About this book
Ghostly Northumberland examines reports associated with twenty locations across the county, including castles, hotels, battlefields, chapels and churchyards. Rob Kirkup draws on historical and contemporary sources to present accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and other claimed supernatural activity. Among the cases are a piano-playing ghost at Bamburgh Castle, the White Lady of Cresswell Tower and a mischievous poltergeist at the Schooner Hotel.
Chillingham Castle features through reports of John Sage, a torturer said to haunt the castle dungeons. The book also places these stories within Northumberland’s wider haunted heritage, combining written accounts with more than fifty photographs. Visitor information and access details accompany each location, giving the volume a practical local-history dimension alongside its collection of ghost stories.
