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.
Heugh Battery
📍 Moor Terrace, Headland · TS24 0PS
A First World War-uniformed man reportedly walks Heugh Battery at night as though guarding it. On 16 December 1914, its guns exchanged fire with German warships during Hartlepool’s bombardment.
HMS Trincomalee
HMS Trincomalee’s haunting reports describe shadows between decks and unexplained knocks, bangs and footsteps. The 1817 frigate is Britain’s oldest warship still afloat; no particular sailor is identified.
Castlegate Shopping Centre Site
Former Castlegate night guards reported music in the empty centre; shoppers saw children in changing-room mirrors. The centre, built over Stockton’s castle site, has since been demolished for waterfront redevelopment.
Elmwood Community Centre
Elmwood witnesses describe a uniformed maid at windows, rear toilets and the side entrance. Tradition links her to a servant’s upstairs death, although archive research found no record of it.
Locomotion Hotel
A Victorian-dressed woman reportedly smiles at Locomotion staff; glasses clear themselves and toilet doors move unaided. A cleaner described phantom feet inside the former railway station waiting room.
Preston Park Museum
📍 Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe · TS18 3RH
Preston Park’s Grey Lady reportedly climbs the main staircase; a woman and dog vanish through a cellar wall. A spectral mounted highwayman has also been reported near the former railway track bed.
Red Lion, Norton
Norton’s Red Lion has reports of a phantom gunshot from its rear. Tradition connects it with an 1812 duel after a ball in the neighbouring house, later incorporated into the pub.
Kirkstone Pass Inn
📍 Kirkstone Pass · LA22 9LQ
Ruth Ray’s ghost is said to search for her child after dying in a snowstorm. Other inn stories describe a phantom boy, a screaming Grey Lady and glasses pushed from tables.
Carlisle Castle
📍 Castle Way · CA3 8UR
Carlisle Castle’s Scottish Lady reportedly appears near the Captain’s Tower. Tradition links her to a woman’s skeleton and tartan found during 19th-century works; footsteps, voices and self-opening doors surround the keep.
Carlisle Cathedral
📍 7 Abbey Street · CA3 8TZ
Carlisle Cathedral legend tells of a moved prelate’s effigy rising nightly until restored to its original position. Another tradition describes monks fleeing an unnamed terror through a lost passage beneath the cathedral.
Carlisle Railway Station
📍 Court Square · CA1 1QZ
A headless man reportedly walks Carlisle Station’s Platform 8. Other accounts describe a veiled Victorian woman and crying boy around the platforms and buildings, without firmly linking them to particular accidents.
University of Cumbria, Brampton Road
📍 Brampton Road · CA3 9AW
On misty nights, phantom marching boots reportedly cross Brampton Road’s Hadrian’s Wall vallum. University folklore attributes them to a Roman patrol swallowed by fog after following strange cries across the earthworks.
Dalston Hall Hotel
📍 Dalston · CA5 7JX
Witnesses describe Lady Jane Grey, black fog, a workman, a young girl and other apparitions reported around the hotel.
Muncaster Castle
📍 CA18 1RQ
Muncaster’s Tapestry Room has reports of a crying child, singing, footsteps and a self-opening door. Mischief is attributed to Tom Fool, while murdered-servant Mary Bragg’s White Lady haunts the gardens.
Sedbergh School
Sedbergh School is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
The Black Bull Inn
📍 44 Main Street · LA10 5BL
RICHARD MOODY reports on a spooky investigation of The Bull Hotel in Sedbergh, Cumbria
Buxton Opera House
📍 Water Street · SK17 6XN
Buxton Opera House reports include a shadowy stagehand in the wings, disturbed backstage objects and cold draughts. Unexplained cigar smoke is repeatedly reported outside a box in Matcham’s 1903 theatre.
Devonshire Dome
📍 Devonshire Road · SK17 6RY
A Devonshire Dome night worker reported children laughing behind locked doors and footsteps reproducing sounds of removed flooring upstairs. Local tradition also places old-fashioned nurses inside the former hospital.
Old Hall Hotel, Buxton
📍 The Square · SK17 6BD
Buxton’s Old Hall reportedly has a Tudor-dressed apparition identified as Mary, Queen of Scots, who stayed here in custody. Other accounts describe sudden cold, room disturbances and pressure around a bath.
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.
The Crescent, Buxton
📍 The Crescent · SK17 6BH
Staff and visitors report phantom footsteps and voices, moving tools and figures in Georgian dress reported around the restored Crescent.
Derby Cathedral
📍 18–19 Iron Gate · DE1 3GP
Derby Cathedral’s outdoor traditions include former hangman John Crossland in the grounds, a White Lady on the rear steps and a tearful woman carrying a child, offering several distinct reported apparitions.
Derby Gaol
📍 50–51 Friar Gate · DE1 1DF
Derby Gaol’s condemned cell has reports of suffocation and visions of hanging men. Women describe cold, rough hands attributed to ‘George’ in the debtors’ cell; cell doors reportedly shut unaided.
Derby Silk Mill
📍 Silk Mill Lane · DE1 3AF
Derby Silk Mill’s bell tower reportedly echoes with cries of a child supposedly kicked downstairs by an overseer. The child-labour legend belongs to the historic mill, now the Museum of Making.
