History & local legend
Stokesay Castle, on Mount Penn near Reading, was built in 1932 as an English-style country home for George Baer Hiester and his wife, Anne Hall Nicolls. They had married in November 1931, but their marriage ended in divorce in 1936. The castle eventually became a restaurant and event venue.
Its ghost stories often assign the building's unexplained activity to one of its former residents. Visitors and staff have reported figures at upstairs windows, footsteps in the halls, and voices with no visible speaker. Some tellers identify the presence as George, who died in 1962; others connect it with Anne, who died in 1949.
A later legend attributes Anne’s supposed presence to her dislike of a house designed without her input.
