Victorian Woman
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - 91 Beechmount Grove (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June 1989
Further Comments: John Skillen released a book of his experiences in this house where he lived with his family. During their time here, the ghost tossed John against a wall and slapped his children. The family moved away after the attacks escalated.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2023-07-08
Last updated: 2023-07-08
ID: #14977
Green Triangle
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Above Yorkgate shopping centre
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 12 November 2006
Further Comments: Shoppers at the centre reported seeing a green triangular ufo cross the sky above them.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-04-01
Last updated: 2007-04-01
ID: #7150
Galloper Thompson
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Alexandra Park Avenue and Shore Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: A member of the Thompson family who loved horses died and took to galloping along the Avenue after dark (the horse taken from the family stable and normally found exhausted the following day). The haunting ceased after the ghost, nicknamed 'Galloper Thompson', was caught in a bottle and tossed into the sea.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-10-04
Last updated: 2024-05-06
ID: #15088
Black Man
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Arden Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October 1972
Further Comments: A brief myth which sprang up around Halloween, the streets were said to be the haunting ground of a black figure which could change size.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2018-05-28
Last updated: 2018-05-28
ID: #12851
John Savage
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Ardilea Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: John Savage owned a few properties along this road. After he committed suicide, his ghost was said to return to this area.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2011-05-02
Last updated: 2011-05-02
ID: #10452
Matron
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Belvoir Park Hospital (closed 2006)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: When this hospital was operating, stories claimed a ghostly matron walked the wards, the sound of her dress rustling along the floor. Since closing, it is claimed security staff have been spooked by shadows and strange sounds.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2024-05-15
Last updated: 2024-05-15
ID: #15397
Wailing Man
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Cave Hill (aka Cavehill)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1913 onwards
Further Comments: The wails and cries of a man could be heard on multiple occasions during 1913, although the noises ceased when investigators grew close. Two years later, a hovering figure caused a witness to panic and flee. The remains of a skeleton found in 1922 were later identified as a man who had vanished around the time the first wails were heard.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2026-02-07
Last updated: 2026-02-07
ID: #16323
Lion
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Cavehill Park, Upper Hightown end
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 31 August 2008
Further Comments: Several independent witnesses called the police to report a sandy coloured cat in this park. The nearby Belfast Zoo reported no animals missing. A search of the area by police failed to find the feline.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-09-07
Last updated: 2008-09-07
ID: #8934
Daniel Joseph Jaffe
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - City Cemetery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Daniel is said to have started haunting the area around his monument after it was vandalised.
Source:
Needs Review
First added: 2011-05-02
Last updated: 2011-05-02
ID: #10453
Ethel
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Craigavon House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 2014
Further Comments: East Coast Paranormal Society carried out an investigation on this site and claimed to have caught a bearded figure reflected in a mirror. Another entity said to haunt the building is 'Ethel', a former matron who worked on the site when it was a hospital.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2015-02-08
Last updated: 2015-02-08
ID: #11744
Amelia
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Crown Bar
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2008
Further Comments: Paranormal investigator Michael Hirons claimed to have contacted a former prostitute named Amelia and previous landlord Michael Flannagan during a seance. Amelia is said to have broken her neck after falling down the stairs of the bar.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-03-23
Last updated: 2008-03-23
ID: #8346
Face in a Coffin
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Crumlin Road Prison (now a museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A visitor who lay in a coffin for a photograph later realised that the captured image showed a strange face next to his. It is worth noting that the photograph is likely to be a case of pareidolia rather than the paranormal. The prison is also home to a phantom man seen walking down C Wing, and the sounds of both male and female voices.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2012-05-06
Last updated: 2012-05-06
ID: #10863
Hand Holder
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Friar's Bush area - tunnel running between two areas of Queen's University
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One person reported a phantom hand which clasped their own as they walked through the tunnel.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-12
Last updated: 2005-04-12
ID: #6111
White Outline
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Grey Point Fort, Helen's Bay
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2003
Further Comments: While on a day out, the Garvin family caught a white shape on their video camera. When slowed down on replay, they reported a figure which resembled a Second World War soldier.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2021-11-03
Last updated: 2021-11-03
ID: #14308
Footfalls
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - HM Prison Belfast (aka Crumlin Road Gaol)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October 1986, around 02:00h
Further Comments: A prison officer reported hearing heavy rubber-soled boots while on his rounds on A Wing, even though all staff were issued with sneakers. Believing his co-workers were playing a joke on him, he checked up on them, and found that they were playing cards. A couple of hours later, the officer heard a voice call out 'numbers C3', though once again could not find who was responsible. Asking his co-workers if they were 'playing around', they denied it, and recommended that the officer did not say anything to anyone.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-09-14
Last updated: 2026-06-28
ID: #6558
HMS Caroline, copyright Phil Willis.
Stoker
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - HMS Caroline
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Currently undergoing refit as a museum, HMS Caroline is reputedly home to a phantom stoker who is said to have committed suicide on the ship.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2015-02-08
Last updated: 2015-02-08
ID: #11745
Hitchhiker
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Horseshoe Bend
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s onwards, last seen 2008
Further Comments: A vanishing hitchhiker is reported to haunt this area, last seen by a group of five friends driving through the area.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2012-07-17
Last updated: 2012-07-17
ID: #10992
Phantom
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - McAuley Street Mill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1882
Further Comments: Little is known about the ghost which made a sudden appearance at the old mill here in the nineteenth century.
Source:
Needs Review
First added: 2011-05-02
Last updated: 2011-05-02
ID: #10449
Victorian in Crinoline
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Old Belfast Crown Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: It was reported that RUC officers on night duty watched a Victorian lady wearing Crinoline ascend the back staircase and continue along the corridor, before disappearing through the end wall.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2017-12-07
Last updated: 2017-12-07
ID: #12624
Apologise to the Tree
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Ormeau Golf Club
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Tree still present
Further Comments: If the fairy tree found near the course is hit by an errant golf ball, the player is advised to apologise to avoid the wrath of the little people. Even if not struck, it is said that golfers nod at the tree as they pass. Just in case.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2019-03-25
Last updated: 2019-03-25
ID: #13117
Sitter
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Private house along Finaghy Road North
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Occupants in a bedroom in this house would report feeling something sitting at the base of a bed. Footsteps would also be heard pacing in the room.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-07-28
Last updated: 2024-07-28
ID: #15545
Fading Man
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Private house along Windsor Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 1970s
Further Comments: Unable to sleep one night, this witness turned over in bed to see a semi-transparent young man smiling down at her. He had very short hair, wore a collarless shirt and had braces on his trousers. The witness said there was a warm and friendly atmosphere in the room. The ghostly figure slowly faded away.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-12-28
Last updated: 2005-12-28
ID: #6670
Victorian Lady
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Private house, Fromme Street (since demolished)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Gerald J Tate wrote that his brother awoke to find a young Victorian woman in his bedroom. She wore a blue dress and had around her neck a locket holding a shiny stone. The brother fled the house and ran to his parents who lived just around the corner. A few years later Gerald was talking to a co-worker when he discovered the man's uncle had lived in the same house and had experienced some violent poltergeist-like effects, including almost being pushed down the stairs by an unseen force.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2012-05-06
Last updated: 2012-05-06
ID: #10867
Prison
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Private residence, Ashley Gardens
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1954
Further Comments: Two men were imprisoned for a month after illegally entering an alleged haunted house along this road. Police confirmed in the courthouse that the site had a reputation for being haunted, although no witnesses came forward to claim they had seen a ghost.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-02-04
Last updated: 2023-02-04
ID: #14771
Large Figure
Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Private residence, Twaddell Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 2008
Further Comments: A large black figure with a bald head was spotted standing by a bed. The figure held his hands down his sides and appeared angry. Some people on the site felt they were being watched after dark, while the back door of the premises would close by itself.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2011-04-10
Last updated: 2011-04-10
ID: #10259
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