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South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in Northern England, taking in Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, and Doncaster — home to DoubleYew Productions, the production company behind Are You Haunted..?.

Wentworth Woodhouse is a country house in Rotherham and is regularly cited among South Yorkshire's most haunted locations, with reports of ghostly goings-on throughout the estate.

Sheffield's oldest pub is associated with reports of mischievous spirits throwing bottles and ghostly apparitions appearing in the toilet mirrors.

This Sheffield suburb holds two distinct case files of its own — Mosborough Hall, one of the city's most reputedly haunted buildings, and the Alex Birch UFO sighting, one of Britain's most famous and contested UFO photographs — see Mosborough for the overview.

This Norman keep, built in 1180, is associated with "the Haunted Miner," a worker said to have died in a collapse in the early 20th century, reportedly still heard with his pickaxe clanging around the castle grounds.

An area near Sheffield locals describe as having always felt unusual, associated with a range of reported sightings, including one detailed 1970s account of a monk seen carrying a child across the road near Stainborough, accompanied by a sudden drop in car temperature.

A former RAF base near Doncaster, long associated with a ghost known by several names — "Lindholme Willy," "Billy Lindholme," or "the Polish Airman" — believed to be an airman who crashed into the surrounding bog during the Second World War. Reports of the ghost reportedly ceased following the discovery and burial of a body at the site in 1987.

• DoubleYew Productions
• Are You Haunted..?

• Spooky Isles — South Yorkshire's Most Haunted Places To Visit
• DeadLive — Doncaster's Haunted Venues