South Cumbria’s most haunted locations have been revealed

The online database of haunted locations across the UK shows spooky spots - from hotels, pubs and manor houses to train tunnels and old ruins.  

WITH Halloween fast approaching, we’ve taken a look at the locations with recorded paranormal sightings.  

1) Furness Abbey - Barrow-in-Furness

This former monastery founded in 1123 is said to have reports of a ‘White Lady’ who promenades along ‘My Lady’s Walk’.

According to reports, she is a sad ghost who returns to the place where she secretly met her lover. Apparently, he went to sea and never came back.

A few other ghostly monks have been sighted here. The first walks towards the gatehouse where he vanishes, whilst the other climbs a staircase.

2) Rawlinson Nab – Lake Windermere

According to legend, one man who encountered ‘The Crier of Claife’ wailing as an omen of doom, died a few hours later of terror.  

It is believed that the Crier is a monk who fell in love with a woman, but when his feelings were not shared, he went to Claife Heights and freed his soul before dropping dead.

Apparently, an exorcism to entrap the spirit to a quarry was only partially successful and dogs are uneasy in the area.

3) Cartmel Priory Gatehouse – Cartmel

According to reports, a man in a tall hat, who vanishes when spoken to, is supposedly seen here.

4) Levens Hall – Levens

A ‘Grey Lady’ is said to haunt the driveway of this manor house in the Kent valley. She has been known to step out in front of vehicles.

According to legend, she is a pregnant gypsy woman who put a curse on the hall in the 18th century when she was turned away when starving. She has also been reported nearby on the A6. She is sometimes seen with a small, unclipped poodle dog with bright eyes on the staircase.

A ‘pink lady’ dressed like a 18th century maid, a black shape in a corridor, a young girl, a man with a stick and a woman with a child have also been sighted at the bottom of a bed during the night, as well as flashing lights in the gardens.

5) Sizergh Castle – Helsington

A suspicious lord who locked his wife in a chamber whilst he visited the king, was sighted at this Grade I listed building. It is alleged he gave instructions to the servants not to release the lady.

Eventually she died and her screams are still heard to this day, but the location of the room has never been determined.

6) Fairthwaite Park House – Kirkby Lonsdale

There is said to be a former owner who murdered children who disappeared here in the 18th century. The cries of the children can apparently still be heard today.

7) The Whoop Hall – Kirkby Lonsdale

Shrieks have been heard here at this family run hotel attributed to a coachman who was murdered.

8) Kirkstone Pass Inn - Ambleside

The ghost of a child is said to haunt this temporarily pub and is believed to be responsible for poltergeist-like activity.

He is believed to be the son of a coachman who was killed when he was run down by a carriage and has been seen looking through a window.

A phantom coachman has also been observed outside the building along with a ‘Grey Lady’ who is said to walk in the nearby in the vicinity of a tree where she was hanged after killing her child.

According to reports, another phantom that has lived in the area since the 18th century is ‘Ruth Ray’. She died not far from the inn, and a woman cradling a baby has been seen looking through a window especially when the weather is snowy.

A baby crying and the shape of a dark window have also been spotted near the inn, which boasts phantom footsteps and has an unnerving effect on dogs.

9) Blea Moor Tunnel - Ingleton

A ‘cloying, sickly smell’ has been reported to spread through the carriages of trains when travelling in this tunnel on the Carlisle to Settle Railway line. It is rumoured to be the remnant of those killed during the construction of the tunnel.

10) The Moorcock Inn – Nelson

The victims of a train collision just after the Moorcock Tunnel on Christmas Eve in 1910 have been seen to move furniture and cause other minor nuisances at this inn.

It comes after their bodies were stored at the bed and breakfast after the accident.

11) Pendragon Castle – Kirkby Stephen

This ruin in the Millerstang valley is reported to be the home of a black phantom hen that protects a treasure in the area. According to legend, it fills in the holes dug by seekers of fortune.

12) The Black Swan Hotel & Restaurant - Ravenstonedale

A haunted man and woman are said to walk in the cellar of this four-star hotel.  There has also been a report of a lady in mourning watching over a coffin in the breakfast room.

13) Frank’s Bridge – Kirkby Stephen

A lady who escaped from Hartley Castle near Kirkby Stephen has been heard here. She has been given the nickname ‘Jangling Annas’ because of the sound made b her wrists. She is said to have drowned below the bridge.

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