Examining folkloric, paranormal & cryptozoological locations in the UK and beyond
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Abbey Pumping Station Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An engineer fell to his death in the beam engine house. His spirit still lingers, playing with lights and making noises in the basement.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2013-03-31
Last updated: 2013-03-31
ID: #11320
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Newarke Houses (now a museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1908
Further Comments: This property had a spooky reputation and stories said it remained empty for many years due to a haunting.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-05-29
Last updated: 2023-05-29
ID: #14962
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Belgrave Hall Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 23 December 1998
Further Comments: Recorded by CCTV, two ghostly figures were briefly seen in the grounds. Though the image was later explained as being 'leaves caught in the light', the building is reportedly haunted by a middle aged woman in a pale dress, who gives off a friendly aura.
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Published Media
First added: 2002-06-11
Last updated: 2002-06-11
ID: #1145
Location: Limerick (County Limerick) - Frank McCourt museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: March 2015
Further Comments: After carrying out a seance at the site, the Ghost Eire team said they could 'sense' children in wet clothing and two women.
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Published Media
First added: 2015-03-30
Last updated: 2015-03-30
ID: #11778
Location: Lisburn (County Antrim) - Piper's Hill, near the Linen Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This poor ghostly piper is said to have lost his head after an accident with a cannon ball.
Source:
Historical Record, User Submission
First added: 2006-02-26
Last updated: 2006-02-26
ID: #6759
Location: Llandudno (Clwyd) - Llandudno Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012?
Further Comments: The ghosts of two German soldiers are said to haunt a room which once acted as a First World War military office. The smell of tobacco has also been reported as coming from the same room.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2015-01-04
Last updated: 2015-01-04
ID: #11689
Location: Luton (Bedfordshire) - Museum & Art Gallery, Wardown Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1971
Further Comments: Two engineers working overnight to fix the heating system spotted a woman in a dark dress with a large set of keys on her belt. She walked up the back staircase - the engineers tried to follow her, but she vanished. The following morning the building caretaker confirmed that no one else was in the building during the night. Several other people had heard disembodied footsteps on the same staircase but had never seen to whom they belonged. One local legend says that a Victorian housekeeper drowned herself nearby after a failed romance.
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Published Media
First added: 2007-08-27
Last updated: 2007-08-27
ID: #7838
Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Paradise Mill, Silk Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2002, 31 October 2007
Further Comments: In 2002, a worker at the museum encountered several ghostly children on the site, one of which followed her home. The ghosts were described as non-threatening. The Shadow Seekers paranormal team were called in 2007 and claimed to have used dowsing rods to determine that the spirits of four children remained in the mill - Caroline, Sarah, Rebecca and John.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2007-12-02
Last updated: 2007-12-02
ID: #8071
Location: Maidstone (Kent) - Maidstone Museum
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: Staff at the museum's cafe reported hearing banking and the name 'Pyewacket' coming from under the floorboards. One witness in the museum reported a door, propped open with a heavy metal weight, closed itself.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2024-10-12
Last updated: 2024-10-12
ID: #15659
Location: Maidstone (Kent) - The Museum of Kent Life
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rebecca is thought to be a farmer's wife who died in 1912 in an accident involving a cart. Her presence is said to be non-threatening, and she spends her time looking for her newborn baby, who survived the accident.
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Published Media
First added: 2008-10-14
Last updated: 2008-10-14
ID: #9031
Location: Meigle (Perth and Kinross) - Museum
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Killed at nearby Alyth, Guinevere (wife of King Arthur) was buried in this small town - what could be her tombstone is on display in the museum.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2003-04-20
Last updated: 2003-04-20
ID: #4162
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear) - Hancock Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2004
Further Comments: It was reported in 2004 that this Egyptian mummy's ghost is still active, and now walks around the museum at night.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-10-24
Last updated: 2004-10-24
ID: #5509
Location: Newtongrange (Lothian) - Scottish Mining Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a coal sorter has been named as Aggie McGee, while other ghost stories include a headless miner and screams of those who died in the pits.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2014-05-26
Last updated: 2014-05-26
ID: #11554
Location: North Berwick (Lothian) - East Fortune Airfield (museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: The smell of tobacco is said to fill the air in the top hangar, even though no smokers are present. Mild poltergeist activity is reported, and occasionally a phantom man is seen wearing dark coveralls.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2008-10-05
Last updated: 2008-10-05
ID: #8989
Location: NW4 (Greater London) - Hendon Air Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The Lancaster Bomber 'S for Sugar', which is kept on site here, still retains its crew from the Second World War in spirit form. A gunner has been observed sitting in one of the turrets, while the sounds of people working on the aircraft have been recorded late at night.
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Published Media
First added: 2002-08-31
Last updated: 2002-08-31
ID: #2376
Location: Outer London: Harrow (Greater London) - Headstone Manor (Harrow Museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Several entities are reported to haunt this building once owned by Henry VIII. These include visual manifestations of a phantom woman with a child, a man wearing coarsely woven fabric clothing, and of a light floating up the staircase, while the sounds of a baby crying, and plainchant, have also been reported.
Source:
Needs Review
First added: 2008-08-05
Last updated: 2008-08-05
ID: #8686
Peterborough Museum.
Location: Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) - Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Anzac during the 1970s, others unknown
Further Comments: Sergeant Thomas Hunter, with the Anzacs during the First World War, died in the building 31 July 1916 when it was a hospital. Hunter was last seen drifting up the staircase, though he is blamed for moving items around the building at night or placing icy cold hands on people. Other entities said to haunt here include a scruffy man in the cellar, a white woman in the upper part of the building, a young girl in the former operating theatre, and a phantom Roman soldier who stands by a sword that is on display.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2008-03-18
Last updated: 2008-03-18
ID: #8324
Guildhall, Poole.
Location: Poole (Dorset) - Guildhall (former museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1991
Further Comments: A clerk who hanged himself during a state of depression in the guildhall is thought to linger on and is sometimes heard walking around the upper regions of the building.
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Published Media
First added: 2007-06-03
Last updated: 2007-06-03
ID: #7511
Location: Ramsey (Cambridgeshire) - Ramsey Rural Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2013
Further Comments: Cambridgeshire Supernatural Investigators claimed to have recorded unexplained noises and caught images of a dark shadow while investigating this site.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2013-06-02
Last updated: 2013-06-02
ID: #11341
Location: Redditch (Worcestershire) - Forge Mill Needle Museum and Bordesley Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One story says the mill is haunted by a phantom woman who drowned herself in the mill pond. The grounds of the nearby Bordesley Abbey, now ruined, once encompassed the land where the mill stands, which may explain the ghostly monks reported on both sites.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2024-11-02
Last updated: 2024-11-02
ID: #15688
Location: Ripley (Derbyshire) - Butterley Station railway museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 6 May 1991
Further Comments: A visitor to the museum reported seeing a dark-haired man dressed in green clothing that looked like it was from the First World War. The entity sat in an old box coach, used mainly for storage because of bad condition. Other people have complained of a strange atmosphere in the car.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-06-17
Last updated: 2007-06-17
ID: #7617
Location: Ripon (North Yorkshire) - Workhouse Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: A ghostly man standing alongside a penny farthing bicycle has been spotted standing outside the museum. Children's voices can reportedly be heard coming from within the workhouse after it has been closed and locked up for the night.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2020-10-08
Last updated: 2020-10-08
ID: #13940
Location: Royston (Hertfordshire) - Royston Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A former schoolhouse, the museum is said to be haunted by the wife of a Victorian caretaker, who was found dead in the building's cellar.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2025-06-14
Last updated: 2025-06-14
ID: #15943
Location: Salisbury (Wiltshire) - The Wardrobe (currently a museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1970s?
Further Comments: A phantom grey woman was said to haunt this building prior to renovation - it is unclear whether she has remained.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2009-06-14
Last updated: 2009-06-14
ID: #9526
Location: Scunthorpe (Lincolnshire) - Ironstone Cottage, attached to the Borough museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little is known about this alleged haunting.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-03-19
Last updated: 2005-03-19
ID: #5957