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Craig-Y-Nos Most Haunted Castle in Wales

1. Individuals & Couples: See G.H.O.S.T. for tours that brave individuals and couples can book on to. Book early as places on the monthly G.H.O.S.T. get full - each monthly ghost tour is rather special.


2. Groups of friends: See Share the Experience.

A 'Share the Experience' private ghost tour can be booked on any available date if you have 10 or more to organise your own private tour.

Craig y Nos Most Haunted Castle invites you on a special
Night-time Ghost tour - dare you accept?

For general B&B Availability without a Ghost Tour, see availability on our Dog Friendly website.


Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid...

Walk amongst our spirits, along the derelict upper corridors and wards of this former TB Hospital.

Visit our Most Haunted Castle


Lie on beds in this haunted house under ward lights where we TB patients once slept and feel our ghostly presence still...
 
Journey back in time, to the age of classic Opera, where the great Lady once entertained European heads of state in her private Opera House.

Stand upon the very boards she once trod - for yet you may hear her sing for you, in quiet whispers.

Ghost Hunting at Most Haunted Castle - castle silhouette and sky at night


What IS that sound you hear, the centuries old stage creaking - or footsteps, close behind you?   

The cloth backdrop rustling in the wings - or ill formed words you can't quite catch...

Join us in the cellars under the theatre, where stage hands once operated lifts and pulleys behind the scenes, and enter our world - the World of the Paranormal. Seek us out if you can, before we find you.

Address us in your seances, question us with your table tipping and glass divination.

And feel the chill of our cold breath upon your cheek, the tingling of our fingers running lightly down your spine ...


we pass beside you, our presence felt, yet unseen...
Most Haunted Castle Craig y Nos Castle old photo from 1900's


Hear our footsteps walking towards you - as we pass beside you, our presence felt, yet unseen, ghost haunting...

...and hear our sounds all around you


Stand quite still and alone in our empty spaces and hear our sounds around you, closing in on you, and slowly feel our entity grow in your mind.

See the chill night of ghost hunting through with us, if you dare!

Venture into Our World, where nothing can be predicted, your destination unknown; but beware, this is not a journey for the faint hearted....

Experience for yourself our Haunted House - if you dare!

Our Ghost Hunting Packages for serious ghost hunters include all night ghost tours, with Dinner and en-suite B&B.

Or choose our popular 'share the experience' ghost tours, with budget B&B and Dinner. Minimum size for your own private Ghost Tour is 10 guests/ ghost hunters.

For individuals, couples and bookings below 10, see G.H.O.S.T. (Ghost & History Once-monthly Selected Tour) page. Book into any available G.H.O.S.T. dates.

Ghost Hunting and Ghostly Lighting at Most Haunted Castle in Wales


Steve Graham

Founder of Ghost Tours at Craig y Nos Castle,
passed away Jan 2023

Steve Graham was the inspiration behind the Ghost Tours at Craig y Nos Castle. He also worked as a chef for the castle for two years, even offering his services for free for a couple of months to prove he could do it!  He built up our Sunday Lunches and Carveries to become a regular event attended by 100's of diners. The Ghost tours he founded now are always a sell-out monthly event. These ghost tours are so popular they're now supplemented by numerous external ghost tour companies who bring their own customers from all over the UK.

Thanks to Steve Graham, Craig y Nos Castle has gained a reputation as the Most Haunted Castle in Wales. Word spread rapidly, resulting in a visit by 'Most Haunted' to film at the castle, in 2004.

Thanks entirely to the vision and drive of Steve Graham, who founded The PARANORMAL WORLD and Alpha Omega Events, our own in-house Ghost Tour Company, Ghost Tours at The Most Haunted Castle in Wales are a monthly highlight. They continue under his successor, Celestial Paranormal.

Steve Graham, Paranormal Investigations leader, on staircase of Haunted Castle Craig y Nos, Swansea, Wales

Steve and I enjoyed many games of Scrabble in the early years, over a few pints of Real Ale in the Patti Bar. They were great nights and he was a very good scrabble player, regularly blocking me and winning with well placed words I'd never heard of, thanks to his knowledge of the OSW Dictionary.

He also was incredibly versatile and could turn his hand to almost anything. For a while he was a Hypnotist, he presented at Ghost Conferences in America, and he also excelled at selling weddings to people who dropped in at reception unannounced for a look-around. He was a fantastic chef, setting up Sunday carveries at the Castle and for many years took on numerous other tasks as needed. It was so sad to see his health failing, but he continued running ghost tours almost until the end, only retiring at the end of last year.

We salute you, Steve, the larger than life founder of Ghost Hunting at Craig y Nos. We raise a glass to your family and friends all that knew you. You were an incredible character, passionate about the Ghost Tours and everyone in the family at Craig y Nos. You will be missed by those who you scared half to death, and all of us that you entertained with your eccentric and lively personality. A unique individual.

Steve handed over the reins to Paul of Celestial Paranormal, only retiring on 9th November 2022, barely two months before his passing. Steve wrote then, on his retirement: "I don’t think many people realised when you allowed me to start the tours of the castle all those years ago how over the years they would develop, most people thought it was a fad, but you and I knew it could be made into something more something very special and here we are today 20 plus years later and the tours are still going strong, Craig y Nos Castle reportedly the most haunted castle in Wales. And not forgetting the longest running ghost tour in Wales we achieved that Lord Gover you and I through hard work and dedication, through commitment.... What an achievement, and something I’ll be very proud To shout from the highest mountain I started the tours at Craig y Nos Castle."  

Rest in Peace old friend, you were taken far too early.

Watch an early Video on Castle Ghost Tours by our Ghost Tour Founder, Steve, here https://youtu.be/5erQtLZkws4

27/10/2023: Steve Graham's tribute tour night, attended by 45 guests in three teams of 15 each, was a great success, with monies raised for the Steve Graham Memorial Chair, Plinth, and Sundial wall clock. We all met in the Opera House before the tour started and reflected on Steve Graham's impressive portfolio of jobs at Craig y Nos Castle - including:

1. Scrabble Champion, while consuming copious quantities of Vodka and Ale,
2. Chef, cooking for the Weddings for a year or more, his larger than life presence in the kitchens heard from the furthest reaches of the Castle,
3, Wedding Salesman extraordinaire, sat behind Reception on quiet winter days and buttonholing everyone walking in and chatting to them. Ended up selling weddings to 'walk-in' visitors (20 weddings worth £200k in one year sold to walk-ins!),
4. Ghost Hunting pioneer, spending 40 days and 40 nights in the Haunted upper levels, reaching out to spirits, and putting the Castle on the map as one of the Most Haunted Castles in Wales, if not Britain.
5. Inviting Most Haunted team here in 2004, which garnered over a million views, and led to the castle running 15 to 20 ghost tours every winter ever since.
6. Trying his hand at Hypnosis, hypnotising anyone who was willing, into a deep trance.
7. Pioneering delicious Honey Roast Hams which became a staple of the Castle's Sunday Lunches, which he built up over a couple of years to 70 covers regularly every Sunday, culminating in feeding 220 people one Father’s Day (including over 100 walk-ins who had not booked – as unlike Mother Day, Fathers Day is often a last minute thing),
8. Setting up the Ghost Cameras at the castle, which continued for several years and had worldwide viewers watching.
9. Running Childrens Halloween events that became so successful they did become overcrowded, while the Halloween Fright Nights for Children touring the derelict areas, with costumed actors popping out at them from the shadows dressed up as various ogres and ghosts, was so effective that it had some children running down from the derelict area back into the arms of parents, in fright and tears. A little too realistic a Halloween experience for some!   
10. Not content with selling weddings and becoming an unofficial wedding planner, he moved on to actually marrying the Castle’s Wedding Couples - training up and qualifying as a Wedding Registrar!  

Steve literally tried his hand at everything, every job going in the castle. Larger than life and sorely missed the more we all reflect on his extraordinary time here. But he has not gone, as apparently he made his presence known at his Tribute Tour on the 27th October 2023…..  You never know who YOU might meet here at Craig y Nos!

Wales on Line Review of Craig y Nos Castle
10th May 2023

"The little known haunted gothic mansion with gorgeous and tranquil grounds you can just lose yourself in...."

"Nestled half way between Swansea and Brecon is a stunning gothic mansion which looks as though it has leapt straight off the page of a romantic fairytale book. Built in roughly 1841 on what is now the A4067 between Pen-y-Cae and Glyntawe, and steeped in history, it's no wonder why the impressive building, with its ornate stone facade, is said to be one of the most haunted castles in Wales. Today, chilling ghost tours are on offer, with members guided through the venue's most haunted rooms. These include the theatre basement where Adelina Patti would once have made her entrance onto the stage, the children's ward at the end of a long dark corridor complete with original light fittings, and the treatment room which was once home to tuberculosis patients in the 1920s.... read more.."

"Perhaps one of the most unnerving elements of the tour is the room of John Mellon, who was said to be an employee of Adelina Patti and suffered an untimely death in a room on the building's top floor. During an episode of Most Haunted, psychic Derek Acorah said he felt as though he was being pushed out of its window.

For those brave enough, there is also an opportunity to stay as a guest: whether you're looking for a short B&B break, a dog-friendly getaway or a budget-friendly family holiday. According to its website, it boasts 36 rooms in total with a bar, kitchen, gym and dining facilities "for the perfect break away".



Castle Cashless, Ghosts not

The pandemic created a 'contactless' boom. The falling use of cash combined with local bank branches closing means we no longer accept cash payments for food and beverage sales. The 'Celestial Paranormal' Ghost Hunting Company however is still paid in cash.

Recent Reviews

28/01/2022: really loved the history tour - the tuberculosis hospital was my favourite part - wish I could have learnt more about it

04/02/2022: Were there for the ghost hunting night and it was all excellent. Thoroughly recommend to any one x

01/02/2022: A wonderful experience and the ghost tour was an absolute bonus, just excellent. Icing on the cake.


Craig y Nos Castle
Enjoy a Ghostly Welcome and Ghoulish Service at Craig y Nos Castle


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