February - Paranormal Database Records

 


13 February (reoccurring)

Clan MacDonald

Location: Glencoe (Argyll and Bute) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Murdered in cold blood by the clan Campbell, these forty MacDonald family members return to the scene of the crime.

 


13 February, every 50 years, from 13 Feb 1748

The Lady Lovibond

Location: Deal (Kent) - Goodwin Sands
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A jealous sailor deliberately ran the Lady Lovibond onto the Goodwin Sands, a treacherous area off the coast of Deal, wreaking the ship and killing all on board. The craft is now said to re-enact the crash, though there are no reports of any witnesses in 1998. Two other ghostly craft are said to frequent the area - the liner Montrose, and a man of war named Shrewsbury.

 


24 February (reoccurring)

Something Down There

Location: Northrepps (Norfolk) - Shrieking Pit, along a lane off Hungry Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Some say that the entity that appears in the pit is the spirit of a woman who took her life, while others believe it is something much darker that lures the unwary to their deaths.

 


24 February, 11pm (reoccurring)

Maude Carew

Location: Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) - St Mary's Churchyard
Type: Curse
Further Comments: Cursed by a monk after Maude murdered the Duke of Gloucester in 1447, her shade is now said to appear once a year.

 


26 February (reoccurring)

Sir Christopher Wren

Location: Hampton Court (Surrey) - The Old Court House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Dying in the front room of this building, Wren's footsteps can be heard on the anniversary of his death, pacing up and down the staircase.

 


28 February (reoccurring)

White Lady

Location: Hathersage (Derbyshire) - Vicarage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Even though the phantom white lady has not been observed for around one hundred years, she still opens a single door on one night per annum.

 


February (reoccurring)

Skater of Hickling Broad

Location: Potter Heigham (Norfolk) - River Thurne
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: In love with a rich man's daughter, a drummer boy would skate across the frozen river to secretly rendezvous with his forbidden girlfriend. However, one winter night the ice cracked and the boy drowned - leaving his ghost to continue the drumming. A phantom female rower has also been seen on the river.

 


February (reoccurring)

Mary Queen of Scots

Location: Oundle (Northamptonshire) - The Talbot Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This hotel contains the staircase from Fotheringay Castle, Mary's place of execution. Her ghost is rumoured to have come with the staircase; pictures move on their own accord, one guest was awoken by 'something' sitting on their bed, and the gaunt face of a woman can be seen staring from out the hotel's windows.

 


February (reoccurring), last encountered circa 1970s)

Grey Lady

Location: Longham (Dorset) - Berrans Avenue, and the edge of the River Stour
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This phantom woman wearing a grey cape or cloak wanders along the avenue before walking alongside the river. Two witnesses who spotted her watched the ghostly figure walk through a garden fence.

 

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