The Paranormal Database

White Figure

Location: Kingston - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 1876
Further Comments: A choir was said to have fled the church after a white figure entered the building as they practiced. The figure moved up the aisle and mounted the pulpit, before leaving the same route it arrived.

St Thomas of Canterbury

Location: Lapford - Road through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 29 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The ghost of Thomas Beckett appears on the anniversary of his death, passing through the village on horseback.

Reverend John Arundel-Radford

Location: Lapford - St Thomas's Church and neighbourhood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1867 onwards
Further Comments: This psychotic Reverend murdered his curate (but was later acquitted) and demanded that his own body be buried inside his church after his death. This was not to be, and as revenge the Reverend's ghost now stalks the area.

Busy Madam Gould

Location: Lew Trenchard - Countryside around area, Galford Down, and village church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid 1800s
Further Comments: A hard worker during her life, after death she was seen on a plough in a field that she once owned. She has also been seen sitting under a tree in her garden, crossing Galford Down, chasing people who stole apples from her lands, chasing the man who disturbed her tomb in the local church, and frequenting the edge of a nearby mine shaft.

Gallitrap

Location: Lew Trenchard - Unknown field in the area
Type: Other
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: A piece of this parish was thought to have a Gallitrap (or Gallows Trap), a section of land which if a person guilty of a heinous crime enters, they will wander around 'lost' until a parson and a magistrate are summoned. The former will break the spell while the latter hangs the person in question.

Bean Rain

Location: Lifton - General area
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa February 1928
Further Comments: Showers of kidney beans would fall on villagers with no apparent source.

Emu

Location: Lifton - Woods near the town
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1990
Further Comments: A female jockey reported seeing a large bird in the woods near Lifton, which tried to attack her and her horse.

Angel in the Snow, by Georg Tippel.

Devil's Cheese

Location: Linkinhorne - Cheesewring (granite tor)
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still standing
Further Comments: An old piece of folklore says the Devil would make his cheese using this stack of stones. The tor was created when Saint Tue engaged in a stone tossing contest with Uther, one of the local giants. One of Uther's stones missed the target; Saint Tue picked the rock up and an angel carried it to the top of the tor. Most of the giants promptly converted to Christianity.

A woodcut of a knight galloping on horseback.

German Knight

Location: Littleham - Wythycombe Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late fifteenth century
Further Comments: This knight returned from the dead to torment his neighbour (they hated each other with intensity) - the ghost was vanquished with the help of a sailor who used American 'weed' to create so much smoke the entity fled.

Brother Freddie

Location: Littlehempston - Pig and Whistle public house, Newton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This randy monk would frequently rendezvous with a local farmer's daughter in this pub, which is thought to have a secret tunnel leading to the nearby chapel. He now waits in his favourite bedroom for his lover to return.

Parson Parker

Location: Luffincott - Rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1832
Further Comments: The ghost of Parker upset a new parson to such an extent the man fled the building, never to return.

Glass Thrower

Location: Lydford - Dartmoor Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This shade is blamed for smashing glasses and fiddling with the beer pumps if they go wrong. It is reported only to appear for a couple of weeks after a new landlady or lord begins.

Blind Creature

Location: Lydford - Farm near Lydford Gorge
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 5 April 1983, 03:00h
Further Comments: Maurice Knowles, a farmer, reported encountering a strange dog-like creature on his land. It resembled a Great Dane, though it had a snout like a pig's, and only slits where eyes should have been. The creature ran away only when Maurice shouted at it.

An old woodcut of a pig.

Black Pig

Location: Lydford - Lydford Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This creature is said to be the ghost of Judge Jeffereys. Another ghost seen in the vicinity is that of Lady Howard.

An old postcard of Kitt's Pool at Lydford Gorge in Devon.

Kitt

Location: Lydford - Lydford Gorge, Kitt's Pool (aka Kitts Pool)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The pool is named after Kitt (or Kitty), a woman who fell into the water and drowned. She is sometimes seen re-enacting her death, a bright red scarf on her head and large basket in her arms.

Woman in Gown

Location: Lydford Gorge - White Lady Falls (aka Whitelady Waterfall)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom white woman in a long white gown is said to haunt the base of the waterfall.

Martha Drower

Location: Lyme Regis - Timber Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2023
Further Comments: The phantom ghost here manifests as a teenage girl with burning eyes and glowing skin, walking along and singing. Lyme Regis Haunts identified the entity as Martha Drower, who was killed by lightning along with her nurse on Timber Hill in 1800. Her presence may have last been felt by a workman on the hill who reported a persistent burning smell and a cold temperature.

White Lady

Location: Lynmouth - Bridge Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000
Further Comments: This pale figure was seen standing over a guest's bed. She has also been observed in the bar.

Black Monk

Location: Lynton - Lynton Castle
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After the lady of the castle refused entry to a black monk, the holy man placed a curse on the Lynton estates. Her husband, the Baron, died a little while later (it was said the black monk again appeared just prior to his death), and it was not until the Baron's son asked the monk for forgiveness that the curse was lifted - the castle collapsed, and the son and the rest of the family taken by a 'radiant cloud'.

Dancer

Location: Lynton - Ragged Jack (rock)
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: For the heinous crime of leading a troupe of dancers on the Sabbath, Jack was turned to stone by the Devil.

Strange Wolf

Location: Lynton - Valley of the Rocks
Type: Werewolf
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: This area was reportedly the stomping ground for a werewolf - sightings were reported up until the 1990s.

Table & Chair

Location: Madron - Lanyon Quoit
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Legend states that this location was once home to a giant - the stones that remain were his table and sitting stone. Other reports say that Arthur used the site.

Horse

Location: Mamhead - Area around the obelisk
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 18 October 2009
Further Comments: Walking her dogs, this witness heard and felt a large horse trotting towards her. She called the dogs to one side, to let the rider pass, but upon turning around, she could she nothing there.

Kitty Jay

Location: Manaton - Nearby Crossroads
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After committing suicide, Kitty was buried at the crossroads to prevent her shade returning to earth. This may not have been overly successful, as a female ghost has been seen in the area.

Dragon's Mine

Location: Manaton - Unknown tin mine
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A winged lizard set up its lair in an old tin mine and its hissing heard for miles around. The dragon was killed in the pit, but no one appears to have wanted to take credit.