The Paranormal Database

Factory Worker

Location: Leicester - New Pingle Street, Britella factory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: The workers at this factory threatened to go on strike unless the management attempted to exorcise the ghost which took up residence here. The author does not know the outcome of their demands.

Empty

Location: Leicester - Newarke Houses (now a museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1908
Further Comments: This property had a spooky reputation and stories said it remained empty for many years due to a haunting.

Typing

Location: Leicester - Office building, New Walk
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2004/5
Further Comments: Many poltergeist-related events took place in this building, including disembodied footsteps, light fittings falling and shattering, alarm sensors triggering, sounds of and a blood-curdling scream. Nothing was ever seen, and the events occurred for around a year before ceasing.

Footsteps

Location: Leicester - Old Courthouse and Jail
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1995
Further Comments: A visitor to the courtroom reported an oppressive feeling, as if they were a prisoner on trial. This lifted as soon as they entered the lower part of the building. The person the visitor was with felt fine in the courtroom, but later heard footsteps walking towards them although no one could be seen.

Water Games

Location: Leicester - Private house along Bell Lane
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: August 1933 - December 1933
Further Comments: The haunting presence at Bell Lane made the occupier's lives hell. It flooded rooms, squirted water from walls and ceilings, drenching the family every time they sat down to eat. When the family moved next door, the water followed them. After a few months, the water activities lessened and finally ceased by Christmas.

Gnomes

Location: Leicester - Private residence, Highfields area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: October / November 1924
Further Comments: For several weeks, explosions were heard in the Highfields area, although no source could be found. One man, rushing to investigate a loud bang, spotted several, grotesque gnome-like entities dematerialising.

An old postcard of Leicester's Rail Station.

Post Man

Location: Leicester - Rail Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: More often felt than seen, the phantom which haunts the station is reputedly a postman. The ghost is said to be non-threatening and has been nicknamed Henry.

Balls of Fire

Location: Leicester - Skies over town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: November & December 1388
Further Comments: These balls of flame where seen many times during the winter months, spinning like wheels.

An old postcard of Leicester.

Spit Fire

Location: Leicester - Skies over town
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: April 1389
Further Comments: Seen flying and spitting fire, the dragon passed over the town many times during the month.

Woman

Location: Leicester - St Margaret's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1964
Further Comments: One 1960s psychical researcher claimed the church tower to be haunted by a woman who had fallen from the structure.

Tall Cloaked Man

Location: Leicester - St Margaret's Vicarage (demolished April 1964)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: Spotted at various times by the verger, a curate and the maid, this ghostly figure would also be heard walking around an empty room. Small items such as teaspoons and gloves vanished, and closed and barred doors would be found open.

Seated Child

Location: Leicester - The Talbot public house, Thurcaston Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Several shades have taken up residence here. A young child sits on a bar stool, a phantom woman vanishes into the wall, an old man in a large raincoat walks towards the bar before disappearing, and shadowy figures lurk in the car park.

Mrs Smalley

Location: Leicester - Unidentified house near East Gates (likely to be no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After Mrs Smalley died in 1727, her ghost took up residence in her former home. The entity was banished by the vicar of St Martin's.

Footfalls

Location: Leicester - Unidentified house, Friar Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1820
Further Comments: An invisible person with heavy boots was said to have taken up residence in a home along this road.

Not Known

Location: Leicester - Unidentified house, Sanvy Gate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1860
Further Comments: It was reported that a house here became haunted, although the finer points are not known.

Veiled Lady

Location: Leicester - West Chapel at Crematorium, Groby Cemetery
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: June 2008
Further Comments: Wearing Edwardian or Victorian mourning dress, a shadowy veiled woman was spotted by two witnesses. The figure disappeared into a hearse, and when the witnesses check the vehicle, it was empty.

Headless Person

Location: Leicester - West Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1965
Further Comments: This headless shade was watched by witnesses as it drifted down the middle of the road.

Red Globe

Location: Leicester - Wigston district
Type: Other
Date / Time: 29 July 2002, around 18:30h
Further Comments: An eleven year old girl, Jade Greenwood, was struck on the head by a red glowing ball, most likely ball lightning. A red mark was left on her forehead, and the girl experienced an electrical shock and a burning sensation in her leg.

Cavalier

Location: Leicester - Wygston House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Likely pre twentieth century
Further Comments: A ghost would appear at the window of this building once a month; one writer suggested the phantom to be an optical illusion created by the moon. Another story from the site placed a headless Cavalier here, although the figure never returned after being shot at by a visitor.