In a turret room at the top of a 400-year-old castle, the temperature plummets.
There is no sound within its thick walls, and in the corner a small window overlooks Ballygally Bay on the dramatic east Antrim coastline.
This is the tower room from where Lady Isabella Shaw reportedly fell to her death; her ghost is supposed to haunt the dwelling (now a hotel) centuries later.
Visitors pad quietly across the room’s creaking floors after mounting a steep spiral staircase on a mild Thursday in October.
Space is tight and the ceiling is low.
One woman stands close to the door and appears anxious.
“I feel a heaviness on my chest,” she says. “It’s like there’s something pressing down on me.”
A wedding party is in full swing two floors below.
The 'haunted' room.
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