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.
Housel Bay Hotel
📍 Housel Bay Road · TR12 7PG
The site is associated with a young woman in Second World War WAAF uniform reportedly seen walking silently through the clifftop gardens.
Molesworth Arms
📍 38 Molesworth Street · PL27 7DP
At midnight on New Year’s Eve, a phantom coach is said to enter the inn’s courtyard. Four spectral horses draw it, with a headless coachman driving before the apparition disappears.
Jolly Sailor Inn, Looe
📍 Princes Square · PL13 2EP
Local accounts describe an unseen elderly cough, a bedside woman, self-running taps, moving objects and a playful child-like spirit.
Auckland Castle
Auckland Castle is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Bishop Auckland Snooker Club
A figure reportedly walks through Bishop Auckland Snooker Club, where balls clatter without players. Investigators photographed a woman-like form in the hall, although proposed links to historical figures remain unverified.
Escomb Saxon Church
Escomb Saxon Church is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Fifteas Vintage Tearooms
Fifteas staff report a figure watching from the kitchen. The former Mount School has a tradition of a teacher falling from an upstairs window, although accounts do not identify the apparition as her.
The Ancient Unicorn
📍 DL12 9HL
The inn's haunting is tied to a tragic story, with a restless apparition and unexplained incidents reported around the old building.
Lumley Castle Hotel
📍 Ropery Lane · DH3 4NX
The castle’s best-known legend concerns Lady Lily Lumley, whose ghost is said to wander its corridors. Another presence, nicknamed Black Jack, is blamed for hidden belongings, broken glasses and slamming doors.
Darlington Hippodrome
Darlington Hippodrome’s top-hatted man, traditionally founder Rino Pepi, reportedly appears in the Royal Box. Other accounts describe a dog on the circle staircase and a sobbing child in dressing room 12.
George Hotel, Piercebridge
The George’s Room 11 has a White Lady, traditionally a jilted landlord’s daughter. In spring she reportedly approaches lone male guests and places their hand on her shoulder; closed-bar voices also occur.
Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum
📍 Station Road · DL3 6ST
An 1890 North Road night-watchman reportedly encountered a uniformed man and black dog. His punch passed through the figure before both vanished into the coal house at today’s railway museum.
River Skerne
Darlington’s Skerne belongs to Nanny Powler, a child-warning water spirit. The nineteenth-century Denham Tracts suggest she is sister or daughter to Peg Powler, whose traditional home is the neighbouring Tees.
Walworth Castle
📍 Walworth · DL2 2LY
Walworth’s ‘Screaming Maid’, traditionally bricked behind a wall by her lover, reportedly stands beside beds. Footsteps climb a vanished staircase, with moans and hair-pulling linked to Room 17 and the former dungeon.
Durham Castle
Durham Castle’s Grey Lady reportedly climbs the Black Staircase and vanishes at its summit. Tradition identifies her as a bishop’s wife; another story places student Frederick Copeman pacing his former room.
Durham Cathedral
📍 The College · DH1 3EH
Durham Cathedral folklore tells of a man surviving one tower leap, then dying during a second after his wife moved the landing target. His apparition reportedly repeats the fall and rises confused.
Durham School
Staff and visitors report phantom choirboys, old hymns and a hooded monk reportedly vanishing into solid stone in the cloisters.
Elvet Bridge
📍 DH1 3AG
Jimmy Allen’s pipes are reportedly heard beneath Elvet Bridge at midnight. The Northumbrian musician died in its House of Correction in 1810, four days before his royal pardon arrived.
Palace Green
Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with Palace Green, adding to its haunted reputation.
St Bede's Catholic School, Durham
Accounts connected with St Bede's Catholic School, Durham describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.
The Dun Cow Inn, Durham
Mary Ann Cotton’s ghost reportedly haunts Durham’s Dun Cow. Tradition links the pub with execution-day gatherings and the hangman drinking there after Cotton’s 1873 execution, without identifying a particular haunted room.
Blacksmith's Arms, Hartlepool
The Blacksmith’s Arms blames ‘George’ for moving glasses, smashing bottles and opening doors. A policeman-like figure reportedly appears in the back room, where snooker balls clack without players.
Camerons Brewery
Camerons’ Lion Brewery attributes moving objects to a worker supposedly frozen in a refrigerated room. Other accounts describe women’s footsteps and unseen dray horses kicking visitors in the old stable block.
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Hartlepool
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.
