Teacher

Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - 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.

Pony and Trap

Location: Gorleston (Norfolk) - A143 - Gorleston / Beccles road; the Lily Pit - once a deep pond, now filled over and a school stands there
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Though there does not appear to have been any reports of this pony since the pond was filled, it was reported that this creature would travel at breakneck speed before vanishing into the water.

Foxes

Location: Gormanston (Leinster) - Area around Gormanston Castle (currently part of a college)
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to a death of a Viscount Gormanston
Further Comments: Whenever all the local foxes gather at the front door of the castle, a death will occur soon after.

Monks in Grey

Location: Great Missenden (Buckinghamshire) - Missenden Abbey (now absorbed into a college)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1972
Further Comments: These figures have been observed around the site of the former abbey, while others believe that the ghost of a woman, dressed in Victorian clothing, who committed suicide also haunts the site.

Hostile Presence

Location: Hadleigh (Essex) - The Old Schools
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1950's
Further Comments: The 'presence' would appear to be responsible for turning lights on and off, loud bangs, and phantom footfalls along the corridors.

Mr Horsley

Location: Harrogate (Yorkshire) - Ashville College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Horsley is said to be a former teacher who now allegedly haunts this college.

Matilda

Location: Hockley (Essex) - The Old School House, currently a private residence.
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1957 onwards?
Further Comments: The opening of doors and ringing of bells resulted in the owners of this house calling the 'ghost' Matilda, suspecting the spirit to be that of a child.

Mr Yates

Location: Hull (Yorkshire) - Old Grammar School, Trinity Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Most likely to be seen at 20:40h
Further Comments: A former vicar at St Mary's Lowgate, Mr Yates is considered to be an unlucky ghost, and those who have seen him drifting along the first floor corridor have suffered misfortune.

Grey Man

Location: Hullavington (Wiltshire) - Road near Burton Hill House School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 1967, 06:00h
Further Comments: A driver reported narrowly missing a man in grey clothing who stood in the middle of the road - the figure raised its arm and vanished.

Hooded Figure

Location: Inverurie (Aberdeenshire) - Pathway running parallel with the school playing fields
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: March 1993
Further Comments: Two people walking down this lane on a misty night watched a hooded figure drift through a seven foot high metal wire fence.

Tramp Carrying a Sack

Location: Johns Cross (Sussex) - A21 near Vinehall School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1983
Further Comments: Disappearing halfway across the road, this scruffy man has concerned several drivers who thought they may have hit him.

Leaping Teacher

Location: Keyworth (Nottinghamshire) - South Wolds school
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: There is a myth that a teacher working at the school during the 1960s killed herself by leaping from a third floor window. At least one former student based at the school has reportedly heard the reenactment.

Young Child

Location: Kildare (Leinster) - Road outside Clongowes Wood College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several motorists have had to brake sharply to avoid hitting a child who runs out in front of them. The infant always quickly vanishes after the driver stops. The area is also home to a phantom coach which halts at the front gates at midnight.

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.

Mover

Location: King's Lynn (Norfolk) - Thoresby College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: At least one cleaner has reported that small items vanish, only to reappear in different places around the building.

Unhappy Butler

Location: Leeds (Yorkshire) - Carnegie College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This fellow took his own life when he realised that his mistress would never love him. His body was found at the bottom of the large spiral staircase, and it is the same area that he still haunts.

Man in Jeans

Location: Leeds (Yorkshire) - Copperfields College School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1997 onwards
Further Comments: A number of students and a dinner lady watched a man in a checked shirt and jeans sitting in the main hall wave and vanish without warning. Minor poltergeist-like activity has also been reported.

Laughing

Location: Leigh (Lancashire) - Leigh College, gym
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This shade, which moves the climbing rope when in use, has been heard laughing and telling people to 'get off my foot'.

Strange Figure

Location: Lowestoft (Suffolk) - Roman Hill Middle School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: During a particularly misty day, a pupil at the school reported seeing a figure which walked through the wall of the school.

John Dee

Location: Manchester (Lancashire) - Chetham School, Audit Room
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa 1595
Further Comments: Doctor Dee worked from this room, and a scorch mark on a piece of wood is reputed to be left by a visit from the Devil

Merlin's Grave

Location: Marlborough (Wiltshire) - Merlin's Mound, Marlborough College
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: Merlin the Wizard is said to be buried under the hill which bears his name.

Suicidal Student

Location: Maynooth (Leinster) - Maynooth College, Rhetoric House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After two students committed suicide in room 2 of the building, and a third leapt from the window after believing an evil spirit was trying to take over his body, a priest was called in to spend the night. In the morning he was found a gibbering wreck, his hair turned white through fear.

Big Bertha

Location: Newport (Wales) - University of Wales College, Caerleon Campus
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Bertha Ramsey, a 6 foot tall matron at the campus, was found dead at the base of a set of stairs in 1962 - it was unsure whether she tripped or if she was pushed. Her ghost has been seen since, and is blamed for playing with the elevators after dark. Another ghost seen on site is that of a Roman centurion, as the building was constructed on the site of an ancient burial site.

Nun

Location: Northampton (Northamptonshire) - Notre Dame Convent School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former teacher at the school, this shade now walks knee deep across a hall that was raised after her death.

Stephanie

Location: Northwich (Cheshire) - Primary School in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A local myth tells of a young girl named Stephanie died in a fire (or a car crash, depending on the story); her ghost returned to the school and could be heard screaming 'Mummy, mummy, nooo..!'