Old Nick
Location: Alderley Edge (Cheshire) - Devil's Grave, Stormy Point
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Legend has it that if one runs around the cave known locally as 'Devil's Grave' widdershins three times, the Devil is raised! Another version says that running around it three times restores your virginity.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2004-10-23
Last updated: 2004-10-23
ID: #5503
Naked Wizard
Location: Alderley Edge (Cheshire) - Likely to be around the B5087, but exact location not known
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several witnesses have reported seeing a short old man, with a long white beard, running around naked in this area. Apparently, the figure was once approached by a police officer, only to vanish into thin air.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-06-25
Last updated: 2002-06-25
ID: #1486
George
Location: Alderley Park (Cheshire) - Churchill Tree public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2020s
Further Comments: The poltergeist who slams doors shut and breaks the occasional glass has been nicknamed George. Shouting has also been heard, although no source found. It is speculated that the entity is connected to the site being used as a hospital during the First World War.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2021-06-26
Last updated: 2021-06-26
ID: #14227
King Arthur (detail), by Julia Margaret Cameron
Resting King
Location: Alderly Edge (Cheshire) - Exact location unknown
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Another place in the UK where King Arthur lies in wait for when he is required once more.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-03-05
Last updated: 2003-03-05
ID: #3958
Pipe Smoker
Location: Arley (Cheshire) - Arley Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Smoker unknown, dog in 2020
Further Comments: An aged figure has been observed on the site, puffing away at the demon weed. Some members of the cast and crew from BBC's Peaky Blinders were reported in the press as hearing a ghostly dog which haunts the site, shot dead by a gamekeeper after killing its owner.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-03-14
Last updated: 2003-03-14
ID: #3991
Staring Man
Location: Audlem (Cheshire) - Audlem Road leading to Corbrook Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 01 October, 2001 and 2002 (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This entity manifested twice to the same witness, exactly a year separating the sightings. While driving down the road, the witness spotted the strange looking figure on the roadside, who stared into the car as he drove past. The figure did not appear in the rear view mirror.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-08-13
Last updated: 2004-08-13
ID: #5301
A phantom woman of the roads.
Veiled Lady
Location: Barnton (Cheshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1907
Further Comments: A black-clad woman with a veil, spotted several times walking the roads in the village during the early hours of the morning, became a talking point. One newspaper speculated the woman was less of a ghost and more of a practical joker.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2021-09-30
Last updated: 2021-09-30
ID: #14283
Thing
Location: Barnton (Cheshire) - Unnamed road in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Likely pre twentieth century
Further Comments: Little is known about this phantom. One witness, returning from market with her pony and cart, described it as a large white 'thing'.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2012-07-29
Last updated: 2012-07-29
ID: #11053
Phantom lady in white.
White Woman
Location: Barthomley (Cheshire) - Church field
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A lady in white haunts this field, while the road nearby is home to a phantom dog.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2006-02-24
Last updated: 2006-02-24
ID: #6729
Hooded Figure
Location: Beeston (Cheshire) - Wharton Lock Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 11 August 2008 21:30h
Further Comments: A hooded figure crossing the bridge was spotted by a witness as she closed the lock gate. The woman's husband, travelling under the bridge at the time, did not see anything, but felt immense sadness and experienced a tingling on his face at the same time.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2008-08-24
Last updated: 2008-08-24
ID: #8762
Floating Picture
Location: Blackden (Cheshire) - Toad Hall
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Pre-1957
Further Comments: A former occupant of the hall told author Alan Garner that she had once watched a picture float off the wall.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2025-05-26
Last updated: 2025-05-26
ID: #15919
Machine Worker
Location: Bollington (Cheshire) - Ingersley Vale Mill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The mill is reputedly home to the ghost of a female worker who died in a machine accident.
Source:
Needs Review
First added: 2008-03-18
Last updated: 2008-03-18
ID: #8332
Old Lady
Location: Bollington (Cheshire) - Private house along Grimshaw Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2003-2005
Further Comments: A former occupier of this house witnessed the ghost of an old lady who would stand in the corner of the kitchen. A phantom man would move around the property at night, and banging could be heard - the taps always coming in threes.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2007-04-01
Last updated: 2007-04-01
ID: #7157
Gipsy Woman
Location: Bollington (Cheshire) - Ye Olde No. 3 public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: The ghostly woman once reported here was said to be on the run from the police, and she drowned in a flooded stream nearby. A little girl was seen by a former landlady, who said the entity was dressed in blue, wore a poke bonnet, and walked straight through a closed bedroom door.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2004-09-17
Last updated: 2004-09-17
ID: #5453
Not a Jogger
Location: Bosley (Cheshire) - Macclesfield Canal, first bridge after top of Bosley lock flight on the permanent boat moorings
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: July 2007, circa 21:00h
Further Comments: A ten year old girl pointed out a figure running across a nearby field to her mother, saying the word 'jogger'. The mother looked and could see the person in black moving towards them, but as it approached, realised that the 'jogger' wore a monk's habit and no face under his hood. The figure stopped a short distance away, as if paused in mid-sprint, and when the woman turned to check her daughter was okay (she had run off back to the boat), the monk vanished.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2010-02-21
Last updated: 2010-02-21
ID: #9800
Running Man
Location: Boughton Heath (Cheshire) - Roads in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Darting out from the side of the road, this speedy figure crosses in front of oncoming cars, before vanishing on the other side.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-01-18
Last updated: 2003-01-18
ID: #3620
Floating Trees
Location: Brereton (Cheshire) - Body of water known as Blackmere, close to Brereton Hall
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Prior to a death in the Brereton family
Further Comments: Before the death of a member of the family, tree trunks would be seen floating in the water. Occasionally the water would also turn red.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2016-04-22
Last updated: 2016-04-22
ID: #12132
Horseman
Location: Bunbury (Cheshire) - College Lane
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly man on horseback is said to cross the lane before vanishing.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2006-03-01
Last updated: 2006-03-01
ID: #6770
Strange Hound
Location: Bunbury (Cheshire) - School Lane
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom dog has been spotted in an area near the school.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2006-03-01
Last updated: 2006-03-01
ID: #6769
Black Lady
Location: Burton (near Neston) (Cheshire) - Marshland between Burton and Harp Inn in Neston
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The story of a phantom black lady with a black dog which would cross the marshland was possibly a story manufactured so smugglers could work uninterrupted.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2025-09-28
Last updated: 2025-09-28
ID: #16108
Nun
Location: Burton Constable (Cheshire) - Burton Constable Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom nun said to haunt this building walks near the area of a secret passage. Her portrait hangs in the Nun's Room.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2007-08-28
Last updated: 2007-08-28
ID: #7908
Headless Airman
Location: Burtonwood (Cheshire) - Old airfield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: An airman has been observed standing around with no head - it is thought that he was decapitated as he tried to bail prior to crash landing.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-10-03
Last updated: 2002-10-03
ID: #2544
Smoky Figures
Location: Capesthorne (Cheshire) - Capesthorne Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1960s
Further Comments: A group of grey shadows have been seen heading towards the vault, while a grey lady walks the building's corridors. One member of the family reported seeing a severed arm floating outside a window, trying to enter.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-06-12
Last updated: 2024-09-21
ID: #1171
Old Monk
Location: Capesthorne (Cheshire) - Monk's Heath
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1999
Further Comments: A witness reported driving past an old monk standing on the side of the road. The figure did not appear to have any feet. As the witness pulled the car over and climbed out, the monk disappeared.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2011-01-02
Last updated: 2011-01-02
ID: #10119
An old postcard showing St John's Cathedral in Chester.
Grey Monk
Location: Chester (Cheshire) - St John's Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s, and 2003?
Further Comments: Heard talking in old English, this figure traditionally walks around the cathedral and made several appearances during the 1970s. On Halloween in 2003 a group of children approached the monk thinking he was a man dressed up for the occasion. When a bag was held out at him and one of the children asked, 'trick or treat', he replied 'I'll have a treat' before sticking his head into the container and eating the contents (wrappers and all).
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2003-03-05
Last updated: 2003-03-05
ID: #3959
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