Sidon Sea Castle

The Sidon Sea Castle is a Crusader-era fortress built in the thirteenth century on the coast of the port city of Sidon (Arabic: Saida). Sources identify it as one of the city's most prominent historical sites and include it among Lebanon's noteworthy tourist attractions and Holy Land sights in mid-20th century travel media. The supplied materials — a modern encyclopedia entry (Wikipedia), a Wikidata record, a 1962 travelogue film, and a regional guidebook — describe the castle's historical and touristic significance but do not record any accounts of hauntings, apparitions, shipwrecked spirits, or other paranormal phenomena. Because the research prompt specifically asked about stories of hauntings and shipwrecked spirits, it is notable that the consulted English-language sources contain no folkloric narratives, witness testimony, named entities, or investigative reports relating to supernatural activity at the site. The absence of such material in these sources indicates that claims of hauntings or shipwrecked spirits at Sidon Sea Castle are uncorroborated in this dataset and would require further localized or folkloric research (including Arabic-language oral histories, newspapers, or specialist studies) to document reliably.