heavens, yes! almost every town I’ve visited has some story or another relating to spirits, or at least has a story involving a gruesome death of some kind. The more recently built towns don’t have so many, but even they can have ghost stories! I heard one about a builder who was killed by work equipment, and he supposedly appears if the safety checks haven’t been thorough enough…

there’s many more places in the UK which have special myths relating to their history or a particular mythological beast or legendary creature associated with them; the area I’m in has many stories about the Green Man, faeries and witches in particular :Tb also hotels that claim to have ghosts are very popular and often more expensive than regular ones!

(when I was a kid I was more scared of the faeries than the witches…)