Prudhoe Castle stands above the River Tyne and holds the genuine distinction of being the only Northumberland castle never successfully captured by Scottish forces, despite enduring more than one siege across its own nine centuries of continuous occupation. Its best-known ghost is a Grey Lady, said to roam the castle grounds and its empty corridors; the story is well enough established locally that an actual street in the town of Prudhoe has been named directly after her. A second, considerably less detailed figure, a knight with a notably large beard, is also reported independently by visitors.
The castle's more genuinely unusual tradition involves a white horse, seen moving entirely soundlessly through the outer ward, sometimes described instead as a horse or several horses galloping around the inner court before simply vanishing directly into the air without any trace.
One particularly specific account describes a guest at the castle flinging open a curtain to see a vast white shape rushing directly toward the window, though whether this was actually the horse, some other presence entirely, or simply a trick of the light was never resolved even by the person who originally reported it. Chanting has also occasionally been reported drifting from the direction of the castle's own ruined chapel, adding a third, more fragmentary strand to Prudhoe's already varied haunted reputation.
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