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01 July, 7am (reoccurring)
Rahere
Location: EC1 (Greater London) - St Bartholomew's church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This pious monk, who doubled as a jester in Henry I's court, is thought to be the man who built the church, and has been reported standing by the alter. He quickly disappears if seen.
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01 May (reoccurring), last seen 1870/71, heard summer of 1999
Fighting
Location: Loch Ashie (Highland) - Shores around, and to the moors east of, Loch Ashie and Loch Duntelchaig
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Accompanied by silence, a battle has been seen raging once a year on the muddy banks of this loch.
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03 August (or July), just prior to midnight, every fifty years (next in 2055)
Tall Man with Fire for Eyes
Location: W6 (Greater London) - St Paul's Churchyard, Queen Caroline Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: First seen in 1805, the original witness is said to have died of shock shortly after seeing the towering figure whose eyes gleamed with fire. Since then, no further reports have emerged, other than mistaken identities.
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04 July (reoccurring)
Tristram Dillington
Location: Knighton Gorges (Isle of Wight) - Knighton Shute
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Former owner of the demolished Knighton Manor, Tristram Dillington drives a coach and four horses on the anniversary of his death.
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05 July (reoccurring)
Old Soldiers
Location: Westonzoyland (Somerset) - Sedgemoor Battlefield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The spirits here reportedly include voices that call out to witnesses over the nearby River Carey, and horsemen who gallop silently along. People have also reported pockets of cold air, and watching a white woman glide over the marsh, near where her lover was murdered by Royalists. On the anniversary of the battle, sounds of fighting have been heard.
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06 July (reoccurring)
Footsteps
Location: East Grinstead (Sussex) - Ashdown House, Forest Row
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Once a year these footfalls are heard as they descend the staircase.
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10 July (reoccurring), last seen 1971
Bride
Location: Chagford (Devon) - Whiddon Park Guest House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Murdered by a former suitor on her wedding day, this bride now returns on that fateful date. Dressed in black, she has been seen standing in the doorway of a bedroom here.
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16 July (reoccurring)
Duke of Monmouth
Location: Horton and Woodlands (Dorset) - Monmouth Ash Tree
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Even though the Duke was executed at the Tower of London, his ghost now frequents the area he was captured after his failed rebellion. The ghost is said to carry his head in his hands.
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1700s onwards, calm summer evenings (reoccurring)
Bagpipes
Location: Lochranza, Island Of Arran (Ayrshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A bagpiper who died in the nearby hills now walks into village on calm summer evenings, the only indication of his presence the sound of his pipes. It is said that one tourist followed the sound of the pipes, only for the piping to suddenly cease when the holiday maker grew close to where they thought it was coming from.
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20 June (or Midsummer Eve) (reoccurring)
Witch Haven
Location: Trewa (Cornwall) - General area
Type: Legend
Further Comments: Once a year all the local witches meet in the town and the surrounding area to light fires on all the monoliths and standing stone formations in the area.
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20 June (or Midsummer Eve) (reoccurring)
Those that will Die
Location: Tavistock (Devon) - Church
Type: Legend
Further Comments: The spirits of those who will die during the following year come to the church on Midsummer's Eve - they were last seen by a pair of brothers who saw themselves in the crowd.
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20 June (or Midsummer Eve) (reoccurring)
Unfaithful Girl
Location: Bray (Leinster) - Lover's Leap rock, Dargle Valley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The female ghost which appears here once a year is said to be that of a woman who was unfaithful to her boyfriend. He died of grief, and the woman sat in mourning over his grave continuously for several days before taking her life on the rock, leaping into the river below.
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20 June (or Midsummer Eve) (reoccurring)
Dancing Skeletons
Location: Worthing (Sussex) - Broadwater Green, old oak tree
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A local tale says that these animated bones appear on midsummer night's eve to dance and jig until the sun rises on the following day.
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20 June (or Midsummer Eve) (reoccurring)
The Lonely Shepherd
Location: Clydach (Wales) - Limestone Pillar
Type: Legend
Further Comments: A shepherd who drove his wife to suicide was petrified by God as punishment. Once a year, on Midsummer Night, the rock animates and walks down to the River Usk where his wife drowned herself, before returning prior to dawn.
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20 June (or Midsummer Eve) (reoccurring)
Fish Stone
Location: Crickhowell (Wales) - Stone by the River Usk
Type: Legend
Further Comments: Once a year this strangely shaped stone dives into the local river and goes for a swim.
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20 June (or Midsummer Eve) (reoccurring)
Spinning Top
Location: Dyffryn (Wales) - St Lythan's Cromlech
Type: Legend
Further Comments: The capstone on this cromlech is said to rotate three times on Midsummer Eve. In addition, anyone who makes a wish here on 31 October will have it granted.
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20 June (or Midsummer Eve), sunrise (reoccurring)
White Dog
Location: West Kennet (Wiltshire) - Long Barrow
Type: Shuck
Further Comments: Appearing to mark the start of the longest day of the year, this pale hound has been observed at sunrise. Some reports say it is accompanied by a ghostly druid.
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21 July, every five years (next in 2011) (reoccurring)
Morphing Village
Location: Horning (Norfolk) - General area
Type: Legend
Further Comments: Once every five years the village is said to revert back to how it looked several hundred years ago.
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21 June (or Midsummer Night) (reoccurring), though last reported sighting in Nov
Nan Clark
Location: NW7 (Greater London) - Nan Clark's Lane, Mill Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Nan Clark was a landlady of a local inn in the eighteenth century, whose history is shaky - she may have murdered or been murdered by her husband or lover, either in the lane which takes her name or in a local pond. Whatever truly happened, Nan returns to the area once a year.
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27 July (reoccurring)
Battlefield
Location: Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross) - Pass of Killiecrankie
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Further Comments: The bloody battleground between English Government and Jacobite Highlanders, the anniversary of the battle is marked by the ground turning blood red. Reports of soldiers in English and Scottish regalia, both laying dead and others fighting, have also been recorded. As if this was not enough, the area is also haunted by the drifting head of a woman murdered on the site during the seventeenth century, and the tall white spectre who tries to grab people passing along the roads; anyone the ghost touches dies within the year…
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28 July (reoccurring)
Nun
Location: Borley (Essex) - Sight of Rectory, Nun's Walk
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Once a regular apparition on the lawn of Borley Rectory, the figure still appears where the garden once existed. Borley was called the most haunted house in Britain, though the chief ghost hunter in the case appears to have been over enthusiastic in his analysis.
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Early in Summer Evenings (reoccurring)
Grey Lady
Location: East Carlton (Northamptonshire) - East Carlton House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: One storyteller reported that this building was haunted by a lady that had jumped to her death from a balcony after being jilted by her lover.
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July, 7pm (reoccurring)
Nun
Location: Exeter (Devon) - Exeter Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Seen only around this time, the nun quickly disappears once seen. A monk has been reported in the area surrounding the cathedral.
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Summer & Winter (reoccurring)
Stomping Boot
Location: Harreitsham (Kent) - Ringlestone Tavern
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The sounds of someone stomping on the cellar steps have been heard, stopping just prior to reaching the top.
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Summer (reoccurring)
Dancing Dog
Location: Gatcombe (Isle of Wight) - Gatcombe Church
Type: Other
Further Comments: The carved wooden dog at the feet of the effigy of Edward Estur is said to come alive during summer nights and dance around the church standing on hind legs.
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