The Paranormal Database

Coach

Location: Bennett End - Road between village and Radnage Bottom
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local legend says that a phantom coach with horses sometimes travels down this road at night.

Trolley Lady

Location: Bletchley - RAF Bletchley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s (trolley lady), 2008 disembodied voice heard
Further Comments: Throughout the 1950s, patients would report a ghostly woman in a green apron pushing a trolley through the sick quarters, disappearing through a door. In 2008, during a visit to Bletchley Park, four visitors sitting in a car heard a disembodied voice giving instructions to fill in log sheets.

A phantom woman in red.

Lady in Red

Location: Bolter End - Areas around Park Lane, Hanover Hill and Wheelerend Common
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 1973
Further Comments: Wearing a red coat, this phantom is thought to be a local girl named Anna, who died ten days before her wedding day in 1766. Her ghost was said to be quite common during the mid-nineteenth century, though sightings died down until she was seen again during the 1950s and 1960s.

Monks

Location: Bradwell - Former Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s and 1970s
Further Comments: It was reported that monks would be sighted in a spinney by a large carp pond.

Crunching Gravel

Location: Broughton - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1950s
Further Comments: After the death of a prominent local lady, a family living at the rear of her property started to hear crunching gravel on the driveway, together with the sounds of a car, although no vehicle would ever be seen. After the family moved away, they were told the lady could be seen brushing her hair through the window of her former home.

Priest

Location: Buckingham - Castle House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The body of the priest was found in a concealed priest hole early in the twentieth century - it was thought to be around four hundred years old. Since then, the phantom image of a holy man has been seen walking the building.

Quaker

Location: Buckingham - Old Market House, High Street (currently a restaurant)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: This building is haunted by a tall female Quaker wearing a black dress with high collar. She is more likely to be encountered in the upper parts of the building, though has been known to tap men on the shoulder while they stand in the men's toilets.

Edwardian Woman

Location: Butler's Cross - Woodland close to Coombe Hill Monument
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02 September 2020
Further Comments: A witness walking their dog spotted a young woman in Edwardian clothing glide left to right across a path before vanishing from view. A few weeks previous the same witness had seen a similar woman with a child, both dressed all in white, walking along a parallel path. They had vanished before the two paths intersected.

Grey Head

Location: Chalfont St Giles - Orchard outside Misbourne House, London Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October 1947, and circa 1960
Further Comments: A teenage witness felt a tingling on his back moments before spotting a grey head, with no body, floating nearby. The head had the face of an old man with a small, pointed beard. Other witnesses reported the same entity, almost always in the same place. A ghostly nun carrying a set of keys also haunted the area. Later, possibly circa 1960, building work at a nearby summerhouse became disrupted by something throwing bricks and other objects around the site.

Silent Stagecoach

Location: Chalfont St Peter - Amersham Road and Greyhound Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Misty nights
Further Comments: An old fashioned stagecoach pulled by a team of ghostly horses passes along this road and vanishes as it pulls up at the Greyhound Inn.

Fiddler

Location: Chalfont St Peter - White Hart public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1989
Further Comments: A former landlord can sometimes be heard playing the violin, deep within the heart of the building. Phantom footfalls have also been reported.

Footfalls

Location: Chenies - Chenies Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Heavy footsteps have been reported in various parts of this house, as have softer sounds that resemble someone moving with an injured leg. The door leading to a secret room is opened and closed by an unseen hand.

Fast Moving Man

Location: Chesham - Country lane close to the rail station
Type: Other
Date / Time: December 2010
Further Comments: Occupiers of a van travelling at fifty miles per hour along this road encountered a tall man dressed in brown old fashioned clothing who ran out from a slip road and continued to travel down the central reservation, moving faster than the witnesses.

Man in Black

Location: Chesham - Pednor Bottom
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Not known
Further Comments: Within the space of a week, two motorcyclists reported a strange figure dressed in black who leapt from a gate into their path, only to vanish on impact.

Kicking

Location: Chesham - Rail station
Type: Other
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A member of staff in the toilets kicked a cubical door to check whether it was locked - it was, but no one was inside. As the staff member went to leave the room, there was a loud 'kick' from inside the cubical.

Pigs

Location: Cholesbury - Iron Age hillfort
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Moonless nights
Further Comments: These phantom animals, said to be small in stature, have been heard fighting and snorting on this ancient site.

Moses Hatto

Location: Cippenham - Area near Burnham Abbey Farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The spirit of this murderer is condemned to walk the area near his crime.

The Flincher

Location: Cliveden - Cliveden Canadian War Memorial Hospital (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Dates unknown, but was most common on Mondays
Further Comments: Several shades were said to haunt this building, including a one legged soldier who roamed the north end of the main corridor (the ghost made babies cry if he appeared in the maternity ward), and an entity known as 'The Flincher' who had been seen in the southern part of the hospital. This ghost had chased people out of the building with a crash and a loud shriek.

Green Man

Location: Cryers Hill - Four Ashes Lane, outside the local crematorium
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 1986
Further Comments: This strange looking figure has been observed twice on different occasions - both reports described the entity as having no hands and being dressed in green, though while one witness said the figure had a green face and stood just over five foot high, the other stated it had no head at all and was seven feet tall.

John Mayne

Location: Dinton - Folly close to A-road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Mayne, said to have been King Charles I's executioner, spent the last years of his life in a cave in this area after being stripped of his property and funds. His ghost is said to haunt the folly, even though it was constructed many years after his death.

Tall Figure in Habit

Location: Drayton Parslow - Road running by church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 26 September 2019, around 23.15h
Further Comments: As a driver came around the bend into the village, they spotted a person, around six foot tall and dressed in a full habit with a cowl covering the head. The habit was a sandy brown colour. The driver was moving quite slowly, and as they watched the figure walked away from their car on the path outside of the church, it literally disappeared. Up until that point, the figure had appeared quite solid and was walking with intention.

Medieval Man

Location: Ellesborough - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: On several occasions during the twentieth century, a tall man in medieval dress was spotted in the church.

Tall Man

Location: Ellesborough - Church of St Peter and St Paul
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Dressed in medieval clothing, this tall ghost has reportedly been observed by several of the church attendees.

A dog-like creature standing in shade.

Black Animal

Location: Fingest - Road between Fingest and Skirmett
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A large black dog-like animal was once said to stand under a tree along this road, snarling at travellers.

Locked Gate

Location: Fingest - St Bartholomew's Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Gate still stands
Further Comments: It is said to be a guarantee of a successful marriage if the bridegroom carries his new wife over the locked church gate.