| In Ireland, on a cliff, overlooking the sea, sits the newly | | | | hallway. |
| renovated Castle Ballygally. This beautiful structure | | | | Another of the castle's resident ghosts is Madame |
| was built in 1625 by James Shaw and features | | | | Nixon. She lived at the castle during the nineteenth |
| dormer windows, corner turrets and walls that are five | | | | century. Her ghost is often seen wandering the halls |
| feet thick in places. During the last hundred years the | | | | wearing a long, silk dress. Madame Nixon is usually |
| building has undergone extensive upgrades and | | | | spotted in one of the turrets. |
| renovations and is now a four star hotel, with more | | | | One truly scary ghost that was said to have haunted |
| than 40 rooms. What the crews who did the | | | | the castle was that of John Shaw. John Shaw was |
| renovations failed to remove, was all the ghosts that | | | | the owner of the castle in the late 1780's. He was |
| inhabit the castle. | | | | rumored to have been killed by his brother-in-law, Dr. |
| The most playful and frequently sighted ghost is that | | | | McCullough. John was forced to sign a bogus will that |
| of the Lady Isobel Shaw. The wife of Captain James | | | | would leave all his money and property to his sister |
| Shaw is said to have taken her own life. According to | | | | and brother-in law. The doctor then poisoned John and |
| one version of the story, she was imprisoned in a | | | | took possession of the castle. Dr. McCullough soon |
| tower room because she was unable to produce a | | | | discovered that owning a castle was not all he thought |
| male heir. Her husband was said to be slowly starving | | | | it would be. According to locals, John's ghost returned |
| her and rather, than face a slow death she jumped out | | | | and haunted the Doctor. The Dr. only lived in the castle |
| of the castle window. Today, she is known to enjoy | | | | for four years before leaving. |
| knocking on the doors of hotel guests and then | | | | If you do decide to stay at this wonderful hotel, be |
| disappearing. She will not enter the room if uninvited | | | | sure to bring your camera and be prepared to meet |
| and while she is not often see, many a guest has | | | | with other guests, both of this world and beyond. |
| answered the late night knocking to find only an empty | | | | |