Haggerston Castle was once a substantial country house near Berwick-upon-Tweed, badly damaged by fire in 1933 and demolished not long afterward, leaving only a single tower and scattered fragments of the wider estate surviving today within what has since become a large holiday park. The surviving ruin and its grounds have, despite or perhaps precisely because of the destruction of most of the original building, picked up a genuine reputation for hauntings that has outlasted the house itself.
The main story attached to the site describes a young girl dressed in Victorian clothing, seen running near the surviving castle remains, with no fixed identity or explanation ever offered anywhere for who she might actually have been in life or why she continues to run through ground that has changed so dramatically since her own era. A second, entirely separate strand of local tradition attributes unexplained noises and electrical disturbances around the site to a witch's curse, though no source available for this entry gives any specific origin for that curse or names anyone actually involved in either casting or receiving it.
Both stories are told in genuinely general terms throughout, without named witnesses or firm dates attached to either the running girl or the cursed disturbances, entirely consistent with the kind of thin oral tradition that tends to attach itself naturally to a dramatic, fire-ravaged ruin like Haggerston, rather than resting on any documented case with real evidential weight behind it.
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