๐ป Haunted Places in Scotland
From haunted castles to pubs with a resident ghost, these are the most haunted places in Scotland that you can actually visit. Each guide tells the story as reported, separates legend from history, and finishes with ghost tours, opening notes and places to stay nearby.
7 places ยท guides with full ghost stories first.
๐ฐ Castle ยท Angus
Glamis Castle
The Queen Mother's childhood home, a bricked-up card game with the Devil and the secret that every heir is sai...
5 ghosts
๐๏ธ House ยท Edinburgh
Mary King's Close
A 17th-century street buried beneath the Royal Mile, a room of dolls for a girl called Annie, and a plague myt...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
โช Abbey, church or graveyard ยท Edinburgh
Greyfriars Kirkyard
The graveyard of Greyfriars Bobby, the Covenanters' Prison and a poltergeist accused of hundreds of physical a...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
๐ฐ Castle ยท Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle
A fortress on a volcanic rock with a phantom piper beneath it, a headless drummer on the ramparts and a scienc...
5 ghosts
โ๏ธ Battlefield ยท Highland
Culloden Battlefield
The moor where the Jacobite cause died in under an hour, and where, every 16 April, the fallen are said to fig...
4 ghosts
๐๏ธ Hotel ยท Midlothian
Dalhousie Castle
A 13th-century Ramsay stronghold turned castle hotel, where a Grey Lady taps on bedroom doors and dinner is se...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
๐ฐ Castle ยท Aberdeenshire
Fyvie Castle
Five towers, five families, a Green Lady who carved her name into a window ledge and a curse laid by Thomas th...
5 ghosts
Haunted Places in Scotland: your questions answered
What is the most haunted place in Scotland? ๏ผ
Opinions differ, but the places at the top of this page are the ones with the longest record of published sightings and investigations in Scotland. Every guide lists its sources so you can judge for yourself.