This red-brick manor house has racked up quite a few ghosts since it was completed in the 1630s. The very first tenant, Sir Thomas Holte, allegedly murdered his cook, and the ghost of his daughter, who he locked away for 16 years until her death, is also said to wander the halls alongside Holte’s houseboy and a ‘green lady’, thought to be his housekeeper. Keep your eyes peeled for ghostly Royalist soldiers too. There’s a hole in Aston Hall’s staircase made by a cannonball when the house was under siege during the English Civil War.
The United Kingdom is a scary place. Terrifying, in fact, a country where nightmares sometimes become reality. Of course, it also happens to be one of the friendliest places in the world and an absolute dream on the tourism front, but don’t get too comfortable. British ghosts might be polite, but that doesn’t make them any less ghoulish.
From north to south and east to west, the UK is packed with rickety old mansions, abandoned castles, eerie cemeteries and post-industrial landscapes that might be more terrifying than anything the undead can throw at you. History is everywhere here, and not all of that history is happy gathering dust in the books. What was that noise? It was probably your imagination, but ‘probably’ isn’t the most certain of terms. These are the most haunted places in the UK and they aren’t for the faint of heart.
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