Water Games
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Private house along Bell Lane
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: August 1933 - December 1933
Further Comments: The haunting presence at Bell Lane made the occupier's lives hell. It flooded rooms, squirted water from walls and ceilings, drenching the family every time they sat down to eat. When the family moved next door, the water followed them. After a few months, the water activities lessened and finally ceased by Christmas.
Source:
Historical Record, User Submission
First added: 2007-04-11
Last updated: 2007-04-11
ID: #7280
Gnomes
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Private residence, Highfields area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: October / November 1924
Further Comments: For several weeks, explosions were heard in the Highfields area, although no source could be found. One man, rushing to investigate a loud bang, spotted several, grotesque gnome-like entities dematerialising.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-07-16
Last updated: 2023-07-16
ID: #14983
An old postcard of Leicester's Rail Station.
Post Man
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Rail Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: More often felt than seen, the phantom which haunts the station is reputedly a postman. The ghost is said to be non-threatening and has been nicknamed Henry.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2011-02-19
Last updated: 2011-02-19
ID: #10167
An old postcard of Leicester.
Spit Fire
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Skies over town
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: April 1389
Further Comments: Seen flying and spitting fire, the dragon passed over the town many times during the month.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-07-18
Last updated: 2002-07-18
ID: #1828
Balls of Fire
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Skies over town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: November & December 1388
Further Comments: These balls of flame were seen many times during the winter months, spinning like wheels.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-07-18
Last updated: 2002-07-18
ID: #1827
Woman
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - St Margaret's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1964
Further Comments: One 1960s psychical researcher claimed the church tower to be haunted by a woman who had fallen from the structure.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-04-01
Last updated: 2024-04-01
ID: #15319
Tall Cloaked Man
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - St Margaret's Vicarage (demolished April 1964)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: Spotted at various times by the verger, a curate and the maid, this ghostly figure would also be heard walking around an empty room. Small items such as teaspoons and gloves vanished, and closed and barred doors would be found open.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-10-21
Last updated: 2023-10-21
ID: #15123
Seated Child
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - The Talbot public house, Thurcaston Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Several shades have taken up residence here. A young child sits on a bar stool, a phantom woman vanishes into the wall, an old man in a large raincoat walks towards the bar before disappearing, and shadowy figures lurk in the car park.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-09-07
Last updated: 2003-09-07
ID: #4572
Footfalls
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Unidentified house, Friar Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1820
Further Comments: An invisible person with heavy boots was said to have taken up residence in a home along this road.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2020-02-11
Last updated: 2020-02-11
ID: #13553
Not Known
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Unidentified house, Sanvy Gate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1860
Further Comments: It was reported that a house here became haunted, although the finer points are not known.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2020-02-11
Last updated: 2020-02-11
ID: #13554
Veiled Lady
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - West Chapel at Crematorium, Groby Cemetery
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: June 2008
Further Comments: Wearing Edwardian or Victorian mourning dress, a shadowy veiled woman was spotted by two witnesses. The figure disappeared into a hearse, and when the witnesses checked the vehicle, it was empty.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2008-08-24
Last updated: 2008-08-24
ID: #8760
Headless Person
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - West Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1965
Further Comments: This headless shade was watched by witnesses as it drifted down the middle of the road.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-03-19
Last updated: 2005-03-19
ID: #5980
Red Globe
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Wigston district
Type: Other
Date / Time: 29 July 2002, around 18:30h
Further Comments: An eleven year old girl, Jade Greenwood, was struck on the head by a red glowing ball, most likely ball lightning. A red mark was left on her forehead, and the girl experienced an electrical shock and a burning sensation in her leg.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-03-24
Last updated: 2008-03-24
ID: #8365
Cavalier
Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Wygston House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Likely pre twentieth century
Further Comments: A ghost would appear at the window of this building once a month; one writer suggested the phantom to be an optical illusion created by the moon. Another story from the site placed a headless Cavalier here, although the figure never returned after being shot at by a visitor.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-05-29
Last updated: 2023-05-29
ID: #14965
Headless Horseman
Location: Loddington (Leicestershire) - Road on a steep hill in the area
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The horseman, holding his head under one arm, gallops at breakneck speed down the hill, with anyone who witnesses him doomed to suffer a family bereavement.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-05-29
Last updated: 2023-05-29
ID: #14959
Lough Ness Monster
Location: Loughborough (Leicestershire) - Charnwood Water
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 23 October 2017
Further Comments: A duck was seen being pulled underwater by an unidentified creature. The attacker was christened the 'Lough Ness Monster', though is most likely a pike.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2017-10-28
Last updated: 2017-10-28
ID: #12586
Victorian Lady
Location: Loughborough (Leicestershire) - Epinal Way
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 2000s, morning
Further Comments: A passenger in a car spotted a woman with large hair wearing a fancy Victorian dress. The figure disappeared seconds after first being seen.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2025-10-25
Last updated: 2025-10-25
ID: #16144
Rail Worker
Location: Loughborough (Leicestershire) - Loughborough Central Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Holding an oil lamp, this semi-transparent figure in an old railway uniform is said to lurk on platform 1.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2009-12-30
Last updated: 2009-12-30
ID: #9767
Papillon Hall (public domain).
Brocade Shoes
Location: Lubenham (Leicestershire) - Papillon Hall (demolished 1950)
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The remains of a woman found within the walls of this house were speculated to belong to the Spanish mistress of David Papillon. The woman died around 1715, but declared if anyone touched her brocade shoes, misfortune would descend. In 1903, Sir Frank Bellville removed the shoes; shortly after he fell and broke his skull. The shoes were returned to the hall, although after the building's destruction, were moved to Harborough Museum.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-03-11
Last updated: 2023-03-11
ID: #14815
Hooded Man in Black
Location: Lutterworth (Leicestershire) - Lane between village and Leicester (route may have changed)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Likely nineteenth century
Further Comments: Something unseen caused the horse pulling a carriage containing a father and daughter to freeze. The daughter climbed down from the carriage to investigate, only to see a hooded figure in black emerge from a hedge. The figure removed its hood to reveal a blank face. The ghostly figure vanished when the father called out his daughter's name - she jumped back into the carriage as the horse recovered and galloped away.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2017-05-25
Last updated: 2017-05-25
ID: #12499
John Cook
Location: Lutterworth (Leicestershire) - The Springs House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1906
Further Comments: A young maid who had just started at the house awoke to see a young man in old fashioned clothing at the foot of the bed. He vanished into thin air, and the maid was so frightened by her experience that she never stayed overnight at the house again. The phantom was named as John Cook, a former resident of the house who had been murdered fifty years previous.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2006-06-08
Last updated: 2006-06-08
ID: #6868
Headless Soldier
Location: Market Bosworth (Leicestershire) - Lanes of village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Having been decapitated in the Battle of Bosworth Field, this fighter wanders the roads and lanes looking for his missing head.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-10-30
Last updated: 2002-10-30
ID: #2966
Murdered Woman
Location: Market Harborough (Leicestershire) - Angel Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The bar in the area that once housed the stables is reputedly haunted by a woman once murdered here.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-05-05
Last updated: 2008-05-05
ID: #8484
Light
Location: Market Harborough (Leicestershire) - Brown's Salon
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2009
Further Comments: Caught on camera by the Ghost UK team, this 'orb' appeared in the building at 20:21h. Staff have reported small items vanishing without trace, while one customer spotted two people dressed in old fashioned clothing standing by a fireplace. Although it was reported that the building was once a courthouse where criminals were hanged, a local historian provided ample evidence that this was not the case.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2009-04-18
Last updated: 2009-04-18
ID: #9251
Captain
Location: Market Harborough (Leicestershire) - Harborough Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: The theatre is haunted by the spirit of a sea captain. The ghost is also said to have haunted the hotel which once stood on the site before the theatre was constructed. Though the spectre itself was not seen, a team of ghost hunters detected cold spots when they investigated the site in 2004.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-09-16
Last updated: 2004-09-16
ID: #5445
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