The Paranormal Database

Barking Hound

Location: Great Witley - Witley Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s, and circa 2007
Further Comments: Bob Dylan, Kevyn Gammond, and a handful of other musicians visited the site together in the 1960s to hunt ghosts. Dylan reportedly heard a barking dog, one of two ghosts supposed to haunt the site, although others with him were not so sure. A photograph taken in the 2000s shows a figure standing in a window, although it is more than likely little more than a reflection and pareidolia. The ghostly Lady Dudley is also reputed to remain here.

Silver

Location: Ham Green - Unidentified house
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1848
Further Comments: The new owner of a house forced open a room that had remained locked for several years due to a rumoured ghost. While no ghosts were discovered, two solid silver pieces of plate were found in old boxes that fell apart when touched.

Emma Vernon

Location: Hanbury - Country Girl inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1981
Further Comments: This local lass drowned herself in the village pond, now covered over. She was blamed for a brief poltergeist outbreak in the bar during the early eighties.

Quaker

Location: Hereford - Churchill Gardens
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 2002
Further Comments: Passing through the gardens on the way home, a witness described the phantom Quaker which he encountered as taking more form the longer he looked at it. The entity appeared to be pointing in the direction he was walking.

Flying Pictures

Location: Hereford - Private Flat, Newton Farm area
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1996
Further Comments: Pictures would fly off the wall, mugs moved around the rooms, and the television set would turn itself off and on. One visitor to the site was grabbed by an unseen hand which left a red mark.

Ruby

Location: Hereford - Queen's Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1984
Further Comments: A former landlady, Ruby would be seen wearing a black dress around the site. Another phantom, that of a white Anglo-Saxon warrior, was also reported and may have been caught on a photograph.

Herbalist

Location: Hereford - Seventeenth century house in town centre, towed into a new location in 1966, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After accidentally killing his assistant via overdose, the herbalist who worked here then took his own life. His ghost has haunted it since.

Dark Figures

Location: Hereford - Shirehall (currently Crown Court and council chamber)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2013
Further Comments: During an organised ghost hunt/seance, dark figures were seen, and unpleasant smells detected.

An old postcard showing Hereford Cathedral.

White Monk

Location: Hereford - St Peter's Square and Hereford Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s
Further Comments: A phantom monk moves away from the area of the war memorial, and heads towards the cathedral. Once at the destination, the phantom vanishes through the oak door. The ghost was observed by two policemen during the 1930s. The unnatural monk has also been spotted moving around the cathedral, normally in December. It is also worth noting that while normally dressed in white, other reports state the ghost wears dark clothing.

Apothecary

Location: Hereford - The old house (embedded into a newer building), High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A seventeenth century house carefully moved from its original site in 1966 was reputed to be haunted by an apothecary who took his own life after accidently poisoning his apprentice.

Old Taylor

Location: Hereford - White Cross and Morning Pit
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly figure is reputed to walk around the area.

Devil Hound

Location: Hergest - Hergust Court, now a farmhouse
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Prior to death in family
Further Comments: This hound would appear to members of the Vaughan family before one of their number died. It is said that when Black Vaughan was beheaded in 1483, his faithful hound seized and ran off with the head. The creature is said to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write 'Hound of the Baskervilles'.

Lady Hobbingdon

Location: Hindlip - Hindlip Hall (original building no longer standing) and grounds
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 October (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The shade of the Lady, together with a phantom white calf, would be seen moving around the house revealing all the secret priest holes once a year - during life she performed the same task, feeding those who hid within. The grounds are now said to be haunted by a young girl wearing a tartan dress, quietly crying and looking for her mother.

Black Lady

Location: Holt - Holt Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Workers in the castle were too scared to visit the attic, where it is said the ghost haunts. The basement in turn is haunted by a raven that attacks any source of light taken down there.

Lady Wintour

Location: Huddington - Huddington Court, and road outside
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 January (reoccurring), road encounter in November (year unknown)
Further Comments: One story says that this decapitated shade that appears once a year still mourns the passing of her husband Robert Wintour, executed on 31 January 1606 for playing a part in the Gunpowder Plot. One November evening, a couple driving past the court spotted what they believed to be a person riding a bike, but as they passed, realised the figure to be a woman in a cloak who vanished. The couple stopped at a nearby pub, and being visibly shaken, the landlord guessed that they had encountered Lady Wintour, who would glide down the lane.

Cat Attack

Location: Inkberrow - St Peter's churchyard
Type: ABC
Date / Time: December 1993
Further Comments: While hunting for the locally named 'Beast of Inkberrow', Nick and Sally Dyke discovered the cat in the churchyard - it knocked Nick over and took a swipe at Sally before running off. She was left with three ten centimetre long claw marks down one side.

Black Shape

Location: Kempsey - Lane in the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1994
Further Comments: Two women walking their dogs encountered a ghostly apparition here. While one of the witnesses described the figure as a black human shape, the other perceived more detail and said the entity looked like a grinning Victorian farm hand.

Dancing Dwarfs

Location: Kenchester - Roman Ruins
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The little people here made their homes in the Roman ruins scattered around.

Unknown Girl

Location: Kentchurch - Kentchurch Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A young girl has been seen standing by a window in the building, glazing out across the land.

First Landlady

Location: Kidderminster - Black Horse public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: One story said the site to be haunted by the first landlady to run the pub, killed by her husband as he discovered both her and her secret lover embraced on the steps outside the building. Her footsteps could be heard along the corridors. A 1967 newspaper article reported the tale to have been an invention of owner Jack Wilding, who believed ghost stories to be good for business.

Tutor Woman

Location: Kidderminster - Harvey's Wine Bar
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1963
Further Comments: Seen at least twice, the woman in brown Tutor clothing was more often heard walking across empty rooms. Doors would also open and close on their own.

White Woman

Location: Kidderminster - Ye Olde Seven Stars, Coventry Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This ghostly figure was seen standing by the bar, as if waiting to be served. Her presence was also reported at a table.

Thirsty Stone

Location: Kingstone - Large whetstone in the village
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Stone still present
Further Comments: This rock submerges itself in a nearby river to cool itself down on particularly hot days.

The Devil's Garden

Location: Kington - Area of barren land
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: This area of dirt and stone was known as the Devil's Garden by locals as nothing would ever take root there.

Thomas Vaughan

Location: Kington - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1469
Further Comments: After being killed in the battle of Banbury, Vaughan's spirit was reluctant to depart this plane of existence and tried to hide in this local church. It was finally trapped in a snuff box by the local holy men and banished into nearby Hergest Pool. Some variations of the story have Vaughan escape the snuff box before being laid once again, this time under a large tree on the Hergest Estate.