The Paranormal Database

Robed Figure

Location: Crewe - Three Lamps public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2008
Further Comments: A photograph taken of the cellar at this public house is said to show a robed figure holding an unknown item across its chest.

Bright Headlights

Location: Cuerdley - Widnes Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 2000s, around 03:00h
Further Comments: While driving back from Liverpool, a driver spotted a bright pair of headlights rapidly approaching from behind. Just as the driver thought he would be overtaken, the lights vanished. Believing that a car had crashed, the drier turned around and looked for it, but could find nothing.

Cyclist

Location: Daresbury - All over village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Killed in an accident in the 1920s, it was reported that the former rider sometimes appeared on foot, walking next to witnesses before fading away.

Vanishing Lady

Location: Davenham - Leftwich Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An owner noticed that this grey lady always disappeared by walking into the same area in the wall - when the zone was knocked through, a skeleton was discovered.

A ghostly white lady.

White Lady

Location: Delamere Forest - Deep within the forest, between Frodsham and Delamere Forest rail station
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: July 2006
Further Comments: While walking to Frodsham from the Delamere Forest station, two people encountered a white lady. She stared at them for a couple of minutes before floating upwards into the trees.

Small Carriage

Location: Delamere Forest - Road by the Station Cafe
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 14 February 2006, 04:00h
Further Comments: Returning from a late shift at work, this witness drove past a horse pulling a small, two wheeled carriage that was dimly lit by lanterns. The driver of the carriage remained motionless as the witness's car went by.

Blanche

Location: Disley - Lyme Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy nights. Last seen circa 2004?
Further Comments: A mistress of Sir Piers Leigh who died 1422, Blanche pined away after hearing news about his death. Pier's funeral procession is now seen advancing towards the house, with Blanche wailing a short distance behind it. Another group of ghosts, this time children, have been seen playing on a bed in the Knight's Bedroom. Blanche may have last been seen by three people arrested for trespassing nearby, with their three descriptions of the ghostly figure given to the police marrying up perfectly.

Hole

Location: Disley - Road between Disley & Whaley Bridge - area is marked by a memorial stone
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The site of a murder of William Wood in 1823, the hole left in the ground caused by the impact of his head as it hit the grass has remained evermore; the grass in it died, no other plants will grow on the spot, and all attempts to fill the hole have failed. Well, a marker stone recording the murder is at the site, but the hole is no longer present!

Perfume

Location: Disley - Road running by railway line
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December 2011
Further Comments: A couple out walking on Christmas Day encountered an overwhelming scent of old fashioned perfume which they could taste at the back of the throat. No other person had been seen for hours.

Possessed PC

Location: Dodleston - Meadow Cottage
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1984
Further Comments: A 'typical' poltergeist case (with thrown items and rearranged furniture), the outstanding feature of this case was a personal computer, a BBC B Microcomputer, that several 'spirits' used for communication purposes - possibly a first.

Royalist

Location: Duddon - Headless Woman inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Possibly 1960s
Further Comments: While named after a phantom seen nearby, the inn is home to three other ghosts. A former landlady spotted a Royalist courtier, near the bat and another male figure in the cellar. A woman dressed in white has been seen by other owners and customers.

Headless Dorothy

Location: Duddon - Roads around village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A story says that young Dorothy was accidentally decapitated by her father as he tried to save her from a group of drunken Roundheads. Her headless form is now reported to drift aimlessly around the village. The local pub is named after her sad tale.

Architect

Location: Dunham Massey - Dunham Massey House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Depending on the story, this man was either pushed or slipped from the roof while working on the building - either way, he has been named as the ghost that now walks the corridors.

Blur

Location: Ellesmere Port - Boat Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A strange creamy-coloured figure was caught on film in this building.

Crying Children

Location: Farndon Bridge - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather dependent: Stormy nights
Further Comments: Two young princes were once thrown off this bridge into the river below by Roger Mortimer - their cries for help now heard on windy or stormy nights.

Carving of a griffin.

Griffin

Location: Farnworth, Widnes - General area
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The village blacksmith killed a griffin that threatened the safety of this community.

Thumping

Location: Frodsham - Flat above butcher's shop
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2010 - February 2011
Further Comments: Jean Marc Mariole and wife Charlotte made the Mail's headlines in February after revealing they had to spend nights in hotels to escape the entity haunting their flat. They reported that the bed sheets would lift and fall, doors would close, a shower curtain slid backwards and forwards, and Jean felt heavy breathing on the back of his neck.

Mother

Location: Frodsham - The Barbers (hairdressers)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2018
Further Comments: Charlotte, owner of the establishment, claimed in the national press that her salon was haunted by the spirit of her mum. The smell of her mother's favourite food, burnt buttered toast, would suddenly fill the shop. A shadowy figure was also picked up on CCTV.

Jim Barrow

Location: Gatley - Carr Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Jim was disliked while living, local emotion soon turning to hate once the man returned to the area after he died. The noisy spirit was finally exorcised by a team of preachers.

Woman in Summer Dress

Location: Gatley - Gatley Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 1983
Further Comments: An older woman was spotted sitting on a bench at the top of this hill. The woman was in her fifties or sixties, and wore a light summer dress, even though the day was cold and the rain fell hard. The witness glanced away for a moment, and when she looked back, the woman had vanished. The witness checked bench (which was soaking wet) and the only possible hiding place (a nearby tree), but when she failed to find the woman, she felt her skin crawl and fled the scene.

Jinny

Location: Gatley - Jinny Chorlton's home (demolished)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Jinny Chorlton was said to have returned after her death. It would appear that after her old home was demolished, she did not come back again.

Mary's phantom on patrol.

Mary Frinton

Location: Gawsworth - Area between Harrington Arms Inn and the Old Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: A member of Queen Elizabeth I's court, Mary was known for her promiscuous lifestyle, though she finally settled down and married locally. She now patrols the area near her former home.

Woman in Black

Location: Gawsworth - Congleton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 May 2024, 22:46h
Further Comments: The driver and two passengers of a vehicle could clearly see the solid apparition of a woman dressed in a black Victorian-style dress, including a bonnet type hat. The woman stood motionless on the roadside, near a metal gate, and the witnesses were confident the figure would have been caught on the front and rear cameras which continuously recorded in the vehicle. When reviewing the footage, the location had been recorded but the figure not visible.

Maggoty Johnson

Location: Gawsworth - Maggoty Wood
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Maggoty Wood takes its name from Samuel Johnson, England's last professional jester, who is buried in the wood. A legend says that he appears to anyone who walks around the grave twelve times.

Thin Woman

Location: Glossop - A57 Hurst Reservoir area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2017, 23:00h
Further Comments: Returning over the hills from a friend's house, a driver spotted a woman on the side of the road. She was thin, tall, and eerie. The driver was scared and drove on, only to see the same woman two hundred yards (180 metres) further down the road. The driver did not use the road again.