Haunted Locations Belfast

Belfast is an old city with a rich and, at times, very tragic history. As with any place with tragic events, Belfast has its very own haunted tradition. Ghost stories and tales of haunted locales are alive and well in today’s Belfast. There have been many publications throughout the years documenting the various stories of spirits and spectres but almost all of these stories focus on the traditional ghost stories of my grandparents’ day.

Indeed if one was to look at the ghost stories that exist in Belfast almost all of these are from the 19^th and early 20^th century. Perhaps it was the outbreak of the Troubles, the bitter period of inter-communal violence, in 1969 that caused people to focus on getting through the nastiness of everyday life rather than pausing to think about the things that go bump in the night.