The Paranormal Database

Toft's phantom older lady.

Old Woman

Location: Toft - Seven Sisters
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The shade of an old woman is reported to sit under this group of trees.

The ghost duck of Tushingham.

Pet Duck

Location: Tushingham - Blue Bell Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This tame bird was killed by a landlord after it took to attacking patrons. Unfortunately, death failed to prevent the ankle pecker continuing its work, and it fell on members of the clergy to exorcise the spirit.

A strange blackbird.

Trapped in a Bird

Location: Utkinton - Utkinton Hall
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Sixteenth century
Further Comments: A priest called in to deal with a troublesome spirit managed to trapped it within the body of a blackbird. It is said that all the blackbirds on the grounds of the hall today are descended from that particular bird.

Mr McGraw

Location: Wallasey - Oldershaw Grammar School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: Dressed in his headmaster's gown, this figure has been both seen and heard on different occasions - when seen by a cleaner, she convinced the caretaker to arm himself with a pistol and search the area!

Man with Slick White Hair

Location: Warrington - A50 leading to Warrington from Knutford
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: May 1995
Further Comments: A driver speeding down the A50 passed a man in the road who tried to flag him down. The figure, with slicked back white hair, wore black clothing. The driver decided to go back and help the man, stopping about a kilometre further along the road, but to his horror realised the man was now standing a couple of metres behind his car - it would have been impossible for the figure to catch up with the vehicle in such a short period of time. The driver drove off again, not wanting to engage with the man with the white hair.

White Rabbit

Location: Warrington - Bank Quay (possibly predating the railway station)
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Witnesses who spotted the phantom white rabbit would soon have a family member die.

Man and Young Boy

Location: Warrington - Barley Mow public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: Killed in an accident on the road outside, the pub is now home to an older man and a young boy. Staff have reportedly observed figures who disappear into empty rooms. Mild poltergeist activity, such as glasses being thrown off shelves, has also been observed.

Murder Victim

Location: Warrington - Bewsey Old Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: His life snuffed out at some point in the 1930s, this shade has remained earthbound since. The hall may also be haunted by a white Lady, thought to be Lady Isabella le Botelor.

Giles

Location: Warrington - Black Horse Inn (no longer operational), Liverpool Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1912
Further Comments: One story says that the area around the inn is haunted by a stumbling and/or crawling figure who vanishes when approached. Some name him as Giles Boston, mortally injured during a fight with Royalist troops. The figure may have last been seen on the street outside the inn when a witness spotted an injured man crawling along the road; the figure vanished when the witness moved close.

Figure with Laser Eyes

Location: Warrington - Drayton Road, Risley exit from the motorway, and Warrington Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 17 March 1978
Further Comments: A driver pulled over to watch a two metre tall creature, dressed in silver and with thin beams of light coming from its large eyes, as it moved along the embankment by the side of the road. When the witness arrived home, he discovered that he had 'lost' almost an hour. Just prior to the driver's sighting, a local woman spotted the figure from her garden as it walked through the former munitions factory on Warrington Road.

Grey Lady

Location: Warrington - Hollins Park House (aka Winwick Hall, former hospital)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-2005?
Further Comments: This part of the old hospital site was said to be haunted by a grey lady and the sounds of children running and shouting. Other parts of the hospital, since demolished and replaced with a housing estate, were home to a phantom nun reputed to walk into one room here and take a seat before disappearing. She was said to be only visible from the knees up. Other phantoms included an American GI, white ladies, and former members of staff.

Stone Throwing

Location: Warrington - Houses close to the churchyard, Stockton Heath
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1885
Further Comments: Several greenhouses had glass broken after paving stones were dropped upon them. Despite sentries being posted, the source of the stones could not be found.

Dick Peabody

Location: Warrington - Lower Angel tavern
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This ghostly figure is blamed whenever a member of staff has their bottom pinched...

Drinking Man

Location: Warrington - Marquis of Granby public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2018-2020
Further Comments: A male figure moves through an area off-limits to customers and sits with a pint of beer before vanishing.

Tearaway Kids

Location: Warrington - Marsh House Lane, private house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1996
Further Comments: A ghostbuster claimed to have rid this house of a total of five spirits, all teenagers or younger, who were making the homeowners life a living hell.

Military Man

Location: Warrington - Risley Railway sidings
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s, November
Further Comments: A signalman leaving his signal box after his shift in the sidings came face-to-face with a tall man in a military coat with large black buttons. The signalman closed his eyes in fright and when he opened them the man had vanished.

Heptagon

Location: Warrington - Skies over the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 11 April 2019
Further Comments: From their back garden, a witness watched a dark grey heptagon shape silently fly over their house.

Small Figure

Location: Warrington - Springfield Street Post Office (no longer operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century?
Further Comments: Waving out the window, this small figure could be seen from outside by a witness who later discovered the upper part of the building was empty and locked up.

Jenny Greenteeth

Location: Warrington - Unknown pit in a field, Latchford
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Pre twentieth century
Further Comments: Children were warned to stay away from a dangerous pit, as Jenny Greenteeth would drown them.

Banging Door

Location: Warrington - Walton Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June 1915
Further Comments: A young married couple reported being woken by their bedroom door being thrown open by an invisible entity and slammed shut a few seconds later. They were later told an old woman haunted that particular bedroom.

White Ball

Location: Whitley - A49
Type: Other
Date / Time: October 2022, 21:00h
Further Comments: A white ball of light bounced across the bonnet of a car before entering the vehicle. The driver experienced distorted vision and headaches for a few days following the incident.

Bakery

Location: Widnes - Asda store, Hale Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s?
Further Comments: Fortean TV reported this superstore as possessing ghosts in its EPOS room and bakery.

Human Fireball

Location: Widnes - Halton College
Type: SHC
Date / Time: 1985
Further Comments: A girl walking down the stairs with a group of friends suddenly burst into flame. They quickly beat the flames out, but she later died of her injuries.

Banging

Location: Willaston - Private residence
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2007/8
Further Comments: Two brothers living in this house were subjecting to banging which emerged from the walls, loft, and doors. On one occasion, one resident was thrown out of bed after asking 'is that all the energy you have?' after feeling a small but constant vibration. The resident fled the room and told his brother of the event; the brother was overjoyed that he was not alone in experiencing the phenomenon.

Greenish Grey Craft

Location: Wilmslow - Behind Hooper's, Alderley Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 04:10h, 07 January 1966
Further Comments: While patrolling the town centre, PC Colin Perks spotted a hovering craft that glowed a greenish grey colour. Colin said the UFO was around thirty foot long and that he could see portholes along the side. After several seconds it flew off.