Fyvie Castle Fyvie Castle is a castle in the village of Fyvie , near Turriff in Aberdeenshire , Scotland . The earliest parts of Fyvie Castle date from the 13th century - some sources claim it was built in 1211 by William the Lion . Fyvie was the site of an open - air court held by Robert the Bruce , and Charles I lived there as a child . Following the Battle of Otterburn in 1390 , it ceased to be a royal stronghold and instead fell into the possession of five successive families - " Preston " , " Meldrum " , " Seton " , " Gordon " and " Leith " - each of whom added a new tower to the castle . The oldest of these , the Preston tower ( located on the far right as one faces the main facade of Fyvie ) , dates to between 1390 and 1433 . The impressive Seton tower forms the entrance , and was erected in 1599 by Alexander Seton ; Seton also commissioned the great processional staircase several years later . The Gordon tower followed in 1777 , and the Leith in 1890 . Inside , the castle stronghold features a great wheel stair , a display of original arms and armour , and a collection of portraits . Manus O ' Cahan and Montrose fought a successful minor battle against the Covenant Army at Fyvie Castle on October 28 , 1644 . The battlefield is currently under research to be inventoried and protected by Historic Scotland under the Scottish Historical Environment Policy of 2009 . Following Victorian trends , the grounds and adjoining Loch Fyvie were landscaped in the 19th century . The Scottish industrialist Alexander Leith ( later Baron Leith of Fyvie ) bought the castle in 1885 . It was sold to the National Trust for Scotland in 1984 by his descendants . The castle ( like many Scottish castles ) is said to be haunted . A story is told that in 1920 during renovation work the skeleton of a woman was discovered behind a bedroom wall . On the day the remains were laid to rest in Fyvie cemetery , the castle residents started to be plagued by strange noises and unexplained happenings . Fearing he had offended the dead woman , the Laird of the castle had the skeleton exhumed and replaced behind the bedroom wall , at which point the haunting ceased . It is said that there is a secret room in the south - west corner of the castle that must remain sealed , lest anyone entering meet with disaster . It ' s not clear if this is the same room in which the skeleton was found . There is also an indelible blood stain , two ghost s and two curses associated with this place . One of the curses has been attributed to the prophetic laird , Thomas the Rhymer . Fyvie Castle has featured in a number of British television programmes , such as Living TV ' s Most Haunted season 6 . and stv ' s Castles of Scotland . The castle also played host of the setting of a children ' s gameshow on CBBC called Spook Squad in 2004 . 2009 saw the publication of the children ' s fantasy novel , " The Time - Tailor and the Fyvie Castle Witch Trials " , written by Deborah Leslie . In recent years , the castle grounds have hosted an annual " Fyvie Live " music festival in August , which was headlined in 2011 by Beverley Knight and in 2012 by Sophie Ellis Bextor . Another annual event was a 5K fun run around the grounds and adjacent loch , held in April , however both of these events were discontinued in 2013 . Today , the castle is open to tourists during the summer months .