The Most Haunted Castles

The Most Haunted Castles: 30 hand-picked locations. Each includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🏰 Berkeley Castle Berkeley, Gloucestershire Ever since Edward II was murdered here in 1327, the castle has echoed with his ghostly screams.
• 🏰 Chillingham Castle Northumberland The radiant Blue Boy cried at midnight in the Pink Room — and a renovation uncovered a child’s bones walled up in blue cloth. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Dragsholm Castle Sjælland, Odsherred In 1910 they broke open the old wall and found a skeleton in a sealed niche. The noblewoman Celestine had vanished around 1550. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Rosenholm Castle Østjylland, Hornslet The white lady had walked the corridors for centuries — until builders opened a tower wall and found the skeleton of a young woman inside. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh, Scotland "Britain's most besieged place" — 26 sieges in 1,100 years, today known for paranormal phenomena. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Glamis Castle Angus, Scotland Earl Beardie is said to play cards with the Devil in a secret room — and the castle hides the legend of the Monster of Glamis. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Harridslevgaard Castle Fyn, Bogense Funen's most haunted castle. Anne Lykke was beheaded for witchcraft in 1641. A man must every night ride his pregnant sister to death.
• 🏰 Skryne Castle Meath Lilith Palmerston runs screaming through the upper floor clutching her throat — as on the night Phelim Sellers choked her to death there. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Palazzo Cenci Rome On the night of 11 September, Beatrice Cenci climbs the stairs of her childhood home — carrying her severed head in her hands. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Visborggaard Castle Hadsund, Jylland Denmark's richest haunted castle: three phantom carriages, a cursed portrait that harms all who touch it, a battered wife and a wicked mademoiselle.
• 🏰 Woodcroft Castle Helpston, Cambridgeshire Cries of mercy, mercy are still heard from the walls, the phantom siege of Dr Hudson.
• 👻 Al Qasimi Palace Ras al-Khaimah The sheikh's family is said to have fled the grand palace after a single night – ever since, children's faces peer out from behind the cracked window panes. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Ängsö Castle Västmanland On an island in Lake Mälaren, Karl XII's court jester is still said to walk — nearly 300 years after his death. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 The Lion's Bride of Neugebäude Palace Vienna Four-year-old Berta led an escaped lion back to its cage and was named the Lion's Bride. On her wedding day she stepped inside one last time. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The White Lady of the Theresianum Vienna The white lady stepped in to a fevered pupil — he died soon after. The gatekeeper who merely glimpsed her fell into nervous fever himself. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort de la Chartreuse Vallonien – provinsen Liège In this abandoned fort above Liège – monastery, prison and war hospital in one – the spirit of a dead nurse is said to still make her rounds. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Carrickfergus Castle Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland The fortress founded in 1185 is haunted by Buttoncap, a soldier wrongly executed.
• 🏰 Castle Rising Castle King's Lynn, Norfolk Home to the howls of the mad queen Isabella, the She Wolf, imprisoned here in 1330.
• 🗡️ Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña Havanna In the vast fortress above Havana harbour, phantom soldiers are said to march through dark passageways where shots and cries echo at night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Český Krumlov Castle Jihočeský kraj Two legends meet at Krumlov Castle: the silent walks of the White Lady, and the emperor's son who murdered the barber's daughter Markéta. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Lemberk Chateau Liberecký kraj At Lemberk, castellans and visitors hear heavy footsteps in empty halls and organ music from the locked chapel. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Špilberk Fortress Jihomoravský kraj Legend says prisoners were chained by the sewer channel and eaten alive by rats — and that their souls never left the casemates. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Dallund Slot Fyn, Søndersø Eiler Høg drove a carpenter to suicide in the 1600s — and still haunts the place. Two hellhounds tore a colonel to pieces. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Aalholm Castle, Lolland Lolland-Falster, Nysted The king fled up the chimney when the knights broke down the door. They pulled him down and locked him up here. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Clausholm Castle Østjylland, Randers The king had her carried out through a window and married her that same evening — she returned here as dowager queen, and is said to return still. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Koldinghus Sydjylland, Kolding Dowager Queen Dorothea makes her rounds every night to check that the guests behave — several have had their hats knocked off in the castle chapel. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Sønderborg Castle, Als Sønderjylland, Als Legend says the imprisoned king walked circle after circle around the table in his room until he wore a groove in the top with his thumb. For seventeen years. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Tranekær Castle, Langeland Fyn, Langeland The guest in the wing woke night after night to heavy footsteps coming slowly towards her door — and stopping outside it. No one was there. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Dover Castle Kent A headless drummer boy is said to walk the tunnels — murdered and beheaded while carrying a sum of money. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort of San Cristóbal Navarra 795 prisoners broke out of the mountain fortress in 1938 — over 200 were shot down on the slopes, where walkers now speak of voices in the fog. 🛏 Book a night here

FAQ

The Most Haunted Castles — which places are included?

The list has 30 places, among them Berkeley Castle, Chillingham Castle and Dragsholm Castle.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

24 of the places on the list are hotels or inns where you can book a night. The rest are places you can visit.

Where are these places?

You will find them in Denmark, United Kingdom, Czechia, Austria, Ireland and Italy.

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