reported relentless knocking, moving pots and pans, and shapes beneath bedclothes. Priests witnessed disturbances, and two unsuccessful exorcisms became part of this Fermanagh cottage’s notorious poltergeist story.

Corby Castle

📍 Corby Castle, Great Corby · CA4 8LR

A historical account attributes a bedside apparition at Corby Castle to the Reverend Henry Askew. He described a brightly lit boy in white who vanished beside the chimney. Neil R. Storey reproduces the account from Catherine Crowe. The castle is a private residence.

Corfe Castle

📍 The Square · BH20 5EZ

A headless woman in white reportedly stalks Corfe’s battlements, sometimes approaching visitors before vanishing. The National Trust links her legend to Civil War treason; other accounts describe lights and a wailing child.

Corkagh Park

📍 Naas Road, Newlands Cross

The site is associated with a headless horseman reportedly galloping through the Devil's Passage, accompanied by the sound of spectral hooves.

Cork City Gaol

📍 Convent Avenue, Sunday's Well · T23 VX25

Reports from Cork City Gaol include apparitions, strange sounds and sudden cold spots in areas linked to the site's former occupants.

Corlea Trackway

📍 Corlea Trackway Centre, Corlea · N39 XT18

Visitors have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Corlea Trackway, contributing to its long-standing local haunted reputation.

Corpus Christi College

📍 Trumpington Street · CB2 1RH

Corpus Christi’s ghost is traditionally Master Henry Butts, who stayed during Cambridge’s 1630 plague and died in 1632. Reports include bangs, a knee-height apparition and violently shaking washstands.

Cosmopolitan Hotel

Cosmopolitan workmen reportedly fled cellar tunnels in terror; bar staff describe unseen pushes. A figure appears near the toilets, while tunnel folklore invokes smugglers, St Hilda’s Church and nuns fleeing Vikings.

Coughton Court

📍 Coughton, Alcester, B49 5JA · B49 5JA

A Pink Lady is said to haunt Coughton Court, walking from the Tapestry Bedroom through the dining room and down the main stairs. Tradition suggests she may have been a daughter of the Throckmorton family connected by marriage to one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.

Coupland Castle

📍 Coupland Castle · NE71 6TQ

Reports from Coupland Castle in 1926 described loud rumbling, knocks and sounds in the corridors. The owner also recalled his son's account of a luminous vapour near a room known as the haunted chamber.

Courthouse Hotel

📍 Toft Road · WA16 0PB

Knutsford’s former Sessions House held courtrooms, underground cells and 150 prisoners. Hotel guests and housekeepers now report self-starting showers, slamming doors, photographic green mist and unease in the top-floor rooms.