Built in 1780, and later converted to the Gothic style, Killua Castle was owned by The Chapman family, ancestors of Lawrence of Arabia, who visited it himself. Today, Killua is a spectacular ivy-clad ruin, and an obelisk monument on the grounds commemorates the Chapman relationship to Sir Walter Raleigh. The house was long ago abandoned, but when still in use, visitors often complained of strange paranormal activity. A white phantom was said to encircle the ruins, and a hideous, evil-eyed figure was often sighted within the walls. This spector was said to be the ghost of an 18th century land steward called Jacky Dalton. A small, cunning man with a 'weasel eye' and a strange yellow wig, he cheated his master out of lots of money, then drank it all and committed suicide by throwing himself in the lake.