John Euerafriad

Location: Aldworth - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: John Euerafriad sold his soul to the Devil (for what we do not know), whether he was buried within the church or not. As normal, with this type of deal, he was buried under the church wall (neither in or out of the church) which denied the Devil his due.

Eliza Kleininger

Location: Ascot - Berystede Hotel, Bagshot Road - Rooms 306, 361, 362
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Killed in the 1886 fire that destroyed most of the building, Eliza has returned to hunt for the jewellery lost in the blaze.

Horseman

Location: Ascot - Old road system (now changed)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1967
Further Comments: No longer seen since extensive roadwork, a ghostly horseman was once said to haunt the area.

Furrow

Location: Ashampstead Green - Grim's Ditch
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Between five and six miles long, this ancient ditch is said to have been created by the Devil and two inhuman helpers in a single night.

Helpful Fairies

Location: Beedon - Burrow Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The little people here are traditionally helpful in nature, and once fixed a plough for a farmer. When archaeologists tried to dig up the barrow in 1850, a storm blew up and drove them away. A golden coffin is said to be buried in the area.

Dame Hoby

Location: Bisham - Bisham Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1609 onwards
Further Comments: Dame Hoby, being a great academic, was disappointed that only son was not so gifted. She would constantly push him to study harder, and if he failed then a sound beating would follow. During one punishment, he died, and now Dame Hoby walks the abbey grounds weeping and washing the blood from her hands from a basin that follows her around.

Policeman with No Face

Location: Bracknell - A329 between town and Ascot
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This poor police officer in an old uniform lost half his face in an incident here - he remains to try to find it.

Murderous Landlord

Location: Bracknell - Hind's Head Inn (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth century
Further Comments: The landlord would kill wealthy travellers in their sleep, until one man escaped and summoned help. The landlord was executed for his crimes, and his angry ghost haunted the inn until it was pulled down.

Hooded Figures

Location: Bray - Oakley Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970's
Further Comments: The court has a very bad reputation for being 'evil', and a number of accidental drownings both in the building and outside of it (in the passing Thames) have occurred over the past thirty years. A number of ghostly hooded figures have been seen in the neighbourhood.

Lady Bolingbroke?

Location: Bucklebury - Manor House, and general area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After her husband escaped to France with another woman, Lady Bolingbroke died of a broken heart. Her ghost has been reported at the manor house, while the streets of the village are home to her coach and horses, sometimes carrying her headless form. Some stories quote the name as Frances Winchcombe, though the story remains the same.

Distort Girl

Location: Chieveley - Village well
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This girl killed herself in the well after she discovered both her lover and her father had been killed in a Civil War battle. The shade can still be heard crying.

Horse in Chains

Location: Cockpole Green - Area around Putters Farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An old work horse still draped in the chains it used to drag a plough around the fields still manifests and scares the unwary.

The Landlord Jarman

Location: Colnbrook - The Ostrich Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This fourteenth century Landlord murdered fifteen (or sixty, depending on the source) of his rich guests by cooking them in a vat of boiling fat. Hanged for his crimes, his ghost is now held accountable for the creaks, bumps and whisperings around the inn.

Golden Calf

Location: Compton - Perborough Castle
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Buried under this earthworks is reputed to be a golden calf.

Rocking Clock

Location: Cookham - Eldon Hall, a part of Moor Hall
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1945
Further Comments: Bob Monkhouse, the UK entertainer, worked here during World War 2 as an animator. He shared a house with several people, and reported that a few minutes to two in the morning the entire household woke to deathly silence. Just after a grandfather clock struck two, the large timepiece began violently rocking and was pushed over by an unseen force.

White Stag

Location: Cookham - Maidenhead Rd, off Whyteladyes Lane
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: March, Mid 1990s
Further Comments: While driving under the railway bridge, a couple braked hard as a white stag ran in front of their car. Believing they had hit the animal, the two people jumped out of the car but saw the stag running away along the road. A woman a short distance away, past whom the stag would have run, did not see anything.

Vicar

Location: Cookham Dean - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1979
Further Comments: A dark shadow that generated a 'being watched' feeling in the church was named as a former vicar.

Frozen Handprint

Location: Datchet - The Royal Stag
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Last seen February 2000
Further Comments: Belonging to a small child who froze to death outside the pub, a handprint appears on the outside of a window when it becomes covered in ice.

Hamilton Pye

Location: Faringdon - All Saint's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: Pye lost his head in a naval battle before being buried here - his shade has been seen both in the church and churchyard cradling the missing object. Another version of the tale keeps the headless ghost, but claims the ghost as one of the Unton family who lost his head during the Civil War.

Wind and Shadows

Location: Faringdon - Oriel Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1964
Further Comments: This entity apparently made itself visible to a group of twenty or so witnesses while out on a vigil. The presence was exorcised, as the matriarch of the family living there was afraid of having a breakdown.

Former Landlord

Location: Farnham Common - Crown Inn public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2008
Further Comments: A former Edwardian landlord was blamed when furniture moved across the floor at night, items fell from walls, and a fire broke out. The building was exorcised on 18 March 2008.

Darrell

Location: Great Shefford - Road passing Shefford Forest
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom of Wild Darrell will never be at peace - here he is said to lurk with his neck grotesquely twisted.

Old Tanner

Location: Hampstead Norreys - Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This figure has been observed drifting amongst the gravestones.

Craven's Curse

Location: Hamstead Marshall - Morewood House
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Still active in twentieth century
Further Comments: A curse placed on the Craven family by a pregnant servant girl who was kicked out of the household states that no earl will survive beyond their fifty-eighth year. The family sold the house to try to rid them of the ill fortune during the late twentieth century.

Crunching Footsteps

Location: High Wycombe - Rail Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The sound of someone walking along the stones on which the track lies have been investigated by several staff who expected to find a trespasser - no one is ever found, but the footsteps continue.