Peel Castle (Isle of Man)
On the tiny St Patrick’s Isle, just off the west coast of the Isle of Man, lies one of the island’s most famous tourist attractions, the imposing Peel Castle. A sea fort battered by the Irish Sea, work began on the castle in the 11th century. Perhaps Peel Castle’s most notorious attraction is a ghost from Manx folklore, the spectral canine known as Moddey Dhoo.
Sightings of the phantom pooch have been reported around the castle for centuries. In the early 18th century, an English poet, George Waldron, related how the ghost dog was once known to haunt every room of the castle. Waldron told the story of how a soldier encountered the ghost one night and returned to the guard room a nervous wreck, babbling incoherently and dying three days later.
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