Mitford Castle, a ruined motte-and-bailey stronghold set on a bend of the River Wansbeck just outside Morpeth, dates back to the Norman period and passed through several different noble families across the centuries before finally falling into the picturesque ruin it remains today. Local ghost tradition attaches to it the story of a woman who died by suicide, jumping from the castle's own battlements, though her actual identity and the specific period in which this tragedy is supposed to have happened are never fixed in any of the retellings that survive.
The most specific account associated with the haunting comes from 1934, when two young boys visiting the castle reportedly encountered something later connected directly to this older story, a detail that gives Mitford one of the more dated sightings found among Northumberland's various castle ghosts, even though the fuller context of exactly what the boys actually saw remains genuinely thin in the sources describing the incident.
As with several other ruined castles recorded throughout this county, the haunting is kept alive mainly through ordinary local retelling around Morpeth, rather than through any sustained ghost-hunting or formal paranormal investigation presence actually based at the site itself, the 1934 sighting standing as the closest thing to a fixed point in an otherwise genuinely undated tradition.
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