Norham Castle was built from 1121 on the direct orders of Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham, specifically to defend the bishopric's own northern lands against repeated Scottish incursions, and it went on to endure more sieges than almost any other English castle given its genuinely exposed position directly on the border above the River Tweed. Despite that thoroughly violent and well-documented history, its own ghost lore remains comparatively thin when set against better-known haunted castles like Chillingham or Alnwick elsewhere in this collection.
The one story that does recur consistently is a Grey Lady, reported at various times wandering quietly among the castle ruins, though without any name, firm date, or specific incident actually attached to her in any source found during this research.
At least one paranormal research group investigating the castle noted explicitly that they could find only this single reference to a haunting there at all, which is, in itself, an honest and useful summary of the actual state of the evidence: genuinely real, repeated in local memory, but very thin on any actual detail. It is included here on the strength of that simple repetition rather than on any real depth of surrounding detail.
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