By Ryan Stacy
A reported hotspot for ghostly activity, Malahide Castle near Dublin, Ireland is known as the home of a number of paranormal entities—including one especially mischievous spirit named Puck, whom Grammy-winning singer Lizzo says was behind a prank directed at her a few years ago while she was in the country on tour. After knocking on Puck's door while visiting the castle, the star realized her phone, which she kept in her pocket, was suddenly missing. Her team searched the castle for the phone, Lizzo went on, but it was eventually found outside, in the pocket of one of the dancers on the tour.
Talk of haunted encounters at Malahide go back much further than this account, however. Puck's ghost, for example, is believed to have appeared to the castle's residents for generations past as well. Other otherworldly houseguests include the spirit of Sir Walter Hussey, a newlywed suspected of being murdered on the orders of his bride. Legend also has it that a woman in white, depicted in a painting hanging in the castle, sometimes comes to life to roam the property. And Miles Corbet, who lived at Malahide in the mid-1600s, was eventually convicted of high treason, hanged, and drawn and quartered. That didn't stop his ghost, though, from being sighted from time to time—often split into the four pieces in which he was split by his executioners!