How Haunted is Chillingham Castle? Part Two | The Grave Talks
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
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Summary
This is PART TWO of our conversation.
The ghosts may be what draw people to Chillingham Castle, but it's the history that keeps them awake at night.
Situated near the English-Scottish border, Chillingham Castle has witnessed centuries of warfare, imprisonment, suffering, and death. Stories of the Blue Boy, the castle's infamous torturer John Sage, and other reported hauntings have helped earn it a reputation as one of the most haunted locations in England.
For Rob Kirkup, host of the podcast, How Haunted?, every haunted location is more than just a ghost story. Through historical research, eyewitness accounts, paranormal experiences, and tales from those who have encountered the unexplained, he explores the stories that have shaped some of the UK's most notorious haunted sites.
Rob discusses the origins of How Haunted? and takes us deep inside Chillingham Castle's dark history. From royal intrigue and border warfare to ghostly legends and modern-day reports of paranormal activity, we explore why this castle continues to capture the imagination of believers, skeptics, and historians alike.
Today on The Grave Talks, we ask, How Haunted is Chillingham Castle? A conversation with Rob Kirkup.
You can listen to his podcast “How Haunted?” wherever you listen to podcasts. And visit his website at how-haunted.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, part two of How Haunted is Chillingham Castle, a conversation with Rob Kirkup. |
| 0:09.5 | The castle itself, was it a residence for people over the years for, you know, some obviously not regular people? |
| 0:21.1 | Would it have been used as a place where people lived |
| 0:25.4 | or maybe kings, queens resided there from time to time throughout the year? |
| 0:31.4 | And then how do they also use it to torture people? |
| 0:36.6 | You know, it seems like you would have it be one thing or the other. |
| 0:39.8 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.0 | So when it was first built, it was a home. |
| 0:47.7 | It was a manor house. |
| 0:49.2 | And King Edward I stayed there in 1298. |
| 0:53.4 | And one of their bedrooms is called the Edward the first room. |
| 0:57.2 | In 1344, there was a need to make it, well, suitable for battle, suitable for it to withstand attack. |
| 1:09.0 | And it was given a license to do so. |
| 1:12.2 | In 1344, and it was turned into a castle, |
| 1:15.6 | which was no longer designed to be a home. |
| 1:18.3 | It was designed to defend against invading Scots. |
| 1:24.0 | And then as the years went by, |
| 1:25.6 | and England and Scotland were no longer at war |
| 1:27.5 | then it reverted back to its former |
| 1:31.0 | use as a home but for a period of time |
| 1:33.5 | it was a home then it wasn't |
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