Two Men Crossing
Location: A421 (Buckinghamshire) - Dual carriageway between Tingewick and Buckingham
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 17 January 2016, 10:35h
Further Comments: A driver observed two figures across the dual carriageway, who seemed to disappear into an out of sight staircase on the verge. As the driver passed the verge, he could see no staircase or other concealed exit where the figures could have vanished without trace. One was described as very tall while the other was short with baggy clothing.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2016-03-04
Last updated: 2016-03-04
ID: #12031
Something in the Cellar
Location: Amersham (Buckinghamshire) - Boot and Slipper public house, Rickmansworth Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001
Further Comments: Staff here were said to be too afraid to go down into the cellar after they felt someone walk past them, while one male worker felt a phantom hand grasp his shoulder.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2002-08-07
Last updated: 2002-08-07
ID: #2050
Henry the Eighth, recreated at Madame Tussauds.
Limping Priest
Location: Amersham (Buckinghamshire) - Chenies Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s onwards
Further Comments: This phantom figure was seen dragging one of its feet while traversing the floor, though it was more frequently heard than seen. Some have named the figure as Henry VIII, rather than a priest, who stayed here with Anne Boleyn and, several years later, Catherine Howard.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-28
Last updated: 2002-10-28
ID: #2894
Auden
Location: Amersham (Buckinghamshire) - Chequers public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001
Further Comments: Named Auden by a passing medium, this figure dressed in white is thought to be older than the public house itself. A hooded figure was also reported in an upstairs bedroom, thought to be one of seven people held here before being executed for their religious beliefs, while a ghost of a chimney sweep also haunts the building.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-08-07
Last updated: 2002-08-07
ID: #2052
Maid
Location: Amersham (Buckinghamshire) - Crown Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in an old fashioned uniform, this grey ghost is thought to be a former maid. She has been known to pack guest's suitcases for them!
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-06-10
Last updated: 2007-06-10
ID: #7577
Lesbian in Black
Location: Amersham (Buckinghamshire) - Elephant and Castle public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001
Further Comments: The landlady of this public house reported members of her family had seen a ghostly woman dressed all in black walking through walls near the kitchen. The same ghost is blamed for pinching barmaids' bottoms, convincing them that the ghostly girl was gay.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-08-07
Last updated: 2002-08-07
ID: #2051
Lady Helena Stanhope
Location: Amersham (Buckinghamshire) - Woodrow High House (aka Elmodesham House)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: After Lady Helena Stanhope's lover, Sir Peter Bostock, was executed for treason, she committed suicide in the grounds of her house. Stanhope's green ghost is now reported to walk the building, her footsteps occasionally heard, or her presence felt while creating mild poltergeist activity.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2005-05-18
Last updated: 2023-05-01
ID: #6258
Electric presence
Location: Amersham Common (Buckinghamshire) - Bendrose House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A bedroom in this farmhouse is haunted by an entity that is said to wake people staying in it with a brief electric shock. The shade of Cromwell has been named as a possible explanation, as has nylon bed covers...
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2003-01-02
Last updated: 2003-01-02
ID: #3390
Figure in Brown
Location: Aston Clinton (Buckinghamshire) - Akerman Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wearing an old fashioned brown coat, this phantom would drift from Vatche's Farm and travel down the old Roman road.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2006-02-24
Last updated: 2006-02-24
ID: #6727
Uphill Rolling
Location: Aston Clinton (Buckinghamshire) - Dancers End Lane, aka Gravity Hill
Type: Other
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Due to (spoiler alert) a natural optical illusion, things appear to roll up this hill rather than down it.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2024-07-20
Last updated: 2024-07-20
ID: #15531
Crying Child
Location: Aston Clinton (Buckinghamshire) - Partridge Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000
Further Comments: A crying child and a female organ player are reportedly two of several ghosts that have remained on earth to haunt these premises.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-08-07
Last updated: 2002-08-07
ID: #2055
Former Vicar
Location: Aston Sandford (Buckinghamshire) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: Thought to be a nineteenth century vicar, this ghostly apparition manifests by the pulpit just before evening prayer. There he remains for a few minutes before fading from view.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2008-02-25
Last updated: 2008-02-25
ID: #8227
Rosamund Clifford
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Creslow Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1850
Further Comments: This feminine ghost could be heard lightly running down corridors, her silk dress rustling as she went. The silken sound was heard again later in the evening, but this time moving quite violently.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-07-03
Last updated: 2002-07-03
ID: #1579
Faceless Man
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Estate Agents (no longer present), Anchor Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 1994
Further Comments: A cleaner in this building reported seeing a shadowy, charcoal coloured figure, around six feet tall with no facial features striding across a balcony. The figure vanished into a wall.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2012-01-22
Last updated: 2012-01-22
ID: #10683
Boy in Cap
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Grapes public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1991 - 2001
Further Comments: A member of staff said she had encountered three ghosts during her time at the bar, the first being a ten-year-old boy who wore a cap, appearing to descend a staircase which did not exist. A monk and a soldier wearing a red jacket were also reported.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2026-09-11
Last updated: 2026-09-11
ID: #16809
John Lee
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Hartwell House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former owner of the establishment, Lee is still reported in the library and garden.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-11-13
Last updated: 2002-11-13
ID: #3166
Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell.
Cromwell
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - King's Head public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Lord Protector of England is said to return to the room in this pub which bears his name.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2009-01-04
Last updated: 2009-01-04
ID: #9096
Footsteps
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Private property along Walton Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 1994
Further Comments: A student who took a cleaning job at this site heard heavy footsteps walking around in the upper part of the building although no one else was there. His cleaning equipment moved itself around while he was not watching, and on one occasion he was pushed on the staircase by an unseen force.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2012-10-21
Last updated: 2012-10-21
ID: #11156
Pale Grey Figure
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Private residence, Bracken Way
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 2003
Further Comments: The pale grey figure of a person was seen outside the front door of this property. A two year old child of an occupant was seen talking to what the child later said was an old man.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2012-06-09
Last updated: 2012-06-09
ID: #10902
George
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Saracen's Head public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1991-2005
Further Comments: George is thought to have been a local man; the haunting of this pub started shortly after his death. Tables and chairs are moved around by invisible hands at night, and unidentifiable banging has been heard.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-08-02
Last updated: 2005-08-02
ID: #6462
Jasper Jackson
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - St Mary's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Said to occur at 20:00h, last seen 1978
Further Comments: Schoolchildren would visit the churchyard in the evening to try to see the ghost of Jasper Jackson who, according to tradition rather than history, killed himself in the crypt. One child claimed to have seen a shadowy figure walk through a wall into the church.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2026-09-11
Last updated: 2026-09-11
ID: #16808
Large Shadow
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Surgery (name withheld)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: A GP returned home as white as a sheet, claiming that he had encountered a large shadow which followed him along a brightly lit wall at his surgery. He had been the only person working there at the time. A receptionist also encountered a large ghostly figure which tapped her shoulder, causing her to turn around and see the entity close behind.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2020-10-27
Last updated: 2020-10-27
ID: #13973
Vanishing Hound
Location: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire) - Unnamed field in a village close to the area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Pre-twentieth century
Further Comments: For several nights, a man walking to milk his cows in the early hours of the morning encountered a large black dog which blocked his path. He finally grew tired of having to walk around the hound and, while walking with a friend, struck the creature - the dog vanished but the man fell down paralysed, never to be able to move or speak again.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2011-03-25
Last updated: 2011-03-25
ID: #10209
The Thin Man
Location: Beaconsfield (Buckinghamshire) - Chiltern Cinema (no longer operational)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: The thin, grey haired wraith reported here was named as a former manager. The entity was said to be annoying rather than frightening and was frequently seen on stage by staff after all members of the public had left.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-06-10
Last updated: 2007-06-10
ID: #7571
Coach Wheels
Location: Beaconsfield (Buckinghamshire) - Road towards Beaconsfield from Gerrards Cross
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1920s
Further Comments: Several times during the 1920s, the sound of coach wheels could be heard travelling along the road, though nothing was ever seen. It is thought they are related to an accident involving a coach and horses occurring in the early nineteenth century.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-06-08
Last updated: 2007-06-08
ID: #7556
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