The Paranormal Database

Old Coles

Location: Leigh - Road passing through village, leading to river
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 November, St Catherine's Eve (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Long since exorcised, the phantom of Old Coles would drive his coach through the village and use the local river to cool his horses.

Tinker

Location: Leigh - Unnamed crossroads
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The tinker took to haunting the area after being gibbeted for murder.

Dench Family Coach

Location: Lenchwick - Road between Lenchwick and Norton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Belonging to the Dench family, a phantom coach is said to run along this stretch of road.

Burning Coach

Location: Lenchwick - Roads between village and Evesham Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Driven by a hanged (or beheaded) criminal, this coach travels at breakneck speed until reaching the abbey where it promptly vanishes.

Dark Shadow

Location: Leominster - Berrington Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 1981
Further Comments: Parts of the hall were used as a hospital during both World Wars, and it was in this area that this phantom was seen walking about.

Tall Man in Leather

Location: Leominster - Croft Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1920s
Further Comments: This figure, estimated to be at least seven foot in height, was seen a couple of times in the castle. He quickly faded away in front of the witnesses.

Evil Short Man

Location: Leominster - Grange by the Priory Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Mid 1970s, summer
Further Comments: Something 'male, short and see-through' was said to have jumped on a wall here, scattering the parents and children playing in the area. One witness was said to have called the thing 'absolutely evil'.

Monk

Location: Leominster - Priory Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A hooded figure was observed by one woman. She said that she could not see a face, but his sandals were highly detailed.

Roman Soldiers

Location: Little Malvern - Malvern Hills, hillfort
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A column of Roman Legionnaires was observed marching up the hill, complete with standard bearers and cavalrymen. The troops vanished when they reached the top.

Lady Lightfoot

Location: Little Shelsey - Courthouse
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly woman drove her coach and horses around inside the courthouse, screaming in protest of her murder while in prison.

Coach

Location: Littleton - Countryside between village and Bretforton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Moving over a road that vanished long ago, this coach is seen smoothly traversing bumpy fields and overgrown woods.

Henry Milborne

Location: Llanrothal - Llanrothal Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1690s
Further Comments: Milborne was killed when his horses bolted into the nearby river - his body was never found. His ghost started haunting his former home, and twelve priests were called for to exorcise the entity. When the ghost manifested, all but one priest fled. The ghost asked the priest how long he was banished for, to which the priest responded, 'until I eat bread'. The ghost left and took up residence in the river, while the priest died a few hours later, ensuring bread never passed his lips.

Money Coffin

Location: Longtown - Longtown Castle
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown - still present
Further Comments: A local myth says that one thousand guineas are buried on this site, concealed within a coffin.

Highwayman

Location: Lugwardine - Road between Lugwardine and Bartestree
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1985
Further Comments: Three witnesses were said to have encountered a ghostly highwayman here.

Headless Man

Location: Lulsley - Sandy Lane (between Osebury Rock and the river)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One folk story says this road is home to several entities that appear to travellers, including a headless man, a white horse, a black dog, and a sad woman with flowing hair who wears a white robe.

Station Porter

Location: Lyonshall - Disused railway station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940 onwards
Further Comments: Since closing, this station has become a haunt for a sad looking man, who is said to have once been a porter at the building.

George Bernard Shaw

Location: Malvern - Festival Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: The loud footsteps heard throughout the building are attributed to Shaw, though no one has seen his form.

An old postcard of the Malvern Hills.

Eagle Man

Location: Malvern Hills - Exact area unknown
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown - circa late twentieth century?
Further Comments: Two women and their partners out hillwalking were hounded by a large eagle-like figure. All four people were left terrified by their encounter, and one of the women collapsed with shock. One man with whom they discussed their encounter with suggested it was a 'gatekeeper entity'.

Lost Soul

Location: Malvern Hills - Upper reaches of the hills
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The higher parts of these hills, over a thousand feet above sea level, are home to a shade which drifts around lost and confused.

invisible Bird

Location: Malvern Wells - Grundys Lane
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Two occupants of a house on this street felt the sensation of an invisible bird passing through their heads, and out a closed window.

Singing

Location: Marden - Marden Pool
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Both the sounds of bells and singing can be heard coming from this small body of water.

A mermaid combing her hair, engraving circa 1757.

Thieving Mermaid

Location: Marden - River Lugg
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An accident sent a church bell into the waters of the local river - a passing mermaid took the opportunity to steal the bell and can sometimes be heard ringing it. As a sidenote, a bell was recovered from the water in 1848.

Giant's Grave

Location: Merbach Hill - Arthur's Stone
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: This large stone on Merbach Hill is said to be the final resting place of a giant slain by the king.

Sometimes Headless

Location: Michaelchurch - St Michael's Church
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The shuck which haunted this churchyard sometimes appeared headless.

An old woodcut of a dragon wearing a crown while sitting in flames.

The Mordiford Dragon

Location: Mordiford - Village and surrounding countryside
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Raised in secret by a local lass after she found the creature on the roadside, this dragon grew up and began to eat the locals and their livestock; the beast never touched its surrogate mother. The creature was finally killed, though the stories differ to whom carried out the slaying.