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Hampshire Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana

Woman

Location: Cadham - White Hart Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Though never seen, this woman's perfume has been reported on several occasions, while her presence is also denoted by a sudden change in temperature.

Bar Woman

Location: Chalton - Red Lion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several phantoms haunt this old pub, including a woman behind the bar, a child on the staircase and an unknown face that looks from an upper floor window.

Horse and Cart

Location: Chalton - Village road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom horse pulling a cart is said to haunt this road.

White Shape

Location: Chawton - Skies above the town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 22 June 2002, 21:35h
Further Comments: Filmed by a witness for several minutes, a round ball of white light darted around the sky. The light changed shape and size several times before finally disappearing behind a dark cloud.

Sad Lady

Location: Cheriton - Ashley Grange (demolished 1925)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1925
Further Comments: During the demolition of the house, a builder spotted a woman with a sad expression standing in the old kitchen. The figure vanished as the builder slowly stepped away. The builder later learned that a colleague had also spotted the figure standing on the staircase landing.

Lonely Nun

Location: Chilbolton - Rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While living, this nun broke her vows and escaped from the abbey, though returned several years later seeking repentance... She was promptly bricked up alive (like so many other ghostly nuns) so now this figure drifts around a room on the site.

Faceless Man

Location: Chilbolton - Wooded area near playground
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: June 2011
Further Comments: A six year old ran back to his mother, claiming to have spotted a male grey figure with no face, wearing a hat, walking around a wooded area close by. As they drove away, the child said he could still see the figure from the car window, walking across a nearby field, close to something metal sticking out of the ground.


A phantom with a strange umbrella.

Man with an Umbrella

Location: Colbury - Area close to a brickyard (unlikely to remain) and Ashhurst Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa Summer 1895
Further Comments: A man clad in dark clothing and holding an umbrella took up haunting this area, vanishing into thin air if approached. Some considered the entity a real person, with one man writing to the local newspaper and threatened to shoot the entity if seen.

Treasure

Location: Copythorne - Barrow Hill (aka Money Hills), Stonyford
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area is said to contain hidden wealth.

Cromwellian Rider

Location: Crondall - All Saints' Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s?
Further Comments: Cromwellian troops have been seen near the local church, while another soldier rides a horse along the road; he dismounts and vanishes through the church door.

Strange Sounds

Location: Crondall - Ewshot House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: These phantom noises, including banging from behind the bricked walls, were a source of constant annoyance to the occupiers.

Muffled Banging

Location: Crondall - Itchells Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1840
Further Comments: Blamed on a murder that once occurred in the building, many sleepless nights were created by banging, the cause of which could never be discovered.

Woman in Grey

Location: Crondall - Private cottage in the Borough
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1977 / 1978, and 2005
Further Comments: A pleasant atmosphere accompanied this entity, a lady in a simple grey dress with a white head covering, which appeared twice to a witness. In the mid-2000s, the sound of footsteps and the unexplained adjustment of electrical items were experienced in possibly the same property.

Stealth Sheep

Location: Crondall - Roads in village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Never appearing, this phantom flock can be heard moving along the roads, the occasional 'baaaa' betraying their position.

Donkey

Location: Damerham - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom white donkey appears at night.

Coach & Four

Location: East Wellow - Area from Embley Park to St Margaret's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 December (reoccurring) (another story says 24 December)
Further Comments: Moving at breakneck speed, this phantom coach leaves the park, passing through the walls, just before midnight on the last day of the year.

Florence Nightingale

Location: East Wellow - St Margaret's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Florence visited the church many times during her life and continues to do so in death. Colonel William Morton, one of several men who signed Charles I's death warrant, has been reported walking towards the churchyard.

Alice Lisle

Location: Ellingham - Moyles Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: For assisting two fugitives, Alice Lisle was hanged in 1685 - though her defence argued that Alice did what any good Christian would do. The rustling of Alice's silken dress and footfalls could be heard echoing down the corridors for many years after her death. Alice also haunted the road outside the hall, appearing in a coach pulled by headless horses.

Woman in the Corner

Location: Emery Down - New Forest Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A phantom woman is said to haunt the corner of the bar, removing the pictures from the walls and drawing the curtains when no one is looking.


The ghostly Countess of Salisbury.

Catherine

Location: Emsworth - Bere Block Dell (copse near the village)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1923
Further Comments: The ghost of Catherine, Countess of Salisbury, last manifested in front of 'many' people in 1923, although others have named the ghost of that of a man murdered by smugglers.

Upset Woman

Location: Emsworth - Horndean Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local story has this road haunted by a distressed woman. Her life ended after being struck by a vehicle.

Swinging Boys

Location: Emsworth - Racton Ruins
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 22 May 2006, around 23:30h
Further Comments: Two eleven year old boys dressed in 1950s clothing were seen floating in mid-air, as if they were swinging on a low branch of a tree. One sat whilst the other stood close behind, just gently swaying in the wind.

Monks

Location: Fareham - Crofton Manor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: One guest awoke during the night to see a monk standing at the foot of his bed - the guest shouted out and the monk vanished. There are other reports of phantom footsteps and knocking on doors, while the area is also the haunt of a phantom woman and an aging sailor.

Footsteps

Location: Fareham - Fort Wallington (now mostly demolished and replaced by an industrial park)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Phantom footsteps could once be heard descending towards the dungeon, while other mild spooky occurrences would upset staff working late at night.

Young Boy

Location: Fareham - Roundabout Hotel, Wallington
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1979
Further Comments: A young blonde haired boy appeared briefly in the hotel, dressed in a black coat. The apparition soon vanished, leaving only the mystery of his identity.

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