Raby Castle
In a letter to Sir Cuthbert Sharp, the county historian Robert Surtees told him that Christopher, first Lord Barnard, was persuaded by his wife into…
Category: Haunted England
Neville’s Cross, Durham
Neville’s Cross, the mutilated remains of which are now a listed ancient monument, gave its name to a battle fought here on 17 October 1346…
Langley Hall
The ruins of Langley Hall, built in the reign of Henry VIII and sited picturesquely on a hillside east of Durham, inspired a legend of…
Hylton Castle
‘Every castle, tower, or manor-house, has its visionary inhabitants’, says Robert Surtees in 1820, and goes on to tell of perhaps the most famous in…
Hurworth
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, writing in 1854, says that a spirit known by the name of Hob Hedeless (Headless) haunted the road between Hurworth and…
Glowrowram
In a green lane called Petty Lane at Glowrowram, near Chester-le-Street, used to be seen the ghost of a woman. When approached, the figure would…
Glassensikes, Darlington
According to W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, writing in 1854, the name ‘Glassensikes’ referred to ‘certain closes’ watered by a small stream of this name flowing…
Darlington
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, in his history of the parish of Darlington (1854), speaks of ‘the unearthly tread of Lady Jarratt who still inhabits the…
Chester-le-Street
John Webster, in his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677), gives an account of a murder here that was revealed by a ghost. He says that,…
Bishopswearmouth
In the eighteenth century, Building or Beyldon Hill had an eerie reputation. In 1767, during a lawsuit against a man called John Thornhill, a woman…
