The Isle of Wight is renowned for it’s spectacular natural beauty, friendly residents and relaxed paced of life. But the Island also plays host to a variety of supernatural goings-on, making it one of the most haunted islands in the world! Many of these have been documented by experts like Gay Baldwin and Marc Tuckey of Ghost Island but here’s our rundown of creepy occurrences on the Isle of Fright…
Carisbrooke Castle: Multiple ghosts have been spotted within this formidable building including a dead girl who drowned in the well house, a cloaked figure with four dainty lapdogs and even the daughter of King Charles I, who was found face-down on a bible dead when a prisoner in the castle.
Appuldurcombe House: A variety of supernatural goings-on have been reported by visitors to this grand-looking mansion including a phantom carriage near the ground’s entrance, monks in traditional dress and the sound of a crying baby throughout the house. Unseen hands also regularly flick through the page of the visitor’s book and dark shapes are frequently spotted in the grounds…
Ventnor Botanical Garden: The Royal National Hospital, which stood here before being converted to gardens, specialised in the treatment of the deadly tuberculosis. Although the hospital was haunted for a great amount of time before it’s demolition, long-dead patients can still be heard weeping and groaning, with smells of ether also being reported.
The Union Inn, Cowes: This now pub used to have a sea light tower above it, which the wife of the tower keeper lovingly kept alight to guide him and his fellow anglers back from sea. One night she forgot, and her husband and many others anglers drowned. Her remorseful ghost is still said to haunt the steps up to the now non-existent sea light…
Hare & Hounds, Arreton: Murderous woodcutter Micah Morey killed his young nephew in cold blood and burned down the house around the body to cover his tracks. In 1737, he was tried and hanged at Gallows Hill near the Hare and Hounds, and the gibbet crossbeam he was hung on can now be viewed at the pub. Morey’s restless spirit can also be seen roaming Gallows Hill, carrying a large axe…
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