Cursed Building

Location: EC4 - 71 Queen Victoria Street
Type: Curse
Date / Time: 1990 onwards
Further Comments: After several unconnected and violent deaths of people who worked at 71 Queen Victoria Street, the company which was based at the address closed down.

Wall Crawler

Location: EC4 - Amen Corner, Ludgate Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A black shape has been spotted crawling along the wall that backs onto the location where people executed at Newgate prison were once buried.

Escaping Prisoner

Location: EC4 - Amen Court, Warwick Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The faint grey figure seen on a nearby wall is thought to be that of a convict who escaped (but was caught again and executed) when this place was Newgate Prison.

Tall Clergyman

Location: EC4 - Church of St Sepulchre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s
Further Comments: A former vicar was said to stand in the Sanctuary; other than his paleness, the phantom was said to look quite real.

Dead Prisoners

Location: EC4 - Former site of Newgate Prison
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late nineteenth / early twentieth century
Further Comments: Newgate was haunted by several ghosts. Footsteps were reported along Dead Man's Walk late at night, one warden reported seeing the face of a decaying, hanged man in a cell, while others reported seeing an aging female form in the yard.

Cavalier

Location: EC4 - George Tavern, Strand
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure is said to have appeared several times in the cellar, spotted when staff have been changing the gas for the beer.

Isabella and Hungerford Fight

Location: EC4 - Greyfriars Churchyard and ruins, Newgate Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Queen Isabella and Lady Alice Hungerford are said to engage in a bout of fisticuffs in this churchyard, both jealous of each other's beauty. A small ghostly greyhound is reported to run between the gravestones.

Sir Edmundbury Godfrey

Location: EC4 - Primrose Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Murdered on the hill by persons unknown, Godfrey's shade remained for many years after his death.

Warning to the Rector

Location: EC4 - St Andrew by the Wardrobe, Queen Victoria Street
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Three bells here, once at home in Avenbury (Herefordshire), are reported to ring when death strikes the Rector of their old parish.

Clergyman

Location: EC4 - St Paul's Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Haunting the All Soul's chapel area, the holy man is wears archaic clothing, thought to be hundreds of years old. His whistling is known to be so loud it upsets people who have come to the church to find peace.

Sir Henry Hawkins

Location: EC4 - Temple Bar, area around
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Complete with gown, wig and an armful of paperwork, this lawman has been seen by late-working commuters as he strides along the lanes.

Woman in Bonnet

Location: EC4 - The Old Bailey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A shadowy figure in a bonnet and the sound of footsteps along empty corridors have been two spooky manifestations reported within this courthouse.

White Lady

Location: EC4 - Wardrobe Place, Carter Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Appearing soon after the sun goes down, this pale unknown figure drifts around the courtyard.

Man in Long Coat

Location: EC4 - White Horse public house, Fetter Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure, said to be connected to the coaches that were once used here, rattles bottles in the cellar.

Oliver Goldsmith

Location: EC4 - Ye Olde Cock Tavern (back door), Fleet Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1984
Further Comments: Goldsmith's smiling disembodied head appeared to a girl working here as she stood around the back of the building, her scream being heard by all in the bar.