The Paranormal Database

Monk

Location: Maidstone - Wooded area off Sittingbourne Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Summer, mid 1970s
Further Comments: Two witnesses out exploring the area watched a monk-like figure in a brown habit cross the field and appear to sink into the ground. The witnesses walked over to the area and found a set of steps which led down to a bricked up archway.

Former Pilot

Location: Manston - RAF Manston
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 1970 (or 1971)
Further Comments: A MoD fireman was on kitchen duty in the early hours of the morning when he spotted a semi-translucent figure wearing a flying helmet, Irvin jacket and Mae West. The witness quickly left the area and was later told that others had seen the entity. It was generally thought the ghost to be a pilot who crashed into a snow drift during the Second World War.

Gilbert

Location: Marden - Road to Hawkhurst
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Gilbert, an eighteenth century highwayman who tried to rob a coach, was stabbed to death by one of the occupants after she recognised him as having killed her brother. The killing drove the woman mad. The scene was said to silently re-enact every Christmas Eve.

Woman

Location: Margate - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hotel was hit by German bombs during the Second World War; the phantom woman observed here is thought to have been killed during the attack.

Robed Figure

Location: Margate - Junction of A253 & A266 (some reports say A256)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A gibbet once stood on the junction, and it is thought that the ghostly figure and a phantom light are somehow related to the structure. There are reports that indicate the accident rate in the area is much higher than the national average.

Pale Woman

Location: Margate - Northern Belle public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom woman in this public house is said to be deathly pale and wears a shroud.

Bra Remover

Location: Margate - Pillow Talk sex shop
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2002
Further Comments: A playful spirit here has been blamed for moving stock around overnight. The ghost is rumoured to be a girl who once worked in a brothel on this site.

Cold Shower

Location: Margate - Private residence in Trinity Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: A workman reported that the building he spent several years renovating was haunted by an unseen entity. He experienced a feeling as if 'walking into a cold shower' while in the basement, while a plumber on site left and refused to say why, even refusing to take payment for the work he had already completed.

Old postcard of Margate, Kent.

Sea Horse

Location: Margate - Sea near the Lido Baths
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1950
Further Comments: A pair of swimmers watched as a 60cm neck rose from the water close to their location - they reported the serpent had horse-like ears.

Sarah Thorne

Location: Margate - Theatre Royal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1955 and 1972
Further Comments: Sarah was responsible for creating the best company ever seen here - her proud spirit once walked down the aisles and onto the stage. Another ghost, that of an actor who committed suicide, is held responsible for creating strange lights that float around. It is unclear which entity created the disembodied voice that spoke to an actor in an otherwise empty dressing room. In 1972 a workman was reported to have been 'petrified' after spotting a ghost, although who or what he encountered is not known.

Two figures

Location: Matfield - Maidstone Road
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 11 December 2009, 06:35h
Further Comments: Two tall figures darted out in front of a car driving along this road in the early hours of the morning. The driver braked hard to avoid them, and they seemed to vanish.

Suicide

Location: Meopham - Cricketer's Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom lady who haunts this inn is said to have committed suicide discovering her husband had returned from fighting in France with a French mistress.

Servant

Location: Meopham - Dean Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A young servant girl was said to haunt the manor house; the BBC attempted to record the ghost in an early broadcast. A letter in a 1948 edition of the Kentish Express blamed an owl for the haunting, unconvincingly stating the bird would make its kill at midnight, the cries of the dying prey being mistaken as a ghost.

Headless Man

Location: Meopham - Route between public house and church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Walking the route, this ghostly figure has been observed with no head.

Girl in Orange

Location: Meopham - Steel Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A French girl who fell head over heels in love with a soldier was rejected by him and hanged herself - it is she who now haunts this road, dressed in a rustling orange silk dress.

Litle Blue Lady

Location: Milstead - Milstead Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: The phantom little child in blue was said to have unnerved soldiers who were billeted at the building during the Second World War. The child was said to have fallen down the stairs of the house, breaking her neck, while looking for a lost shoe.

Grey Lady

Location: Minster - Cleve Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to only appear to children, this woman in life was said to love young people; her disapproving husband forbade her to have any offspring and kept her locked up in a small room. Adults can only hear her walking around. Another story says the ghostly woman could be seen descending a staircase and walking through a double door; a pet spaniel first growled at the figure before running towards it in a more friendly manner.

Monk

Location: Minster - Old Oake Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This strange looking figure of a monk always appears as if silhouetted behind an intense light. He is always heard before manifesting, shuffling feet marking his appearance.

The Rose & Crown Pub at Mundy Bois.

Moving Items

Location: Mundy Bois - Rose & Crown public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1975 - 1978
Further Comments: Publican Mrs Motley wrote to a local paper to say while she did not think they had a poltergeist, small items would be constantly moved without reason around the site.

Elizabethan Gentleman

Location: New Romney - A259 between town and Brooklands
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1990s
Further Comments: A driver reported driving his car through a phantom man along this stretch of road, who had stepped out of the road in front of him. The driver stopped to look for the figure but could find nothing.

Pair of Monks

Location: New Romney - St Johns Chapel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: These two holy men were seen drifting through the chapel, though it is more common to hear phantom footsteps move through the building.

Farmer

Location: Newenden - White Hart public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Holding his pint of beer, a phantom farmer is said to sit by the fireplace.

Devil's Hoof

Location: Newington - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A hoof print is visible in a stone by the gate. The Devil was once so upset by the sound of the church bells, he climbed the steeple with the intent of stealing them; he slipped and fell, leaving the single piece of evidence behind.

Monk

Location: Newington - George Inn, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Seen by a handful of customers over the years, it is more common for the ghost to be blamed when glasses are smashed or items disappear.

Headless Woman

Location: Northfleet - 16 Waterdales
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1966
Further Comments: Two ghosts haunted this council house (the headless woman, and a younger blonde haired girl), forcing the occupants to leave. Two journalists who spent a night in the house reported their room becoming icy cold, and the sounds of creaks and of something sliding along the floors.