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.
Royal Standard of England
📍 Brindle Lane · HP9 1XT
A spectral drummer boy, a Civil War Cavalier and Auntie Peggy are among the ghosts reported at the Royal Standard of England, one of Britain’s oldest pubs.
Star Bar, Edinburgh
📍 1 Northumberland Place · EH3 6LQ
Edinburgh’s Star Bar has a cellar skull whose origins remain unknown. Tradition associates it with an earlier burial ground and claims that disturbing it brings misfortune; the skull, rather than an apparition, is the focus of the story.
Temple Newsam
📍 Temple Newsam Road · LS15 0AE
The great house is associated with a Blue Lady and other reported apparitions, unexplained noises and unsettling experiences.
The Pied Bull
📍 53-57 Northgate Street · CH1 2HQ
The Pied Bull’s cellar apparition is traditionally John Davies, allegedly killed falling downstairs with a knife. Other accounts place a chambermaid in Rooms 7–9 and a silent man in Room 9.
Whistlebinkies
📍 4-6 South Bridge · EH1 1LL
Whistlebinkies occupies rooms connected with Edinburgh’s South Bridge vaults. Its traditions name Mr Boots, the Watcher and the Imp, with reports of heavy footsteps, figures, noises and other unexplained activity from staff, visitors and investigators.
Colwick Hall Hotel
📍 Colwick Park, Racecourse Road · NG2 4BH
A pale woman linked with Mary Ann Musters, who fled the 1831 riots, is said to haunt the east wing and gardens. Other reports include children’s voices in former servants’ quarters.
Cromwell Hotel
📍 High Street · SG1 3AZ
Investigators heard a man sigh in the Fairfax Room and a bell ring in an empty office. Other reports include rattling hangers, children’s laughter and poltergeist activity in the cellar.
Garrick's Head
📍 7-8 St John's Place, Saw Close · BA1 1ET
Bath’s Garrick’s Head shares ghost traditions with the neighbouring Theatre Royal, including a Grey Lady. The theatre also has a Christmas butterfly tradition; accounts move between the connected buildings, with many locating activity in the pub.
Grand Hotel Scarborough
📍 St Nicholas Cliff · YO11 2ET
Reported apparitions include Anne Brontë, a red-clad woman and vanished lift passengers, alongside screams, music, moving pictures and missing objects.
Haycock Manor Hotel
📍 London Road · PE8 6JA
Haycock guests report sobbing and pleas for mercy from a room traditionally associated with Mary, Queen of Scots. Other accounts describe a regal apparition, shadows and bedclothes pulled away.
Hotel Celebrity
📍 47 Gervis Road · BH1 3DD
A child ghost known as Nell Hyde is said to haunt the Bournemouth hotel, where guests have reported unexplained activity.
Llandoger Trow
📍 3-5 King Street · BS1 4ER
A limping ghost boy known as Pierre is the best-known figure in the pub’s crowded haunting tradition. Staff and visitors also describe unexplained footsteps and apparitions inside the old King Street building.
New Lowndes Arms
📍 4 High Street · MK17 0NA
At the New Lowndes Arms, a former landlady reported a violently rattling ensuite door and an unexplained scream. Investigators also describe tapping, responsive cat-ball activity and a protection necklace breaking during investigations at the village pub and B&B.
Old Silent Inn
📍 Hob Lane · BD22 0HW
Ghostly figures, unexplained sounds and other strange incidents are reported at the isolated inn on the moors near Haworth.
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.
The Britons Protection
📍 50 Great Bridgewater Street · M1 5LE
Manchester’s Britons Protection is associated with spectral soldiers, unexplained footsteps and other disturbances. Local memory links the early 19th-century pub with the nearby Peterloo Massacre of 1819, although that history does not establish the ghosts’ identities.
The Bull Hotel, Long Melford
📍 Hall Street · CO10 9JG
The hotel has reports of poltergeist activity, unexplained noises and ghostly presences that have attracted paranormal investigators.
The Crown at Wells
📍 Market Place · BA5 2RP
Facing Wells Market Place, the Crown is a historic inn with rooms associated with the Bloody Assizes. Guests and staff report apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with accounts spanning its old rooms rather than identifying one named ghost.
The Hatchet Inn
📍 27 Frogmore Street · BS1 5NA
The Hatchet’s sinister folklore includes a door said to conceal human skin beneath its surface. Ghost stories surround this old drinking house, whose traditions also recall sailors, smugglers and bare-knuckle fighting.
The Mallard
📍 507 London Road, Boxmoor · HP3 9BQ
Ghostly Gatherings investigators at the Mallard report hair lifting, scratches, figures on CCTV and unexplained responses during investigations. Accounts also mention a childlike presence called Molly and activity in neighbouring former stable and office spaces.
The Old Crown
📍 188 High Street, Deritend · B12 0LD
Birmingham’s Old Crown carries a story of a woman searching for a child said to have fallen into its well. Overnight guests report white mist, sudden chills and feeling watched; CCTV reportedly showed a bottle moving across the floor.
The Old Linacre
📍 46 Linacre Lane · L20 5AL
The former Old Linacre pub in Bootle now houses the Linacre Bridge Community Hub. Staff and visitors have reported footsteps in empty rooms, moving glasses, shadowy figures and cold patches around the cellar stairs.
The Pack Horse
📍 208 Woodhouse Lane · LS2 9DX
Phantom footsteps and the sound of giggling children are reported in the upstairs room of this historic Leeds pub.
The Spaniards Inn
📍 Spaniards Road · NW3 7JJ
Hampstead’s Spaniards Inn has traditions involving Dick Turpin, phantom horses and two Spanish brothers whose jealousy supposedly ended violently. Visitors report footsteps and apparitions around the pub, alongside its separate literary associations with Dickens, Keats and Dracula.
