Dashing Lady
Location: Crowborough (Sussex) - Alice Bright Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy weather
Further Comments: A young woman was found drowned in a stream along this lane early in the twentieth century - now when the weather is right, her shade is seen running down the road in the conditions which lead to her accident.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2004-03-03
Last updated: 2004-03-03
ID: #5051
An old postcard of Goodrich Castle.
Drowning Lovers
Location: Goodrich (Herefordshire) - Goodrich Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather dependent: Stormy weather (screaming)
Further Comments: A failed escape from Cromwellian soldiers resulted in a young officer and his lover drowning in the river Wye. Their ghosts, mounted on horseback, have been reported struggling in the river, standing in the ruins of the nearby castle, or heard screaming during storms. In addition, an imprisoned Irish chieftain who died trying to escape is said to haunt the Macbeth tower.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-05-21
Last updated: 2002-05-21
ID: #982
Barbara Palmer, nee Villiers, painted by John Greenhill.
Barbara Villiers
Location: W5 (Greater London) - Walpole House, Chiswick Mall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy, moonlit nights
Further Comments: Barbara, mistress to King Charles II, was once a beautiful young lady, until she contracted a disease that swelled her body to a huge size - her bitter, misty shade walks the house, acting threateningly towards any who see her.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-07-11
Last updated: 2002-07-11
ID: #1683
Red Monk
Location: Charterhouse-on-Mendip (Somerset) - Ruins of a former monastery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather dependent: Strong winds and black cloud
Further Comments: This phantom figure, covered in blood and wearing monk's garb, is a disguised French Courtier who entered the monastery and murdered a priest (and everyone else present) during a storm. The Courtier's fiancee had left him on the eve of their wedding to become a nun after talking to the persuasive priest, resulting in the jilted man travelling across Europe seeking revenge.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2026-09-10
Last updated: 2026-09-10
ID: #16795
Secret Tunnel
Location: Little Abington (Cambridgeshire) - Jeremiah's Cottage and Old House
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Visible during snow
Further Comments: A secret tunnel used by highwaymen is said to connect these two properties. When it snows, the snow is said to melt above the tunnel, revealing its location.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2018-07-28
Last updated: 2018-07-28
ID: #12930
Fast Moving Old Lady
Location: Farnham (Surrey) - West Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Wet winter nights
Further Comments: Limping, this OAP runs by witnesses at a rate of knots and disappears into the doorway of a house along the street. The same street is also haunted by a black dog which performs a similar action to that of the old woman.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-07-12
Last updated: 2002-07-12
ID: #1699
Drummer
Location: Marston Moretaine (Bedfordshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Windy days
Further Comments: During a Civil War skirmish, the cavaliers retreated into a tunnel that led from the church to the rectory. Rather than follow them in, roundhead troops sealed both ends of the tunnel. The trapped cavaliers slowly died; the last sound the roundheads heard was the drummer boy beating his drum. His instrument is supposed to be still heard beating in the village on windy days.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-12-28
Last updated: 2020-11-03
ID: #6668
Geoffrey de Mandeville
Location: Burwell (Cambridgeshire) - Ruins of Burwell Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Windy nights
Further Comments: Killed while trying to storm the castle with a gang of thieves and robbers, de Mandeville's dying words can sometimes be heard in the wind.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-02-13
Last updated: 2003-02-13
ID: #3816
Lamenting Witch
Location: Slieau Whallian (Isle of Man) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Windy nights
Further Comments: Accused of witchcraft, this woman was placed in an internally spiked barrel and rolled down the hill. Her ghost is never seen but at night the woman's screams can be heard on the wind.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2019-05-28
Last updated: 2019-05-28
ID: #13238
Sir Thomas Button
Location: Dyffryn (South Glamorgan) - Dyffryn House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Windy nights (possibly last seen nineteenth century)
Further Comments: Former owner Button was said to walk through the garden and occasionally pop up in the cellar.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2020-10-19
Last updated: 2020-10-19
ID: #13945
Jack Aitken
Location: Portsmouth (Hampshire) - Harbour area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Windy weather
Further Comments: Hanged for attempting to commit arson in a naval dockyard, Aitken's body was then displayed in a gibbet - the chains of which can still be heard clinking in the wind.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-05-18
Last updated: 2004-05-18
ID: #5142
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