The Paranormal Database

Isobel

Location: Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire) - Kinnaird Head Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Prior to a storm
Further Comments: Isobel killed herself after she discovered her father had drowned her secret lover in a cave along the coastline, having chained him to a rock while a storm raised the water level over its norm. A sighting of her shade now denotes incoming bad weather.

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Location: Frome (Somerset) - Beckingham Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: An advert selling this property on the open market used the fact it was haunted as a selling point.

Trumpet Blower

Location: Fyvie (Aberdeenshire) - Fyvie Castle
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to a death in the family
Further Comments: One of several ghosts here, the ghost of Andrew Lammie blows a single long note on his instrument as a death approaches the family. Another spirit, a green lady, performs the same warning facility, though she is seen and not heard as she drifts down the corridors to the 'Murder Room'.

John Knox

Location: Galston (Ayrshire) - Cessnock Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Quoting religious texts, Knox is said to walk around the castle grounds.

White Woman

Location: Galston (Ayrshire) - Loudon Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War
Further Comments: Though not seen recently, the stories of the white lady still exist.

Ellen

Location: Galway (County Galway) - Menlo Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Ellen, or Eleanor, was the daughter of Lord Blake and died in a mysterious fire together with two maids. Eleanor's presence is reputed to remain.

Poisoned Husband

Location: Germoe (Cornwall) - Pengersick Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Master Millington tried to poison his wife, but ended up killing himself - for his mistake, he is doomed to spend the rest of time here. A phantom knight has also been reported, sporting a white tabard with a red cross. More recently, footsteps have been heard in the main bedroom at night.

Making a pact with the Devil.

Hobgoblin Builders

Location: Gifford (Lothian) - Yester Castle (ruins)
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present, although only subterranean 'Goblin Hall remains'
Further Comments: Warlock Sir Hugo de Giffard is said to have made a pact with the Devil, and in return had an army of Hobgoblins build this castle for him. A staircase in the hall was filled with earth as it was believed it led straight to hell.

Young Girl

Location: Gilling (North Yorkshire) - Gilling Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Killed by a nurse after being submerged in scolding water, this ghostly young girl is said to be quite horrific when seen.

Gilsland Boy

Location: Gilsland (Cumbria) - Triermain Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While living, this young boy became lost on the nearby snow-covered common and froze to death. His shivering form is now seen by the castle walls, and on the odd occasion will reach out and grab people (this is supposed to mark the witness's impending death, the area of the body touched being the primary area responsible for death).

Jack the Runner.

Construction of Gallows

Location: Glamis (Angus) - Glamis Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1880 (Gallows heard)
Further Comments: Not shy of more than a few hauntings, Glamis can claim the following... The sounds of a set of gallows being constructed, Lady Glamis drifting in mist around the clock tower, the unknown ghost in the 'Haunted Room' which caused a previous owner to faint when he went to investigate the mysterious sounds contained within, a white lady that drifts the corridors, 'Jack the Runner' who's long legs carry him down the same corridors, a black page boy that quickly appears and disappears near a sitting room, a pale girl who is dragged away by an invisible force in the courtyard, a giant in armour that stands over and looks down on people in bed, and a re-enacted murder in the parlour.

Norman

Location: Glaslough (County Monaghan) - Castle Leslie
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 1910s
Further Comments: When Lady Marjorie's son died in World War I, his form appeared to the woman as she sat in bed. Mistaking the ghost for a real person, she tried to speak to Norman, only to watch him fade away. He has been seen since in the same room. The castle is also haunted by Lady Constance, who died in 1925.

Moaning

Location: Glenarm (County Antrim) - Glenarm Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A woman living at the castle had every room in the castle exorcised, driving the phantom which haunted the building into the attic where it could be heard moaning and stomping. It is unclear whether is occurred before or after a ghostly woman in brown wearing a mob cap was seen. A footman in old garb has also been seen in the garden.

Mariota

Location: Glengoulandie (Perth and Kinross) - Garth Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The laird's wife died under strange circumstances in the early sixteenth century, sightings of her ghost convincing many she was murdered by her husband.

Fallen in Battle

Location: Glin (County Limerick) - Glin Castle (currently an hotel)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: This castle is reputed to be haunted by the souls of those who fell during the many battles on the site. The third floor is said to be home to a poltergeist (encountered by a cook and housekeeper during the 1960s), a ghostly builder named Henry appears on the staircase, and twentieth Earl of Glin still enjoys sitting on a particular armchair.

Dunrobin Castle, circa 1902.

Margaret

Location: Golspie (Highland) - Dunrobin Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Margaret fell to her death from the castle tower, trying to escape to secretly meet her lover. She can be heard crying in the area. Another ghost takes the form of a man, seen on the staircase in the older part of the building.

An old postcard of Goodrich Castle.

Drowning Lovers

Location: Goodrich (Herefordshire) - Goodrich Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather dependent: Stormy weather (screaming)
Further Comments: A failed escape from Cromwellian soldiers resulted in a young officer and his lover drowning in the river Wye. Their ghosts, mounted on horseback, have been reported struggling in the river, standing in the ruins of the nearby castle, or heard screaming during storms. In addition, an imprisoned Irish chieftain who died trying to escape is said to haunt the Macbeth tower.

A skulk of foxes.

Foxes

Location: Gormanston (County Meath) - Area around Gormanston Castle (currently part of a college)
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to a death of a Viscount Gormanston
Further Comments: Whenever all the local foxes gather at the front door of the castle, a death will occur soon after.

Norman

Location: Gort (County Galway) - Islandmore Castle (also known as Thoor Ballylee)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1989
Further Comments: W B Yeats believed his summer home to be shared by a ghost of a Norman soldier, although a photograph taken 1989 shows a shadowy child.

Whistler

Location: Gosport (Hampshire) - Fort Brockhurst
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom whistling and occasional footsteps are thought to belong to a sergeant major that still patrols the grounds of this fortified building.

Lady Montgomery

Location: Gourock (Inverclyde) - Castle Levan
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This woman was killed by her husband after he discovered the heinous ways in which she treated the local peasants.

Handsome Jack

Location: Grangemellon (County Kildare) - Grangemellon Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Colonel John St Leger, aka Handsome Jack once owned this castle while a member of the Hellfire Club. After his sudden death in Madras, he returned to the area, in a coach and four, driven by a headless horseman.

Barbara

Location: Grantown-on-Spey (Moray) - Castle Grant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: In a protest about her arranged marriage, Barbara starved herself to death in a room in the tower; she is still seen glazing out of the window, sometimes washing her hands in a basin floating in front of her. A ghostly piper also patrols the lands outside the castle.

Devil

Location: Great Kimble (Buckinghamshire) - Chequers Park - Cymbeline's Mount (or Castle)
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Anyone who runs around this ancient work seven times will bump into Old Nick at the end of their journey.

Army of Small People

Location: Greeba (Isle of Man) - Greeba Castle, road outside of, & St Trinian's Church
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The fairies here are said to ensure that no one ever builds a roof on the nearby St Trinian's Church. A witness watched a long line of little people dancing down the road, coming from the direction of the church.