Hotel
Ardoe House
Blairs, Aberdeenshire
The White Lady of Ardoe
Ardoe House was originally built in 1878 as a private baronial mansion for Alexander 'Soapy' Ogston, a wealthy soap manufacturer from Aberdeen. The striking Victorian granite esta…
Castle
Bedford Castle
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The Gallows Creaking
Bedford Castle was a major medieval fortification in Bedford, England, originally built by King Henry I in the early 12th century. Constructed as a powerful motte-and-bailey stron…
House
Astley Hall
Chorley, Lancashire
The Resident Spirits of a Tudor Inheritance
Astley Hall was built around 1580 by the Charnock family, who held it for many generations before it passed through the hands of the Brooke, Townley-Parker and Tatton families. Th…
House
Avebury Manor
Marlborough, Wiltshire
The Weeping Cavalier & The Hooded Lady
Avebury Manor stands on the site of a Benedictine priory founded in 1114. After the priory passed to Fotheringhay College in 1411, parts of its earlier buildings were likely incor…
Pub
The Black Horse
Chorley, Lancashire
The Cellar Hands of Limbrick
The Black Horse in Limbrick is widely regarded as one of the oldest working taverns in the United Kingdom, steeped in over a millennium of history. Local lore and historians, incl…
Castle
Baldoon Castle
Newton Stewart, Dumfries & Galloway
The Bloodied Bride of Baldoon
Baldoon Castle was a 16th-century tower house about 1.5 miles southwest of Wigtown, south of the River Bladnoch, and was owned by the Dunbars of Westfield from the 1530s until the…
Castle
Appleby Castle
Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria
The Grey Lady of Caesar's Tower
Appleby Castle is a historic Norman fortress with roots stretching back to Roman times, when a fort protected the River Eden crossing. Built in 1092 when William II won Westmorlan…
Park
Ampthill Great Park
Ampthill, Bedfordshire
The Armoured Knight and the Woman in White
Ampthill Great Park originated as a medieval deer park surrounding Ampthill Castle, built in the early 15th century by Sir John Cornwall. The castle became royal property in the 1…
Hotel
Angel Hotel
Helston, Cornwall
Nelly and the Devil's Stone
The Angel Hotel dates back to the 16th century and was once the town house of Lord Sidney Godolphin, who was First Minister to three Monarchs. It became a noted coaching inn and h…
Theatre
Adelphi Theatre
London, London
The Ghost of the Murdered Actor
The Adelphi Theatre, originally opened as the Sans Pareil in 1806, has occupied its Strand location for over two centuries. The current building dates to 1930, designed in Art Dec…
Palace
Addington Palace
Croydon, Surrey
The Archbishop's Echo
Addington Palace is an 18th-century Palladian mansion built in the late 1770s by Alderman Barlow Trecothick, a merchant and Lord Mayor of London. From 1807 to 1897, it served as t…
Priory
Blackfriars Priory
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
The Bleeding Friar
Blackfriars Priory was founded in 1239 as a Dominican monastery by Henry III on the site of a former Norman castle. The friars. known as 'Black Friars' for their dark cloaks. esta…
Hotel
Alveston Manor Hotel
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
The Edwardian Girl in the Bedchamber
Alveston Manor stands on the northern edge of Stratford-upon-Avon as a predominantly Elizabethan manor house dating to around 1500, though the site's history stretches back centur…
Castle
Ardrossan Castle
Ardrossan, Ayrshire
Wallace's Restless Spirit
Ardrossan Castle is a ruined 12th-century fortress situated on a ridge overlooking the town of Ardrossan on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. Originally constructed by the Barclay f…
House
Bettiscombe Manor
Bettiscombe, Dorset
The Screaming Skull of Bettiscombe Manor
The manor house was built around 1694, replacing an Elizabethan one. In 1830, Azariah Pinney's descendants returned to Bettiscombe Manor accompanied by a family black slave from N…
Castle
Ballygally Castle
Ballygally, Co. Antrim
The Tower of Lost Children
Ballygally Castle, overlooking Ballygally Bay on the Antrim Coast, was built in 1625 by James Shaw, a Scottish settler who leased the land from Randal MacDonnell, Earl of Antrim.…
Lighthouse
Battery Point Light
Crescent City, Califorina
The Haunted Beacon of Battery Point
Battery Point Lighthouse, built in 1856 on a small rocky island off Crescent City's coast, stands as one of California's earliest coastal lighthouses. Constructed to guide ships t…
Hotel
Angel & Royal Hotel
Grantham, Lincolnshire
The White Lady and Jasper's Poltergeist
The Angel and Royal Hotel is one of England's oldest surviving medieval inns, with a hostel established on the site around 1203 by the Knights Templar on the Great North Road thro…
Hotel
Bagdale Hall Hotel
Whitby, North Yorkshire
The Pirate's Stairs: Browne Bushell's Eternal Watch
Built in the early 16th century (sometimes dated to 1516) for the Conyers family, Bagdale Hall later came into the possession of the Bushell family, with the most notorious owner…
Pub
The Anchor Inn
Warwick, Warwickshire
The Landlord's Damnation
The origins of The Anchor Inn trace back to at least 1813, when the property originally belonged to Thomas Morris and his family. A definitive turning point came in 1853, when the…
Castle
Abergavenny Castle
Abergavenny, Gwent
Ghosts of the Christmas Massacre
Abergavenny Castle was established around 1087 by Norman lord Hamelin de Balun as a timber and earth motte-and-bailey fortress on the site of a former Roman settlement. The castle…
Theatre
The Alexandra Theatre
Birmingham, West Midlands
The Haunted Legacy of Leon Salberg
The Alexandra Theatre opened as the Lyceum Theatre in 1901, designed by architects Owen & Ward. It was renamed the Alexandra Theatre in 1902 following its purchase by Lester Colli…
Castle
Binhamy Castle
Stratton, Cornwall
The Sorrowful Knight of Binhamy
Binhamy Castle, also known as Blanchminster Castle, was a fortified manor house built around 1335 by Ralph de Blanchminster, Lord of the Manor of Stratton, following his receipt o…
Building
Assembly Rooms
Derby, Derbyshire
Phantom Children of the Darwin Suite
The Derby Assembly Rooms has a complex history across several buildings. The first Assembly Rooms opened in 1714 in Full Street. A second building was constructed in 1763 on Marke…