Ghosts at Bodelwyddan Castle

Parts of the house date from the fifteenth century when the building was a simple manor house, although there was probably a dwelling of some sort on the site long before this. There have been many ghostly happenings reported over the past few years. They include:

• A lady in the Sculpture Gallery 

• A soldier in one of the galleries (Bodelwyddan Castle was used as an officers mess and a recuperation centre during the First World War)

• Shadowy figures drifting down the corridors 

• A blue lady in the Terrace Tea Room

• Unexplained noises and lights

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The Castle was home to the Williams family for about two hundred years and from 1920 - 1982 it housed Lowther College, a private girls school. It was refurbished as an historic house in the 1980s.

The building has had many phases of redevelopment, the latest one being in the nineteenth century, which transformed the structure into the castle we know today. It was during this rebuilding that a gruesome find was uncovered. In 1829, during one of the periods of restoration, it is noted in the diary of Sir John Hay Williams that human bones were found near one of the chimneys. It is also said that the bones were built back into the wall, which means they are still there to this day. Could this be the cause of the paranormal activity at Bodelwyddan Castle? Or is there something else in the Castle’s history, which we don’t know about? Interestingly many of the castle documents were destroyed in a fire, which took place in a peripheral building of the castle in the 1920s. Therefore much of the history of the building is lost. 

Bodelwyddan Castle has also been used as a location for an episode of Most Haunted, on Living TV. To find out what happened when they came here, please follow the link below.

Links: 

Most Haunted at Bodelwyddan Castle 

The Sculpture Gallery, where a Victorian lady was once seen at the far-end of the room

The Terrace Tearoom, a paranormal 'hot-spot'