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loved the story of the earl of glamis.
secret rooms/ghosts/spooky castle/ the earl locked up and hidden for years.

please post more on any of the above.
 
Cardiff castle has been inhabited since it was a roman fort and has buildings and ruins within its walls from many historical periods and has born witness to masacres (Glyndwr's Welsh revolt when he and his army re-concoured Wales, and cut off the noses of every citizen in Cardiff that had colaborated with the english), wars, murders, political prisoners and just about every other thing you'd expect to happen in one of britains most important castles and stately homes.

It's also one of britain's most haunted castles with 6 ghosts in the medevil black tower alone where the welch regimental museum is located (one of which I have had personal experience of and posted the story on this mb) the museums curator is a relative of mine so I've been able to see parts of the tower unopen to the public, one room of which is not used at all as there were so many people getting spooked in there that no one wanted to even go in there in the end (it's where a paticully phycotic revolutionary was imprissoned and later murdered after he had killed a frew of his gaurds over a few months). There are also ghosts elsewhere in the castle such as the roman leigionaire that haunts a section of roman wall under the curtain walls that is fooded during most winters and closed to the public and the elderly nanny that haunts the nursery in the ecentric William Burges designed hanovarian stately home.

(that the kind of thing you were after mark? :) )
 
Ooo I went there with a friend. I didn't see any ghosts though, maybe because I had my bodyguard with me. :D
 
Berry Pomeroy castle in Devon is supposed to be not only haunted but have an evil atmosphere that children find particularly distressing. Of course I had to see if that was true and took my kids there when they were younger as an experimant :D
The tall trees around made it seem a bit dark but the atmosphere wasn't bad and my kids only got scared when I hid and made ghost noises.
 
Hey I saw a spoookeeeeeeeee letter in the FT. At the Scottish castle where there's a connection to the character from 'Braveheart' a pair of huge hairy hands felt their way round a door towards a schoolkid, who swear he was the only one to see them! This was before the fillum came out so he wasn't somehow elaborating from that.
 
We got locked inside Castle Bolton in Wensleydale one time;
the only way in or out is via an old door in the castle gift shop; when we had been round the keep, we went back to the door, and the ancient latch came away in my hands...

it was a piece of black ironmongery, about four inches long, and nothing I could do could make it operate the door.
We were trapped, together with a scattering of bemused american tourists.

Knocking on the thick old medieval door, designed to withstand axe attacks, did not attract the attention of the deaf old biddy working in the gift shop for several minutes.

If Mary Queen of Scots had come down from her apartment on the second floor to see what all the noise was I wouldn't have been surprised. But she didn't.
 
A couple of villages up the coast from where I grew up is the motte and bailey of Skipsea Brough, which can be seen from the main road to Bridlington, the impressive motte looking like a mini-Silbury in the flat East Yorkshire landscape. The site has its own ghost too, Lady de Bevere, the niece of William the Conquerer. She was married to Drogo de Bevere, who had fought at Hastings and been rewarded by William by being given Skipsea, as well as his niece's hand.

Drogo, for unspecified reasons beyond being a cruel husband, fatally poisoned his wife, and immediately hot-footed it back to mainland Europe to escape William. Since then, the ghost of a lady in white has been seen around the castle's remains, believed to be Lady de Bevere.

When I was at school, a girl from Skipsea in my class once said that she'd seen a ghost at the Brough; a white figure that came through a hedge, crossed the road and then vanished. She was one of those "hard" girls (a sort of prototype for Tasha Slappa from Viz), and not the sort of person you'd think would admit to something like that for fear of ridicule (teenage girls being the most terrifying peer group in existence, IMO). She didn't seem to know about the legend, but when I started telling her about it, she just said "Shurrup!", because it scared her!
 
I'm back from a holiday in Scotland. Before going, I'd been reading 'Poltergeist over Scotland', by Geoff Holder, so I used this as a travel guide. I was very excited to visit the ruined Galdenoch Castle as it says in the book that it was considered to be so haunted that it was just abandoned - though it's also pointed out that local smuggling gangs might have found it to their advantage to circulate rumours of it being haunted!
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Sie said:
I'm back from a holiday in Scotland. Before going, I'd been reading 'Poltergeist over Scotland', by Geoff Holder, so I used this as a travel guide. I was very excited to visit the ruined Galdenoch Castle as it says in the book that it was considered to be so haunted that it was just abandoned - though it's also pointed out that local smuggling gangs might have found it to their advantage to circulate rumours of it being haunted!View attachment 59217
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Great pic. thanks for posting that :)
 
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Dublin's Castle Ghosts.

BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon

Let's explore some (reputedly) haunted castles in Dublin...

Drimnagh Castle was built approx.1216 by Sir Hugh de Bernival. It is the only remaining castle in Ireland with a flooded Norman moat. The reputedly haunted location boasts a 15th-century great hall and a 16th-century tower. The castle stayed in the same family for centuries till it was sold to a dairy farmer in the 1900s when its first restoration was attempted. It stayed in his family till it was sold to the Christian Brothers in 1953 who built a school on the land. It fell into ruin again and risked demolition in the 1970s till it was partially taken over by An Caisleán GAA who restored the coach house. In 1986 artist Peter Pearson and a local committee got FÁS to restore it and the adjoining 17th-century garden to its former glory. The venue, which was featured in The Tudors, can be hired as a wedding and party venue. Ghosts are not included in the bill!

Mysterious Puck's Castle is an easily overlooked, overgrown ruin in a cow field in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. What it lacks in size it makes up for in mythology. "Púca" as Gaeilge means a spirit, and this name was anglicised to Puck, denoting the possible haunted history of the little citadel. Built around the early 16th century, legend says it was constructed using cursed materials stolen from a nearby ancient magical ringfort called "Bearna Dhearg." To defend "The Pale," it was not unusual then to cannibalize sacred Celtic sites for stone, no matter how severe the curses were. A more recent and sadly verified story occurred in 1867. An English girl who lived locally, called Jane Eleanor Sherrard, vanished whilst picking wildflowers near the castle, never to be seen again. In this case, it seems some monsters are sadly all too human.

Dunsoghly Castle in Finglas is located on private land near the end of a runway at Dublin airport. The four-storey medieval tower house was built in 1450, and its 500-year-old roof is the last surviving original wooden roof on an Irish castle. The same family lived there for centuries until it was abandoned in the 1870s. It contains a haunted chapel dating from 1573, defensive slits in its towers, and a barrel-vaulted ground floor. Saint Oliver Plunkett reported staying there. Dunsoglhy Castle was featured in Braveheart, standing in for Edinburgh Castle home of Robert the Bruce.

800 years of continuous occupation, births, deaths, and battles means Malahide Castle is haunted by several spirits, the most famous of which is Puck. He was the creepy court jester who lived in the turret room. He was notorious for falling in love with female visitors, but sadly, his affections were never returned. He took his own life, but his diminutive apparition is seen about the castle but mainly near Pucks Door in the main hall. There is also the Lady in White, a female spirit who haunts the corridors and gardens.


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I was on holiday in Scotland in Portpatrick (right click to translate):
http://www.piloton.it/foto/portpatrick/portpatrick.html
About the castle I found on the net: a Brownie, a cursed nurse and a bagpipe player.
The castle is right next to the campsite, but unfortunately it was raining (every night and day!) and I didn't really want to keep watch at night.

The castle was said to have had a brownie or hairy man, and is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a nurse maid, who dropped a baby from one of the windows onto the beach far below, as well as a by a spectral piper and jester, who was imprisoned but found a way into caves below the old stronghold. He was never seen again but the sounds of his pipes are sometimes reputedly heard.
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Frideswide said:
HURRAH!!!!!! Portpatrick is in the area I grew up in :) A rather pretty wee harbour.

The Brownie and the dropped baby I know as stories from my childhood, but the escaping piper/jester is new to me.
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I can't certify that the bagpipe player is there because I sleep heavily at night, but I would have liked to hear him because I love bagpipes (maybe not all night long).

You grew up in a very beautiful place!
 
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