Examining folkloric, paranormal & cryptozoological locations in the UK and beyond
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Private residence, Birchwood estate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1982-1984
Further Comments: Two ghosts were reported as haunting this property. A tall, grey haired man would appear in the bedroom, while a blonde haired girl would manifest elsewhere.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2015-03-08
Last updated: 2015-03-08
ID: #11772
Queen Anne's Well, Lincoln Cathedral.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Queen Anne's Well, cathedral area
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Well still present
Further Comments: There are six holes in the door to the well. Legend says if you walk around the well seven times and place your finger in one, good people are rewarded with feeling the breath of the Devil on their digit, while bad people have their finger bitten off.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6993
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Skies over the city
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 16 November 1952, 01:30h
Further Comments: One witness said that she had seen a violently 'agitating' object throwing out bright yellow light. She watched the object for fifteen minutes, and from the ground it looked to be between 18 - 24 inches in length.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2026-05-16
Last updated: 2026-05-16
ID: #16555
Strugglers Inn, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Strugglers Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hungry phantom hound reported to haunt the castle walls would sometimes try to enter this inn, scratching and barking at the door.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2006-10-05
Last updated: 2006-10-05
ID: #6976
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - The Lawn public house (former hospital)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While The Lawn is currently a popular drinking venue, it was once one of the first insane asylums in the UK - former inmates are still said to reside in the building, wailing and screaming.
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Published Media
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6985
Theatre Royal, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Theatre Royal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Some people have reported feeling a gentle 'nudge' while no one else is nearby. Footsteps have been heard crossing the empty stage, and shadowy figures are glimpsed briefly before vanishing.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2006-10-05
Last updated: 2006-10-05
ID: #6973
Black Horse restaurant, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Black Horse restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s onward
Further Comments: Wearing a long dress, this phantom woman caused one cleaner to run away terrified. The ghost has also been seen standing outside the building - the witness this time described the woman as having a blurry face. The pub is also reportedly plagued by general poltergeist behaviour.
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Published Media
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6991
Browns Pie Shop, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Browns Pie Shop - restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Staff have nicknamed this young phantom lad Humphrey. He occasionally appears to run around the shop. A young girl is also said to haunt the building, as is the sound of money being counted.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2006-10-05
Last updated: 2006-10-05
ID: #6974
Castle Hill Club, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Castle Hill Club
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: This mischievous spirit is reported to pinch the bottoms of unsuspecting visitors.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2006-10-26
Last updated: 2006-10-26
ID: #7011
Cobb Hall, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Cobb Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This horrid ghost reportedly once tried to push a young child down the staircase, saved only by the quick reflexes of the father who then watched the woman disappear.
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Published Media
First added: 2002-08-07
Last updated: 2002-08-07
ID: #2049
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Coffee shop (exact location withheld)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2011
Further Comments: It was reported the presence of a young boy had been spotted close to the toilets in this coffee shop. One member of staff spotted a middle aged man in a grey suit upstairs in the cafe just as the shop was closing and empty of customers. When the member of staff went upstairs to speak to the man, he had vanished.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2014-04-27
Last updated: 2014-04-27
ID: #11527
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Cornhill Vaults public house (no longer open)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: A member of staff was left puzzled after seeing a young man with a collarless shirt walk up to the bar and vanish when she turned her back for a few seconds. The only other customer in the bar denied seeing any one else enter.
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Published Media
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6987
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Council house along Prial Avenue
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2004 - February 2010
Further Comments: Jade Callaby reported to local media that she had experienced poltergeist occurrences over a six year period, including dark shadows which appeared without source, electrical items which turned themselves on and off, and strange banging noises.
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Published Media
First added: 2010-04-02
Last updated: 2010-04-02
ID: #9819
County Assembly Rooms, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - County Assembly Rooms, Bailgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A phantom Cavalier was spotted by a member of staff near the ballroom, before vanishing into the preverbal thin air. Other staff members are reportedly too afraid to venture down into the basement after hearing strange noises.
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Published Media
First added: 2006-10-05
Last updated: 2006-10-05
ID: #6972
Edward King's House, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Edward King's House
Type: Other
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century
Further Comments: Two would-be robbers who had lured the bishop from his home in the late nineteenth century were deterred from committing the crime by a large figure they saw leave the house escorting the man of the cloth. When one of the criminals confessed his intention to the bishop many years later, the bishop was very surprised as he had been travelling by himself on that night.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6994
Exchequergate House, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Exchequergate House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The cellar of this building, formally a tourist information centre, had such a repressive feeling that staff would never go down unaccompanied. Faces have been reported looking out of the windows, even after the building has been locked up for the night.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2006-10-17
Last updated: 2006-10-17
ID: #6996
Steep Hill, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Flat area at top of Steep Hill, outside castle gate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1992 (horseman), and sometime between 2009 and 2012 (breath)
Further Comments: A night worker returning home early in the morning was unnerved as a man riding a black horse charged by him. As the rider approached the locked castle gates, he screamed 'Open the gates! Open the gates!' before vanishing near the still closed entrance. Another witness reported feeling breathing on the back of the neck, hearing strange footsteps and seeing shadows.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6982
Great Hall, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Great Hall, near Edward King's House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The woman who haunts this building may be connected to the skull which is bricked up within a wall. The skull once stood in a room, but when it was removed from the building it started to scream. The owners decided it would be for the best to brick it up in a wall to prevent future accidental removal.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6995
Green Dragon pub, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Green Dragon public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: The ghost which haunts this public house is said to be Mary Cooper, who once worked in the building prior to becoming a pub. She has been seen smoking a pipe, and is blamed when bottles are found broken, beer pumps are turned off, and for once snapping a kitchen knife in two.
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Published Media
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6990
Greestone Stairs, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Greestone Stairs
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A phantom, rolling head is reported to bounce down this steep area, bowling over anyone not quick enough to move out of the way! The area has also had reports of phantom monks and a ghostly woman holding a baby.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6981
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Home Nightclub
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2015
Further Comments: It was reported that, while alone, one member of staff spotted a blonde girl sitting on a stool. She vanished as the member of staff looked back in that direction. It is said people would hear their names being called when alone.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2016-08-06
Last updated: 2016-08-06
ID: #12219
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Jesters fancy dress shop
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Owners of the shop, Hazel Smith and her son James, and another employee reported that the building is haunted by Victorian children.
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Published Media
First added: 2008-10-12
Last updated: 2008-10-12
ID: #9015
Jew's House Restaurant, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Jew's House - restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Reports from this establishment claim the phantom footsteps can be heard on the staircase, while the top floor and attic are said to be particularly haunted. One witness reported hearing voices in the passageways and pots and pans being moved around in the empty kitchen.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6984
The Victorian Prison within Lincoln Castle.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Victorian Prison, Lincoln Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Woman unknown, footsteps in October 2003
Further Comments: This pale woman is thought to have been a former prisoner who died during her stay. Witnesses have also reported the sounds of doors slamming and keys jangling in the area. One witness heard footsteps and the rustling of a dress - when they looked around, no one could be seen.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2006-10-15
Last updated: 2006-10-15
ID: #6983
White Hart Hotel, Lincoln.
Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - White Hart Hotel, Bailgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Several spooky phenomena have been reported here, including a floating ball of light, a girl in a mop cap, the sound of a gunshot, a faceless highwayman, and food that would jump off a plate in the restaurant. A young man who took his life in the building is blamed for most of the occurrences.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-10-21
Last updated: 2002-10-21
ID: #2779