Larnach Castle haunting tradition

Record summary

Larnach Castle was begun in 1871 for merchant and politician William Larnach and later became associated with reports of apparitions and unusual experiences, often linked to family deaths and the building’s periods of decline. It offers a comparison between elite domestic architecture, documented biography and the later conversion of a historic property into a haunted attraction. The nineteenth-century construction and Larnach family history are verifiable, whereas the supernatural claims are mostly later and vary by narrator. The dating of any purported early reports needs particular scrutiny.