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.
Cholmondeley Castle
Cholmondeley’s tradition centres on an unexplained burning-cigar or cigarette smell in the corridors. A former maid recalled colleagues discussing the odour when nobody was smoking, although she never encountered it herself.
Hartford Hall Hotel
A solid-looking nun reportedly moves silently along Hartford Hall’s corridors. Tradition links her to a woman bricked alive at Vale Royal Abbey; other accounts describe self-opening doors, knocks and misplaced objects.
Shrigley Hall Hotel
📍 Pott Shrigley · SK10 5SB
Shrigley Hall guests report sudden cold and unexplained room noises. Its most distinctive account describes an unidentified figure walking casually into a bathroom before vanishing; no named spirit is attached.
Norton Priory
A poacher quoted in 1972 reported two phantom monks among Norton Priory’s ruins and a disembodied woodland choir. Later traditions place footsteps and a grey monk around the medieval undercroft.
Old Hall Hotel, Sandbach
Sir John Radclyffe reportedly appears in Sandbach Old Hall’s downstairs restaurant. Room 11 has accounts of bathers pushed underwater and guests waking around 3am convinced their bed or room is burning.
Capesthorne Hall
📍 Congleton Road · SK11 9JY
Capesthorne’s Grey Lady reportedly appears in the west wing, with shadows descending towards the chapel. A young Bromley family member described a disembodied arm trying to open his bedroom window.
Bodmin Jail
Matthew Weekes, hanged at Bodmin Jail in 1844 for Charlotte Dymond’s murder, reportedly wanders its corridors pleading innocence. The tradition echoes later doubts about his conviction, preserved in the prison’s interpretation.
Dozmary Pool
Excalibur is said to have returned to the Lady of the Lake here. Cornish folklore also condemns Jan Tregeagle’s ghost to bale Dozmary Pool dry with a holed limpet shell.
Lanhydrock House
Lanhydrock’s lifelike Grey Lady reportedly vanishes from the Long Gallery and Drawing Room. Tradition identifies her as Lady Robartes, who survived the 1881 fire; children’s laughter is reported in the nursery.
Rough Tor
Charlotte Dymond’s ghost reportedly crosses Rough Tor’s moorland in Sunday clothes, shading her eyes as though searching. A memorial near Roughtor Ford marks where her body was found in 1844.
Bodmin Jail Hotel
📍 Scarlett's Well Road · PL31 2PL
The site is associated with ghostly children and eerie unexplained noises reported in corridors of the converted former prison.
Jamaica Inn
📍 Bolventor · PL15 7TS
Local accounts describe phantom footsteps, whispering voices and a mysterious woman in white around the famous Bodmin Moor inn.
The Wellington Hotel, Boscastle
📍 The Harbour · PL35 0AQ
Reports include an old coachman, a little girl and an elderly woman reportedly appearing around the hotel, especially near Room 9.
The Falmouth Hotel
📍 Castle Beach · TR11 4NZ
Witnesses describe heavy footsteps and a shadowy worker-like figure associated with the hotel's former cellar brewery.
Kenegie Manor Holiday Park
📍 Kenegie Manor · TR20 8YN
Guest writer MATTHEW E BANKS reveals the haunted history of Kenegie Manor in Cornwall...
White Hart Hotel, Hayle
📍 10 Foundry Square · TR27 4HQ
Staff and visitors report unexplained footsteps pacing upstairs corridors and stopping near a room once associated with mortuary supplies.
Newquay Harbour
In a 2009 account, fishermen near Newquay Harbour found an empty boat supposedly lost eighteen years earlier. Returning from its cabin, they found the vessel had vanished, feeding a cursed-boat tradition.
Queen's Head Hotel, Newquay
Queen’s Head folklore centres on Betsy, a maid said to have become pregnant by the landlord and taken her own life. Her apparition reportedly remains in Newquay’s old alehouse.
Smugglers Den Inn
‘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.
The Headland Hotel
📍 Headland Road · TR7 1EW
Reports include ghostly servicemen, vintage nurses and a Grey Lady reportedly walking through a wall where a doorway once stood.
Trerice Manor
Trerice’s Grey Lady reportedly crosses the North Wing gallery and stone steps, sometimes accompanied by lilac. A headless rider haunts the courtyard, while the former stables have a stable-boy tradition.
Dolphin Tavern, Penzance
📍 Quay Street · TR18 4BD
Witnesses describe a tricorne-hatted sea captain, an old-fashioned woman and disembodied voices reported around the harbour inn.
Union Hotel, Penzance
📍 1 Chapel Street · TR18 4AE
Staff and visitors report a Grey Lady, playful child spirits, unexplained noises and fleeting shadows reported around the historic hotel.
Redruth School
Redruth School folklore places a lantern-carrying miner in its corridors, with fleeting shadows and footsteps on empty stairwells. The unnamed figure is usually interpreted as an echo of the town’s mining past.
