The Paranormal Database

Little Girl

Location: Newport - Private house, Honey Hill area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2014
Further Comments: A couple who retired to the island moved into a property which was haunted by footsteps and poltergeist activity. A little girl was seen and heard by visiting family who refused to return. One of the couple was pushed down the stairs by the entity and suffered a broken collar bone. While in hospital, a nurse who spotted their address on the patients' notes said that she had previously lived in the house and had moved out after experiencing the antics of a poltergeist.

Cottage with Pond

Location: Newport - Sandy Lane
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1951 / 1952
Further Comments: A lad cycling down Sandy Lane recalled seeing a picturesque farmhouse with a pond just in front of it. Years later the (now grown) man tried to find the dwelling but could find no evidence the property or pond ever existed.

Fast Moving Figure

Location: Newport - Stag Lane area
Type: Other
Date / Time: Around 1999
Further Comments: A human-looking figure with a limp, but capable of moving at great speed, was seen on separate occasions by two different witnesses.

Young Woman

Location: Newport - Wheatsheaf Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A phantom young woman was observed by one guest sitting on his bed in a room on the first floor.

Misty Figure

Location: Newport - Whitecroft Hospital (no longer operational)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October 1984, between 21:00h - 22:30h (misty figure), other entity unknown
Further Comments: One inpatient awoke to see a misty white figure at the foot of their bed, while another report says two other witnesses, at separate times, encountered a male figure with no eyes.

King Charles?

Location: Newport - Youth Centre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The room where this king once stayed is reported to experience cold spots and the sound of footsteps.

The piper takes the children.

Pied Piper of Newtown

Location: Newtown - General area
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Fourteenth century
Further Comments: A legend says that a piper used a tune to clear the area of rats; when the musician was not paid his dues, he piped another tune and all the children followed him away from the town. None were ever seen again.

Fireplace Figure

Location: Niton - Buddle Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One account has an entity manifest in the fireplace and cross the dining room. Other ghosts which have taken up residence here include a smuggler, customs officer and a couple of sailors in old fashioned kit.

Dreams Can Come True

Location: Niton - Wishing Seat
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: A seat along a coastal pathway is said to grand wishes by just sitting on it.

Torso

Location: Nodes Point - Holiday Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 26 August 2007, 23:35h
Further Comments: A husband and wife watched a darkly dressed, semi-solid torso float past them as they sat outside their tent. Other people they were with at the time did not see the apparition. The entity vanished into the shadow of their friend's tent.

The Beast of Parkhurst Prison.

Sitting Prisoner

Location: Parkhurst - Parkhurst Prison (known now as HMP Isle of Wight), unstated cell in A Wing
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: A prisoner who committed suicide in the jail reportedly returned to his cell after death and was seen with his legs dangling over the edge of his former bunk. Newspapers reported that the shade caused other inmates to demand relocation to other cells. Another entity nicknamed the 'Beast of Parkhurst Prison' is rumoured to be half man and half bat and lurks on the rooftops, feeding off pigeons.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Location: Quarr Hill - Quarr Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The wife of Henry II is reported to haunt these ruins, appearing as if she regretted plotting against her husband. However, there is no evidence that Eleanor of Aquitaine visited the area in her lifetime.

Dancing Woman

Location: Ryde - Royal Victoria Yacht Club
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wearing a white gown, a phantom woman is said to dance alone in the ballroom. Other entities reputed to haunt the side include another woman who is fond of men, a woman in a black dress spotted on the staircase, a couple of children, three drinkers at the bar, and finally the friendly entity known only as Albert.

Joker

Location: Ryde - Ryde Castle Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The poltergeist here is said to have a good sense of humour.

Sounds of Dragging

Location: Ryde - Solent Inn, Monkton Steer
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Phantom voices, footsteps, and the sound of heavy items being dragged across rooms have all been reported coming from this public house.

Sam the Sandown Clown

Location: Sandown - Lake Common, close to the airport
Type: Other
Date / Time: May 1973, around 16:00h
Further Comments: Two children wandered across a seven foot (2.13 metre) tall robotic-looking clown that they talked with for around thirty minutes. The entity had wooden antennae attached either side of a yellow hat, two triangular markings where eyes should have been, a brown square nose and yellow lips that did not move when the entity spoke. The children would later claim Sam, the name the entity used to introduce itself, was a ghost, although a 1978 Bufon Journal suggested Sam be alien.

Sandown Pier, Isle of Wight.

Old Lady

Location: Sandown - Sandown Pier
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 03 December 2011
Further Comments: A witness reported photographing an old lady on this pier who was not there at the time the image was captured. The theatre on the pier was said to be haunted by a laughing man.

Snared Cat

Location: Sandown - Yaverland Manor
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 1987
Further Comments: A medium sized wild cat was caught and killed near the manor house, and later identified as a leopard cat.

Mill Worker

Location: Shalfleet - New Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: As well as the normal pub polt activity, the inn is haunted by a worker who died in an accident at the nearby mill.

Girl in Blue

Location: Shanklin - Chine Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Two ghosts are reputed to haunt this site - an older man and a young girl in blue. The inn is also said to have a secret tunnel leading to the nearby Vernon Cottage, once used by smugglers.

Anti-Gravity Hill

Location: Shanklin - Nansen Hill, between Shanklin and Bonchurch
Type: Other
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: A newspaper from 1961 featured Nansen Hill, a site where cars and bicycles appeared to roll up rather than down. Magnetism, poltergeists, and optical illusions were all put forward as explanations.

White Mist

Location: Shanklin - Theatre
Type: Other
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: During a Derek Acorah evet, a member of the audience thought a smoke machine had been turned on after a white mist appeared on stage. The mist grew darken and took the form of a tall man. The witness was briefly distracted, during which the misty man vanished.

Vernon Cottage, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

Frances

Location: Shanklin - Vernon Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: Frances died after falling down the staircase and is now said to haunt this property. She reputedly leaves five pence pieces around the site to indicate she approves of behaviour.

Woman in Black

Location: Shorwell - Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2019
Further Comments: A female entity reputedly haunts the dining area, while a male ghost lurks in the attic. In 2019 a reviewer on the TripAdvisor website claimed their dad had spoken to an old woman dressed in black who vanished without trace.

Hidden treasure on the Isle of Wight.

Chest of Gold

Location: Shorwell - Elm tree in an unnamed wood near the area
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Protected by a magical black bird, the chest can only be pulled from the ground by a dozen white oxen.