The Paranormal Database

Royalist

Location: Moreton on Lugg - St Mary the Virgin church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A Royalist was captured, tortured and killed by Parliamentary soldiers in this churchyard. His ghost is said to remain.

The Scream

Location: Morton Underhill - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1985, 04:00h
Further Comments: A guest in the house awoke in the early hours and found the environment incredibly peaceful. After looking out of the window at the garden in the moonlight, they returned to bed, and just as the guest closed my eyes, there was a blood-curdling scream against their left ear. The voice was male, loud, and horrendous. The guest fled screaming from the room. The family who owned the house were very understanding and said the whole area was haunted.

Intervention

Location: Much Cowarne - Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This church was due to be built on top of a nearby hill, but an unknown agency relocated the construction materials.

Hetty Walwyn

Location: Much Marcle - Hellens Manor (aka Hellen's House)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Locked in the house by her mother after trying to run away with the stablehand, the ghost of Hetty remains trapped in the building. Another room in the building is reportedly haunted by a priest murdered by roundheads.

Moving Land

Location: Much Marcle - Hill
Type: Other
Date / Time: 7 Feb, (17th century?) the move started
Further Comments: A local legend says that the hill in the village moved around 300 metres down the road over a three day period - it destroyed the village church and killed livestock.

Flying Glasses

Location: Norton - Retreat public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2018-2022
Further Comments: The local press reported that glasses would fly off tables and children's toys would be activated by an unseen presence.

Sailor

Location: Pershore - Angel Inn and Posting House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1994?
Further Comments: This phantom sailor, dressed in a dark blue donkey jacket resembling Second World War uniform, has been observed several times in the dining room. He always stands in front of the fireplace.

Tall Glowing Shape

Location: Pershore - Area around the River Avon
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: August 1965
Further Comments: During a week in August several strange entities were seen, including a glowing square and a six foot high figure floating a metre above the ground, heading towards a local churchyard. A group of fifty (!) ghost hunters formed a circle around one misty shape, but it vanished.

Horse-Drawn Coach

Location: Pershore - High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1975
Further Comments: A woman heard a horse drawn coach outside her place of employment, but when she looked out of the window, nothing could be seen.

Black Panther

Location: Pershore - Outside of Croome Estate
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 01 June 2012, April 2016
Further Comments: A witness reported seeing a black panther moving through a rapeseed field in 2012, while in 2016, another couple reported seeing another black cat in the same area.

Shadowy Figure

Location: Pershore - Pershore Working Men's and Old Comrades Club
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1976-1977
Further Comments: Late at night a shadowy figure was frequently seen moving from the entrance to the club through to the ballroom. Numerous witnesses, including local police officers, who insisted on investigating would never find anyone. Poltergeist activity was also reported in the club, including glasses breaking and temperature fluctuations. One man who dismissed the sightings tried to spend the night there - he fled after being overwhelmed by a sense of fear.

Green Flash

Location: Pershore - Skies above the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Circa 2005
Further Comments: One witness reported seeing a green flash in the sky, followed by a green light 'swirling' before vanishing.

Royalist

Location: Pershore - Talbot public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom Royalist soldier, connected to the 1651 Battle of Worcester, is said to haunt this pub.

Steam Whistle

Location: Redditch - Along the A441 by Oakenshaw McDonalds
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: On quiet nights you are said to be able to hear a steam whistle from a train which once passed along this area before the line was closed by Beecham.

Monk

Location: Redditch - Blackhill (or Brockhill) Women's Prison, on the grounds of Hewell Grange
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001
Further Comments: Several people reported seeing a ghost in a habit pass through a wall inside the prison complex. Staff at the prison have also reported feeling 'uneasy' at night.

Drowned Girl

Location: Redditch - Forge Mill Needle Museum and Bordesley Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One story says the mill is haunted by a phantom woman who drowned herself in the mill pond. The grounds of the nearby Bordesley Abbey, now ruined, once encompassed the land where the mill stands, which may explain the ghostly monks reported on both sites.

Lady Mohun

Location: Redditch - Moon's Moat
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 20 January (reoccurring) but last seen 21 January 2003
Further Comments: This small, moated island is reportedly haunted by this woman, who is reported to appear every St Agnes Eve.

Sound of Horses

Location: Redditch - The Lane, Church Hill South
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend says that the phantom horses heard in this area belonged to Roman riders who fell into a large pit trap dug by their enemies.

An old postcard showing the River Wye.

Woman Rower

Location: River Wye - General Area
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to tragedy
Further Comments: This lowly figure, heard screaming and crying in pain, appears to those who will shortly undergo grief and loss.

Figure with a Lamp

Location: Ross on Wye - King Charles II public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: A photograph taken at the pub during the 1970s shows what appears to be a Victorian gentleman holding a lamp in the cellar. There have also been reports of apparitions and icy chills in the corridor above the cellar.

A phantom woman in a ghostly boat.

Old Woman

Location: Ross on Wye - River Wye
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This gaunt old lady sails a small boat up and down the river at dusk, sobbing hysterically.

Gold

Location: Salop - Wormelow (barrow)
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A dragon was said to protect hidden gold in this barrow.

Angry Tenant

Location: Salwarpe - Area around the Driotwich Canal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a house owner returned when he discovered that part of his former house was being demolished to make a path for this waterway. However, his appearance failed to prevent the construction.

Sinking Coach

Location: Shelsea Wash - Court House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom coach travels towards this building, only to sink into the moat that surrounds it.

Alice

Location: Stoke Prior - Navigation Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Alice either committed suicide or was murdered during the nineteenth century, in the old kitchen which is now the ladies' toilets. People have heard the breaking of plates, though nothing is ever found broken, and thuds and bangs in one of the toilet's cubicles. The disturbances stop if Alice is acknowledged.