Misty Woman

Location: Abbots Ann (Hampshire) - Poplar Farm Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure was once seen behind the bar, and is blamed for slamming doors when no other cause is apparent. A black dog haunts both inside and outside the pub, and is thought to be protecting a secret passageway.

Bushy Bearded Man

Location: Abbots Bromley (Staffordshire) - Royal Oak Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This cloaked, bearded gentleman was seen lurking around the attic and one of the bathrooms. A few unearthly notes from a non-existent music box have been heard in the bar area.

Glasses

Location: Abbotsham (Devon) - Thatched Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: As well as the 'normal' sounds of disembodied footsteps, the other phantom sound often reported is the clinking of glasses from an empty room.

Friendly Character?

Location: Abergavenny (Gwent) - Skirrid Mountain Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While one report described one ghost here only as 'friendly', it may be in the minority. The inn is a former courthouse, and claims to have had 182 people executed by noose within. One woman present at the inn reportedly developed marks around her neck after feeling an invisible rope placed around there. There has also been a report of a Cromwellian soldier on the site.

Tap Turning

Location: Aldermaston (Berkshire) - Butt Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The resident poltergeist here turns on the beer taps and closes doors with a bang.

Bad Poker Night

Location: Aldington (Kent) - The Walnut Tree Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Home to a gang of smugglers, a poker game they played while waiting for 'the signal' ended with one gang member slitting the throat of another - the ghostly footfalls that can now be heard are that of the murderer taking the body to the well to be disposed of.

Modern Looking Lady

Location: Alfriston (Sussex) - Smugglers Inn public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1994
Further Comments: Seen by the owner and her daughter, this ghostly lady seen at the base of the staircase near the bar was said to be wearing a modern gown.

Elizabeth Maronne

Location: Almondsbury (Somerset) - Bowl Inn and other areas in the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: Elizabeth was said to have been abused by her father and died young. Her phantom voice has been heard singing nursery rhymes or otherwise sobbing gently. The inn also claims two other female ghosts, though little is known about them.

Coach Fatality

Location: Ambleside (Cumbria) - Kirkstone Pass Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This inn claims several ghosts, including a young boy that was killed by a coach outside of the building, a young woman who died trying to travel along the road during a snow storm, and a seventeenth century coachman who lurks around the bar.

Children

Location: Ardentinny (Argyll and Bute) - Ardentinny Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One particular room is said to be haunted by children - people have awoken and believed the children have entered their room by mistake, only for them to vanish.

Lady in Brown

Location: Armathwaite (Cumbria) - Fox & Pheasant Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-2000s
Further Comments: A previous landlady and her friend observed a woman wearing old fashioned brown clothing walk through the front door while it was closed. The ghost is said to be a woman who lost both her children outside the inn in a coach accident. A highwayman is also reputed to haunt the building.

Fireplace Man

Location: Ashwater (Devon) - Manor Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This hot shade can be seen in the embers of a fireplace here.

Footsteps in the Attic

Location: Auchencairn (Dumfries and Galloway) - Old Smuggler's Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Phantom footsteps have been reported in the upper part of the building. As with other public houses, light switches have been known to turn themselves on and off and electrical equipment has activated with no human intervention. A shadowy figure was spotted in a bedroom.

Annie Fraser

Location: Aultsigh (Highland) - Aultsigh Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The entity heard moving around the building is named as the young lass who was murdered by a jealous suitor who then concealed her body under the floorboards of the building.

Cavalier

Location: Banbury (Oxfordshire) - Reindeer Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Having vanished for many years now, it is reasonably certain this once gruesome entity has now gone forever.

Landlord

Location: Basildon (Berkshire) - Blewbury Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, post 1950s
Further Comments: A former landlord is said to be heard walking down the staircase and into the bar late at night.

Faceless Girl

Location: Basingstoke (Hampshire) - Barge Inn, formally Goat and Barge Public House (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: The landlord's wife and a customer both watched a phantom faceless woman walk past the bar. In another incident, a member of the public was knocked off his feet and another kicked in the knee as an invisible force rushed by them. Cries and screams would sometimes be heard late at night.

Soldier

Location: Bath (Somerset) - Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Dressed in a First World War uniform, this phantom would appear in a darkened corner sipping his drink. The haunting is said not to have lasted.

Moving Items

Location: Bath (Somerset) - Curfew Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2009
Further Comments: The poltergeist at work in this pub plays around with beer casks, taps and pinches staff, and moves pool balls.

Jean Baptiste du Barre

Location: Bathampton (Somerset) - The George Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century, said to be more frequent in December
Further Comments: A Frenchman killed in a duel, du Barre reportedly took his last breaths in the inn. A spirit resembling him was seen standing by the bar at the end of the twentieth century; the witness said the entity was friendly and unthreatening.

Art Critic

Location: Beccles (Suffolk) - Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Pictures which fall to the floor without identifiable cause are said to have been moved by this pub's ghost, which can be heard ascending the staircase and moving through rooms in the upper part of the building.

Hunchback

Location: Belmersthorpe (Lincolnshire) - Bluebell Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area round the well found at this inn is home to a ghostly hunchback.

Chef

Location: Bickleigh (Devon) - Trout Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1989
Further Comments: A former owner of the inn watched the shade come out of a cupboard in the kitchen and stand by a side unit, before fading away.

Two Children Holding a Music Box

Location: Bildeston (Suffolk) - The Crown Inn, 104 High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1981 - 1984
Further Comments: Though rumoured to still haunt the site, the Victorian children haven't been reported for a good many years. Sightings of a grey woman who also haunts the building seem to be rare, but the ghost may be responsible for poltergeist activity in the gentleman's toilets, opening cubical doors for customers as they enter the room. Finally, an old man in a three cornered hat has been seen by staff sitting by the front door of the public house, though they believe him to be a teetotaller.

Drunken Cavalier

Location: Billinge (Lancashire) - Stork Hotel (aka Stork Inn)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This drunken Cavalier was once seen in the men's toilets, and can sometimes be heard moving around at night.