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01 June (reoccurring)
Hairy Earth
Location: Wistow (Leicestershire) - Wistow's Grave
Type: Legend
Further Comments: Concealing the heir to the kingdom of Mercia's body, this grave is reported to sprout hair throughout the month of June, starting on the first of the month.
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01 June (reoccurring)
Woman's Singing
Location: Hickling (Norfolk) - Hickling Broad, south of village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Once a year a gentle female voice can be heard singing. This could be the Woman in White, seen punting from one side for the Broad to another, heading towards a mill. Another ghost is associated with the broad; a drummer is said to be a Napoleonic soldier who drowned while skating across the ice, en route for a secret rendezvous with his girlfriend, can sometimes be heard.
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02 June (reoccurring)
Ammunition Train
Location: Soham (Cambridgeshire) - Approach to the station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Every 2 June an accident that cost the lives of two people is re-enacted. An ammunition train caught fire, the explosion shattering every window in Soham and destroying the old station. The rebuilt tracks no longer follow the scene of the accident.
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10 June (reoccurring)
Lily Cove
Location: Haworth (Yorkshire) - Old White Lion public house, Main Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A local celebrity, Lily fell to her death from a hot air balloon in the early part of the twentieth century, and now returns to the pub on the day she died.
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13 June, around midnight (reoccurring)
Children's Paradise
Location: Horsey (Norfolk) - Horsey Mere
Type: Legend
Further Comments: Said to be the burial place of maybe thousands of children from the days of the Romans, they are said to return once a year to play for a couple of hours.
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14 June (reoccurring)
Old Lady
Location: Sevenoaks (Kent) - Maidstone Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Killed in a road traffic accident in 1959, this ghostly figure now steps out in front of traffic on the anniversary of her death.
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14 June (reoccurring)
Midair Battle
Location: Naseby (Northamptonshire) - Sky over site of the Battle of Naseby
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Reported less frequently now, but for one hundred years after the battle, locals would sit on the nearby hills and watch the battle occur once again, complete with the sounds of men screaming and cannons firing.
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15 June (reoccurring)
Goring the Cavalier
Location: Hitchin (Hertfordshire) - Hitchin Priory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Killed by Roundheads a few miles down the road during the civil war, the ghost of Goring continues onwards to his earthly destination once a year. A grey lady has also been spotted in the grounds of the priory.
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19 June (reoccurring)
Piper
Location: Glen Esk (Angus) - Waters of Lochlee
Type: Fairy
Further Comments: A great and popular piper was once taken by little folk donned in green across the waters here - once a year we mortals have the chance of listening to his tunes.
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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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20 June (reoccurring)
Sprites & Pixies
Location: Ballona (Isle of Man) - Ballona Bridge
Type: Fairy
Further Comments: On this day the fairy population comes out in force. If they are not acknowledged by any one crossing the bridge, the fairy folk have no hesitation in making their presence felt.
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20 June (reoccurring)
Hessian Cavalry
Location: Horetown (Leinster) - Battle of Horetown site and Green Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The entire Battle of Horetown is replayed on its anniversary, while a lone Hessian trooper is seen standing by a tree along Green Road where his is thought to be buried.
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20 June (reoccurring)
King Arthur
Location: Cadbury (Somerset) - Cadbury Castle, and road between North Barrow and South Barrow villages
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Escorted by mounted knights carrying lances, King Arthur of the Britons traverses this route back to Camelot (as Cadbury is thought to be) on this day in June. One witness said that in the autumn of 1994 they encountered an armoured man holding a standard on horseback - the figure disappeared around a corner, though there was no place that he could have gone. One legend says a door opens every seven years in the hillside so that Arthur and his company can leave to feed their horses.
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20 June - Horseman seen (reoccurring)
Swimming Horseman
Location: Ashford (Kent) - Eastwell Park and Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Riding towards the park house, this phantom horseman veers off at the last minute and enters the nearby lake. A white lady haunts the house itself, seen by porters on the night shift.
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20 June, midnight (reoccurring)
Arthur's Table
Location: Bossiney (Cornwall) - Bossiney Mound
Type: Legend
Further Comments: Once a year, King Arthur's table is said to surface from the mound, briefly waiting for the man to sit at it once more.
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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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21 June or 24 June (reoccurring)
White Lady
Location: Hampton Court (Surrey) - Landing Stage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Seen by local fishermen (even though they can't remember the exact date they witnessed the phenomenon), the white lady's history is unknown.
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23 June 1744 (reoccurring?)
Army Marching On
Location: Souter Fell (Cumbria) - Side of Mountain visible from Wilton Hall
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Further Comments: Over two dozen witnesses saw a mass of troops ascending the mountain on horseback, though there were no real soldiers in the area. The ghostly army had been seen twice before, always on the same date.
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