Female in Old Attire
Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Gawsworth Hall and general area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Autumn (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A female phantom is reported to drift around the courtyard of Gawsworth Hall, patrolling nearby lanes, and in the churchyard. Some have named her as Mary Fitton, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-09-22
Last updated: 2002-09-22
ID: #2439
White Woman
Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Kendel Road (area known locally as the Birdy)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012
Further Comments: This area is reputed to be haunted by a white woman with no feet.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2013-03-31
Last updated: 2013-03-31
ID: #11313
White Figure
Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Large, private house near churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1958
Further Comments: A family moved out of their home after seeing a white figure with a grotesque face in one of the rooms - the two witnesses knocked a door from its hinges while trying to escape the entity.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2015-02-15
Last updated: 2015-02-15
ID: #11752
Jester
Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Maggoty's Wood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A figure has been reported dancing about the woods, their clothing adjourned with bells. The grave of the last 'real' jester in England is housed in this wooded area, and it is believed that the shade is he.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-09-22
Last updated: 2002-09-22
ID: #2440
Caroline and Friends
Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Paradise Mill, Silk Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2002, 31 October 2007
Further Comments: In 2002, a worker at the museum encountered several ghostly children on the site, one of which followed her home. The ghosts were described as non-threatening. The Shadow Seekers paranormal team were called in 2007 and claimed to have used dowsing rods to determine that the spirits of four children remained in the mill - Caroline, Sarah, Rebecca and John.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2007-12-02
Last updated: 2007-12-02
ID: #8071
Something
Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Shrigley Hall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A few references exist of this site being haunted, but by what and who is pretty unclear.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2020-10-11
Last updated: 2020-10-11
ID: #13942
White Dog
Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - South of railway station
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: November 2011, around 21:45
Further Comments: Departing the station, this train driver reported seeing a white misty dog move quickly across the track from left to right. One side of the railway stands a six metre high wall, while on the other a 3.5 metre high mesh fence - nowhere where the dog could have come from or disappeared to.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2011-10-23
Last updated: 2011-10-23
ID: #10616
George
Location: Malpas (Cheshire) - The Vaults public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This pub spirit is heard walking around at night, opening and closing doors.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-05-10
Last updated: 2005-05-10
ID: #6244
Headless King Charles
Location: Marple (Cheshire) - Marple Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The headless ghost of King Charles has been seen here, though he never visited the place. The nearby river Goyt is haunted by a wailing woman who once lived at the hall - her lover was drowned in the river, and she waits and cries near the spot.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-07-02
Last updated: 2002-07-02
ID: #1526
Singer
Location: Middlewich (Cheshire) - Chadwick Fields (adult day care centre), Coronation Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000
Further Comments: This noisy member of the building sings, walks around the upper part of the floor, slams doors, and sometimes locks the bathroom door, just for fun.
Source:
Needs Review
First added: 2003-08-03
Last updated: 2003-08-03
ID: #4427
Some dragon's eyes are easy to hit.
Slain Dragon
Location: Moston (Cheshire) - Exact location unknown
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local story tells of how Sir Thomas Venables shot and killed a dragon here by shooting an arrow into the eye, just as it picked up a small child to eat.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-07-24
Last updated: 2002-07-24
ID: #1982
Sister Ida
Location: Moulton (Cheshire) - Vale Royal Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Sister Ida's shade was thought to come back to bring attention to the suspicious death of the abbess. An unnamed road leading to the abbey is haunted by a decapitated head that rolls on the floor - this belonged to a monk murdered while taking a message to the building.
Source:
Needs Review
First added: 2003-08-03
Last updated: 2003-08-03
ID: #4426
Fire Protection
Location: Nantwich (Cheshire) - Churche's Mansion
Type: Other
Date / Time: Still standing
Further Comments: This house has a salamander carved into the wall to protect it from fire. It appears to have worked; a large blaze in the community in 1583 levelled most of the town but failed to touch the protected home.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-09-13
Last updated: 2002-09-13
ID: #2420
Former Owner
Location: Nantwich (Cheshire) - Lamb Hotel (now closed)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A former owner of the hotel killed himself with a shotgun after discovering his wife was having an affair. His ghost was blamed for ringing bells in the kitchen after it had been closed for the night.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2006-08-20
Last updated: 2006-08-20
ID: #6943
Knuckle Rapping
Location: Nantwich (Cheshire) - Private house, Hospital Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1947
Further Comments: The home of Ernest Haywood featured in the news after a phantom started to create several sounds, including footsteps on the staircase, knuckles rapping on the wall, and the loud bang of a heavy sack being dropped.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-11-19
Last updated: 2023-11-19
ID: #15189
Grey Lady
Location: Nantwich (Cheshire) - Rookery Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom lady is reputed to walk the corridors of the hotel leaving the scent of flowers as she passes. Her portrait hangs in the drawing room. Another phantom is that of a young lad who cries over his missing dog (the grave of which is close to the walled garden).
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2011-07-03
Last updated: 2011-07-03
ID: #10495
Priest
Location: Neston (Cheshire) - Church
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1800s
Further Comments: An unknown priest once arrived here and gave mass before mysteriously vanishing. It was later discovered that his description matched that of a former priest buried in the churchyard.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-07-03
Last updated: 2002-07-03
ID: #1576
A strange looking black dog.
Black Hound
Location: Neston (Cheshire) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: To see this huge black dog is normally a sign of ill fortune.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-10-07
Last updated: 2003-10-07
ID: #4675
Sir Gaulter and Lady Friend
Location: Northenden (Cheshire) - Area near the Mersea
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy nights
Further Comments: These two figures reportedly haunt the shoreline of the Mersea.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-12-07
Last updated: 2002-12-07
ID: #3281
Nun
Location: Northwich (Cheshire) - Hartford Hall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former nunnery, this hall now claims to be home to a ghostly nun.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2022-07-09
Last updated: 2022-07-09
ID: #14542
Stephanie
Location: Northwich (Cheshire) - Primary School in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A local myth tells of a young girl named Stephanie who died in a fire (or a car crash, or run over by a steamroller, depending on the story); her ghost returned to the school and could be heard screaming 'Mummy, mummy, nooo...!'
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-09-18
Last updated: 2005-09-18
ID: #6589
Jack
Location: Northwich (Cheshire) - Unknown private house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1999
Further Comments: A mother called in a clairvoyant after she heard a man's voice whispering over her baby's intercom. The house had been reported as haunted by its previous occupiers, by an old man named Jack who had died there.
Source:
Needs Review
First added: 2003-01-18
Last updated: 2003-01-18
ID: #3635
Cavalier
Location: Northwich (Cheshire) - Wincham Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s-2010s
Further Comments: Several entities are said to be present at this venue, including a Cavalier and a child who ran through a wall.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2016-08-12
Last updated: 2016-08-12
ID: #12232
Dropped by Old Nick
Location: Over (Cheshire) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church once stood in the middle of the village, but the Devil tried to run off with it. He dropped the building where it currently stands when he heard the ringing of the bells at a nearby abbey.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-03-14
Last updated: 2004-03-14
ID: #5090
Man in Bowler Hat
Location: Over Alderley (Cheshire) - School Lane, close to abandoned school
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Winter 2015
Further Comments: After feeling uneasy and experiencing a sensation of being watched, a witness turned to find that she was being followed by a man wearing a bowler hat which cast a shadow over his face. The only sound the witness could hear was her own footsteps in the snow. Terrified, she fled.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2017-09-09
Last updated: 2017-09-09
ID: #12569
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