The Paranormal Database

A ghostly woman in a black dress.

Bed Rocking

Location: Lampeter - Bank House
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: February - March 1905
Further Comments: A bed would rock quite violently, knocking against the wall and creating sounds which could be heard throughout the building. The event would occur each day, at seven o'clock in both the morning and evening, and appeared to follow an eleven year old boy around. The boy claimed to have encountered a woman in black who briefly entered his bedroom.

Invisible Presence

Location: Lampeter - Bridge over a small stream near Falcondale Drive
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: One person spotted a translucent figure move across their line of vision, while another person heard loud, fast moving footsteps in the woodland as they passed.

White Figure

Location: Lamphey - Bishop's Palace ruins
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: This ghostly white figure was thought to be a member of the Devereux family, one of whom spent several years at the palace.

Black Hound

Location: Laugharne - Area around Pant-y-Madog
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Fortunately for any witnesses, this member of the Cwn Annwn is reported to be harmless as it runs between castle and town, although on one occasion it screamed so loudly that a witness thought the ground was moving beneath her feet.

Push

Location: Laugharne - Laugharne Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 2006
Further Comments: A visitor to the castle reported being pushed as she climbed the stairs, and again on the way back down.

Water Nymph

Location: Laugharne - Laugharne Park, close to the estuary
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 22 November 2009, midnight
Further Comments: While on holiday, one lady observed a pale skinned, red headed woman moving across the park, although the way the entity's green and blue clothing flowed, appeared to be moving through water. The woman smiled before vanishing.

Mrs Thomas

Location: Laugharne - The Boathouse
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1958 onwards
Further Comments: The former home of poet Dylan Thomas, his mother's ghost is said to haunt the house, moving furniture and turning lights on and off. However, some are sure that it is Dylan himself, and he is also said to walk the lanes in the area.

Wolverine

Location: Letterston - Farm in the area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: September 1992
Further Comments: A farmer in this area twice reported seeing a wolverine on his land, blaming the creature for killing two lambs.

White Lady

Location: Little Haven - Castle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This spook is reportedly a woman whose body was found on the nearby beach. A long dead cat is also reported to play on the beds at night, while a man in 'modern' dress is said to slowly materialise from the feet up.

Old Lady

Location: Little Haven - Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: A phantom woman would be seen walking through the hall, although her appearances ceased after a window was added along a corridor.

Pirates

Location: Llanafan - Craig-yr-Ogof
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After concealing a hoard of gold and other treasures, these ghostly pirates still protect their stolen wealth.

Footprints

Location: Llanarth - Llanarth church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown (footsteps still present?)
Further Comments: Up to his nightly no-good antics, the Devil entered this church, scaled the tower and tried to steal the bells. The vicar witnessed this and managed to drive the Devil away - the Horned One jumped from the bell tower, leaving an impression of his foot on a stone in the graveyard.

Breaking Glass

Location: Llanarthney - Emlyn Arms public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Circa 1910
Further Comments: A poltergeist is reported to have caused much distress and damage in this pub over several days, including throwing hot stones around and creating disembodied footsteps in empty rooms. A police officer who attended reported narrowly avoiding being hit by a polished rock which launched itself off a mantelpiece.

Face at the Window

Location: Llanddarog - White Hart Inn
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Pre-1980
Further Comments: A boy staying with his great aunt was shown an old picture of the pub which showed a face peering out of a window, even though it had been locked up by staff who were all going on a day trip.

Funeral

Location: Llanddewi Velfrey - Unknown road leaving the village
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century?
Further Comments: In the moonlight, a postman on the roadside watched a phantom funeral procession move past, several of the mourners faces quite clear. A few days later, while passing the same spot, the postman watched the scene again, this time played out by flesh and blood mourners.

Woman with Auburn Hair

Location: Llandeilo - King's Head Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: This figure, seen frequenting the bar, is believed to be the shade of a lady who fell from a window at the hotel during the 1830s. She more often takes the form of a yellow patch of mist.

Strangulation

Location: Llandeilo - Newton House, Dinefwr Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Newton House made it into the National Trust's top ten haunted locations in 2007. Lady Elinor Cavendish was murdered in the eighteenth century, strangled by a lover. Some visitors have reported invisible hands squeezing their throats, while others have seen a young girl vanishing into a cupboard.

An Image from An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents.

Church Dragon

Location: Llandeilo Graban - Llandelio Graban church
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This dragon, which made its home in the church tower, was killed by a local lad. The boy made a dummy dragon out of oak and covered it in steel spikes - the real dragon attacked the model, impaling itself on the spikes and dying of its injuries.

Corpse Candles

Location: Llandilo - Golden Grove
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre nineteenth century
Further Comments: Three of these spectral lights were seen hovering and dancing over a part of the river here - a day later three men drowned in the same spot.

Wellington Bomber

Location: Llandovery - Towy Valley, between Llandovery & Llandeilo
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A training zone for Second World War crews, one assumes this phantom belongs to a group that did not make the grade.

Parson

Location: Llandysul - Ffynnon Feirad
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This valley is home to a ghostly parson.

An illustration of a man holding a harp.

Harpist

Location: Llandysul - River Teifi
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sound of a harp that can be heard at the stretch of the river known as 'Pool of the Harper' is thought to belong to a performer who drowned there. The banks of the river, which stretches for some 75 miles, are said to be home to a couple of phantom women. A woman in green wearing emeralds is said to protect a hidden treasure (details of which are sadly lacking), while a woman dressed from head to toe in black drifts around looking for something (or someone).

Knocking

Location: Llanelli - Halfway Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2013
Further Comments: A ghost tour event at the hotel featured in national newspapers after it was alleged that host psychic medium Chris Date had concealed a man in the loft to create knocking sounds to simulate spiritual contact. Chris Date denied knowing that the man was hidden there.

Celtic Presence

Location: Llanelli - Parc Howard (formerly known as Bryncaerau Castle)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost that haunts this building is said to be connected to the Celtic Mound on which it was constructed; the phantom is reputed to manifest in the room above the main entrance. Tapping that is sometimes heard in the house is blamed on the ghost of a man who hid up the chimney many years ago - trying to meet his maid lover, the surprise return of the mistress of the house forced him up the flue where he became confused and lost, and some believe he is still there.

Flying Bowls

Location: Llanelli - Thomas Arms restaurant and hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: July 2014
Further Comments: Hotel owners Christine and David Evans claimed in the local press that they had experienced strange sounds and had bowls which had flown off surfaces. Websites carried footage of something moving around on CCTV, although looking more like something small and close to the lens rather than paranormal in origin.