Haunted Places in the UK & Ireland
Explore haunted hotels, pubs, castles and other places across Britain and Ireland. Search by name, location or reported activity, and find places within a chosen distance.
Heslington Hall
📍 University of York, Heslington · YO10 5DD
Heslington Hall has multiple reported anomalous experiences from staff and a former wartime occupant, making it a strong campus haunting lead.
Hole in the Wall, High Petergate
📍 10 High Petergate · YO1 7EH
The High Petergate pub has long-running phantom-footstep folklore connected with underground spaces near Bootham Bar.
Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate
📍 70 Goodramgate · YO1 7LF
Holy Trinity Goodramgate is linked in York folklore with a headless Thomas Percy searching the churchyard and a separate long-gowned apparition.
Holy Trinity Church, Micklegate
📍 Micklegate · YO1 6LE
Holy Trinity Micklegate is associated with traditions of two women and a child appearing at or around morning service, with differing accounts of their identities.
JORVIK Viking Centre
📍 19 Coppergate Walk · YO1 9WT
JORVIK has been used as a contemporary paranormal-investigation location, although the source does not establish a specific historical ghost.
King’s Manor
📍 Exhibition Square · YO1 7EP
King’s Manor is associated with reports of a monk-like apparition and unexplained sounds interpreted in local tradition as echoes of wounded men treated there during the Civil War.
Lamb & Lion Inn
📍 2–4 High Petergate · YO1 7EH
Reported activity includes a child crying upstairs when no child was present and doors closing unaided.
Light Horseman
📍 124 Fulford Road · YO10 4BE
A York ghost-walk operator lists the Light Horseman among haunted properties open to the public, with a male stairway apparition tradition.
Micklegate Bar
📍 Micklegate · YO1 6JU
Local folklore tells of a woman named Sarah reportedly wandering Micklegate Bar and rattling keys.
Millthorpe School
📍 Nunthorpe Avenue · YO23 1WF
Reports associated with Millthorpe School include a pupil's account of whispers and a shadowy young figure. These are reported experiences, not established facts. This is a working school, not a public ghost-tour venue.
National Railway Museum
📍 Leeman Road · YO26 4XJ
Reports associated with National Railway Museum include A sleeping car and a darkroom were both described as having unexplained presences.
Old White Swan Inn
📍 80 Goodramgate · YO1 7LF
Stories centre on a fireplace where shadowy laughing figures or a presence have been reported.
Radisson Hotel York
📍 North Street · YO1 6JF
A York hotel haunting tradition associates a roaming apparition with an earlier property said to have stood on the site.
Red Lion, Merchantgate
📍 2 Merchantgate · YO1 9TU
This historic Merchantgate pub carries Dick Turpin folklore and a separate report of a male ghost associated with the closed pub interior.
Roman Bath public house
📍 9 St Sampsons Square · YO1 8RN
Phantom splashing has been reported from the Roman baths below the pub.
Royal Oak, Goodramgate
📍 18 Goodramgate · YO1 7LG
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.
Ship Inn, Acaster Malbis
📍 Hauling Lane, Acaster Malbis · YO23 2UH
The Ship Inn has a well-developed local haunting tradition centred on a former regular and poltergeist-like disturbances.
Shrine of St Margaret Clitherow
📍 35 The Shambles · YO1 7LX
Visitors have described an unusually strong sense of peace despite the busy street outside.
Snickleway Inn
📍 47 Goodramgate · YO1 7LS
Reported tradition: The pub's stories include a little girl on the stairs, a more sinister basement presence and a phantom cat.
St George's Roman Catholic Church
📍 Peel Street · YO1 9PZ
A phantom rabbit has been reported in the church and was sometimes associated in folklore with Dick Turpin.
18–20 Stonegate
📍 YO1 8AS
A young girl was reportedly seen in a changing-room mirror before appearing to pass through a wall.
41 Stonegate
📍 YO1 8AW
A young Victorian girl is said to haunt 41 Stonegate after reportedly falling to her death on the staircase. Later accounts describe footsteps on the stairs and sightings of a child inside the building.
St Peter's School, York
📍 Clifton · YO30 6AB
Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with St Peter's School, York, adding to its haunted reputation.
The Shambles
📍 YO1
The Shambles itself is a contemporary paranormal-investigation location distinct from individual properties and the Margaret Clitherow shrine.
