Haunted places in the UK

Hello, my name is Mia, and my topic is haunted buildings in the UK. Well let's see. I will begin this presentation with one of the most haunted places in England. That will be:

Schooner Hotel
The history of the hotel is not well documented but there are many stories of murders, suicides and massacres. There have even been reports of babies being thrown into fires! The Schooner Hotel is situated in Alnmouth, a small village on the coast of Northumberland. Throughout history many ghosts have been seen, heard, and felt. The stories and rumours of the actual events that may have caused these ghosts to be haunting the hotel are lost or forgotten. The Poltergeist Society has given the Schooner Hotel the title of "Most Haunted Hotel in Great Britain" twice. It has been investigated and is listed on record as having over 60 individual ghosts. The ghosts have become more active the last few years where they have been over 3,000 sightings reported. Whisperings are heard and screams are heard. Knocks and clicking noises and raps are heard in certain room as well, especially room 28, 29, 30. Dark shadows are seen. People have experienced feeling uneasy, dizzy and sick in these rooms. Each of the rooms is identically furnished (except Room 30 which had only one bed as opposed to two in the others). Once, it was said, these rooms weren't separate and the walls in between had been added at a later date to turn one large room, into three.

One of the most popular ghost stories associated with this haunted hotel directly involves the room that is identified as 28. Rumor has it that an entire family was murdered in this room, but very few details have been released about this crime. Some staff have experienced the feelings of been watched in certain rooms and a sense of dreed when they need to go into the "haunted" rooms. There is also supposed to be the Presence of a Solider walking the corridors and also a maid who haunted the stairs. If you want to experience perhaps one of the worlds most haunted hotels, you should visit the Schooner Hotel today. Is Interesting for me that I could find more information about this hotel. What happened in those rooms, for now, remains a mystery....

The tower of London

The Tower of London, one of the most famous and well-preserved historical buildings in the world, may also be one of the most haunted. This is due, no doubt, to the scores of executions, murders and tortures that have taken place within its walls over the last 1,000 years. Dozens upon dozens of ghost sightings have been reported in and around the Tower. On one winter day in 1957 at 3 a.m., a guard was disturbed by something striking the top of his guardhouse. When he stepped outside to investigate, he saw a shapeless white figure on top of the tower. It was then realized that on that very same date, February 12, Lady Jane Grey was beheaded in 1554. Perhaps the most well-known ghostly resident of the Tower is the spirit of Ann Boleyn, one of the wives of Henry VIII, who was also beheaded in the Tower in 1536. Her ghost has been spotted on many occasions, sometimes carrying her head, on Tower Green and in the Tower Chapel Royal. Other ghosts of the Tower include those of Henry VI, Thomas a Becket and Sir Walter Raleigh. One of the most gruesome ghost stories connected with the Tower of London describes death of the Countess of Salisbury. According to one account, "the Countess was sentenced to death in 1541 following her alleged involvement in criminal activities (although it is now widely believed that she was probably innocent). After being sent struggling to the scaffold, she ran from the block and was pursued until she was hacked to death by the axe man." Her execution ceremony has been seen re-enacted by spirits on Tower Green.

Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire

Woodchester Mansion is an unfinished Gothic revival mansion in Gloucestershire. Whilst it looks complete from the outside, inside, several rooms, lots of plaster and whole floors are missing. Over the years it has gained a reputation as a haunted location and several paranormal sightings have been reported, including that of a phantom horseman, the Tall Man of the Chapel and a ghost in the cellar. Some visitors to the mansion have been attacked by ghosts and others have collapsed, whilst women who have been to the bathroom have reported seeing a floating head. The ghost of a little girl and the ghost of an old woman have also been spotted at the site.

Edinburgh
Edinburgh is one of those places where sceptics cross the threshold and start saying yes. A few years ago, Time Magazine set out to name the ten most haunted places in the world and included Edinburgh Castle on that list. For starters, a headless drummer has been seen and heard in the castle halls beginning around 1650. Lady Glamis, accused of witchcraft in 1537 and burned at the stake while her young son watched, is also known to prowl the dark halls. A ghost dog has even been seen delicately prancing through the misty graveyard. There have been so many hauntings for so long that Edinburgh Castle attracted one of the most thorough paranormal investigations ever. In 2001, an English doctor enlisted roughly 240 volunteers to spend 10 days in and around the castle. The volunteers were all screened to insure that none of them knew anything about the castle. The findings? The place is a paranormal hot spot. Many of the volunteer experiences were consistent with past sightings at the castle. There were burning sensations, phantom gropes, shadowy figures and a specter in a leather apron seen in the same spot he was seen by unrelated individuals before the study. Its ancient dungeons and cobbled corridors are home to some serious creepiness.

Village of Pluckley, Kent

Pluckley village has a reputation for being the most haunted village in Britain and it was actually named just that by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1989. Between 12 and 16 ghosts have been reported in the village, including a screaming man, a highwayman who appears at Fright Corner, a schoolmaster found hanged by a group of children and an old woman who used to sit on a bridge smoking. Pluckley has been featured in numerous television programmes and is a favourite spot of ghost-hunters across the country.

Pendle Hill, Lancashire

Fans of Living TV's Most Haunted go into raptures when remembering the episode that saw psychic investigators decamp to the scene of Britain's most famous witch trial. Ten of the socalled Pendle Witches were hanged at Lancaster Castle in 1612 (possibly just innocent victims of the whims of witchcraft-obsessed James I). Their ghosts reputedly haunt the village of Newchurch, which lies in the dark, brooding shadow of Pendle Hill and is where one of the witches is said to be buried. Depending on what you believe, the events in the much-eulogised Most Haunted episode were either TV presenters trying to scare themselves and their audience witless or the spirits still seething at a terrible injustice.

Borley Rectory, Essex

Borley Rectory was a Victorian mansion in the pretty village of Borley, Essex. It was destroyed by fire in 1939, but gained a reputation as being heavily haunted after a series of locals reported some unexplained paranormal goings-on. In fact, the hauntings at Borley caught the nations attention when the story of Borley was covered in the Daily Mirror and by noted paranormal investigator Harry Price. The first indication that there was something paranormal happening at the hotel were footsteps heard in the dead of the night in the 1860s. The ghost of a nun, two headless horsemen, a phantom carriage, the phantom ringing of the servants bells and bottle-throwing are just some of the paranormal incidents reported at Borley.

Ancient Ram Inn, Gloucestershire, England

Whether you believe in ghosts or not, a trip to the Ancient Ram Inn is an unsettling experience. Its creaky floorboards, cold bare walls, musty smells and dimly lit nooks and crannies epitomise everything a haunted house should be. And the stories attached to this creepy building are not for the fainthearted: Murder, satanism and child sacrifice are just a few of the dark deeds said to have occurred here, oh and did I mention apparently its built on a pagan burial ground?

And that's it. Any questions?