The Paranormal Database

Evil Presence

Location: Brentwood - 133 High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1953 onwards
Further Comments: Phantom laughter, areas of extreme hot and cold, and violent reactions from animals have all been reported in this building.

Shot Dog

Location: Brentwood - Churchyard near Kelvedon Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This hound haunts the churchyard after being shot on the church altar by an angry landowner.

Peter

Location: Brentwood - Fountain Head public house, Ingrave Road
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1969
Further Comments: Several bottles exploded on their own accord, and several pieces of furniture were rearranged by an invisible presence. Police investigated footsteps that could be heard upstairs, but discovered the area empty. A medium claimed the ghost to be Peter Andover, stabbed to death while attempting to rape the landlord's daughter.

Floating Monk

Location: Brentwood - Gateway food store, Chapel High
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 1987
Further Comments: A young man working here claimed to see a hooded figure in the storeroom, floating half a metre above the ground - it vanished as he touched it.

Austrian Sheepdog

Location: Brentwood - Kelvedon Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1949 onwards
Further Comments: A favoured pet, this ghost started to appear several weeks after its death.

Opening Door

Location: Brentwood - Moat House Hotel (?)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Mid-twentieth century?
Further Comments: This hotel was subject to poltergeist activity, and it was reported that a bedroom door continually opened itself. One story claimed the site to be haunted by a grey lady, named as Catherine of Aragon.

Whinnying

Location: Brentwood - Pond on Thriftwood Estate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After becoming lost at night, a farmer and his horse fell into this pond and died. It was reported that the sound of the horse whinnying could be heard at night.

Monk

Location: Brentwood - Shop in Chapel High Shopping Centre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1986/7
Further Comments: While in the shop stacking shelves, a worker visited the upstairs storeroom and spotted a semi-transparent, hooded monk floating a couple of feet above the ground. Not feeling threatened or scared, the worker approached the monk and came within a metre of the entity before it vanished. The worker later discovered a monastery once stood on the site.

Monk

Location: Brentwood - The Golden Fleece Inn, 126 London Rd.
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The ghost of a monk has been reported in the building on several occasions, always appearing in a mirror, and disappearing when the witness turns around to investigate further.

Mrs de Rougemont, Room 14

Location: Brentwood - The New World Inn, Great Warley Street (currently De Rougemont Manor)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s onwards
Further Comments: Said to be impossible to spend a night in, Room 14 contains the spirit of a previous owner, Mrs de Rougemont. The sound of a party has also been reported in the Inn.

Hunter, from Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1570)

Tap Twister

Location: Brentwood - The Swan Hotel. 123 High Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: This poltergeist plagued the owners of the pub by turning water taps on and off, unlocking doors, hiding household items, and antagonising animals. The site was reputed to be haunted by William Hunter, burnt to death in 1555 for disbelieving transubstantiation.

George

Location: Brentwood - The White Hart, 94 High Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Circa 1960s
Further Comments: Poltergeist activity that manifests as footsteps has been reported at this public house, as well as an invisible presence that taps people on the shoulder. George, the name given to the entity, would also open and close an attic door which could only be reached by standing on a table.

Bailiff

Location: Brentwood - Warley Lea Farm, near Brentwood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Believed to be the home of a ghost of a bailiff who hanged himself, this building suffers from phantom footsteps on the staircase, and other bangs and crashes.