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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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