County Angus,
Scotland
If sheer quantity of ghosts is any indication, the world's most haunted family may well be the Bowes Lyons, earls of Strathmore. Their ancestral home, in County Angus, Scotland, is the dour and daunting Glamis Castle, a menacing edifice that Shakespere chose as the setting for Macbeth. Indeed, the eleventh-century Scottish king Malcolm II was stabbed to death in Glamis, and his blood is still said to stain the floor in one of the castle's innumerable rooms. Glamis's many ghosts include a lady in grey, a small black boy, and a Strathmore earl who supposedly lost a card game with the devil. Also supposed to dwell in the castle is the shade of a monstrously deformed child who was once locked away by the family in a hidden room.
