31 December (reoccurring)

Coach and Four

Location: Wadebridge (Cornwall) - Molesworth Arms Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Materialising in the courtyard, this phantom coach driven by a decapitated coachman leaves via the hallway. While some people are said to have seen the apparition, others can only hear it pass by.

31 December (reoccurring)

Drinking Cross

Location: Langton Herring (Dorset) - Ancient cross
Type: Legend
Further Comments: This stone hewn cross moves to the nearby Fleet lagoon to drink.

31 December (Reoccurring)

Coach and Horses

Location: Wickford (Essex) - Runwell Hall (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A spectral horse and carriage pulls up the driveway, a woman climbs out, walking up to the door to be met by a long dead butler. A similar story says that Anne Boleyn travels in a coach along the roads in the area of the Hall around the same time of year.

31 December (reoccurring)

Coach & Four

Location: East Wellow (Hampshire) - Area from Embley Park to St Margaret’s Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Moving at breakneck speed, this phantom coach leaves the park just before midnight on the last day of the year.

31 December (reoccurring)

John Bibby

Location: Bootle (Lancashire) - Peel Road / Bibby's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Seen once a year, Bibby rides his coach with his decapitated head in his lap.

31 December (reoccurring)

Man on Black Horse

Location: Ranworth (Norfolk) - Neighbourhood of Ranworth Broad
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Locals tell of an unknown man on a black horse that is believed to haunt the area. The devil is seen riding across the broad every 31 December; under his arm is the soul of a Colonel who had dared hunt on the Sabbath.

31 December (reoccurring)

Green Hunter

Location: Fawsley (Northamptonshire) - Dower House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This woodland figure dressed in green, manifesting minutes before midnight, is thought to be an ill omen if observed.

31 December (reoccurring)

Horse & Dog

Location: Penselwood (Wiltshire) - Sloane Track - between Penselwood and Stourton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A man who wagered that he could cross the track in record time fell from his horse and snapped his neck. The man on horseback, now minus a head, with a hound in tow, now tries again and again to make the journey once a year.

31 December knight seen (reoccurring), house reported in the twentieth century

House Party

Location: Downend (Isle of Wight) - Area near Knighton Gorges
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Further Comments: A manor house has been seen in the area, a party in full flow visible through its windows. However, the house was demolished many years previous. Even when not seen, locals have reported hearing the sounds of music coming from the site. A large black knight on horseback is still occasionally seen, once a year.

31 December, Midnight (reoccurring)

Laird Beardie

Location: Moonzie Moonzie, Fife (Fife) - Lordscairnie Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Beardie played cards against the Devil and lost - the fateful game is now replayed once a year, though it is warned that anyone watching the game will also travel to hell with the Laird at the end of the match.

31 December, midnight (reoccurring)

Leaping Shadow

Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Westminster Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Just as a new year begins, a phantom man is said to throw himself off this bridge - many believe it to be the ghost of Jack the Ripper, taking his own life.

Activity more intense during winter (Reoccurring)

Relocation

Location: Rochford (Essex) - New houses along Rectory Road
Type: Poltergeist
Further Comments: A group of residential buildings erected on the site of a demolished mansion are reputed to be paranormally active, mainly by disruption by poltergeist, though manifestations occasionally happen.

Around Christmas (reoccurring)

Pale Donkey

Location: Studland (Dorset) - Newton Heath
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A small white donkey haunts the area where its master was robbed and murdered while travelling across the heathland. While the owner's body was found, the donkey vanished without trace, now only appearing briefly before Christmas once a year.

Around Christmas (reoccurring)

Sobbing

Location: Wimborne (Dorset) - Griffin Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: One room in the hotel is filled with sobbing around Christmas - some say the cries belong to a girl upset at her father's death. A grey haired woman in a brown skirt has also been reported in the hotel, and was seen near Bedroom 4 during the 1940s.

Around Christmas (reoccurring)

Stealing Cashier

Location: W11 (Greater London) - Former Coronet Cinema, Notting Hill Gate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Caught stealing from the night's takings, this cashier killed herself in the building when confronted by the manager. Her footsteps are heard running up the stairs towards the area where she leapt from, breaking her neck in the fall.

Around Christmas (Reoccurring)

Lady Jane Grey

Location: Bradgate (Leicestershire) - Bradgate Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Raised here as a child, Lady Jane's tormented shade now haunts both the mansion and the grounds surrounding the building. One ghost story says that she arrives in a coach pulled by four black headless horses at the house on Christmas Eve.

Around midnight, winter months (reoccurring). Last seen 1972?

William Terriss

Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Covent Garden Station, Piccadilly Line
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: An actor, Mr Terriss was stabbed to death in December 1897 at a nearby theatre. His ghost, tall in stature, has been seen dressed in a grey suit with white gloves, standing on the platform late at night.

Autumn and winter (reoccurring)

Green Train

Location: Manchester (Lancashire) - Fairfield Railway Station, Audenshaw
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Said to appear around sunset and visible from Booth Road, an old-looking green train several carriages long disappears if anyone moves too close. A tunnel that has been filled in is said to be home to a disembodied voice that calls out the name Mary.

Christmas (reoccurring)

Headless Chicken Runs Blindly

Location: Layer Marney (Essex) - Layer Marney Churchyard
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Further Comments: With an unknown origin, a headless chicken appears and runs blindly around the gravestones.

Christmas and Easter (reoccurring)

Incense

Location: Broadhempston (Devon) - Church House Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Once a cottage for monks, the sweet smell is thought to come from the long dead monks celebrating their festivals.

Christmas and Easter (reoccurring)

The Black Abbot

Location: Prestbury (Gloucestershire) - Church and churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Maintaining the same route every year, this ghost materialises in the church before crossing the churchyard and disappearing through a wall in the High Street. It was photographed in 1990 by a Mr Stafford.

Christmas Time (reoccurring)

Headless Horses

Location: Penryn (Cornwall) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Pulling a coach, this team of headless horses has a tendency to manifest around the season of goodwill. Legend states if stared at, it will whisk the witness away to the nether realm.

December (reoccurring)

Wailing

Location: Steyning (Sussex) - Bramber Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Maude of Ditching's screams and cries can occasionally be heard in the ruins - her lover was bricked up in the dungeon after being caught by Maude's husband. The castle is also said to be haunted by two children seen begging for food, though they vanish if approached.

December (reoccurring) - exact date not known

Drowning Duchess

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Duchess Lake, Purdown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A now forgotten duchess once drowned in the icy waters of this lake - the scene was known to replay once per year, but unfortunately the existing lake is not the original; the M32 motorway was built over the top of the waters.

December nights (reoccurring)

Dark Horseman

Location: Ellistoun (Renfrewshire) - Ellistoun Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Possessing a grinning skull barren of flesh, this dark horseman and his black stead gallop furiously down muddy paths, towards the nearby waterfalls.