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Naked Wizard
Location: Alderley Edge - Pendle Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several witnesses have reported seeing a short old man, with a long white beard, running around naked in this area. Apparently, the figure was once approached by a police officer, only to vanish into thin air.
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Old Nick
Location: Alderley Edge - Stormy Point
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Legend has it that if one runs around the cave known locally as 'Devil's Grave' widdershins three times, the Devil is raised!
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Resting King
Location: Alderly Edge - Exact location unknown
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Another place in the UK where King Arthur lies in wait for when he is required once more.
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Pipe Smoker
Location: Arley - Arley Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An aged figure has been observed on the site, puffing away at the demon weed.
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Staring Man
Location: Audlem - Audlem Road leading to Corbrook Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 01 October, 2001 and 2002 (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This entity was seen twice by the same witness, exactly a year separating the sightings. The witness said he was driving down the road when he saw the strange looking figure on the roadside, who stared into the car as he drove past. The figure did not appear in the rear view mirror.
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White Woman
Location: Barthomley - Church field
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A lady in white haunts this field, while the road nearby is home to a phantom dog.
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Heating Required
Location: Birkenhead - 1960s office block on the former Cammell Laird shipyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A paranormal investigation group were called into this building after staff reported certain areas always being cold, and fleeting shapes could be spotted out of the corner on one's eyes.
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Maid
Location: Birkenhead - Area of former Birkenhead Hall (no longer standing), Pouton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pretty little maid was murdered by her jealous mistress, who was convinced she was having an affair with the property's master. It was not the case, and the maid now haunts the former grounds, and has taken to being mistaken for a hitchhiker along the nearby road.
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Anne Boleyn
Location: Bollin - Bollin Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hall claims that it is both the birthplace of the queen and where her ghost has returned to.
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Machine Worker
Location: Bollington - Ingersley Vale Mill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The mill is reputedly home to the ghost of a female worker who died in a machine accident.
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Old Lady
Location: Bollington - Private house along Grimshaw Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2003-2005
Further Comments: A former occupier of this house witnessed the ghost of an old lady who would stand in the corner of the kitchen. A phantom man would move around the property at night, and banging could be heard - the taps always coming in threes.
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Gipsy Woman
Location: Bollington - Ye Olde No. 3 public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: The ghostly woman once reported here was said to be on the run from the police, and she drowned in a flooded stream nearby. A little girl was seen by a former landlady, who said the entity was dressed in blue and wearing a poke bonnet, and walked straight through a closed bedroom door.
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Running Man
Location: Boughton Heath - Roads in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Darting out from the side of the road, this speedy figure crosses in front of oncoming cars, before vanishing on the other side.
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Horseman
Location: Bunbury - College Lane
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly man on horseback is said to cross the lane before vanishing.
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Strange Hound
Location: Bunbury - School Lane
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom dog has been spotted in an area near the school.
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Nun
Location: Burton Constable - Burton Constable Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom nun said to haunt this building walks near the area of a secret passage. Her portrait hangs in the Nun's Room.
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Headless Airman
Location: Burtonwood - Old airfield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: An airman has been observed standing around with no head - it is thought that he was decapitated as he tried to bail prior to crash landing.
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Tom Ward
Location: Cheadle Hulme - Malt Shovels public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid 1973
Further Comments: Tom, a former landlord of the pub, appeared to the new owner - two years after dying in a motorway accident. His pale form told the new landlord to 'take care' before disappearing.
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Silky
Location: Chester - Chirton Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former mistress of a Duke of Argyll, this white woman has yet to leave the bedroom of this house.
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Wailing
Location: Chester - Chocolate shop (was once House of Bewlay Tobacconist), Eastgate Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Stamping and thuds emanating from an empty room have been reported from this shop, as well as strange wailing. Lights flicker on and off, and doors open and close by an unseen hand.
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Sliding Ashtrays
Location: Chester - Coach and Horses Public House, Northgate Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Regular drinkers at the pub have seen ashtrays move themselves across tabletops and strange blue light flash from the walls.
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Roman
Location: Chester - George & Dragon Hotel, 1 Liverpool Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: These phantom footfalls can be heard as they take a path that now leads through several partitioned walls - it is believed to be a Roman centurion on guard duty.
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Jack
Location: Chester - Old Fire Station Restaurant, Northdate Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: Sporting a beard, this phantom fireman wearing a brass helmet was known only as Jack. A fireman who watched the figure sitting on a ladder was so shocked he rang the emergency bell to summon help. Even though the phantom had vanished by the time other people arrived on the scene, the witness quit his job soon after.
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Man in Blue Overalls
Location: Chester - Old lead steel works (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2002
Further Comments: This ghost, said to be a workman who died after being hit by a train, may never be seen again: the area he haunted was scheduled for demolition and new flats will be built on the former works site.
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Herbert & Charlie
Location: Chester - Pepper Street garage (no longer operational, was based next to what is now Habitat)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: These two phantom monks were spotted several times by staff working at the garage shortly after it began 24 hour opening.
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