World's Scariest Hauntings

In the 1700s, murder, misery and unnatural death was rife in the slums of Scotland’s historic capital city.

Built in 1779, Bodmin Jail in Cornwall has housed notorious criminals, some were put to death there. It is now a museum and soon, a hotel complex.

Since the 12th century in Rye, on the south coast of England, The Mermaid Inn once played host to the notorious band of smugglers, the Hawkhurst Gang.

The Merchant’s House Museum was built in 1832 in New York City. It housed the Tredwell family for nearly 100 years, but did their spirits ever leave?

Built in 1952 and Nestled deep in the Essex woodland, the Kelvedon Hatch bunker was designed as a safehouse in the event of a Nuclear attack.

In rural North Wales, Plas Teg is a 17th century Jacobean mansion that literally translates into Fair Mansion, but now it may be more foul than fair.

With tales of bloodshed and slaughter, Leap Castle wouldn’t look out of place in a Hollywood fantasy world. But some stories are very much real.

The cosmopolitan district of Griffintown in Montreal, Canada has a dark past. Irish immigrants in the 1700s died from diseases and murders were rife.

North of Prague in the countryside of the Czech Republic, sits Houska Castle, one of the most mysterious fortresses in the world.