MUNCASTER CASTLE 2

While some tourists have reported of a strange gaze of a disturbed spirit, others have experienced the presence of a poltergeists. A few people have encountered a wandering vision of a face filled with animosity believed to be the ghost of Mary Bragg who was supposedly murdered and hanged at the main gate by drunken youth in the 19th century. Many others claim to have witnessed a headless figure wandering aimlessly. Some believe it is the decapitated figure of the carpenter who was put to death by Thomas Skelton, fondly known as “Tom Fool,” the jester in the castle towards the end of the 16th century. It was believed that Thomas Skelton decapitated the carpenter while he was asleep, on the orders of Sir Ferdinand Pennington who got to know about the carpenter’s affair with his daughter Helwise.

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