Listed below are documented eye-witness accounts, reported experiences, also ghostly myths legends and history. Including links. Continuous updates are in progress.
Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, A servant of the castle suspects his partner of been unfaithful. Intent upon catching her in the act, he hides himself on the roof above their bed. Unfortunately, he falls and dies the next day. Soon there are reports of his corpse wandering through the town. This, of course, coincides with an epidemic that kills several townspeople. It is blamed on the "vampire." On Palm Sunday, the local priest assembles a group, and they proceed to the cemetery. Upon exhumation, the body appears engorged with blood. (It gushes out when the body's poked with a spade.) The body is dragged out of town and burned, and soon the epidemic ends.
Baldoon Castle, Scotland
Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
Beeston Castle, Cheshire
Berkeley Castle, Worcester
Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon - The ghost of Lady Margaret Pomeroy appears all dressed in white in the tower named after her. A second more chilling ghost resides 'the blue lady' predicts death of those who see her ! She is said to be the ghost of the Pomeroy's daughter.
Blackness Castle, Lothian
Bolton Castle, North Yorkshire
Bramber Castle, Sussex
Bodelwyddan Castle, North Wales
Bodiam Castle, East Sussex
Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire
Bowes Castle, County Durham
Burgh Castle, Norwich
Carisbrook Castle, Isle of White, The well house is haunted by the ghost of a young woman strangely her disembodied face was surrounded by draperies of her dress. A young man in a brown jerkin has been seen near the moat. A woman wearing victorian dress, followed by two shadowy dogs was witnessed as people strolled round the castle. A full appartion was seen in broad daylight, it wore long coat also followed by 4 small dogs.
Carlisle Castle, Cumbria. A sentry may have died of shock after seeing a grey figure, he lunged at it with his boyonet. A female skeleton was found bricked up in one of the walls, its was still clad with tartan clothes and jewellery. Mary Queen of Scots was incarcerated in the building as so was Bonnie Prince Charles supporters. There is a famous 'licking stone' here, tales tell that it was worn away by prisoners tongues, the stone was moist with water, they licked it in order to stay alive.
Castell Coch, Cardiff
Castle Rising, Norfolk
Castle Rushen, Isle of Man
Charleville Forest Castle, Ireland
Chepstow Castle, South East Wales
Chillingham Castle, Northumberland
Conisbrough Castle, South Yorkshire - Ghost of a grey monk, also an unhappy grey lady, she is seen at the top of the keep where she reputedly met her own death. Also strange bumping noises and whispers and ghostly candles have been witnessed here.
Comlongon Castle, Scotland
Corfe Castle, Dorset
Craigievar Castle, Aberdeen
Craig Y Nos Castle, South Wales
Culcreuch Castle, Scotland
Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland
Denbigh Castle, North East Wales
Dartmouth Castle, Devon
Dudley Castle, West Midlands
Dunrobin Castle, Scotland
Dunstanburgh Castle,Northumberland
Durham Castle, Durham
Ecclesgreig Castle, Scotland
Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
Ghosts: Ghostly drums have been heard, a phantom piper, spirits of French prisoners, phantom dog, two guards who were said to be murdered, and a shade wearing a leather apron. Reported experiences: Sudden drops in temperature, shadowy figures been seen, a feeling of being watched, unseen presences, clothes been tugged, burning sensations and been touched on the face.
Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland
Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset
Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire
Glamis Castle, Dundeeshire. Six ghosts are said to haunt this lavish Victorian royal castle, they wander the rooms and corridors. The Dining room has a connecting door into the crypt which looks something like it has come out of the middle ages, it is in the crypt that there is a secret chamber, legend has it that it was here one of the Lord's of Glamis 'Earl Beardie' played cards, but as the clock struck midnight at the beginning of the sabbath the devil appeared and asked to join in the game. Earl Beardie gambled his soul away and died soon after. The chamber was promptly bricked up after foul mouthed utterances were heard, but the swearing phantom couldn't be restrained and persisted to roam the abode. Earl Beardie's spirit is said to peer at guests whilst they lay in their beds. The chapel is haunted by the grey lady, said to be the ghost of Janet Douglas, wife of sixth Lord Glamis. Also the ghost of Lady Campbell has been seen in the chapel, she was wrongly accused of witchcraft, she burned at the stake at Edinburgh Castle, her spectre is seen in silent prayer with an aura of peaceful traquility surrounding her. Glamis has seen thousands of tragic deaths, the ghosts seem to seep out of the very mortar.
Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire
Helmsley Castle,North Yorkshire
Hermitage Castle, Scotland
Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex - A local village girl tried to escape from been murdered by throwing herself over into the moat, unsuccessful, she was re-captured and murdered, she is thought to appear as the white lady of the moat. A phantom drummer has been seen marching along the ramparts at night, said to have died in the battle of Angincourt. Blue sparks radiate from his drumsticks.
Hylton Castle, Sunderland, A ghost known as the Cauld Boy, haunts the castle, he manifests himself without any clothes on and shivering, apparently murdered by his master Baron Robert Hylton who stabbed him to death with a pitchfork. The spirit boy also haunts the kitchens where he ransacks it if it is neat and tidy.
Kidwelly Castle, South Wales.
Knaresborough Castle, N Yorkshire
Lancaster Castle, Lancaster
Leap Castle,Roscrea, Ireland
Ghosts: A primitive elemental being, also known to be a shape shifter with an un-godly stench, also a ghostly lady and an old man.
Lincoln Castle, East Yorkshire
Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland
Ludlow Castle, Shropshire
Lydford Castle, Devon - Notorious 12th century prison, reputed to be haunted by Judge John Jeffery's 'The Hanging Judge'. Lady Howard manifests herself here as a black hound, she also haunts Okehampton Castle.
Margam Castle, Wales
Meggernie Castle, Scotland
Middleham Castle, North Yorkshire
Monmouth Castle, Wales
Morton Corbet Castle, ShropshireÂ
Newark Castle, Notthinghamshire
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham
Nunney Castle, Somerset
Okehampton Castle, Devon - Every night at midnight Lady Howard rides a coach made from the bones of her four dead husbands and with a skull on each corner of the roof. Also a headless coachman is her driver !
Old Wardour Castle, Wiltshire
Orford Castle, Suffolk
Peel Castle, Isle Of Man
Pendragon Castle, Cumbria. Under the foundations of Pendragon Castle there is treasure ! This legend is quite bizarre; if you decide to try your hand at unearthing the gold, you may be confronted by a spectral black hen, which promptly scratches and pecks until the hole is refilled ! A spectre of a horseman gallops towards the castle whilst a grey lady glides her way through the castle walls.
Pengersick Castle, Cornwall
Penrith Castle, Cumbria
Pevensey Castle, East Sussex
Pontefract Castle, West Yorkshire
Porchester Castle, Hampshire
Pickering Castle, North Yorkshire
Pudhoe Castle, Northumberland. Chanting has been heard coming from the chapel area. A white horse silently walks around the outer ward of the castle; one night a man that lived in one of the blocks saw that horse running towards him. In the 1950's a lady witnessed noises like a ball being bounced against the wall but when she looked, no one was there. Another couple heard water being thrown at a door with force. One night a heavy oak table was flung to the floor in the hall, apparently the noise was that loud the residents thought that there had been a gas explosion.
Richmond Castle, North Yorkshire
Rochester Castle, Kent
Ruthin Castle,North Wales
Sandal Castle, West Yorkshire, phantom dog.
Scarborough Castle, North Yorkshire
Scotney Castle, Kent
Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset - Sir Walter Raleigh who was executed for disobeying orders and was beheaded in 1618 - walks the grounds of the castle, his shade appears at midnight on Michaelmas Eve "headless" !
Skibo Castle, Scotland. A ghostly white lady flits through the castle at night, her nocternal roamings are precipitated by terrified screams and blood curdling moans. The grisly remains of a woman's skeleton was found hidden behind one of the castle walls, only after the re-burial took place that the hauntings ceased. A local girl had gone missing, there was talk that she was murdered by the Castle's keeper. In 1898 American millionaire Andrew Carnegie bought the ruined estate. Carnegie's grandson Rosewell Miller the third, saw the female phantom one night, she was seen drifting silently along one of the third floor corridors where she turned into one of the bedrooms, Rosewell followed her but she had disappeared into thin air.
Skipsea Castle, East Yorkshire
Spofforth Castle, North Yorkshire
Stafford Castle, Staffordshire
Tamworth Castle, Staffordshire
Tattershall Castle,Lincolnshire
Tynemouth Castle, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Walworth Castle, County Durham
Warkworth Castle, Northumberland
