Silhouette

Location: Aberdeen (Aberdeenshire) - Old Fire Station, King Street (now student accommodation)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2006
Further Comments: A former student who stayed here recalled how a silhouetted figure walked towards him as he stood in the shower - the witness jumped out of the way, injuring his heal. A couple of months later the student was told that the building was reputedly haunted.

Edwardian Gentleman

Location: Bexhill (Sussex) - Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The police station is said to be haunted by this figure, though his motives for returning here are unknown.

Knight Templar

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Fire Brigade Headquarters, Temple Back
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1975
Further Comments: This apparition appeared nine times during 1975. While one witness thought it looked like a man wearing waterproof clothing, others thought that the ghost's dress looked more medieval and speculated it may have been a Knight Templar, the organisation of which once owned lands around the city.

Footsteps

Location: Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) - Old fire station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Disembodied footsteps were reported coming from empty parts of this fire station.

Jack

Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Old Fire Station Restaurant, Northdate Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: Sporting a beard, this phantom fireman wearing a brass helmet was known only as Jack. A fireman who watched the figure sitting on a ladder was so shocked he rang the emergency bell to summon help. Even though the phantom had vanished by the time other people arrived on the scene, the witness quit his job soon after.

Monk

Location: Dalkeith (Lothian) - Dalkeith fire station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: A medium was called to banish a phantom monk who was blamed for creating strange voices, eerie screams and loud bangs at night. Reports of the phantom monk on the site of a former abbey date back to the eighteenth century.

Officer Jones

Location: Grays (Essex) - Fire Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A former Divisional Officer, Jones appears sporadically in the dorm of the building.

Phantom Whistling

Location: Great Yarmouth (Norfolk) - Fire Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Built upon an area that housed bodies, the fire station has developed a reputation for being haunted. Footfalls have also been heard down empty corridors.

Whistles and Bells

Location: Halifax (Yorkshire) - Former police building, Prescott Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: When in use, a number of police officers reported strange occurrences in the building, including whistling, doors opening and closing themselves, cold spots, and ringing bells that were connected to empty cells.

White Woman with Mistletoe

Location: Hartley Wintney (Hampshire) - Bramshill House (police college)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: Not just home to the ghostly bride (who suffered the fate of hiding in a chest from her husband while playing hide and seek, only to get stuck and suffocate) who wakes people up who spend the night there, but also to a grey lady who haunts the library and a green man who hovers by the lake - it is reported that he has no legs. Finally, a man in a flannel; suit was observed walking through a wall by a security guard in the 1970s.

Fireman in Brass Helmet

Location: Ilford (Essex) - Old Fire Station on Broadway, and new one on Romford Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen by staff at the fire station, the ghost is said to be Godfrey Netherwood, a man from the late nineteenth century who was interested in paranormal happenings. This spirit now appears to have migrated to a new home at the newer station.

Bedtime for Children

Location: Kincardine (Angus) - Tulliallan Castle; Tulliallan Police College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 1978
Further Comments: This witness, staying at the police college, recalled hearing the sound of children laughing along the corridor outside her dorm, before the sounds moved into the room. Although alone in the dorm, the witness heard all the beds squeak as if people where climbing into them, including her own. A chair also in the room moved slightly across the floor.

Chief Inspector

Location: Lewes (Sussex) - Lewes Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 2003
Further Comments: This ghost's rank was determined after one witness was so close to the ghost he could see the entity's shoulder pips. The shade appears to be in his late forties, wearing police uniform and glasses, and has been seen by officers since the 1960s.

Long Dead Airman

Location: Martlesham Heath (Suffolk) - Police HQ, heathland, and shopping area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978, 1981 (police station), 2004 (shopping area)
Further Comments: A major airfield during World War 2, the Police Headquarters and the surrounding heathland has a reputation of being haunted by the souls of long dead pilots. Several police officers have seen such shades, while more recently, owners of a shop reported seeing a detached human shadow outside their establishment.

Fireman

Location: N7 (Greater London) - Euston Fire Station, Euston Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007
Further Comments: A ghostly white figure that was caught on someone's mobile phone camera was named as a former firefighter. Though the footage has been dismissed as nothing more than a trick of the light, some firefighters remain sure their station is haunted.

Wet Prints

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - 1 Queens Street, British Transport Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1977
Further Comments: An officer who was working alone at night heard a heavy door slam. Going to investigate, he found a set of wet footprints leading to the toilets, even though the weather was dry outside. Following the prints into the toilets, he found the room empty. Other people have reported strange sounds at night.

Footsteps

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Ambulance Station, Wilford Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: This station was home to phantom footsteps and opening doors. Two witnesses watched a shadowy man enter the toilets; concerned he was a trespasser they followed him in, only to find the area empty.

Moaning

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Former Police Station, Canal Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1976
Further Comments: This building, while being used by a private company, was said to be haunted by moans and groans, banging and by a particular light being switched on by an unseen hand. The manager of the firm was not impressed with the stories, and discovered that all strange activity (except the moaning) could be stopped by changing the electrics.

Pacing

Location: Outer London: Greenford (Greater London) - Greenford Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s onwards
Further Comments: Heard walking along the upper floor, these phantom footsteps start at midnight and continue until dawn.

Sounds

Location: Potton (Bedfordshire) - Potton Fire Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Post 1974
Further Comments: Built in 1974 on the site of an old tannery, it is unsure whether the strange noises and other odd events are connected to events from the previous building or the current one.

Woman

Location: Swindon (Wiltshire) - Fire Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s, 1970s
Further Comments: Footsteps were heard in the upper parts of the building when no one should have been there, and strange footprints appeared on freshly polished floors, stopping abruptly half way across. One firefighter awoke in the dorm to see a grey shadowy figure standing over him, while another followed a figure into the toilets, only to find them empty. One fire officer suggested it was the ghost of a woman who drowned in the canal, over which the fire station was built.

Officer

Location: Thorpe-le-Soken (Essex) - Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in an old fashioned uniform, this ex-officer is said to haunt his former station. It is also said that whispering voices can be heard in the cells when they are empty.

Sergeant

Location: W1 (Greater London) - Former Vine Street Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1969
Further Comments: This officer of the law, who killed himself in a cell in the nineteenth century, still keeps an eye on his fellow officers.

Mrs Abercrombie Walking

Location: W4 (Greater London) - 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.

Tall Officer

Location: Wrexham (Wales) - Wrexham police station
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Summer 2003
Further Comments: While refuelling a van in the yard, Special Constable Mark Davies spotted the reflection of a tall policeman standing behind him in one of the windows. Davies turned to speak to the officer, but there was no one there. It was speculated that the ghostly figure was a motorcyclist who had died a few months earlier.