Hauntings Database

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.

Courtiers

📍 Courtiers, Watery Lane · OX14 3EL

Courtiers has a nineteenth-century ghost story associated with Sarah Fletcher. Dark Oxfordshire recounts footsteps, doors opening and closing, and Edward Crake’s claimed sighting of a woman in a black cloak while the house was a school. These are historical reports; the property is private.

Covenanters' Prison

📍 Covenanters' Prison, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Greyfriars Place · EH1 2QQ

Visitors and staff at Covenanters' Prison have reported unexplained footsteps, voices and shadowy figures associated with the building's long and often difficult history.

Covent Garden Station

📍 Long Acre · WC2E 9JT

Accounts connected with Covent Garden Station describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.

Covent Garden Underground Station

📍 WC2E 9JT

People passing Covent Garden Underground Station have reported strange figures, unexplained sounds and other eerie encounters, particularly after dark or in poor weather.

Coventry Cathedral ruins

📍 1 Hill Top, Coventry, CV1 5AB · CV1 5AB

The sound of piston-engined bombers has reportedly been heard above the ruins of Coventry Cathedral. The medieval cathedral was destroyed during the Coventry Blitz in November 1940.

Coylet Inn

📍 Loch Eck · PA23 8SG

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.

Crack Ankle Lane

The sinister Vioge is said to lurk along Crack Ankle Lane, grabbing travellers and dragging victims away in local legend.

Craigievar Castle

📍 Craigievar Castle · AB33 8JF

Visitors report apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Craigievar Castle, where centuries of history have inspired enduring ghost stories.

Craigmillar Castle

📍 Craigmillar Castle · EH16 4SY

In May 1935, the Sunday Post reported a dark, hooded figure at Craigmillar Castle with tangled hair and spurred riding boots. The account prompted ghost-hunting visits and remains a distinct episode in the castle’s folklore.

Cranford House Site

Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with Cranford House Site, adding to its haunted reputation.

Crathes Castle

📍 Crathes Castle · AB31 5QJ

Visitors report apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Crathes Castle, where centuries of history have inspired enduring ghost stories.

Cressingham Road

📍 Cressingham Road, Reading (street area)

Cheryl Leighton reported footsteps, banging and gas pilot lights going out at her Cressingham Road home. Previous occupants also described unexplained noises. In December 1985, she told the Reading Evening Post that the disturbances had stopped after a second priest visited. A story linking the events to earlier deaths remained an account she had been told.

Crewe Hall

📍 Crewe Hall · CW1 6UZ

Crewe Hall guests report shadow figures in long corridors and sudden bedroom cold spots. The Jacobean mansion, formerly a Civil War garrison and later damaged by fire, now serves as a hotel.

Criccieth Castle

📍 Castle Street · LL52 0DP

Ghostly figures, strange sounds and unexplained sensations have been reported at Criccieth Castle, adding to the site's long supernatural reputation.

Crocker's Folly

📍 24 Aberdeen Place · NW8 8JR

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.

Croft Castle

📍 Croft Park, Yarpole, Leominster, HR6 9PW · HR6 9PW

Croft Castle is said to be haunted by a giant figure dressed in leather, sometimes identified as Owain Glyndŵr, and a man in Elizabethan clothing associated with Sir James Croft. Stories of a tall knight and unexplained cries also feature in the castle's ghost tours.

Crom Castle

📍 Crom Castle · BT92 8AP

Witnesses describe a glowing ball of light reportedly rolling across the castle lake during an eyewitness encounter in 1971.

Cromwell Hotel

📍 High Street · SG1 3AZ

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.

Crooked House Site

Ghost stories linked to Crooked House Site, Himley include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.

Crosshill

Witnesses describe a grunting apparition with a twisted, grimacing face reportedly encountered around Crosshill streets at night.