Hauntings Database

Blacksmith's Arms

📍 TS24 7QT

The Blacksmith’s Arms blames ‘George’ for moving glasses, smashing bottles and opening doors. A policeman-like figure reportedly appears in the back room, where snooker balls clack without players.

Black Swan Hotel, Devizes

📍 25-26 Market Place · SN10 1JQ

Reports include a horseman called Ambrose, dark figures, a young woman, unexplained taps and reports of beds or furniture moving.

Black Swan Inn, York

📍 Peasholme Green · YO1 7PR

Reported phenomena include the lower half of a man on the stairs, a Victorian workman and a woman in white.

Blaise Castle

📍 Henbury Road · BS10 7QS

Accounts connected with Blaise Castle describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.

Blarney Castle

📍 Blarney Castle · T23 Y598

Ghostly figures, strange sounds and unexplained sensations have been reported at Blarney Castle, adding to the site's long supernatural reputation.

Bleeding Heart Yard

📍 Bleeding Heart Yard, Greville Street · EC1N 8SJ

Legend links the yard with Lady Elizabeth Hatton, whose mutilated body was supposedly found here, giving the secluded courtyard its gruesome name.

Blenheim Palace

📍 Blenheim Palace · OX20 1UL

Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with Blenheim Palace, adding to its haunted reputation.

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.

Bletchley Park

📍 Sherwood Drive, Bletchley · MK3 6EB

Staff jokingly blamed Bletchley’s ‘coffee poltergeist’ for broken equipment, vanished supplies and a switched-off jug becoming scalding hot. The disturbances were playfully linked to Alan Turing, who chained his cup to a radiator.

Blickling Hall

📍 Blickling Estate · NR11 6NF

Anne Boleyn’s ghost is said to return to Blickling each 19 May, arriving in a spectral coach before wandering the hall until daylight.

Bligh's Lane

📍 Bligh's Lane

Staff and visitors report an elderly woman's apparition crossing the road before vanishing, once credited with saving two boys from an approaching lorry.

Blue Anchor Inn

📍 Blue Anchor Inn, East Aberthaw · CF62 3DD

Staff and visitors report time-slip-like sightings of smugglers and pack ponies appearing around the ancient inn before vanishing.

Blue Bell Inn

📍 65 Northgate Street · CH1 2HQ

Henrietta reportedly returns to the Blue Bell’s upper window, where legend says she awaited a Royalist lover lost at Rowton Moor in 1645. Staff traditionally say goodnight when closing.

Blue Boar Hotel, Maldon

📍 Silver Street · CM9 4QE

Reports include a white-robed woman, a mysterious black cat, cold patches and whispers or shadows around the historic hotel.

Bluecoat Chambers

📍 School Lane · L1 3BX

Staff and visitors report children's laughter, boys in blue uniforms, basement cold spots and shadowy figures at windows after closing.

Bodelwyddan Castle Hotel

📍 Bodelwyddan · LL18 5YA

A Blue Lady reportedly appears near the kitchen, where dishes rattle after closing. Other accounts describe a soldier, shadow figures passing through walls and guests feeling unseen hands pull their hair.

Bodleian Library

📍 Broad Street · OX1 3BG

Accounts connected with Bodleian Library describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.

Bodmin Jail

📍 Berrycoombe Road · PL31 2NR

Matthew Weekes, hanged at Bodmin Jail in 1844 for Charlotte Dymond’s murder, reportedly wanders its corridors pleading innocence. The tradition echoes later doubts about his conviction, preserved in the prison’s interpretation.

Bodmin Jail Hotel

📍 Scarlett's Well Road · PL31 2PL

The site is associated with ghostly children and eerie unexplained noises reported in corridors of the converted former prison.

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.

Bolingbroke Castle

📍 Moat Lane · PE23 4HH

Bolingbroke Castle’s unusual ghost tradition concerns a hare said to run between officials’ legs before disappearing into a cellar. Gervase Holles recorded the story in the seventeenth century. Neil R. Storey recounts the tale, which later became associated with local beliefs about witches.

Bolling Hall

📍 Bowling Hall Road · BD4 7LP

Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with Bolling Hall, adding to its haunted reputation.

Bolsover Castle

📍 Castle Street · S44 6PR

English Heritage records reports of moving objects, unexplained lights and ghostly figures at Bolsover Castle. Staff and visitors have also described being touched or pushed. These accounts concern different parts of the castle, whose staff keep a book for visitors to record unusual experiences.

Bolton Castle

📍 Bolton Castle · DL8 4ET

Bolton Castle has a tradition of Mary, Queen of Scots appearing in its courtyard. An account from 1878 describes a woman in black velvet vanishing through a doorway towards a stair turret. Her identification as Mary belongs to the ghost story, rather than established fact.