Muncaster Castle

The Tapestry Room seems to be the focal point of the paranormal activity at Muncaster Castle. Visitors often report feeling an unwelcoming presence in the room. Guests who have stayed the night in the Tapestry Room, have reported the sound of babies crying, or children singing softly. Black figures have been seen leaning over alarmed guests, whilst others have experienced a heavy weight falling on top of them in the antique four poster bed. A paranormal investigation team reported seeing a black, featureless figure walk into the tapestry room and vanish.

James Cartland, archivist and friend of the Pennington family, was invited to stay at the castle during the early 1980s and was put up in the tapestry room "I heard this sort of strange muttering sound as if someone was talking. I stuck my head up the chimney because I thought it could have been the sound of the wind, but it was a very still and frosty night. I was the only person in the wing of the castle that night, so there was nobody else around to make a noise. Everybody else was at the other end. I walked around a little and out into the corridor. When I returned to my room, the noise was still going on and was more audible by then. It was definitely the sound of a child crying. I got back into bed - I never slept a wink that night. It was a terrible night!"

A teenage girl had stayed at the castle with her mother a year earlier. The girl, now a trainee Lawyer, has spoken how she heard footsteps along the corridor outside her room when, suddenly, the door of her room opened, and the sound of a crying child filled the room.

The late Lord Carlisle had a similar experience which he recounted to an ex-curator of the castle, Philip Denham-Cookes "Lord Carlisle told me that he had only stayed once in Muncaster and that was in the tapestry room. He had been woken up during the middle of the night by the sound of a young child crying. He admitted he had never been more terrified in his life. Lord Carlisle was awarded the MC in the last war so he wasn't a man easily frightened, but he has said that nothing would ever get him to stay at Muncaster again."

Recent investigations revealed that in the Tapestry Room had previously been a children's nursery. During the castles long history there have been a number of deaths several of these have been children some of these were buried in the castle grounds. Muncaster Castle allows paranormal groups and investigators to spend the night in the Tapestry Room, to experience the supernatural for themselves.

Muncaster Castle - Tapestry Room

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