The Paranormal Database

Shuffling Figure

Location: Herne Bay - Pier
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012
Further Comments: A shuffling figure is said to haunt the part of the pier which has been cut off from the main section after a storm in 1979. In 2012 a video was released on YouTube purporting to show this entity, although it is more likely that the figure is a real person who used a boat to land on the isolated section.

Men Talking

Location: Herne Bay - Private cottage, near Bullockstone Road (area redeveloped, may no longer stand)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa February 1968
Further Comments: This haunting restricted itself to the sounds of men talking, with the occasional burst of song. The occupant reported the voices could be heard day or night and sounded to be in high spirits.

Bedroom Entity

Location: Herne Bay - Private residence at Margaret Court
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: November 2011
Further Comments: This is Kent website reported that a retired nursing home assistant was being haunted by an entity which groped her at night and would shake the mattress. The Herne Bay Times arranged a visit from a couple of ghost hunters to banish the spirit.

Jesus

Location: Herne Bay - Private residence, Greenhill Gardens
Type: Other
Date / Time: October 2012
Further Comments: Reported in the local press, after Kenny Iddenden moved his fridge he found an image of Jesus on the wall, formed out of mould. After photographing the find, he wiped it away.

Misty Figure

Location: Herne Bay - Thornden Wood Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1986
Further Comments: A motorcyclist riding along the road experienced their lights failing, quickly followed by the engine cutting out and the breaks of their bike jamming. The rider managed to keep her balance, and then watched as a misty human shape crossed the road. The figure moved from left to right and was followed by the sound of large dogs. As the sound of the dogs faded, the motorcyclist started to push the bike and managed a bump start.

Woman with Burnt Hands

Location: Herne Common - Fox and Hounds public house, Canterbury Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This horrid looking woman has had the skin burnt off her face and hands. She is accompanied by the smell of dead burning flowers, and a drop in temperature.

Anne Boleyn

Location: Hever - Bridge over the Eden
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Boleyn's spirit crosses the bridge once a year. The area is also haunted by a farmer, robbed and murdered nearby.

Pilot?

Location: Higham - Canal Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Several times in 2010s, between 19:00h - 20:00h
Further Comments: Several dog walkers had seen a man dressed in black with a white stripe on his outfit along this road, his silence when spoken to a topic of discussion between the pet owners. One dog owner then reported that the man had disappeared in front of their eyes and refused to walk his dog in the same area. One person researched the area and found that a German aircraft had crashed here, speculating that the man in black was a pilot.

Goat

Location: Higham - Gads Hill Place
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: During a book lecture, Alfred Tennyson Dickens claimed that servants at his home had threatened to leave after being scared by a ghost. Dickens and his sons investigated and discovered a strange sounding white shape, which transpired to be an aging goat.

Shadows

Location: Hoath - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2014
Further Comments: Kent Arboreal reported working on a site which was plagued by bangs, knocks, and darting shadows. Another supplier refused to be on the site alone. On one occasion, after a loud bang occurred when workers and the owner were present, the owner asked witnesses not to say anything.

Little Man

Location: Hollingbourne - Eyhorne Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Poltergeist circa 1970, others unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a small man has been seen, while disembodied footsteps have been heard in the grounds, and in the bedroom invisible clothing has been heard moving. Poltergeist activity was encountered around 1970, when the family reported that something would lift items from surfaces and drop them to the floor. It may be in this building that the ghost of Catherine Howard has also been seen.

Galloping

Location: Hollingbourne - Hollingbourne House, north of village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Heard only at night (and it is said seen only during the day) a ghostly horseman haunts the north part of the village, near where he failed to jump a gate, breaking his neck in the process.

Jet Black Car

Location: Hook Green - Road from village leading to Bell's Yew Green
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This dark limousine has been watched moving silently down the road, disappearing if another car comes too close.

Robert the Wizard

Location: Hothfield - Estate near Hothfield Common
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: A highwayman of local fame and folklore, the headless ghost of Robert appeared to a local woman who had recently moved to her new home.

Landlady

Location: Hythe - Bell Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The inn is reputedly home to a grey lady, who was a former landlady who died in childbirth, and two revenue men whose bodies were hidden within the building.

Catherine Scothers

Location: Hythe - King's Head Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Scothers was named as the phantom who would open locked doors around the site.

Headless Bird Man

Location: Hythe - Sandling Park
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: November 1963
Further Comments: A group of teenagers ran from a creature that emerged from behind a tree and approached them. It was described as man shaped but headless, completely black, had webbed feet, and a pair of large bat wings. Prior to this, they had watched a mysterious light flickering about the sky.

Dame Dorothy Selby

Location: Ightham - Ightham Mote
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While the legends say this lady was killed by (or on the orders of) Guy Fawkes for warning the authorities about the Gunpowder Plot, it is quite unlikely to be the case. However, even if not the Dame, a spirit does walk the building, and is held accountable for the mysterious cold spots.

Figure in Silver Suit

Location: Isle of Sheppey - Roadside of Sheppey Way
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 22 March 1979
Further Comments: A figure in a baggy silver suit climbed down a grassy verge by the roadside, watched by several motorists. It is thought this has a connection with a UFO seen a few hours earlier in the area.

Triangle

Location: Istead Rise - Skies above village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 24 November 2017
Further Comments: A large triangular craft was watched as it moved irregularly across the sky. It made no sound and would occasionally disappear and reappear.

An old woodcut of a knight in armour riding a horse.

Knight in Shining Armour

Location: Kemsing - Kemsing Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 29 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This gallant looking figure rides up to the church, enters the building and briefly prays at the altar before vanishing again until another year goes by.

Materialising Figure

Location: Kemsley - Bowaters Mill, shower room
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Appearing to several men at different times, this spirit would appear once the witness had entered the shower. Two of the men ran from the room naked, such was their horror.

Raining Money

Location: Kenardington - St Mary's Churchyard
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1989
Further Comments: Reports say that it has rained money in this graveyard several times, but do not become too enthusiastic - the coinage is always pre-decimal.

Nurse

Location: Kings Hill - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2009-2012
Further Comments: The resident of one of the properties built on a former RAF airfield has said they have seen a nurse in an old fashioned uniform, an airman's head and a shadowy figure moving across their hallway.

Highwayman

Location: Knockholt - Harrow Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A highwayman hanged on gallows that once stood outside this building is still said to make his presence known in the area.