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Striding Grey Man
Location: W4 - Acton Green common, near Turnham Green tube station
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 6.45am, Thursday 12 February 2004
Further Comments: This semi transparent entity was observed walking parallel to the railway line, wearing a knee length cape. The dark grey figure vanished when the witness momentarily looked away.
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Eleanor of Castille
Location: W4 - Blackfriar's Priory, Queen Victoria Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ruined building houses this former Queen's heart, and it is she who is said to now walk the area.
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Bacon
Location: W4 - Chiswick House, off Burlington Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The smell of frying bacon haunts the north wing, where the kitchens once stood in the nineteenth century. Lady Burlington is reported to haunt her former bedroom, appearing as a reflection in a mirror on the wall.
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Mrs Abercrombie Walking
Location: W4 - Chiswick Police Station, Chiswick High Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The site of a grisly murder in 1792, when Mrs Abercrombie's son-in-law hit her several times with a large axe. The woman is now said to haunt the building; when not heard pacing around, she materialises in the upper regions.
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Dissipating Mist
Location: W4 - Former Chiswick Warehouse, now apartments (Heathfield Terrace)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth Century
Further Comments: A misty, indistinct apparition reportedly haunted the upper areas of the warehouse, quickly disappearing if anyone came too near.
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White Figure
Location: W4 - Hammersmith Churchyard and Black Lion Lane area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1804
Further Comments: This ghost was blamed for the death of a local woman, who collapsed and died a few hours after witnessing the entity. A hunt for the spook resulted in another local man being shot by mistake (he was wearing white clothing), and the ghost sightings trailed off soon after.
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Man in Wide Brimmed Hat
Location: W4 - Old Burlington, Church Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Once a public house, this building is reportedly haunted by a man wearing a black cloak and wide brimmed hat, nicknamed Percy.
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Flying Money
Location: W4 - Private house, Esmond Road, Cheswick
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: July 1956
Further Comments: A polt outbreak here saw dozens of coins and other small metallic items fly across rooms and hit witnesses - the events stopped once the family's son was sent away to live with relatives.
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Cromwell's Daughters
Location: W4 - St Nicholas's Churchyard, Church Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Walking in the churchyard at the crack of dawn, Mary and Frances head towards their unmarked graves and vanish.
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Woman in Black
Location: W4 - Tabard Inn, Bath Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen sitting alone at a table in the public house, this old woman appeared to be whistling a tune, though no sound could be heard.
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