Mosborough Hall is a manor house dating to the 16th century in Mosborough, Sheffield, now operating as a hotel, widely reputed to be one of the city's most haunted buildings and a regular venue for organised paranormal investigations.
The White Lady
The hall's best-known ghost is "the White Lady," said to be a governess who worked at the hall in the late 1600s. According to the legend, she began an affair with the hall's married squire and became pregnant; though he initially promised her financial support and a cottage of her own, he later reneged, and when she threatened to reveal the affair to his wife, he slit her throat in her room under the pretence of finally keeping his promise. The sounds of their final, fatal argument are said to still be heard drifting through the hall at night, and her figure has been reported in the Lord John Darcy Suite, now marketed by the hotel as a themed "Haunted Ghost Package" for overnight guests.
The spectral dog
A large black dog, said to have belonged to the murdered governess and to have pined for her after her death, has also been reported at the hall over the years, sometimes heard howling. One account describes a seamstress caring for a sick child at the hall seeing the dog appear in a doorway, approach the child's cot, gently grip her wrist without biting, and then vanish.
The doctor's ordeal
In the early 20th century, a local doctor sceptical of the hall's ghost stories reportedly spent a night alone in one of its rooms to disprove them. He passed the night without incident, but staff who unlocked the room the next morning found his bed apparently soaked in blood — blood the doctor himself, unharmed, had not noticed until he turned and saw their reaction.