Chillingham Castle-Haunted Rooms
The Great Hall leads into the Chapel and the Minstrels Gallery. The Great Hall is a long room with lots of artefacts on the wall. There is a life size statue of a horseman on his horse, there is a huge stuffed elephant's head with chain mail elephant armour on, and there is also a tapestry with a skull beneath it. People have experienced lots of strange things near the tapestry, whether it be cold spots or noises being heard. From the courtyard figures are often seen passing the windows of the great hall when no one is actually in there. The skull is also known to move around the room but never leaves it. One of our readers recommended Chillingham Castle for investigation, they had visited the castle several months ago and had taken many photos, when they had them developed they noticed the strange ghostly presence sat in the chair on the left at the back of the hall (See Image 1).
The Minstrels Gallery is a balcony overlooking what is now used as the Tea Room. People have been pushed down the stairs here and, while on this balcony, people often suffer from terrible headaches and/or an awful feeling of nausea to the point where they feel like throwing themselves over the top down onto the concrete floor below. There is a story that when Tea Room was being excavated a giant toad-like creature came through a wall before taking the form of a human and then disappearing, it is said that it now haunts the castle.
The Chapel is where people would come to pray to their God before going out to kill Scots, or torture them, this is a place of total hypocrisy. On the wall are flags that would have been taken into battle, a huge sword, a spirit bell, crucifixes, paintings of Mary, the mother of Christ. The Chapel was recently excavated and relics and human bones were found under the floorboards. Cameras often refuse to work in this room. Digital camera sometimes have there batteries drained of power in this room other people have found orbs in there photos. Our group's cameras did not pick up any anomolies, however I felt several cold spots in this room. Others in the group also confirmed these cold spots, although no draught could be found to explain them.
The Edward Room (also know as the Killing Room) is on the top floor of the castle. All the way around the top of the room runs a balcony. In the room is a suit of armour holding a two-handed sword, on the walls hang weapons such as swords and pikes, there is a helmet, lots of cow horns and flags. On display are the documents that were found walled up with a Boy in the Pink Room (closed to the public). The Blue Boy (also known as the Radiant Boy) found some documents to be given to the Spanish from the aristocrat who owned the castle at the time to help them defeat the English during the time of the Spanish Armada. The boy was walled up alive with the documents and his body was found in the 1920s along with some blue cloth from his clothes hence the blue boy. The bones of his fingers were worn away from where he had been trying to scratch his way out.
It has been reported that when the hour of midnight sounds sometimes you can hear his cries of agony and fear. The centre of the cries always emanate from the Pink room. The noises are usually traced to a spot near a passage cut through a ten-foot wall. When the wails die away, a bright halo of light sometimes appears around the old four poster bed, anybody sleeping in the bed would see the figure of a young boy dressed in blue, and surrounded by light, gently approaching them. He is the most famous ghost to roam the castle and he also seems to be the friendliest towards the public.
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