Lying in my four-poster bed in one of Britain’s most haunted houses, the question is not whether I will see a ghost. It is: which one?Muncaster Castle was built 800 years ago, with granite walls 8ft thick to guard the Cumbrian coast against marauding Scots. And it collects ghosts like other castles collect suits of armour.There’s Margaret Pennington, the crying child (who died of ‘screaming fits’ right here in the Tapestry Room in 1871). Some guests find it even creepier to hear the sound of her nurse singing to the poor girl.
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