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.
Coal Exchange Hotel
📍 Mount Stuart Square · CF10 5FQ
A Victorian figure reportedly vanished while crossing the Grand Hall, while a ghostly watchman patrols the upper gallery. Staff also describe footsteps in empty corridors and doors opening themselves.
Culzean Castle
📍 Culzean Castle · KA19 8LE
A phantom piper is said to herald Kennedy family weddings and play on stormy nights. Inside, visitors report a White Lady, while screams and crackling fire echo from the vaults.
Dumbarton Castle
📍 Castle Road · G82 1JJ
A Grey Lady is said to glide through corridors before disappearing into walls. On the battlements, a phantom watchman reportedly patrols at dusk and vanishes when visitors approach.
Eilean Donan Castle
📍 Eilean Donan Castle · IV40 8DX
A headless Spanish soldier, nicknamed Carlos, is said to carry his head through the gift shop. Evening footsteps are attributed to him, while Lady Mary reportedly haunts a bedroom.
Gwrych Castle
📍 Llanddulas Road · LL22 8ET
Visitors and investigators report apparitions, shadowy figures, unexplained voices and other strange activity throughout the ruined castle.
Gwydir Castle
📍 Gwydir Castle · LL26 0PN
The castle is associated with several apparitions and unexplained phenomena, including ghostly figures, strange smells and sudden changes in temperature.
Kilmainham Gaol
📍 Inchicore Road, Kilmainham · D08 RK28
Visitors and staff report footsteps, voices, apparitions and sudden cold throughout the former prison's cells, corridors and execution areas.
Powis House
📍 11 Powis Circle · AB24 3YX
Local witnesses have described ghostly figures and unexplained encounters around Powis House, adding to the Aberdeen building's haunted reputation.
Rummer Tavern
📍 14 Duke Street · CF10 1AY
Cardiff’s Rummer Tavern has a tradition of a sailor returning to find his wife with another man. Accounts disagree about his death, while staff and drinkers report cold spots, flickering lights, footsteps and a white-clad figure.
Srah Castle
📍 Srah Castle, Ballydrohid
Visitors report sudden cold, equipment failures, whispering voices and a dark human-shaped Window Watcher appearing in the ruined tower.
Stirling Castle
📍 Castle Wynd · FK8 1EJ
The Green Lady, a Highland ghost and other trapped souls are among the apparitions traditionally associated with Stirling Castle.
Amberley Castle Hotel
📍 Station Road · BN18 9LT
A servant girl’s ghost, known as Emily, reportedly appears in the Herstmonceux Room and sits on guests’ beds. Her haunting is linked with a local legend of rejection and a fatal fall.
Athelhampton House
📍 Athelhampton House & Gardens · DT2 7LG
Two phantom duelists reportedly clash swords in the Great Chamber. The manor’s other ghost stories include a Grey Lady, a hooded priest and a pet ape linked with tapping inside the walls.
Blenkinsopp Castle
A hooded White Lady is said to haunt the castle’s vaults, guarding a hidden chest of gold. One tale describes her repeatedly appearing to a child and asking him to find it.
Coylet Inn
📍 Loch Eck · PA23 8SG
The Blue Boy is said to haunt the corridors after sleepwalking towards Loch Eck and dying in the cold. Guests also report phantom footsteps, whispers and objects moving in empty rooms.
Dalmahoy Hotel
📍 Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club · EH27 8EB
Lady Mary, the White Lady, is reported at the foot of beds in her former room. Other sightings include phantom servants and a cloaked woman floating above the main staircase.
Drovers Inn
📍 The Drovers Inn, Inverarnan · G83 7DX
Room 6 is linked with a drowned girl whose cold, wet presence guests report beside them in bed. Elsewhere, Angus the Drover is said to roam the corridors, screaming.
Dunrobin Castle
📍 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.
Eclipse Inn
📍 25 The Square · SO23 9EX
Lady Alice Lisle reportedly appears in a grey dress after spending her final night here before execution. Hammering and sawing are said to echo the building of her scaffold.
Hunters Tryst
📍 97 Oxgangs Road · EH13 9NG
A plaque at Edinburgh’s Hunters Tryst claims the inn closed in 1882 after being “haunted by Satan”. Former manager Marilyn reported lights switching on and off in the locked, empty pub in 1996; later staff describe further incidents.
King's Head, Aylesbury
📍 King's Head Passage, Market Square · HP20 2RW
Aylesbury’s King’s Head has reports of phantom nuns, a Grey Lady, moving objects and unseen hands disturbing sleepers. Staff concerns reportedly prompted a Ghost Club investigation, adding to the medieval coaching inn’s longstanding ghost traditions.
Lion and Swan Hotel
📍 Swan Bank · CW12 1JR
Lion and Swan staff describe a crying child in the cellar and a clog-wearing woman by the fireplace. Room 20 is associated with scratching, banging and a growling black hound.
Newsham Park Hospital
📍 L6 7UL
Visitors report shadow figures, footsteps, voices and other intense paranormal activity throughout the former hospital and orphanage buildings.
Pakefield Lighthouse
A ghost known as Crazy Mary is associated with the lighthouse, where her apparition and other strange phenomena have been reported.
