The fourth Duke of Atholl built Castle Mona as his residence on the Douglas seafront, and it was finished in 1804. The Atholls' hold on the island was ending, and in 1831 the house became a hotel. It has had a long and up-and-down life since, and it has gathered ghosts along the way.
The best known is a woman in a green dress who used to be seen in the Dickens Bar. Nobody seems to know who she was meant to be. Upstairs, Room 17 is said to belong to a grumpy old man. Guests and room attendants have been locked into it, the story goes, when they left the key in the door. In Room 212, two little girls are said to appear at the foot of the beds in the middle of the night.
These stories appear in Visit Isle of Man's own Halloween feature and in the Isle of Man Today, which is a sign of how settled they are in local lore, but neither names anybody who saw them.
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