Haunted UK Abroad - Haunted Hotels Around the World
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A hotel room should be a place of rest.
A temporary home, a locked door, a quiet corridor, and the comforting feeling that whatever waits outside belongs to the world beyond your room.
But some guests check in… and discover they may not be alone.
In this Haunted UK Abroad episode, Steve explores haunted hotels around the world — from historic inns and castle hotels to grand resorts, former fortresses, luxury landmarks, and even a retired ocean liner. These are places where footsteps cross empty floors, lights flicker in locked rooms, unseen hands pull at bedsheets, and figures from the past still seem to move through the corridors.
The journey begins in Salem, Massachusetts, at the Hawthorne Hotel, where unexplained voices, ghostly touch, moving objects, and the scent of apples are said to linger. From there, the episode travels to South Africa’s Nottingham Road Hotel, Florence’s Hotel Burchianti, Canada’s Fairmont Banff Springs, and Colorado’s Stanley Hotel — the inspiration behind Stephen King’s The Shining.
Along the way, Steve uncovers stories of tragic brides, loyal bellmen, ghostly chambermaids, haunted portraits, restless miners, Hollywood apparitions, castle prisoners, unexplained elevator activity, and rooms where former guests appear to have never fully left. From The Queen Mary in California to Dragsholm Castle in Denmark, Hotel Chelsea in New York, and the Jekyll Island Club in Georgia, these locations suggest that hotels may be uniquely suited to hauntings — places shaped by arrivals, departures, secrets, grief, glamour, and unfinished stories.
Atmospheric, wide-ranging, and quietly unsettling, this episode blends haunted travel, paranormal folklore, historical tragedy, and ghostly testimony into a global tour of the rooms, corridors, staircases, and suites where the past still seems to have a key.
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