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.

1,746 haunted places
Street / Road
Soho · Greater London

1 Golden Square

📍 W1F 9HR

Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with 1 Golden Square, adding to its haunted reputation.

Historic site
York · North Yorkshire

5 College Street

📍 5 College Street · YO1 7JF

A plague-era legend tells of a child trapped in the house; later traditions report crying and a girl at the window.

Historic house
Edinburgh

5 Hazeldean Terrace

📍 5 Hazeldean Terrace · EH16 5RU

In the late 1950s, the Currie family at Hazeldean Terrace reported destructive disturbances later described as poltergeist activity. Accounts mention moving or damaged objects; a later identification with a soldier connected to Prestonpans remains untraced.

Historic house
Edinburgh

6 Arden Street

📍 6 Arden Street · EH9 1BP

Former residents of 6 Arden Street reported unexplained footsteps and objects moving, including a towel found wrapped around a light fitting. Their accounts cover the late 1980s to the early 2000s. This is a private home; the location marker is deliberately approximate.

Historic house
Reading · Berkshire

11 Zinzan Street

📍 11 Zinzan Street, Reading (historic address; map marker represents street)

In 1980, Shirley Du-Val said a whispering voice drove her family from their Zinzan Street flat. Her husband reported doors moving and a picture repeatedly falling. Earlier tenants of another flat in the building had also reported disturbances. However, its subsequent tenant said she had experienced nothing unusual during more than a year there.

Shop / Commercial building
Chester · Cheshire

13 Lower Bridge Street

📍 13 Lower Bridge Street · CH1 1RS

At La Belle Femme in Chester, proprietor Audrey Heywood Haynes reported ornaments flying from a dresser and a kettle lid moving. Her account appeared in 1983, before the premises became a hair salon.

Shop / Commercial building
York · North Yorkshire

18–20 Stonegate

📍 18–20 Stonegate · YO1 8AS

A young girl was reportedly seen in a changing-room mirror before appearing to pass through a wall.

Shop / Commercial building
South Kensington, London · Greater London

20 Bute Street

📍 20 Bute Street · SW7 3EX

Books and stationery reportedly flew from shelves at Arthur H. George's South Kensington shop in 1907. George sought explanations for the disturbances at 20 Bute Street, where a beauty salon now operates.

Street / Road
Glasgow

23 Mansfield Street

📍 23 Mansfield Street, Partick, Glasgow (demolished; street area)

Staff and visitors report scratching noises, intense cold, glowing apparitions and violent physical disturbances reported inside the house.

Street / Road
Edinburgh

26 Rutland Street

📍 26 Rutland Street · EH1 2AN

On Christmas Eve 1887, Dr William Allan Jamieson reported a woman’s apparition at 26 Rutland Street, Edinburgh. He later associated her with a patient who died around that time; his account entered Society for Psychical Research records.

Street / Road
Spitalfields · Greater London

29 Hanbury Street

📍 29 Hanbury Street · E1

The former murder site of Annie Chapman is linked with autumn hauntings, including sounds resembling the killing and reports of a headless female apparition.

Shop / Commercial building
Oundle · Northamptonshire

39a West Street

📍 39a West Street · PE8 4EJ

A grocery manager at 39a West Street, Oundle, reported a crash resembling falling biscuit tins, although nothing had fallen. His account appeared in 1956 alongside neighbours' reports of unexplained sounds.

Historic house
York · North Yorkshire

41 Stonegate

📍 41 Stonegate · YO1 8AW

A young Victorian girl is said to haunt 41 Stonegate after reportedly falling to her death on the staircase. Later accounts describe footsteps on the stairs and sightings of a child inside the building.

Street / Road
Mayfair · Greater London

50 Berkeley Square

Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with 50 Berkeley Square, adding to its haunted reputation.

Street / Road
Marylebone · Greater London

221B Baker Street

📍 221B Baker Street · NW1 6XE

Ghost stories linked to 221B Baker Street include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.

Historic house
Chesham · Buckinghamshire

234 The Vale

📍 234 The Vale, Chesham (historic address; area marker)

Bob and Margaret Le Tissier reported disturbances at their rented cottage during the winter of 1979–80. Their accounts included heavy footsteps, a falling picture and bedding that became wet before quickly drying. The couple moved their bed downstairs and sought help from a local vicar. Earlier tenants had reported nothing unusual, according to the Buckinghamshire Examiner.

Street / Road
Stanmore · Greater London

A41

📍 A41 Edgware Way, near Apex Corner · NW7 3JX

On 13 October 1985, a driver near Stanmore reported striking a man and dog on the A41. Both vanished, no bodies were found and the car showed no collision damage.

Street / Road
Pumlumon · Ceredigion

A44

📍 A44 near Pumlumon / Eisteddfa Gurig

The site is associated with a silent Second World War bomber flying dangerously low over the road before disappearing without crashing.

Street / Road
Dumfries and Galloway

A75

📍 A75

Local accounts describe vanishing people, animals and a phantom furniture van reported by motorists along the notoriously strange road.

Natural site
Sligachan · Highland

A87

Witnesses describe a phantom car or truck racing along the road between Sligachan and Portree before mysteriously disappearing.

Church / Cathedral
Bath · Somerset

Abbey Church House

Abbey Church House is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.

Museum
Leicester · Leicestershire

Abbey Pumping Station Museum

📍 Corporation Road · LE4 5PX

Accounts connected with Abbey Pumping Station Museum describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.

Abbey / Monastery
St John's Wood · Greater London

Abbey Road Studios

📍 3 Abbey Road · NW8 9AY

A white-clad female apparition, traditionally identified as music-hall performer Edith Rosse, is said to haunt Abbey Road Studios and was reportedly encountered by a policeman in the 1960s.

Abbey / Monastery
Abbeyshrule · Longford

Abbeyshrule Abbey

📍 Main Road

Witnesses have described shadowy figures, strange sounds and sudden chills around Abbeyshrule Abbey, where local ghost stories remain part of the site's folklore.

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