Calling Out for Help

Location: Shoreham-by-Sea (Sussex) - Private residence, King George Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend says that a man died along this road after falling down a set of stairs - his ghost calls out for help before vanishing.

American Air Force Man

Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Private flat, Vandon Court
Type: Other
Date / Time: July 2005
Further Comments: A witness found a USAF service man in their apartment, wearing a uniform and holding a clipboard. The figure was said to be handsome and happy, and extended their hand, which the witness shook. The witness's hand began to freeze and they screamed loudly, bringing neighbours to the apartment, by which time the figure had vanished.

Old Man

Location: Waterbeach (Cambridgeshire) - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980 - 1990s
Further Comments: A witness recalled staying at this home on several occasions, during which he would wake up during the night and see an old man standing in the corner of a bedroom. The upstairs was reported to have an oppressive atmosphere and a strong smell of pipe tobacco, even though no one in the house smoked.

Dark Figure

Location: Sheffield (Yorkshire) - Ye Olde Harrow public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 1994 - February 2001
Further Comments: A former tenant reported several strange experiences during their time in this pub, including encountering a dark figure, doors which closed themselves and items which disappeared and reappeared up to a month later.

Scraping

Location: Ordiequish (Moray) - Elf House, area within Slorach's Wood
Type: Other
Date / Time: 29 April 2004, daytime
Further Comments: Walking along the track which runs by the stream, this witness heard scraping, splashing, rustling and other strange noises from within a cave. The sounds faded away.

Baker Ghost

Location: Ouseburn (Yorkshire) - Kirby Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s - 1980s
Further Comments: A vague figure which was occasionally seen on the second floor would be accompanied by the smell of cooking, gaining it the nickname Baker Ghost. Mild poltergeist activity was also reported - contents from a bookcase found thrown around a room.

Former Landlord

Location: Kennford (Devon) - Gissons Arms public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2012, evenings
Further Comments: A former landlord is reputedly to blame for turning lights on, opening doors and playing music. A burning smell has also been detected in the bar, disappearing after a minute or two.

Shaking

Location: Chartham (Kent) - Chartham signal box
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa 1991, around 23:00h
Further Comments: A young signalman was on the phone to a colleague in the signal box in Wye when the man on the other end of the phone started screaming. The young signalman asked what the matter was, and was informed that the box in Wye had just started shaking. At that moment, the young signalman's box also began to shake, likened to someone hitting the building with a sledgehammer every second. The young signalman opened the door ready to face whomever was hitting the building; the shaking stopped and no one could be seen. The young signalman continued to work in the box for several years, and while the intensity of the experience was never matched, the shaking would occasionally replete.

Woman in Black Dress

Location: Friskney (Lincolnshire) - A52 road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 1990s, October, early morning
Further Comments: A family of three travelling by car passed a woman wearing a Victorian-style dress walking along the roadside. She had long curly hair under a hat, and a face which glowed green. The car turned and drove passed her a second time before turning off the A52 and taking a different route.

Booming

Location: Milford Haven (Dyfed) - Skies over the area
Type: Other
Date / Time: 02 February 2012, around 22:00h
Further Comments: Three residents of Milford Haven complained to the local council about a booming noise heard in the area which lasted two minutes, a sound no witness had ever experienced before. One theory stated that the sound came from night time exercises from the nearby Castlemartin Range, although the MoD stated that they were not using anything which could have caused the noise.

Blue Spheres

Location: Bournemouth (Sussex) - Exact location not known
Type: Other
Date / Time: 26 January 2012
Further Comments: Steve Hornsby found a dozen jelly-like, small blue balls in his garden following a hail storm during which the sky briefly turned dark yellow. While the balls have not formally bee identified, it was suggested that they could be marine invertebrate eggs, discharge from an airliner toilet, or a kind of plant feed gel.

Murdered Girl

Location: Chislehurst (Kent) - Chislehurst Caves
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A number of ghosts are said to haunt the caves, including a woman who was drowned in a pool. Other 'people' have been seen within, and the sounds of children and sometimes horses are reported. One myth says that a priest who spent the night at the site was found dead, the cause of death - fright!

Man in Dark Grey

Location: Braintree (Essex) - Kings Head public house, Bradford Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2009 onwards
Further Comments: A number of paranormal occurrences are reported from his pub, including a man in dark grey who watches customers from the bar (he vanishes when looked at), footsteps on the second floor, unexplained shadows in the men's toilets, doors opening and lights turning off. The ghost has earned the nickname 'Frank'.

Black Coach

Location: Old Woking (Surrey) - Bridge between Old Woking and Send
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The bridge is said to be haunted by a black coach pulled by a black horse.

Dark Man

Location: Hugglescote (Leicestershire) - Richmond Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2011
Further Comments: While cycling to work, this witness watched as a dark male figure appeared in front of him. Not able to swerve in time, the witness cycled straight through the entity. The cyclist turned around in time to see the figure walk through the old bridge wall. A friend later told the witness that he had also seen the ghost.

Large Black Cat

Location: Randaltown (County Antrim) - Exact location not known
Type: ABC
Date / Time: Circa 2008
Further Comments: A local man and his friend witnessed a huge, black creature run past their car while heading towards a local chip shop.

Flying Dog

Location: Birmingham (West Midlands) - Private residence, Barrows Lane, Yardley
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Late twentieth / early twenty-first century
Further Comments: Footsteps walking up a hallway were heard by a witness and her dog in a room. The footsteps stopped outside the room and the door handle started to turn. The dog ran to the door barking, and the witness grabbed a poker. Opened the door, the witness was surprised to find no one there, although the dog continued to bark at empty space. A short time later the family watched the dog barking at the air in the garden, when the hound was picked up and thrown into the door of a coal house by something unseen. There were also reports of loud crashes within the house, but nothing was ever found tipped over.

Louise

Location: Little Waltham (Essex) - Liberty Hall, Chatham Green
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Louise unknown, house shaking in December 1984
Further Comments: Said to haunt the area, the phantom Louise is sometimes said to have a small dog with her. A member of a family who lived here reported that in December 1984 the entire building and its contents were shaken by a massive bang which appeared to come from the wall in the kitchen, the origin of which has never been discovered.

Bloody Horse

Location: Pool (Cornwall) - Road and tunnel close to South Crofty mine
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Circa October / November 1995, around 22:30h - 23:00h
Further Comments: Driving past the mine in bad weather, a driver and his passenger felt a strange negative sensation wash over them. The driver slammed on the brakes and as the car stopped they spotted a bloody horse standing in the lights. The driver started to climb out of his car to move the horse out of the road, but the creature had gone - there was a steep drop to one side of the road and a wire fence to the other side.

Kitchen Party

Location: Falmouth (Cornwall) - Private residence, new build
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1994
Further Comments: Over a period of months, the sounds of people chatting and joking could be heard coming from an empty kitchen. When investigated, the sounds always stopped

Faceless Man

Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Estate Agents (no longer present), Anchor Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 1994
Further Comments: A cleaner in this building reported seeing a shadowy, charcoal coloured figure, around six foot tall with no facial feature striding across a balcony. The figure vanished into a wall.

Noises

Location: Lancaster (Lancashire) - Private residence along Longlands Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A witness living at this property reported hearing a disembodied voice say their name close to their ear. Footsteps, the sounds of tearing paper and a loud bang without cause were also reported.

Figures

Location: Bideford (Devon) - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1998 - 2002
Further Comments: Over a five year period, the family living here experienced several strange occurrences, including seeing different figures (including recently deceased family members, as well as unknown people) and smelling the overpowering aroma of lavender.

Elderly Couple

Location: Harpenden (Hertfordshire) - Lower Luton Road between Batford in Harpenden and Wheathampstead
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2011, 04:00h
Further Comments: Travelling to work one morning, a driver passed an older couple walking along the road. The driver glanced into the rear view mirror, but the couple had vanished.

Flying Glasses

Location: Bushey (Hertfordshire) - Horse and Chains public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Early to mid 1990s (polt), 1970s (former landlord)
Further Comments: Over a period of a couple of years, one witness thrice observed a glass fly off a shelf and smash on the till, about 150 centimetres away. The building was once said to be home to the ghost of a former landlord, although he was not been seen recently.

Black Tom?

Location: Bedford (Bedfordshire) - Private residence along Gladstone Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1985 or early 1986
Further Comments: A man at this property awoke to find what he thought was an intruder in his bedroom. The man's shouts awoke his wife, and they both witnessed a dark shadowy figure in a black cloak and floppy hat move to the opposite side of the room and vanish. A few months later they heard the legend of Black Tom, the local horse rustler who was hanged close to their home.

Priest

Location: Brighton (Sussex) - Stanmer Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom priest was reported to haunt this site. Legend says he was shot by custom officers after being caught assisting the local smuggling operation some 200 years ago.

Loud Bang

Location: Grimsby (Lincolnshire) - Sky over the town
Type: Other
Date / Time: 18 January 2012, around 19:00h
Further Comments: The RAF denied that any of their aircraft were responsible for a mysterious loud bang heard over the town. The sound was said to have shaken some homes.

Roe Deer Kill

Location: Stroud (Gloucestershire) - Woodchester Park
Type: ABC
Date / Time: January 2012
Further Comments: The corpse of a roe deer discovered by a member of the public had wounds similar to animals killed by big cats. The National Trust, who own the land, said they were carrying out tests on the body.

Diana

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Govan Old Parish Church
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa early 2012
Further Comments: A video recorded by Chinese tourists at Govan Old Parish Church appears to show Princess Diana standing by a stained glass window. The jury appears to be out to whether the footage is faked, an optical illusion or something a little more spooky.

Old Man

Location: Stoke on Trent (Staffordshire) - Potteries Shopping Centre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: The ghost of an old man wearing a cloth cap and a walking stick is said to haunt the shopping centre, and has reportedly been seen by two members of staff on separate occasions. Staff are also said to have heard disembodied footsteps and someone crying out from empty corridors.

Videoed Orbs

Location: Ipswich (Suffolk) - Private residence, Mottram Close
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 2012
Further Comments: The Evening Star newspaper reported that Lee and Michelle Markwell had experienced several strange occurrences in their home, including footsteps, electrical items turning themselves on, and feeling something brush past. The couple videoed 'orbs' in their home, mostly likely dust particles close to the lens. A paranormal team, Suffolk Paranormal Research, which investigated the site said the haunting was caused by an elderly farmer named William and Rachel, his sister.

Footsteps

Location: Paisley (Renfrewshire) - Gym (name withheld)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 27 July 2011
Further Comments: Disembodied footsteps on a staircase were reported by one user of this building. It is said that other people have seen a shadow which swiftly vanishes.

Betty Deacon

Location: St Paul's Walden (Hertfordshire) - Area around The Valley (street)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre First World War
Further Comments: Betty Deacon drowned herself on 16 August 1860 in the village pond. For years afterwards, her ghost was said to scare choir boys returning from practice after dusk had fallen. Another version of the story says Betty's ghost would be seen standing at the site which would have been just outside her cottage.

Woman in Skirt

Location: Linton (Derbyshire) - Private residence, Coton Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A former resident reported seeing a woman in a long grey skirt pass by one of the doors in this property. On another occasion, the same witness spotted a boy sitting on the foot of their bed - the figure faded away. Years after moving from the property, the witness heard that former occupants had left after their children had experienced strange sights.

Murdered Woman

Location: Liverpool (Lancashire) - Former hotel along Sir Thomas Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s and 2001
Further Comments: A voice in an empty toilet was heard issuing warnings of future events, while a figure was seen passing a door and climbing the stairs when the three people in the building were accounted for. A local legend says that a woman was murdered on the staircase close to the toilets.

Old Tram

Location: Bispham (Lancashire) - Tram station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02:30h
Further Comments: An old tram is said to travel along the tracks to the station at the same time every morning. A paranormal team known as Spirits and Sinners investigated, and while they did not see the tram, their electrical equipment played up and they spotted a strange light which illuminated a display teddy bear.

Curious Old Man

Location: Bath (Somerset) - Private residence, Oldfield Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1978
Further Comments: While living in a bedsit with a shared kitchen, one witness spotted a older man standing on the landing of the staircase. The witness jumped and the old man vanished, although the witness was left with a very vivid impression of the ghostly figure - grey hair, blue eyes, baggy trousers, olive green waistcoat, and shirt sleeves held up by expanding metal bands. The witness said the figure's head was slightly cocked to one side, as if curious.

Victorian Woman

Location: NW3 (Greater London) - Fitzroy Park near junction with Millfield Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Spring 1975, around 22:00h
Further Comments: Four people in a parked car spotted a woman wearing a Victorian style dress glide past. Although dark outside, the woman was illuminated, and made no sound on the gravel track. The witnesses quickly drove away.

Hooded Man

Location: Brighton (Sussex) - Nile Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Thought to be a monk from the small chapel of St Bartholomew which stood here before being destroyed in 1514, a hooded figure is reputed to haunt the street.

Man in Green

Location: Paisley (Renfrewshire) - Lismore Drive, Glenburn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A man with a green tint was spotted wearing a light yellow cagoule on a warm but overcast day. When a witness approached, the man sunk into the ground and disappeared.

Sounds

Location: Gamlingay (Cambridgeshire) - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2009 - 2011
Further Comments: Footsteps have been heard moving up and down the staircase, while other sounds have come from the garage, although on investigation nothing has been found.

Galloping Horses

Location: Coventry (West Midlands) - Moat House Lane, Canley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown - late twentieth or early twenty first century?
Further Comments: Walking along the lane, one man heard the sound of wheels moving along the road followed by the sound of galloping horses - the witness had to jump out of the way. Other people have reportedly heard the sound of farm animals in the area, although none are around.

George?

Location: Liverpool (Lancashire) - Private residence, Breeze Hill, Walton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A former slave named George may have been responsible for this haunting, during which one man was slapped in the face as he lay in bed. Another person who rented the property left in tears, claiming he had been chased out by some form of angry spirit.

Known by Name

Location: Brighton (Sussex) - Aquarium Public House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An unknown voice is said to call out to staff and customers using their first names.

Horse and Carriage

Location: Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) - Sutton Heath Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2007
Further Comments: While travelling along the Sutton Heath road, one man watched a figure driving a horse and carriage emerge from a bush on the right hand side and cross the road ahead of him. The driver stopped, not believing what he had witnessed.

Crunching Gravel

Location: Drogheda (County Louth) - Boyne Viaduct
Type: Other
Date / Time: June or July 1990, 02:30h
Further Comments: While photographing an eclipse of the moon, two friends heard the sound of footsteps walking along the gravel laying on the surface of the viaduct, although no one could be seen.

Running Girl

Location: Weston-super-Mere (Somerset) - The Causeway
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2002
Further Comments: While walking along the causeway, two witnesses heard sloshing water and running footsteps behind them. They turned around and briefly spotted a young girl moving quickly towards them, with her hands held up. The girl moved through one witness's body and brushed against the other before spinning round and vanishing.

Perfume

Location: Disley (Cheshire) - Road running by railway line
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December 2011
Further Comments: A couple out walking on Christmas Day encountered an overwhelming scent of old fashioned perfume which they could taste at the back of the throat. No other person had been seen for hours

Horse

Location: Adisham (Kent) - Bossington Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A legend says that a shadow of a horse has been spotted under the bridge, but upon investigation, there is nothing there.