Spirit Level
Rachel Lacy, York's Ghostfinder General, is often asked which is the most haunted building in York. As a result we've produced Spirit Level: report your ghosts here and we'll add them to the list.
Hauntings which involve multiple ghosts but are always seen as a group are counted as one haunting. If its not certain that they are linked or possibly the same haunting in different guises, they have been given the benefit of the doubt and counted them separately.
Please remember this is just a bit of fun and not to be taken too seriously!
The Spirit Level Map:
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| Number | Place | Reported Hauntings |
| 20 | Haunted, 35 Stonegate | Black Cat (office) Angry Man (Seance Room) Scared Girl (Seance Room) Young Queen Victoria (Stained Glass Room) The Growler (Mask Room) Old Woman (Cellar) Lady in Black (Dining Room) Red-Headed Nurse (Dining Room) Shabby Alexander (Seance Room) Furniture Mover Scots Billy Black Tom Cats (Cellar) Tudor Lady Two Little Boys (Dining Room) Boy in a Flat Cap (Dining Room) Unhappy Girl (staircase) The 4pm Woman (shop) Distressed Woman (staff kitchen) Annabelle (throughout) |
| 18 | Black Swan, Peasholme Green Golden Fleece, Pavement | Man in the Bowler Hat Young Woman in White Pair of Legs Well Heeled Man Headless Barman Irish Songstress Children in the Attic Staircase Soldiers Raven Haired Girl French Airmen Unearthly Screams Strong Man Ghost in the Ladies Toilet Faces in the Windows Singing Chef Strutting Cockscomb English Civil War Officer at the Bar The Haunted Pipe Geoff Monroe Bedroom Poltergeist Regal Lady Lady Alice Peckitt Man in Blue Face at the Window Abused Woman Floating Head Furniture Moving Young Woman In Black One Eyed Jack Jack (The Boy) Kitchen Girl Roman Soldiers Edward Doppleganger Footsteps on the Stairs Gramaphone in the Night |
| 14 | Lendal Tower | Fighting Men Old Hermit Strangled Man Cat in the Garden Waiting Woman Irish Children The Lookout Typhoid Man Singing Drunk Man with the Glasses Greedy Man The Dreamer Keeper of the Secret Cold Nun |
| 13 | Dean Court Hotel, Duncombe Place | Grey Lady The Porter Roaring 30s VIP Stephenson Lost Child Housekeeper Annie Swearing Man Dottie Spoilt Jane Robert & The Ape The Good Girl The Butcher Singing American |
| 8 | York Dungeon, Clifford Street | Tall Dark Man in Black Hat Guye Fawkes The Evil in the Darkness De Soulis The Schoolmistress Georgian George Lady Anne Footsteps on the Stairs |
| 7 | Red Lion, Merchantgate | Old Woman by the Fire The Sorter Hanging Bloody Woman Woman in Red Fire Stoker Barman Man in the Corner |
| 6 | Snickelways, Goodramgate Treasurer's House | Elizabethan Barman Evil in the Cellar Lavender Lady Happy Girl Cat Grey Shape Ninth Legion Mute Roman Frank Green Wronged Woman Boy With No Eyes Sir George Aislaby |
| 5 | King's Manor, Exhibition Square Roman Bathhouse, St Sampson's Square Royal Oak, Goodramgate Ye Olde Starre Inn, Stonegate | Peaceful Monk Tudor Lady Grey Ghost Screaming Soldiers Thomas Wentworth Centurian & Slave The Feet Blinding Light Cougher Dressing Soldiers Little Girl Boy on the Stairs Charlotte Emptyness in the Cellar Door Slammer Injured Soldiers Royalist Officer Two Black Cats Thing in the Cellar Faceless Woman |
| 4 | Holy Trinity Priory, Micklegate Punch Bowl, Stonegate St William's College, College Street York Castle Museum York Minster | Plague Family Isobel Warde Woman in Black Feeling of Decay Landlord's Head Man in the Hat Grey Lady Beaten Barmaid Plague Girl Guilty Conscience Smiling Woman Last Rights Condemned Woman Footsteps in the Gallery Hellfire Preacher Voices in the Cells "There Is A Future State" Medieval Watcher Dean Gale The Craftsman |
| 3 | Artful Dodger, Micklegate Ebor Inn, Main Street, Bishopthorpe Grand Opera House, Cumberland Street Gray's Court St Crux Church, Pavement St George's Field York Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Place | Dickensian man and his dog Sarah (The Falling Girl) The Watcher Two Children Crying Boy Old Lady in the Lounge The Dresser Caretaker Aubrey Lady Gray Woman in Green Glowing Child Wandering Woman Funeral Blues Tall Man Duellist Highwayman Blind Evil Grey Lady Stabbed Actor The Pianist |
| 2 | 69 Micklegate (formerly Los Locos) Barley Hall, Coffee Yard, Stonegate Blacksmith's Arms, Huntington Clifford's Tower Cock & Bottle, Skeldergate Holy Trinity, Goodramgate Hospitium, Museum Gardens Judges' House, Judges' Yard Micklegate Bar Millthorpe School Mojitos (formerly Thomas's Hotel), Museum Street Richard III Museum, Monk Bar River Ouse The Roman Bath Siward's Howe St Cuthbert's Church, Peasholme Green St Peter's School, Clifton York Crown Court York Explore, Library Square, Museum Street York Tyburn (Former) Yorkshire Herald Building, Coney Street | Curious Girl The Voice Stealer Footsteps in the Night The 'Costumed Visitors' The Leaving Man Modern Ghost Bleeding Stones Shadowy Figure in the Chapel George Villiers The Opening Door Thomas Percy The Organist Departing Soldiers Ghost Within A Ghost Henry & His Victim Man with One Spur Sarah Brocklebank Drunken Man Victorian Nurse Whispering Student Missing Shoes Dancing Chairs The Watcher Noises in the Little Ease Ghost Ships Barge Disaster Waiting Funeral Woman in Black Saxon Lord Murdered Servant Winding Sheet Grieving Girl Grey Lady Former Pupil Face in the Panel The Knocker Black Abbot Vanishing Woman Grubby Boy Three Men With a Boat Batter Bill Roman Soldiers |
| 1 | All Saints' Church, Pavement The Antiques Centre, 41 Stonegate Battle of Fulford site Bedern Bishopthorpe Road Black Swan Coney Street/A64 Sand Hutton Bootham Bar Boyes. Goodramgate Brown Cow, Hope Street Bumper Castle, Wigginton Road Castlegate House, Castlegate City Screen York, Coney Street Clifton Lodge Cole School of Dancing, Bishophill Senior Coppergate Walk Davygate Deangate Edinburgh Arms, Fishergate Five Lions, Walmgate Friargate Theatre, Lower Friargate Gert & Henrys, Jubbergate Goodramgate High Petergate Imphal Barracks, Fulford Lendal Cellars Little John, Castlegate Lord Nelson, Nether Poppleton Lund's Court Merchant Adventurers' Hall, Fossgate The Melbourne, Cemetery Road Middlethorpe Hall National Railway Museum, Leeman Road Old Grey Mare, Clifton Green Old White Swan (Former) Painted Wagon Saloon, Piccadilly Park Inn, North Street La Piazza, Goodramgate La Place Verte, Skeldergate Bridge Motorhouse Poad's House, Walmgate The Priory, Micklegate St Leonard's Hospital, Museum Gardens St Mary's Abbey Ruins, Museum Gardens St Mary's Church, Castlegate (Former) St Peter's Prison, Deangate St Saviour's Church (now DIG), St Saviourgate Tap & Spile, Monkgate Three Tuns, Coppergate La Vecchia Scuola, High Petergate The Windmill, Blossom Street Yates' York Arms, High Petergate York Brewery, Toft Green York Cemetery Chapel Yorkshire Hussar, North Street Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens Yorkshire Terrier, Stonegate | Lady in White Little Girl The Watchers Children of Bedern Archbishope Scrope's Funeral Tom & Nance Modern Man Monk in the Warehouse Face in the Cellar Ma Johnson Little Grey Lady Ginger Man Murderous Mother Change Counter Craven's Poltergeist Battling Soldiers Cyclists Tidy Nuns Green Jenny Polish Albert Sad Parliamentarian Rattling Chains Swirling Mist Old Soldier Monks Thing in the Cellar English Civil War Officer Mad Alice Scared Apprentice Drinking Man Murdered Mother Haunted Carriage Hanged Man Men by the Open Fire Oscar Dark Figure Marmaduke Buckle Sorrowing Stephen Presence in the Library Unknown Poltergeist Nurse Black Abbot Walter Calverley Broken-Hearted Woman Angry Viking Edwardian Gent Smoking Soldier Whispering Ghost Passing Footsteps Man in the Big Hat Grey Lady Man in Black Distant Chords Man in the Cape Alderman Wooler & His Book Scared Girl in the Cellar |
This gives us a grand total of 269 hauntings across 102 sites - and counting!
See also
| Name | Address | Why? |
| Past Images | Shambles, York | Providers of amazing photographs: historical, fantasy or ghostly, your image is imposed on a suitable background, with costume and props provided. Situated in a medieval former butchers, and home of Margaret Clitheroe, in the road awarded the accolade of Britain's most picturesque street. |
| York Maze | Elvington | Open throughout the year, they put on something extra special at Hallowe'en: day events suitable for children, and evening events for adults - providing they are not of a nervous disposition! See our blog, The Dead Hours, for a review of the 2010 Hallowscream. |