The Paranormal Database

Tall American

Location: East Kirkby - East Kirkby Watch Tower (now an aviation heritage centre)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This USAAF officer has been seen several times in the old watch tower. He is thought to have been killed when a Flying Fortress crash landed near the site in 1944. The same figure is thought to have been seen on the runway - dragging his parachute behind him, he slowly moves towards the control tower.

Steam Locomotive

Location: Elsham - Ancholme Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Foggy weather
Further Comments: Said to reappear in the same spot since an accident in the 1920s which killed four people, this large steam locomotive gently glows in its foggy environment.

Morse Code

Location: Elsham Wold - Former RAF base and flight tower (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s / 1950s
Further Comments: A family living in the tower after the war reported hearing Morse messages being tapped out, seeing pilots dressed in flying gear, and even once watching a large aeroplane taking off from the disused runway, baring the code letters PM.

Jeffrey

Location: Epworth - Epworth Rectory
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: December 1716 - January 1717
Further Comments: This building experienced phantom groaning, knocking, and invisible hands that pushed people around. Unlike most poltergeist cases, the entity also manifested in the form of a white figure and a headless badger. The presence left without warning.

Wife

Location: Epworth - Unidentified farmhouse
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1906
Further Comments: After the farmer's wife died, her former home was subject to strange noises. Furnishings would be disturbed and a figure in white was spotted on the staircase. The haunting ceased after a rector offered prayers on the site.

Pale Rider

Location: Fillingham - Fillingham Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Passing through the castle park, a tall man riding a white horse has been seen. The castle itself is home to a green lady who is said to have committed suicide after her lover ran away.

Voices

Location: Fiskerton - Former RAF Fiskerton control tower (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Post-Second World War
Further Comments: Left empty a few years after the war, locals reported still hearing voices coming from the control tower. Figures in RAF uniform were also reported in the area, as were men dressed in aircrew gear. An inter-denominational prayer team visited the site in 2006, and no reports of haunting activity has been reported since.

Small Bear

Location: Fiskerton - General area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This displaced animal was seen by several witnesses in different places, all within the same evening.

Black Dog

Location: Freiston - Area around the church
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom hound is thought to relate to a murder which once took place close to the church, although further details are fleeting.

The Spittal Hill Tut

Location: Freiston - Spittal Hill Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: Nicknamed the Spittal Hill Tut, this ghostly entity would take the form of a small horse. The entity grabbed one man passing through the area on horseback, almost crushing him to death. Some believed the Tut existed to protect some treasure concealed beneath the hill.

Woman in Black Dress

Location: Friskney - A52 road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 1990s, October, early morning
Further Comments: A family of three travelling by car passed a woman wearing a Victorian-style dress walking along the roadside. She had long curly hair under a hat, and a face which glowed green. The car turned and drove passed her a second time before turning off the A52 and taking a different route.

Bigfoot

Location: Friskney - Friskney Nature Reserve
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 2014
Further Comments: After hearing of hairy hominid sightings in this area, the British Bigfoot Research Organisation visited the reserve and took a photograph which they later discovered showed a shadowy figure standing behind a tree.

King Sweyne

Location: Gainsborough - Gainsborough Old Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former castle on the site was attacked by a force from Denmark - the sound of their leader dying can still be heard today. Another ghost, the shadowy form of a lady, has been seen passing through walls on the site.

Disputed

Location: Gainsborough - Glentworth Hall
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Mid-twentieth century
Further Comments: Owner of the hall Frank Arden spoke to reporters and denied the site to be haunted after locals claimed to have experienced poltergeist activity at the hall.

Great Ball of Fire

Location: Girsby - Road close to Girsby Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1780s?
Further Comments: A serving boy at the hall was approached by a gang of men who told him that if he did not let them into the hall to rob it, they would kill him. Being dutiful to the last, he informed the owners who captured the gang as they entered. Even so, the boy later turned up dead, having been skinned alive, and his ghost manifested as a large, screaming ball of fire along the road where his body was discovered.

White Lady

Location: Grantham - Angel & Royal Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Drifting down the corridors of the upper regions of the building, this figure may be responsible for the poltergeist like actions in one of the bedrooms.

Man in Black

Location: Grantham - Belton House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (man in black), circa 1930s (woman)
Further Comments: Another location that made it into the National Trust's top ten haunted locations in 2007, the Queen's Bedroom within Belton House is said to be haunted by a tall man dressed in black. A former chambermaid witnessed a female phantom descending the staircase and thought the entity to be Lady Sarah Cust, although other staff named the ghost as Lady Alice Sherard. Postmortem, Lady Alice became known as the Bright Lady and would appear in the main hallway.

Tiny Harris

Location: Grantham - Old RAF Spitalgate, now Royal Corps of Transport base?
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1970s onwards
Further Comments: Joe 'Tiny' Harris, a former telephone operator during the Second World War, has been seen standing in the shadows, heard walking down corridors, and is blamed for flicking lights on and off.

Man on Stairs

Location: Grantham - Private residence close to A607
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid / late twentieth century
Further Comments: After observing the ghostly figure of a man drifting down the staircase, the witness identified the figure as his wife's great grandfather from an old family photograph.

Huge Shape

Location: Grantham - Skies over the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Circa 1980/1981
Further Comments: A family driving home spotted a huge object in the sky, so large that it appeared to blot out the sky as it moved slowly across. When the family arrived home, one phoned the local radio station to report it and was told 'many' others had also reported it, and that the RAF had told the station that it was a crashing Russian spy satellite.

Hairy Jack

Location: Grayingham - Area around the church
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1870s
Further Comments: This large black dog was said to have a particularly shaggy coat.

Coffin Mover

Location: Greatford - Church vaults
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1867
Further Comments: A poltergeist was blamed for moving coffins in the vaults of this church.

Steam Train

Location: Grimoldby - Old railway line by the level crossing
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 28 November 1961, 23:15h
Further Comments: Walking back to the nearby RAF base after visiting the chip shop, this witness watched a steam engine pulling a coal waggon and three coaches pass by the crossing. The train was silent and in total darkness, moving at speed, with the only light being a dim glow from the fire on the footplate. When the witness mentioned the train back at the base, they were told they must have been dreaming, as the track had been pulled up. When the witness visited the site the following morning, they realised that the track was indeed gone.

Coach

Location: Grimsby - Abbey (demolished 1967)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The site was said to be haunted by a phantom coach and horses that were heard coming to a halt on the gravel driveway but were never seen.

Chimney Ghost

Location: Grimsby - Choof Cottage (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth Century
Further Comments: This spirit was far from friendly; it whispered to locals to kill their loved ones and was blamed for an accident in the cottage that resulted in several deaths.