Haunted Places in Wales
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Wales keeps its ghost stories close to the landscape. Hillforts, slate quarries, ruined abbeys and coastal manors give the country a particular kind of haunting, tied to work and weather and the sea rather than to grand tragedy, and a good many of the legends here are still told in Welsh first. This list of haunted places in Wales covers the castles, chapels and quarry towns where the stories have never quite settled.
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Adelina Patti’s Opera House: Craig-y-Nos Castle Ghost Tours
Few buildings in Wales carry three lives as distinct as this one. Craig-y-Nos Castle ghost tours are advertised today at a Scots baronial country…
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Stripped of Its Lead Roof: Haunted Gwrych Castle, Abergele
Anyone who goes looking for haunted Gwrych Castle should be warned at the outset that the documented ghost lore is far thinner than the…
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Wales’s Earliest Photograph and Haunted Margam Castle
Anyone searching for haunted Margam Castle will find a great deal written about ghosts and remarkably little of it anchored to anything. What the…
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Walter the Butler’s Tobacco Smoke: Haunted Newton House
Just west of the market town of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, haunted Newton House sits inside Dinefwr Park, a stretch of Welsh parkland that has…
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The Grey Lady on the A541: Plas Teg, Flintshire
Few buildings in north Wales carry a reputation quite like this one, and the Plas Teg grey lady is the reason most people slow…
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Haunted Powis Castle: 900 Years of Record, No Ghost in It
Search for haunted Powis Castle and the name comes back attached to the usual promises: figures on stairs, cold rooms, watching eyes. What the…