The Lady Maud is said to have discovered her husband's grim revenge on the night that he surreptitiously laid the course of bricks that sealed the fate of the unfortunate De Lindfield. The next day Lady Maud was found dead.

In 1954 some of the residents of Bramber reported hearing sound of a woman wailing among the ruins of he castle. One resident described the cry as containing four notes. The believed at that time was that the noises were attributable to the ghost of the beautiful Lady Maud, sorrowing for her lover, who was said to have been trapped and walled-up alive by her madly jealous and older husband towards the end of the fifteenth century.

These wraiths have been seen begging for food, but disappearing when approached. They, along with their parents, starved to death (though strangely it is thought not at this castle, but at Windsor), after upsetting King John.