Glamis Castle · The Room That Must Not Be Opened

Glamis Castle is one of Scotland’s best-known “haunted castles”: Shakespeare borrowed its legend for Macbeth, in which King Duncan is murdered here.

Inside the castle there is talk of a “monster room”: in one room the family is said to keep something it has always concealed, and misfortune follows whoever looks. One earl is said to have gone in and not spoken for a whole day afterwards.

The castle is still lived in. Visitors see only some of the rooms; that door is locked year after year, and the reason given is always the same: private quarters.

Historical Mysteries / Scotland · UK / 1372