My cousin and I visited this castle just recently.  We BOTH felt that a strange presence was following us all around the castle. For those of you looking to experience the castle for yourselves, take Route 17 Westbound, to the Roscoe exit 95, make a left into the town of Roscoe itself and go exactly three miles from the Exxon station, on your right hand side, you will see the entrance to Cat Hollow-Sand and Gravel dealer, follow the road as it bears to your right.  You will gradually travel down this dirt road and see the old Iron Gates, supposedly they came all the way from Scotland, but you have to enter through the trail for Camp Eureka., which is slightly past the gates themselves....There are people who actually live at the base of the castle, in a small home, that are normally more than polite and allow you to enter if you stop and ask for permission....we then followed the dirt road up to where it leads next to the castle.  There is no formal trail/road to actually follow that will lead you directly to the castle.  You have to park and walk down the hill to obtain entrance to this magnificent place.  We entered through the courtyard, after a slight trek down the hill and through the over growth of trees.  This place is amazing, it has such a presence about it.  I find if amazing, according to legend, that NO ONE ever occupied this domain.  It definitely feels as if something is haunting this place.

We entered through the main entrance to what would be considered the families side of the castle.  Each room has amazing ornate wood fireplaces, with beautiful marble floors. There are spiraling staircases that extend off of the main rooms that lead you to an upstairs labyrinth.  All the doors look the same, and once a door closes, it is hard to remember where you actually are, some lead to empty rooms, others to magnificent bathrooms, linen closets and storage spaces.   The pink marble floors are intact and beautiful. Upon entering the room that was farthest to the right upstairs, it felt phenomenally cold, yet almost all of the windows where broken out.  This is the room where, from the outside, I took a picture looking up at the building and you can see the image of a woman.  I was able to download some more of the pictures I took that day, but I had to "shorten" them up some, so you don't get the whole picture...I have one picture in particular that spooks me every time I look at it.  I saw a flash of something move across one of the windows upstairs, above the what would be considered the servants quarters and quickly grabbed my camera to snap a picture, when we developed the film, you can see an eerie apparition that appears to be blurring past the window. 

Downstairs, in the basements, the feeling is ominous.  You couldn't pay me to go past the staircase,  I wouldn't set foot down there unless I had to save someone I dearly loved.  The boiler room definitely has an evil presence in the left back corner....again, I wouldn't even snap a picture in this room, I would  be afraid to see what I had been so close to.  Forget the flooded water pump side of the house, it's creepy in there also. 

There is also a terrible feeling in the servants kitchen quarters.  We heard doors banging and what sounded like someone whispering all around us.  Needless to say, we left abruptly. 

We also took pictures in the tower, the supposed tower where the daughter was kept prisoner, or, as some say, the wife lept to her death on the embankment below.... the one where you can look down and see the heart shaped pond that the father supposidly built for his daughter, it is said there are three of them in succession, but you can only see one from the tower...legend states that the ponds fill with blood on the night of the full moon.....I don't know about any validity to the whole blood, pond thing, but, there appears to be an apparition, when you are looking at the picture of the tower we took, on the top of the tower to the most right.  The whole place is magnificently eerie.

But our final "We had it!  WE ARE OUT OF HERE!!!!" moment came when we where outside, looking back down at the courtyard,  I truly felt as if we where being escorted by someone or something.  I took two pictures...one in which an orb appears, hovering to the left of my cousin, who is snapping a polaroid of the courtyard...WHICH by the way is a creepy picture also.....the sun was shining from DIRECTLY behind us, yet the shadows fall all different ways in the courtyard and on the building.....and to the right of my cousin,  It felt as if something was in the tree line......when the picture developed.....there is an eerie fog floating through the trees......By the way, one WHOLE ROLL of film did NOT develop......the roll was neither under or over exposed, the kid at the one hour photo mat couldn't figure out why it was blacker than black....crrrrrrrrrrreeeeeepy, if you ask me.

If anyone else has any stories that they can lend about thier experiences at "The Castle", I'd truly like to read/hear about them!!  All in all, I had a great time, but I am in NO hurry to re-visit the place!!!!  So please!! Visit my GuestBook and add your own  comments or stories regarding the infamous Dundas/Craig-E-Clare Castle!!