Examining folkloric, paranormal & cryptozoological locations in the UK and beyond
Location: Hibaldstow (Lincolnshire) - Jenny Stanny Well (current condition not known)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Jenny Stannywell drowned in the waters of this well and now wanders the area holding her head under her arm.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2017-06-29
Last updated: 2017-06-29
ID: #12541
Location: Holbeach (Lincolnshire) - All Saint's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A small gambling party of men were caught by Satan playing cards in the churchyard. The four shades now glimpsed in the porch of the church remain a warning to any who dare do the same. The ghost of Sir Humphrey Littlebury also haunts the building.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-29
Last updated: 2002-10-29
ID: #2950
Location: Humberston (Lincolnshire) - Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Built on the site of a nunnery, this house developed a reputation for being haunted by a nun killed for breaking her vows. Loud bangs would wake the family up at night, and a strange light would float along the ceiling in one of the bedrooms.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-10-19
Last updated: 2002-10-19
ID: #2747
Location: Isle of Axholme (aka Isle of Axholm) (Lincolnshire) - Thornholmes Farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: This phantom, said to wear a black silken gown, had an unknown connection to a religious building that stood here before construction of the farm.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2009-05-03
Last updated: 2009-05-03
ID: #9318
Location: Keadby (Lincolnshire) - Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Two people walking close to the bridge spotted a man standing upon it, although the figure vanished 'in the blink of an eye'. The witnesses described the man as six foot tall and wearing a beige raincoat and hat.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2010-04-03
Last updated: 2010-04-03
ID: #9825
Location: Kelstern (Lincolnshire) - Road leading to the former RAF Kelstern
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1983
Further Comments: The man dressed in an old RAF uniform tries to hitch a lift to the now ruined airbase. There are also reports of the sounds of an old aircraft in the skies and along the former runways.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-12-01
Last updated: 2004-12-01
ID: #5676
Location: Kelvedon Hatch (Lincolnshire) - Secret Nuclear Bunker
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2010s?
Further Comments: This former nuclear bunker is said to be home to a poltergeist. An unconvincing photograph taken in 2013 showed either a 'portal' or the reflection of flash off a window.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2016-03-12
Last updated: 2016-03-12
ID: #12044
Location: Kirton (Lincolnshire) - Belle Hole Farm, and nearby stream
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1930s
Further Comments: A shuck is said to have set up home in a hole in the stream bank near this farmhouse. The farmer's wife reported seeing the creature enter the kitchen - she dared not move until the shuck left on its own accord.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-06-19
Last updated: 2002-06-19
ID: #1332
Location: Kirton (Lincolnshire) - Old King's Head
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This public house is reputed to be haunted by a Victorian woman, spotted at the top of the staircase. One version of the story says she may be responsible for pushing people as they descend.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2016-09-24
Last updated: 2016-09-24
ID: #12281
Location: Kirton in Lindsey (Lincolnshire) - Field known as Bob-garth
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghostly woman who drowned nearby was a resident at Moat House and would periodically appear in the area.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-10-28
Last updated: 2023-10-28
ID: #15154
Location: Kirton in Lindsey (Lincolnshire) - Former RAF base
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Post-Second World War (screaming), pilot spotted 1990-1995
Further Comments: The phantom screams of pain are thought to date from an air raid which killed many French pilots. One of these men has also been observed lurking by an old hangar and may have been spotted during the early 1990s by two witnesses in the clubhouse.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2004-12-01
Last updated: 2004-12-01
ID: #5678
Location: Kirton in Lindsey (Lincolnshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Some point between 1842 - 1847
Further Comments: Someone (apparently) encountered a large, shaggy, donkey-like entity in this area.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2017-07-01
Last updated: 2017-07-01
ID: #12553
Location: Kirton in Lindsey (Lincolnshire) - Road between Kirton and Grayingham
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: A man named Copeman murdered along the road may still haunt the area on horseback. Two men cycling back from Kirton spotted the ghostly horseman.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2009-05-03
Last updated: 2009-05-03
ID: #9313
Location: Kirton in Lindsey (Lincolnshire) - Unnamed grass field
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (!)
Further Comments: An old folk tale says that a field in this area is haunted and that the ghost is always visible.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2017-06-29
Last updated: 2017-06-29
ID: #12544
Location: Knaith (Lincolnshire) - Area around cottage, no longer standing
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A story here tells of a shuck that possessed the face of a woman, or sometimes a woman who had the face of a dog. The hound would emerge from the hills close to where the lady lived. The entity is thought to have once been a normal woman who underwent the transformation after being murdered.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-06-19
Last updated: 2002-06-19
ID: #1329
Location: Laughton (8 miles south of Scunthorpe) (Lincolnshire) - All Saint's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Mysterious footsteps, belonging to a small group of ghostly people, have been heard coming down the staircase in the church tower. A builder repairing the tower refused to work alone after twice encountering the footfalls.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-03-19
Last updated: 2005-03-19
ID: #5956
Location: Leverton (Lincolnshire) - Road between village and Wrangle
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Early twentieth century or December 2002
Further Comments: An early twentieth century witness reported seeing this creature several times over the years, always when cycling at night between the two villages. A more recent witness heard howling and spotted two red eyes - after the witness's uncle died a short time later, they believed what they had encountered had been a shuck.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2004-08-21
Last updated: 2004-08-21
ID: #5331
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Jolly Brewer public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Members of staff have reported hearing a voice which calls them by name, but they can never find who or what is responsible.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6988
Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Lincoln Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 05 December 2004
Further Comments: This seventeenth century holy man has been seen climbing the steps at the front of the cathedral. The last witnesses to see him reported a chain hanging from his neck. The bells have also been peeled by an unseen hand, while legend says a procession of praying monks haunt the cloisters.
A suicidal woman named Constance who jumped from the tower during the 1960s returns to re-enact her final, desperate action.
Finally, an immovable bloodstain is said to remain on the floor where a stained glass window master landed after leaping from the gallery - he became depressed after his apprentice created a superior window from the master's off-cuts.
Source:
Historical Record, User Submission
First added: 2003-03-13
Last updated: 2003-03-13
ID: #3989
The Lincoln Imp in the Lincoln Cathedral.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Lincoln Cathedral
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This little creature created chaos in the cathedral, until a passing angel transformed him to stone. He now sits high up within the cathedral.
Source:
Historical Record, User Submission
First added: 2002-10-29
Last updated: 2002-10-29
ID: #2951
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Lincoln City Football Club
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001-2004, & November 2009
Further Comments: In 2009 the Shadow Seekers Paranormal Investigation Team reported recording disembodied voices in the football ground, with most activity recorded at 'the dugout'. A former worker had claimed a few years prior to this they had spotted a shadow walk across the pitch and felt a presence in the director's room, which was described as 'playful'.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2010-06-20
Last updated: 2010-06-20
ID: #9924
Lion and Snake pub, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Lion and Snake public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: This pub claims to have at least two ghosts. One takes the form of an old woman with her grey hair tied up in a bun - she is said to look completely solid and has been mistaken for a real person on one occasion. Another entity takes the form of a scruffy man and has been observed vanishing through a solid wall.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6986
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Newport Arch
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa October 1877
Further Comments: While being chased by a mob, Spring Heeled Jack jumped on to the arch where he was shot by one of his pursuers. The bullet had no effect, and Jack vanished into the night.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2020-04-21
Last updated: 2020-04-21
ID: #13675
Observatory Tower in the Lincoln Castle.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Observatory Tower, Lincoln Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2004
Further Comments: A family reported a strange cold feeling coming over them as they climbed this tower, and a photograph they took of the building revealed a strange figure. Several years previous, another pair of witnesses reported seeing two figures in front of them who vanished when they reached the top of the staircase.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-05-03
Last updated: 2004-05-03
ID: #5125
The external wall of Lincoln Castle.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Outside Lincoln Castle walls
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This malnourished hound, once owned by a criminal hanged nearby, spent the rest of its life as a minor celebrity and now is occasionally spotted lurking around the castle walls.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2006-10-05
Last updated: 2006-10-05
ID: #6975