Warwick Castle Ghosts – A Re-evaluation

Year One continues to provide an insight into Britain’s hauntings, and ultimately raises questions about the origins of many of our best loved ghosts. Recently I have turned my focus on to Warwick Castle Ghosts, ‘famously’ haunted and the scene of many contemporary ghost hunts.  Warwick Castle is quite unique in that its oldest ghost story is a remnant of Warwickshire folklore, the story concerns the slaughtering of a gigantic cow called the “Dun Cow” by Guy of Warwick.  Undoubtedly Guy didn’t exist and was probably an enhancement of a previous Saint legend for the thirteen hundreds. This didn’t stop a character from folklore haunting this prestigious castle. In 1926, the Nottingham Evening Post investigated Warwick Castle and its claims that it was haunted by three ghosts.  After interviewing the family of the Earl of Warwick, they detailed some of its incredible hauntings. Warwick Castle which at one time claimed the title of being the oldest inhabited castle in England, had been let to an American, Henry Marsh from 1914 to 1926 after the Earl experienced money troubles.  Interestingly Henry also leased another paranormally linked house – Knebworth House. The Evening Post describes Warwick Castle’s hauntings, “The most famous that […]

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