Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scariest haunted
castles in the world.
Ooooh I LIKE the sound of this!
Castles are usually very old pieces of architecture with lots of history… but they are
also hella creepy!
Have you ever been to a castle?
10 - The Tower of London Ah, the Tower of London.
The scene of much betrayal and bloodshed.
There aren’t enough hours in the day to list the amount of ghosts said to haunt this
royal fortress on the banks of the River Thames.
The tower has been the prison and death spot of some of the most famous people in British
history, including Henry the 8ths wife, Anne Boleyn.
She is said to haunt the tower to this day.
Also haunting the tower are two young princes who were killed on the orders of Richard III.
The two youngsters appear most frequently to other children who visit the tower on School
trips.
The most dramatic ghost is the ghost of the Countess of Salisbury who has a very grisly
death indeed.
She broke free of her executioner who instead of chopping off her head hacked her up with
an axe.
She can be heard screaming and running riot in the castle’s grounds.
One tourist had a turn when she was on a guided tour of the tower.
In one of the rooms used to imprison former enemies of the crown, she broke down, screaming
“there is just so much suffering”….apparently it can still be felt to this day.
On top of the human spectres, the tower is also said to be home to the ghost of a bear!
9 - SCREAMING Montebello Castle Montebello Castle is located in Switzerland
near the boarder with Italy.
Look at it.
It is an absolute beaut.
The castle was built in the 14th Century so has 6 centuries of history.
The most enduring tale from the castle is the story of Guendolina, an albino girl who
lived in the castle and was kept there as being albino was socially scorned.
Her mother dyed her hair with natural herbs to try and give it some colour, but it ended
up turning blue…earning her the nickname Azzurina.
She was forbidden to leave the castle and her father was ashamed of her.
One day, under mysterious circumstances, the girl was killed.
Stories vary as to exactly how, but they all involve her letting out a string of blood
curdling screams.
Azzurina died on the 21st June 1375, but her screams can still be heard in the castle today
and are loudest during the summer solstice – the anniversary of her death.
8 - Himeji Castle, Japan Himeji Castle was built in the 1300s into
a hilltop in the Hyogo Prefecture.
The beautiful castle is home to a dark legend and a wronged ghostly presence.
The story goes that once a servant by the name of Okiku was accused of losing valuable
crockery – and the loss of the dishes seemed to reason enough to take her life.
Okiku was dragged from the kitchen and thrown in a well in the castle grounds, where she
died.
It is said that her ghosts still haunts the castle today.
She is said to haunt both the grounds and the kitchen – she can be heard counting
dishes whilst sobbing and then shrieking and returning to the well.
7 - Tuileries Palace The Red man spotted outside Tuileries palace
in Paris was a local butcher, whereas other say he was a henchman of 16th Queen Catherine
de Medici.
Both legends agree his named was Jean and that the Queen had him killed because this
man held way too many of the crowns secrets.
A while after his death, a man was spotted in blood red attire wandering the gardens.
One man who spoke to his ghost, Neuville, reported Jean swore vengeance in the Queen
and the crown.
Aristocrats of the palace thought the he was a sign of bad luck to come – indeed Marie
Antoinette supposedly saw him shortly before meeting the guillotine.
Napoleon, however, quite liked the fellow and would talk to him about war strategy.
Those visiting the old palace today occasionally spot the man in red.
Oh dear.
Monte Cristo Homestead, New South Wales, Australia
6 - The Witches of Moosham Castle Unternberg Austria held its own gruesome witch
trials between 1675 and 1690.
These were the Zubererjackl trials during which 139 people were killed.
Strangely for witch trials, most of those killed were men…113 men to be precise.
Those killed on suspicion of witchcraft were tortured first, then wither burned alive,
or hung or decapitated.
As you can imagine, as the scene of hundreds of brutal and unjust murders, the building
carries a certain tension, even if you don’t believe in ghosts.
If you do though, it is thought that the spirits of the wronged plague the castle, crying and
shrieking at night.
One of the murdered was a 10 year old orphan who was killed for simply being homeless.
His cries are the loudest.
Beyond the story of the witch trials, there is the tale of Werewolf hunts in the 1800s.
Deer and cattle began showing up dead around the grounds.
Suspected werewolves were taken to the dungeon and killed.
Some say they hear the growls of torture victims emanating from the dungeons at night.
5 - Frankenstein Castle You may recognise the name Frankenstein.
Well it is though that this castle inspired Mary Shelley’s famous novel of the same
name.
The castle is in Darmstadt Germany in the Hesse Region.
The 13th century castle is thought to be haunted by the ghost of Johann Konrad Dippel, a bad
bad man!
Dippel was a physician and alchemist who wanted to resurrect the dead.
He would rob graves by night and use the bodies in his elixirs and potions.
It seems that he wanted to find a potion to resurrect the dead and also to generate immortality.
In the end, drinking one of his concoctions killed him.
It is thought that his spirit haunts Frankenstein castle and so to may the spirits of his unearthed
experiments.
He is most frequently spotted between Christmas and New Year sitting on the chapel roof.
4 - The Hellish Houska Castle in the Czech Republic
Houska Castle is a gothic fort in the middle of nowhere and it is said that even to this
day, animals stay away from the castle’s walls, preferring the wild lands the shelter
the structure would bring.
In folklore, the castle is known as the gateway to hell.
Legend has it that demons and dragons have been spotted pouring forth from the castle’s
vile mouth.
Indeed some even say they have seen ghouls there today.
To make matters worse, the castle was taken over by the Nazis during world war two and
it is said that they tortured hundreds of people there as well as conducting inhuman
medical tests.
Some think the Nazi’s were drawn the building as it was so hellish, others say it was a
coincidence.
Most agree the property is haunted and only a few brave souls will step inside.
Those that have claim they are constantly being watched.
3 - Dracula’s Castle Oh!
So Bran Castle, better known as Draculas Castle is a stately 13th century castle linked to
the dark legend of Dracula because of its Transylvania location – or – modern day
Romania.
The famous literary vampire aside, the castle was home to the extra ghoulish Vlad the Impaler,
thought to be one of the worst and most evil tyrants to ever live.
Vlad the Impaler was alive until 1477 and in his 50ish years on earth his caused literal
hell.
Many suspected that he himself was a vampire because of the ghoulish way he would kill
people.
It is a popular legend that the vampire, or the ghost of vlad, haunt the castle today.
How nightmarish.
2 - Fyvie Castle Ah, I love Scotland!
You’ll find plenty of ghost stories in Scotland, especially in Scottish castles!
A little north of Aberdeen you will find the breath taking Fyvie castle.
Fyvie is haunted by the ghost of poor Lilias Drummond, who died of both an empty stomach
and an empty heart.
It seems she had an abusive husband who would beat her and in the end it is said he locked
her in a room and starved her to death in 1601.
It seems that Lilias ghost has haunted the castle ever since and strangely appears as
a green spectre.
The night her husband took a new wife, she carved her name in the stone wall of her husbands
bedroom where it can still be seen today.
It seems that her spirit shows up when bad things are about to happen to the castles
owners or in the area.
Aside from her mournful spirit it is also said that the castle is haunted by a trumpeter
who’s instrument can be heard when death is nearby.
1 - Leap Castle, Ireland Leap castle is often hailed as the most haunted
castle in the entire world.
The castle in county Offaly dates back to the 1200s and today is in partial ruin.
The castle was owned by the O’Carrolls clan but was under constant siege.
On one occasion a priest was killed in a brawl between warning clans…sadly his death took
place in what is now known as the Bloody Chapel.
The Priest is said to still haunt the chapel today and is pretty unhappy about his death
– which, you know, fair.
The story of the priest is one of the more notable deaths, but plenty of blood has been
shed in the castle, at the hands of attackers AND the O Carrolls.
The O’Carrolls were said to have been a brutish bunch back in the day and they were
thought to have captured and raped a woman who fell pregnant.
When the woman birthed her child it was killed by her captors.
It is said that her angry spirit haunts the castle wielding a knife ready to stab in a
fit of revenge.
The worst spirit of all though is the spirit of something locals call IT.
IT is around the size of a sheep, it is an unidentifiable animal and it has a decaying
face.
Before you see IT you will smell it….
It comes with a waft of rotting flesh and sulphur.
SO that was the Top 10 Scariest Haunted Castles – would you like to visit them?
I would!
I love history …. I would just make sure I visited in the day!
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