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The GuardianOct 30, 2026

‘Expect goosebumps!‘: to celebrate Halloween, readers choose the spookiest places in the UK

From a ghostly hill fort on the South Downs to a haunted farmhouse in remote Northern Ireland, you guide us to some frightfully scary places • Tell us about an escape in the wilds of Scotland – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucher Dunnottar Castle , perched on cliffs above the crashing North Sea, is one of Scotland’s eeriest places. The most haunting part is the Whigs Vault, where more than…

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  • Cooneen Ghost HouseSightAbandoned farmhouse with old poltergeist stories, glimpsed from the road.
  • Crocknagrally ForestTrailPerfect for a cold-weather ramble, wonderfully secluded and remote.
  • Elsewhere
  • Whitby AbbeyAttractionWhitby, United KingdomRuined arches and weathered stone above the Yorkshire coast, inspiring Dracula.
  • Pentre IfanSightPembrokeshire, United KingdomNeolithic burial chamber with a 16-ton capstone on three stone points.
  • Dunnottar CastleSightAberdeen, United KingdomPrisoners confined in dreadful conditions in 1685 in the Whigs Vault.
  • Shepton Mallet prisonSightShepton Mallet, United KingdomOpened in 1625, offers daytime or night-time ghost tours.
  • St Thomas à Becket churchSightHebden Bridge, United KingdomRoofless 13th-century structure with a hollowed-out stone tower.
  • The Four Crosses InnRestaurantStaffordshire, United KingdomMost haunted pub in England, now only open for tours.
  • Nant GwrtheyrnSightLlŷn peninsula, United KingdomOnce abandoned quarrying village with a tale of Rhys and Meinir.
  • Slains CastleSightAberdeen, United KingdomCastle ruins on cliffs above the North Sea, evoking bats and aristocrats.
  • Chanctonbury RingSightWest Sussex, United KingdomIron age hill fort where walking the ring seven times may summon the devil.
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