Haunted Places in the UK & Ireland

Palace Theatre

📍 113 Shaftesbury Avenue · W1D 5AY

A ghostly ballerina, sometimes identified as Anna Pavlova, is said to appear here, while Ivor Novello has supposedly been seen in the dress circle.

Soho Square

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

Hoop and Toy

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

Anchor Inn, Park Street

Ghost stories linked to Anchor Inn, Park Street include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.

Anchor Tap

📍 28 Horselydown Lane · SE1 2LN

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

Clink Prison Museum

📍 1 Clink Street · SE1 9DG

Clink Prison Museum is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.

Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret

📍 9a St Thomas Street · SE1 9RY

Tradition says Florence Nightingale's ghost may haunt this surviving surgical theatre, where patients once underwent operations before modern anaesthesia and antisepsis.

Southwark Cathedral

📍 London Bridge · SE1 9DA

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

Thomas A Becket, Old Kent Road

Accounts connected with Thomas A Becket, Old Kent Road describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.

29 Hanbury Street

📍 E1

The former murder site of Annie Chapman is linked with autumn hauntings, including sounds resembling the killing and reports of a headless female apparition.

Ten Bells

📍 84 Commercial Street · E1 6LY

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

A41 Man and Dog, near Stanmore

📍 A41 Edgware Way, near Apex Corner · NW7 3JX

On 13 October 1985, a driver near Stanmore reported striking a man and dog on the A41. Both vanished, no bodies were found and the car showed no collision damage.

Old Church Farm, Stanmore

📍 Old Church Lane · HA7 2RD

Old Church Farm's former rectory has a tradition of a ghost rising from a nearby grave, walking into the house and later returning to the grave.

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

📍 Brockley Hill · HA7 4LP

The hospital grounds are associated with a cyclical Grey Lady, traditionally said to appear around 13 November; the site was reportedly linked in local lore to an earlier nunnery.

St James's Palace

Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with St James's Palace, adding to its haunted reputation.

Theatre Royal Haymarket

📍 18 Suffolk Street · SW1Y 4HT

Actor-manager John Baldwin Buckstone is said to appear when a production will succeed; Patrick Stewart reported seeing an unexplained figure while performing here.

Abbey Road Studios

📍 3 Abbey Road · NW8 9AY

A white-clad female apparition, traditionally identified as music-hall performer Edith Rosse, is said to haunt Abbey Road Studios and was reportedly encountered by a policeman in the 1960s.

Capland Street

📍 NW8 8LL

A grim local story says the cries of three children can be heard on Capland Street, linked to a father who killed his children and then himself.

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.

St Pancras Railway Station

📍 Euston Road · N1C 4QP

Eurostar staff reported doors opening and closing by themselves and chairs behaving oddly in corridors beside Pancras Road during a cluster of unexplained incidents in 2013.

The George, Strand

📍 213 Strand · WC2R 1AP

The George, Strand is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.

Theatre Royal Stratford East

📍 Gerry Raffles Square · E15 1BN

Frederick Fredericks is said to appear around midnight, a small figure in brown clothing believed by theatre tradition to protect the building.

Odeon Streatham - Former Streatham Astoria

📍 47-49 Streatham High Road · SW16 1PW

Former owner Alfred Frederick Janes was reportedly heard roaming the old Astoria in the 1930s, repeatedly crying that he would not sell.

Adamson Road

📍 NW3 3HP

Residents of a flat were warned about 'Old Charlie'. They later reported moved furniture, a vanished plate of fish and a hunched figure appearing during a séance.