The Paranormal Database

An old postcard showing the city of Gloucester.

Hooded Figure

Location: Gloucester - 120 Westgate Street (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghost was said to stand in the back room of the building, scaring pets and other animals.

Robed Figure

Location: Gloucester - Anglian Windows, Westgate Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1988
Further Comments: A robed man and poltergeist activity have been reported in this showroom - in one instance, a roll of carpet was seen to levitate.

Helping Hand

Location: Gloucester - Bishop's House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Guests donning their coats as they prepare to leave have felt someone give them a hand - but no one is there as they turn to give thanks.

Bleeding Friar

Location: Gloucester - Blackfriars Priory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen running down a corridor with a serious head injury, it is not known if the friar died because of his wound. Another more common apparition is that of a monk, and he is also blamed for locking doors which are normally left open.

Shadow

Location: Gloucester - Blenheim Road
Type: Other
Date / Time: August 1905
Further Comments: Police were called to maintain the peace after hundreds of people arrived at this road to see a ghost, thought the 'entity' was first spotted by an intoxicated man and was later identified as a shadow.

Pale Little Girl

Location: Gloucester - Coach and Horses public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1997
Further Comments: A new landlord to the pub reported that he and his family had heard strange sounds, while his son had spotted a phantom little girl wearing white. The family were said to be too afraid to sleep upstairs.

Hunched Figure

Location: Gloucester - Dick Whittington's public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A hunched figure seen walking around the cellar was just one of the ghosts which caused the owners of this public house to call in paranormal investigators. Lights have also been seen floating over the bar, while furniture moves itself around the building. Previously, a ghostly man wearing a flat cap caused workmen to flee the building.

Sewing Fairies

Location: Gloucester - Exact location unknown, old tailor's shop
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The tailor who owned this shop left the mayor's clothing unfinished on Saturday and found it completed on Monday morning. He used this event to advertise the shop, claiming that the little folk had done the work, though it soon transpired that an assistant had worked on the Sunday to avoid going to church.

Ghostly nuns pop up across the UK.

Nun holding Child

Location: Gloucester - Former hospital along Tewkesbury Road (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The hospital was haunted by both the nun carrying a baby, and the sounds of the child crying. It is said that the woman committed suicide after blaming herself for the death of the infant.

Teacher

Location: Gloucester - Former school along Archdeacon Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The building is home to a former teacher who died after falling down a set of steps - he is seen dressed in a black gown and wearing a mortar cap.

Monk

Location: Gloucester - General area, Barnwood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The story of a phantom monk in the area dates to at least 1860, with the entity doomed to walk the earth after stealing money from the nearby monastery.

Glowing Woman

Location: Gloucester - Grange Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late summer 2005, 22:00h
Further Comments: A glowing older woman wearing a Victorian-style nightgown crossed the grass and approached a jogger, who promptly sprinted away terrified. The jogger recalled that people walking their dogs behind the phantom seemed oblivious to the entity.

Footsteps

Location: Gloucester - Horton Road, Mayhill Way, and London Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2020 (a Sunday afternoon)
Further Comments: During the pandemic, this witness heard footsteps coming up from behind. Conscious of social distancing, the witness stopped and turned around to let the approaching person pass; no one could be seen and after a split second, the footsteps stopped.

Blue Lady

Location: Gloucester - Juniper Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2016?
Further Comments: The road is said to be haunted by a lady with a blue glow. A local newspaper reported two people walking a dog encountered the ghost in 2016.

Blurred Figure

Location: Gloucester - National Waterways Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 29 July 2008
Further Comments: A photograph taken by a thirteen year old girl in this building apparently shows a ghostly figure partly obscured by a wooden barrel. Other visitors have reported seeing a man in black or have heard footsteps or voices in parts of the museum that should have been empty.

Flying Beer

Location: Gloucester - New Inn public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: May 2010
Further Comments: CCTV in this pub recorded a pint of beer as it was 'pushed' off the table by an unseen hand, although it has been suggested that it slipped off on its own accord. The building is said to be haunted by an unknown number of children who died in a fire on site.

Presence

Location: Gloucester - Old Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Little is known about the shade which reputedly haunts this building.

Pallet Pusher

Location: Gloucester - Poundstretcher, Eastgate Street (was formally the Theatre Royal)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A young woman hanged herself in this building when it was a theatre and was said to haunt the location. In 2005, Poundstretcher's CCTV footage appeared to show a spectral figure of a Victorian woman pushing a whole pallet of goods to the ground.

Female Prisoner

Location: Gloucester - Prison (closed 2013)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to twenty-first century
Further Comments: This ghost is thought to be a woman held in the cells of the nearby abbey - she now appears in the jail and mocks the prisoners. Another story says she was killed by an inmate and returns to continue her search for him. Activity is said to be particularly strong in cell 25 on the A3 landing.

Hostile Woman

Location: Gloucester - Private house along Tweenbrook Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: A family were forced to move out from this property after several disturbing incidents involving the shade of a woman. A six year old boy was found by an open bedroom window (which had previously been nailed shut), saying 'the lady wants me to go with her', and the woman was also encountered under the entrance to the attic, asking 'pray for me'.

Bangs in the Upper Area

Location: Gloucester - Ruins of Greyfriars
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This spirit is blamed for the slamming of furniture which is heard upstairs.

An old postcard showing the Gloucester skyline.

Bloody Rain

Location: Gloucester - Skies over the town
Type: Other
Date / Time: February 1649
Further Comments: Once upon a time, on a day in February, it rained blood over the town.

Organ

Location: Gloucester - St James's Parish Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1934, 01:10h
Further Comments: A man on his way home from the station could hear the organ being played in the church, although the gates were locked and the building in darkness.

Coughing

Location: Gloucester - Wickwar Brewing Company, Station Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007
Further Comments: Staff at the company reported hearing phantom coughing and disembodied footsteps late at night in the brewing building.