THE STORY
Reported Haunting
A nineteenth-century female apparition and the spirit of a grieving mother driven mad by news from the Crimean War are among the castle's reported hauntings.
Stradey Castle has accumulated several ghost stories over the years. One involves a female apparition believed to date from the nineteenth century. Another tells of a mother who reportedly lost her sanity after learning that children had been killed during the Crimean War, and whose spirit is said to remain connected with the property.