Shadow
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Blenheim Road
Type: Other
Date / Time: August 1905
Further Comments: Police were called to maintain the peace after hundreds of people arrived at this road to see a ghost, though the 'entity' was first spotted by an intoxicated man and was later identified as a shadow.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2016-03-20
Last updated: 2016-03-20
ID: #12076
Pale Little Girl
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Coach and Horses public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1997
Further Comments: A new landlord to the pub reported that he and his family had heard strange sounds, while his son had spotted a phantom little girl wearing white. The family were said to be too afraid to sleep upstairs.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-10-09
Last updated: 2005-10-09
ID: #6631
Hunched Figure
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Dick Whittington's public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A hunched figure seen walking around the cellar was just one of the ghosts which caused the owners of this public house to call in paranormal investigators. Lights have also been seen floating over the bar, while furniture moves itself around the building. Previously, a ghostly man wearing a flat cap caused workmen to flee the building.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-02-20
Last updated: 2005-02-20
ID: #5869
Organ
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - St James's Parish Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1934, 01:10h
Further Comments: A man on his way home from the station could hear the organ being played in the church, although the gates were locked and the building in darkness.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-10-22
Last updated: 2023-10-22
ID: #15129
Coughing
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Wickwar Brewing Company, Station Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007
Further Comments: Staff at the company reported hearing phantom coughing and disembodied footsteps late at night in the brewing building.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-05-29
Last updated: 2007-05-29
ID: #7488
Sewing Fairies
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Exact location unknown, old tailor's shop
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The tailor who owned this shop left the mayor's clothing unfinished on Saturday and found it completed on Monday morning. He used this event to advertise the shop, claiming that the little folk had done the work, though it soon transpired that an assistant had worked on the Sunday to avoid going to church.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-09-22
Last updated: 2002-09-22
ID: #2434
Ghostly nuns pop up across the UK.
Nun holding Child
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Former hospital along Tewkesbury Road (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The hospital was haunted by both the nun carrying a baby, and the sounds of the child crying. It is said that the woman committed suicide after blaming herself for the death of the infant.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-02-12
Last updated: 2003-02-12
ID: #3800
Teacher
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Former school along Archdeacon Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The building is home to a former teacher who died after falling down a set of steps - he is seen dressed in a black gown and wearing a mortar cap.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-02-12
Last updated: 2003-02-12
ID: #3799
Monk
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - General area, Barnwood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The story of a phantom monk in the area dates to at least 1860, with the entity doomed to walk the earth after stealing money from the nearby monastery.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-08-05
Last updated: 2024-08-05
ID: #15569
Glowing Woman
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Grange Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late summer 2005, 22:00h
Further Comments: A glowing older woman wearing a Victorian-style nightgown crossed the grass and approached a jogger, who promptly sprinted away terrified. The jogger recalled that people walking their dogs behind the phantom seemed oblivious to the entity.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2025-08-25
Last updated: 2025-08-25
ID: #16034
Footsteps
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Horton Road, Mayhill Way, and London Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2020 (a Sunday afternoon)
Further Comments: During the pandemic, this witness heard footsteps coming up from behind. Conscious of social distancing, the witness stopped and turned around to let the approaching person pass; no one could be seen and after a split second, the footsteps stopped.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2025-01-05
Last updated: 2025-01-05
ID: #15779
Blue Lady
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Juniper Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2016?
Further Comments: The road is said to be haunted by a lady with a blue glow. A local newspaper reported two people walking a dog encountered the ghost in 2016.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2016-09-24
Last updated: 2016-09-24
ID: #12276
Blurred Figure
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - National Waterways Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 29 July 2008
Further Comments: A photograph taken by a thirteen year old girl in this building apparently shows a ghostly figure partly obscured by a wooden barrel. Other visitors have reported seeing a man in black or have heard footsteps or voices in parts of the museum that should have been empty.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-08-10
Last updated: 2008-08-10
ID: #8746
Flying Beer
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - New Inn public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: May 2010
Further Comments: CCTV in this pub recorded a pint of beer as it was 'pushed' off the table by an unseen hand, although it has been suggested that it slipped off on its own accord. The building is said to be haunted by an unknown number of children who died in a fire on site.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2010-06-20
Last updated: 2010-06-20
ID: #9925
Presence
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Old Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Little is known about the shade which reputedly haunts this building.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-02-20
Last updated: 2005-02-20
ID: #5870
Pallet Pusher
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Poundstretcher, Eastgate Street (was formally the Theatre Royal)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A young woman hanged herself in this building when it was a theatre and was said to haunt the location. In 2005, Poundstretcher's CCTV footage appeared to show a spectral figure of a Victorian woman pushing a whole pallet of goods to the ground.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-10-09
Last updated: 2005-10-09
ID: #6618
Female Prisoner
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Prison (closed 2013)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to twenty-first century
Further Comments: This ghost is thought to be a woman held in the cells of the nearby abbey - she now appears in the jail and mocks the prisoners. Another story says she was killed by an inmate and returns to continue her search for him. Activity is said to be particularly strong in cell 25 on the A3 landing.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-29
Last updated: 2002-10-29
ID: #2958
Hostile Woman
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Private house along Tweenbrook Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: A family were forced to move out from this property after several disturbing incidents involving the shade of a woman. A six year old boy was found by an open bedroom window (which had previously been nailed shut), saying 'the lady wants me to go with her', and the woman was also encountered under the entrance to the attic, asking 'pray for me'.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-12-28
Last updated: 2005-12-28
ID: #6669
Bangs in the Upper Area
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Ruins of Greyfriars
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This spirit is blamed for the slamming of furniture which is heard upstairs.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-08-06
Last updated: 2002-08-06
ID: #2017
An old postcard showing the Gloucester skyline.
Bloody Rain
Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Skies over the town
Type: Other
Date / Time: February 1649
Further Comments: Once upon a time, on a day in February, it rained blood over the town.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-02-20
Last updated: 2005-02-20
ID: #5882
Wispy Monks
Location: Hailes (Gloucestershire) - Hailes Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Monks unknown, woman in 1979
Further Comments: In the dead of night, it is thought that the monks return to the abbey to continue their long forgotten earthly chores. One of these jobs may be protecting their greatest relic - drops of Christ's blood that were carefully stored in a glass container. Archaeologists working on the site in 1979 spotted a ghostly white female (thought to be Lady Joan Huddleston) as it glided past the doorway - they followed the entity as it moved along lanes and roads. After the incident, one archaeologist was said to have left the site and refused to work there again. As a side note, it was said that a secret tunnel ran from the abbey to the nearby village of Coscomb, but the only person who knew of the entrance died many years ago.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-08-06
Last updated: 2002-08-06
ID: #2020
Eloping Lovers
Location: Hambrook (Gloucestershire) - Bristol Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An eloping pair of lovers ride a phantom horse along this road; during their initial escape, the father of the escaping girl accidentally killed her.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-08-05
Last updated: 2024-08-05
ID: #15570
White Lady
Location: Hambrook (Gloucestershire) - Old farm (name withheld)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: accidentally killed by her father while trying to run away with her lover, this woman took the form of a white lady and haunted a particular room in her old home.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-08-05
Last updated: 2024-08-05
ID: #15571
Man
Location: Hanham Abbots (Gloucestershire) - Court Farm barn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1971
Further Comments: Antony D Hippisley Coxe, in 'Haunted Britain', recounts how his wife watched a man enter this barn, but when she followed him in, the man had vanished.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2007-10-01
Last updated: 2007-10-01
ID: #7981
Nun
Location: Hanham Abbots (Gloucestershire) - General area, but mainly around the church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The roads of this small village are reportedly haunted by the shade of a nun. A white woman also stalks the area, though this may be the same entity.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-20
Last updated: 2002-10-20
ID: #2764
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