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.
Duntulm Castle
Reports include Hugh MacDonald's wails from the dungeon and a condemned nursemaid said to haunt the ruined castle.
Dunvegan Castle
📍 Dunvegan Castle & Gardens · IV55 8WF
Ghostly figures, strange sounds and unexplained sensations have been reported at Dunvegan Castle, adding to the site's long supernatural reputation.
Orbost House
📍 Orbost House, Orbost
The site is associated with the unexplained sound of a horse-drawn carriage approaching the house while nearby companions heard nothing.
Boleskine House
📍 Boleskine House, General Wade's Military Road · IV2 6XT
Reports include a rolling severed head, occult traditions and reports of cloven-hoofed footsteps associated with the former Crowley residence.
Glencoe
📍 Glencoe National Nature Reserve / visitor centre area · PH49 4HX
Staff and visitors report screams and spectral figures said to replay scenes from the 1692 massacre around its anniversary.
Dunrobin Castle
📍 KW10 6SF
Lady Margaret’s ghost is linked with a fatal escape from the tower to join her lover. Reports centre on weeping upstairs and pacing footsteps in the Seamstress’s Room.
Braal Castle
📍 Braal Castle ruins
Visitors report apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Braal Castle, where centuries of history have inspired enduring ghost stories.
Old Keiss Castle
📍 Old Keiss Castle ruins
The site is associated with a Weeping Lady seen at broken windows or staring out across the sea from the castle ruins.
Eilean Bàn
Staff and visitors report muttering voices, poltergeist activity, disembodied footsteps and doors opening and closing without visible cause.
St Trothan's Church (Old Olrig Parish Church)
📍 St Trothan's Church ruins, Olrig
Staff and visitors report phantom piping, shadowy figures among gravestones and an unusually oppressive silence around the ruined kirk.
A87 Ghost Car, Isle of Skye
Witnesses describe a phantom car or truck racing along the road between Sligachan and Portree before mysteriously disappearing.
Castle of Mey
📍 The Castle of Mey · KW14 8XH
The Green Lady is linked with Elizabeth Sinclair’s forbidden romance and fatal fall from a tower. Her apparition is said to wander the halls, where whispers and sudden cold are also reported.
Old St Peter's Kirk Thurso
📍 Old St Peter's Church and Burial Ground
Local accounts describe strange figures, unexplained sounds and eerie sensations at Old St Peter's Kirk Thurso, where ghost stories remain part of the site's folklore.
Dunscaith Castle
📍 Dunscaith Castle, Tokavaig
Visitors report apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Dunscaith Castle, where centuries of history have inspired enduring ghost stories.
Fairy Glen Skye
📍 Fairy Glen, Sheader Road, Uig · IV51 9YF
Visitors have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Fairy Glen Skye, contributing to its long-standing local haunted reputation.
Ackergill Tower
Reports include a Green Lady walking silently through corridors, unexplained footsteps, cold spots and a pervasive feeling of sadness.
Castle Sinclair Girnigoe
Local accounts describe shadowy figures, voices carried on the wind and a strong feeling of being watched in the prison vaults.
Ardgowan House
📍 PA16 0DW
Reports include a mischievous child spirit, old-fashioned staff figures and disturbances including window banging and intercom activity.
Newark Castle, Port Glasgow
📍 Castle Road · PA14 5NH
The site is associated with a sorrowful woman, intense cold and a more hostile male presence reportedly following or tripping visitors.
Borthwick Castle
📍 Borthwick Castle, North Middleton · EH23 4QY
Visitors report apparitions, unexplained footsteps and sudden cold spots around Borthwick Castle, where centuries of history have inspired enduring ghost stories.
King's Cave Arran
📍 King's Cave, Drumadoon
Local accounts describe strange figures, unexplained sounds and eerie sensations at King's Cave Arran, where ghost stories remain part of the site's folklore.
Brodick Castle
📍 KA27 8HY
Ghostly figures, strange sounds and unexplained sensations have been reported at Brodick Castle, adding to the site's long supernatural reputation.
Goatfell
📍 KA27 8JB
Local accounts describe strange figures, unexplained sounds and eerie sensations at Goatfell, where ghost stories remain part of the site's folklore.
Lamlash Old Churchyard
Witnesses have described shadowy figures, strange sounds and sudden chills around Lamlash Old Churchyard, where local ghost stories remain part of the site's folklore.
