Co Offaly castle named in list of world's spookiest Halloween destinations

Ottoline Spearman

A castle in Co Offaly has made it on to a top 10 list of the world's scariest places.

Charleville Castle is number eight in TripAdvisor's spookiest Halloween destinations.

Visitors can take a tour of the castle in Tullamore, where people have reported paranormal activity believed to be connected to an eight-year-old girl who died in the castle.

The little girl, named Harriet, was the youngest daughter of the third Earl of Charleville, who died in the main staircase of the building at the age of 8 in April 1861.

Her presence in the castle has been reported many times: singing, laughing, screams. Some people think they have caught her on their cameras in the shadows or mists in the pictures in the castle.

Others have also said that they have seen a little girl with a blue and white dress, with golden curls with blue ribbons in her hair.

Charleville Castle has appeared on Living TV's Most Haunted and ABC Family's Scariest Places On Earth, and Ghost Hunters International.

The castle is also used as a filming location for the Netflix series, Wednesday.