10 Doctor Who Scenes More Terrifying When You Know The Truth

Doctor Who has had its fair share of haunted houses over the years – and some of them are just as creepy in real life.

Fields House in Newport, which became the Weeping Angel-infested Wester Drumlins in Blink (and later, the Landlord’s premises in Knock Knock), really was in a sorry state when the crew filmed there, and thus required little work from the art department.

Similarly, the disused Custom House on Cardiff’s Bute Street, which appeared as the Skovox Blitzer’s lair in The Caretaker, is not somewhere you’d want to find yourself alone on a dark night.

But none of these beats the haunted house that really is haunted.

In 2013’s Hide, the Doctor and Clara find themselves at Caliburn House, where a professor and his assistant are trying to solve the mystery of the Witch of the Well.

One of the locations used for Caliburn was the 19th century gothic mansion Margam Castle, which has reportedly received visitations of its own – from a murdered gamekeeper, a burly blacksmith, and giggling Victorian children.

In-universe, the ‘witch’ was actually trapped space traveller Hila Tacorien trying to escape from a pocket universe. But Margam’s real-life hauntings remain unexplained to this day.