The Paranormal Database

Pale Woman

Location: Eynsford - Plough and Harrow public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This ghostly woman was said to haunt the area just outside the pub, while the building itself was home to a poltergeist.

A phantom coach on a country lane.

Horse and Coach

Location: Farningham - Main road through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An old coaching route, some still say that phantom horses and coaches can still be heard passing along the road.

Diana

Location: Faversham - Diana's Walk, Bysing Wood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area between Davington and Syndale Manor (now the site of the Judd's Folly Hotel) is reputedly haunted by the headless ghost of Diana, a young girl attacked while courting.

Ringing

Location: Faversham - Fleur de Lis Heritage Centre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A white lady has been seen at the top of the staircase, and an exhibit telephone has been heard to ring, despite being disconnected.

Footsteps

Location: Faversham - Guildhall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 12 November 1997
Further Comments: Four people in the committee room heard footsteps walking on the staircase and across the council chamber. Believing to be alone, they investigated and could find no one else in the building. When they resumed their meeting, once again they heard footsteps. A few weeks prior to this, one man said he had heard a woman's voice in the empty building.

Cat

Location: Faversham - Shepherd Neame brewery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom cat haunts the reception, and a group of monks congregate around one of the old malt kilns. Some employees were once too afraid to enter Annie's Room.

Red Eyed Sailor

Location: Faversham - Shipwrights Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Cold winter nights
Further Comments: Having died in a shipping accident, the phantom sailor now appears on icy nights. His favourite trick is to open the front door and walk in, only to disappear moments later, leaving only a strange, disconcerting odour.

Drifting Nun

Location: Fawkham Green - Pennis Lane
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Autumn (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Appearing at dusk, the figure of a nun has been reported floating down this lane. Her skull is housed at Pennis Farm and it is said if the object is ever removed a great curse will befall the valley.

Old lady in White Blouse

Location: Five Oak Green - The Kings Head public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Friendly in nature, this lady in a black dress wears a large cameo broach. Her activities include removing lipsticks and earrings, and locking doors.

Woman on the Staircase

Location: Folkestone - Bingo Hall on Grace Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This woman, dressed in clothing from the 1930s, is thought to be the distressed mother of a young lad killed when a fan fell from the ceiling and landed on him.

Old Soldiers

Location: Folkestone - Caesar's Fort, house on site of. Once known as Lord Beechborough House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A handful of suicides occurred here when it was used as a barracks by the army - these military figures have been seen drifting around the site and are blamed for the odd poltergeist outbreak.

Disappearing Woman

Location: Folkestone - Cheriton Grange (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: First World War
Further Comments: Troops based at the grange had to be moved as dozens reported a phantom woman who moved about after lights out. After the building was knocked down in 1918, she was still seen drifting around the ruins. It is not clear whether this was the same entity which haunted the kitchen - a lady dressed in black clothing, rather like a maid.

Cheriton

Location: Folkestone - Enbrook Manor
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: November / December (?) 1917
Further Comments: Poltergeist activity broke out around the site of an excavation, with one man hit multiple times by rocks. Another witness claimed to have seen stones rise and fall from the ground. A hammer, chairs and a pickaxe were all seen to move unaided. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle visited the area but did not offer an explanation to the events.

Barry Soudaine

Location: Folkestone - Flat along Canterbury Road
Type: SHC
Date / Time: 27 December 1987
Further Comments: Barry Soudaine was found his kitchen, only a foot and a trainer remaining amongst a pile of ash. Some plastic fittings in the kitchen had melted, but there was not serious fire damage. The coroner recorded an open verdict regarding the death.

Strange Lights

Location: Folkestone - Skies over the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 23 October 1920, 22:00h
Further Comments: A witness reported seeing two bright lights, with a blurred light between them, moving rapidly through the sky. No sound accompanied the lights as they moved north-east on a horizontal plane.

Southcliff Hotel in Folkestone, Kent.

Former Occupant

Location: Folkestone - Southcliff Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hotel claims to be haunted by the ghost of a former owner of the building, a soldier, who now frequents the right hand side of the site.

Father

Location: Gillingham - Gillingham Football Club
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: July 1960
Further Comments: Dan, the physio of Gillingham FC, passed the station and bumped into a man who asked him the way to the football ground. The man explained that his son was a striker for the team - when Dan heard this, the man was invited to sit in the directors' box, which he did to watch the game. When the striker discovered that his father had visited him, he was outraged, as the two men were estranged. However, the striker soon discovered his father had died a year earlier. Witnesses who had encountered the man in the box said that he bore a striking resemblance to the striker and shared the same northern accent.

Nurse

Location: Gillingham - Great Lines (grassland / park)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom nurse wearing clothing from the First World War fades from view when approached.

Furniture Mover

Location: Gillingham - Private house along Beechings Way
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: A widow and her two children endured two years of poltergeist activity (including furniture and paintings relocating themselves around the house, and the sound of footsteps in empty parts of the building) before an exorcism cleansed the property.

Bearded Man

Location: Gillingham - Private house along Imperial Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1960s, early 1970s
Further Comments: This spook, taking the form of a cloaked eighteenth century gentleman with a beard, opened doors, threw items around, and switched lights on and off.

Young Girl in Black

Location: Gillingham - Railway bridge along Woodlands Road, and Ferndale Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s-1990s
Further Comments: A witness who asked this young girl in black clothing where she was going was told 'I'm going to church'. As the witness continued to watch the girl, she vanished. Later at work the witness mentioned the sighting to a couple who said they had also engaged the figure in conversation, who at the time had been sitting on a wall close to the railway bridge. A year later the witness briefly spotted the girl again, as he appeared and disappeared along Ferndale Road.

Small Group of People

Location: Godmersham - Court Lodge Farm (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: Witnesses said that this building was once haunted by a small group of people who could be heard moving and talking on the ground floor.

Naked Man

Location: Goodnestone - Park, Serpentine Walk
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 2016, 11:00h
Further Comments: Walking his dog through the area, this witness initially heard someone walking in impassable dense woodland which ran adjacent to the footpath. Continuing on his way, the witness finally spotted a naked elderly gentleman with a strangely blurry face who quickly vanished.

Headless Coachman

Location: Grafty Green - Road past King's Head public house and old rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A driver lost control of his coach and crashed into a large tree near the old rectory, killing all the passengers. The coachman lost his head in the accident. Legends say the scene repeats itself, though now it tends to be heard and not seen. A twist to this tale is that the ghost of 'Dover Bill', a local smuggler who turned King's Evidence, was said to have appeared and caused the accident in the first place.

M

Location: Gravesend - Council owned flat in St Patrick's Gardens
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: January / February 2004
Further Comments: A family were virtually driven out if the property after a spate of strange incidents, including diving room temperatures, patterns appearing in freshly made beds, and the writing of the letter 'M' on a child's blackboard.