Hauntings Database
Search ghosts and haunted locations across Britain and Ireland. Hotels, pubs, castles and other haunted places all come from the same Master Places database.
Pennard Castle
📍 Pennard / Southgate · SA3 2EP
Witnesses describe the terrifying cry of the Gwrach y Rhibyn, traditionally heard as a warning of death or disaster.
Penrhyn Castle
📍 Penrhyn Castle · LL57 4HT
Ghostly figures, strange sounds and unexplained sensations have been reported at Penrhyn Castle, adding to the site's long supernatural reputation.
Peterborough Cathedral
📍 Minster Precincts · PE1 1XS
Peterborough traditions place a monk crossing the graveyard into a closed door and phantom singing upstairs. An elderly red-coated grounds apparition is identified as Old Scarlett, the cathedral’s 16th-century sexton.
Peterborough Museum
📍 Priestgate · PE1 1LF
Sergeant Thomas Hunter, who died here when it was Peterborough Infirmary in 1916, reportedly appears on the main staircase. Other museum accounts describe phantom footsteps and an icy touch.
Peterhouse
📍 Trumpington Street · CB2 1RD
Peterhouse pantry staff reportedly saw a person-sized, cigar-shaped figure float towards the Combination Room’s bay window in 1997. Later accounts describe a balding, wide-collared man, unexplained knocking and sudden cold.
Pevensey Castle
📍 Castle Road · BN24 5LE
Pevensey Castle has a tradition of a pale woman appearing along its ruined walls. Some accounts identify her as Lady Joan Pelham, although that identity is uncertain. Other reports describe soldiers near the gateway. The location marks the castle, rather than an individual sighting spot.
Peveril of the Peak
📍 127 Great Bridgewater Street · M1 5JQ
At Manchester’s Peveril of the Peak, staff describe glasses moving towards the washer, ashtrays clearing themselves and chairs scraping. Customers report phantom nudges and feeling watched, while a shadowy presence is associated with the cellar.
Phoenix Park
📍 Phoenix Park
Reports include Jonathan Swift's ghost is traditionally said to haunt the vast Dublin park, with the activity reported around the location over many years.
Piccadilly Circus Station
📍 Piccadilly Circus · W1J 9HP
Piccadilly Circus Station is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Pickford's House
📍 DE1 1DA
Pickford’s House reportedly has a gardener pacing the rear garden after closing. Other accounts place a boy downstairs and a dancing girl or gaunt, shouting woman inside the Georgian townhouse.
Picton Castle
📍 The Rhos · SA62 4AS
Ghostly figures, strange sounds and unexplained sensations have been reported at Picton Castle, adding to the site's long supernatural reputation.
Plas Mawr
📍 High Street · LL32 8DE
Visitors have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Plas Mawr, contributing to its long-standing local haunted reputation.
Plas Teg
📍 A541 · CH7 4HN
Plas Teg is linked to apparitions of adults, children and animals, disembodied screaming and crying, and a candle-bearing Grey Lady.
Plumbers Arms
📍 14 Lower Belgrave Street · SW1W 0LN
Plumbers Arms is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Plymouth Gin Distillery
📍 PL1 2LQ
Black Friars’ Charles reportedly appears on an upper gantry and pinches women. Other distillery accounts describe a girl, hooded figure and dread in the ladies’ toilets, linked by legend to a stabbing.
Pocklington School
📍 YO42 2NJ
Pocklington School is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Pontsticill Reservoir
📍 Pontsticill Reservoir · CF48 2UR
Visitors have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Pontsticill Reservoir, contributing to its long-standing local haunted reputation.
Poole's Cavern
📍 Green Lane · SK17 9DH
Poole’s Cavern reports include unexplained lights, voices and tall shadows in limestone passages. Traditions invoke outlaw Poole and a headless Mary, Queen of Scots; the cave naturally stays near 7.5°C.
Portadown Railway Station
📍 Woodhouse Street · BT62 1JJ
People passing Portadown Railway Station have reported strange figures, unexplained sounds and other eerie encounters, particularly after dark or in poor weather.
Portchester Castle
📍 Church Road · PO16 9QW
Ghost stories linked to Portchester Castle include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.
Portland Castle
📍 Liberty Road, Castletown · DT5 1AZ
Tudor-uniformed soldiers reportedly advance towards Portland Castle visitors. In the Tudor kitchen, an acrid burning smell is linked by tradition to emergency surgery supposedly performed there during the Civil War.
Portland Place
Portland Place is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Portsmouth Cathedral
📍 High Street, Old Portsmouth · PO1 2HH
Local accounts describe a dark, bloodied St Thomas Becket-like apparition at the altar in a famous early twentieth-century ghost story.
Portumna Castle
📍 Portumna Demesne · H53 YK27
Ghostly figures, strange sounds and unexplained sensations have been reported at Portumna Castle, adding to the site's long supernatural reputation.
