Merseyside Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana
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Location: Birkenhead - 1960s office block on the former Cammell Laird shipyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A paranormal investigation group was called into this building after staff reported certain areas as always being cold, and fleeting shapes could be spotted out of the corner of one's eyes.
First added: 2005-06-07 | Last updated: 2005-06-07 | ID #6298
Maid
Location: Birkenhead - Area of former Birkenhead Hall (no longer standing), Pouton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pretty maid was murdered by her jealous mistress, who was convinced the maid was having an affair with the master of the hall. It was not the case, and the little maid now haunts the former grounds. The phantom has taken to being mistaken for a hitchhiker along the nearby road.
First added: 2002-12-07 | Last updated: 2002-12-07 | ID #3276
Face at the Windows
Location: Birkenhead - Car park on the corner of Argyle Street and Canning Street opposite the Cheshire Lines building
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: This phantom is said to peer into windows of stationary vehicles in this car park. On the site once stood a factory, reputedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who hanged herself there.
First added: 2007-04-01 | Last updated: 2007-04-01 | ID #7156
Little Old Lady
Location: Birkenhead - Former Cammell Laird site
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: Lights turn themselves on and off, doors open and close, and a handful of staff have reported seeing a strange old lady walking around the site. Men in boiler suits have been watched walking past windows only to vanish shortly after.
First added: 2005-01-02 | Last updated: 2005-01-02 | ID #5746
Woman
Location: Birkenhead - Private residence close to the A552
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre 2017
Further Comments: Prior to renovation, a ghostly woman would be seen in the house.
First added: 2017-05-11 | Last updated: 2021-11-18 | ID #12463
Edwardian Woman
Location: Birkenhead - Private residence near Borough Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2008 - 2012
Further Comments: A witness reported repeatedly seeing a woman wearing Edwardian clothing in their home, although the encounters were not fearful.
First added: 2025-10-18 | Last updated: 2025-10-18 | ID #16128
Edwardians
Location: Birkenhead - Private residence off A552
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2008-2014
Further Comments: Dressed in Edwardian attire, a man and woman were seen in one top floor bedroom. Both seemed to be gentle with no hint of malice, and interacted with children in the house. Other people in Edwardian clothing would be seen out of the corner of the eye on the top floor.
First added: 2024-11-09 | Last updated: 2024-11-09 | ID #15694
Older Lady
Location: Birkenhead - Woodchurch Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1905
Further Comments: Dressed in black and wearing a bonnet, an older lady would be briefly seen along this road before suddenly vanishing. A newspaper reported cyclists had to break sharply to avoid hitting her. Other witnesses spotted a small ball of fire which quickly disappeared.
First added: 2020-05-19 | Last updated: 2020-05-19 | ID #13783
John Bibby
Location: Bootle - Peel Road / Bibby's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Seen once a year, Bibby rides his coach with his decapitated head in his lap.
First added: 2003-08-09 | Last updated: 2003-08-09 | ID #4455
Grey Lady
Location: Ince Blundell - A565 through Ince Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, but said to be at midnight on an unstated date
Further Comments: This phantom woman will manifest close to a round house, in front of oncoming traffic and causing vehicles to crash. It is unclear whether the ghost is a continuation of the haunting along Park Wall Road.
First added: 2024-07-07 | Last updated: 2024-07-07 | ID #15463
Grey Lady
Location: Ince Blundell - White cross along Park Wall Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Possibly also known as the Pink Lady, this woman had an affair with a local landowner and took her own life when she fell pregnant.
First added: 2024-07-07 | Last updated: 2024-07-07 | ID #15462
Giant
Location: Knowsley - Unnamed village near Knowsley?
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: July 1925
Further Comments: A figure standing eight feet tall with a black beard and a scowling face would appear at night and declare, 'I am the ghost of the giant of Hale!' before disappearing.
First added: 2026-05-16 | Last updated: 2026-05-16 | ID #16554
Pacing
Location: Liverpool - 44 Penny Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Friday, Saturday & Monday nights (reoccurring), 1970s
Further Comments: It was reported in the local press during the 1970s that footsteps could be heard within this building coming from empty rooms, although a former worker at the site said that the story was a publicity stunt.
First added: 2002-07-14 | Last updated: 2002-07-14 | ID #1723
Old Woman
Location: Liverpool - 82 Wimborne Road, Huyton (house no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1958
Further Comments: A family living here were terrified by a phantom old lady who stood five-foot tall, bent over with a walking stick. Her face was little more than a shrivelled skull. Builders working close to the site quit once they heard an exorcism had taken place. The house has since been demolished.
First added: 2005-06-09 | Last updated: 2005-06-09 | ID #6344
Small Woman
Location: Liverpool - 9 and 11 South Hunter Street (houses demolished in early 1960s)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1953
Further Comments: Seen by a mother and daughter on separate occasions, this phantom was described as a small woman wearing a lace cap and soft shawl. She was semi-transparent and vanished when approached.
First added: 2009-12-29 | Last updated: 2009-12-29 | ID #9759
George
Location: Liverpool - Adelphi Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: George has been seen several times standing by beds on the fifth floor.
First added: 2002-06-26 | Last updated: 2002-06-26 | ID #1499
Glowing Ball
Location: Liverpool - Allerton Hall, Clarke's Gardens
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2014
Further Comments: The hall is reputedly haunted by former residents and ghost hunts on the site have turned up flashes of light and sightings of glowing balls. An 'orb' caught on camera featured in the press in 2014.
First added: 2022-09-12 | Last updated: 2022-09-12 | ID #14609
The Sarge
Location: Liverpool - Ambulance training centre, Quarry Street, Woolton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: For many years the building was reputedly haunted by an entity known as 'The Sarge' - a former policeman killed when the wheel of his patrol wagon struck a bollard and he was thrown to the ground. Ambulance crews reported phantom footsteps, breaking windows and doors which unlocked and opened themselves.
First added: 2005-03-19 | Last updated: 2005-03-19 | ID #5987
Flag Waver
Location: Liverpool - Area around former Otterspool rail station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Before closing in 1951, a teenager was saved by a man from being hit by a train, although the rescuer was killed in the process. He is said to wave a red warning flag in the area.
First added: 2011-05-08 | Last updated: 2011-05-08 | ID #10457
Smells and Shadows
Location: Liverpool - Battle of the Atlantic Bunker
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-2020
Further Comments: A visitor to the site could smell perfume where a Wren had fallen to her death, spotted strange shadows, and experienced the sensation of being followed. When the witness returned years later, the location had changed and they experienced nothing untoward, although stories tell of figures in naval uniform who walk through walls.
First added: 2025-11-29 | Last updated: 2025-11-29 | ID #16190
Time Slip
Location: Liverpool - Bold Street
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1999
Further Comments: On various dates, several people (including an off duty policeman) have reported slipping back in time along this road, finding them surrounded by people dressed in clothing of the 1940s, with a cobbled street and old style shops.
First added: 2005-04-13 | Last updated: 2005-04-13 | ID #6185
Spookside
Location: Liverpool - Brookside Close
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: March 2008
Further Comments: It was reported in the local press that the cast of 'The Close', a low budget British horror film being filmed at the former soap opera site, regarded the set as haunted. Lights would flicker out at inopportune moments, items would disappear, and the final scene of the film was constantly cancelled as bad weather would come from nowhere.
First added: 2008-04-01 | Last updated: 2008-04-01 | ID #8380
George
Location: Liverpool - Coach and Horses public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former landlord, George still returns to keep a watchful eye on his former establishment.
First added: 2003-05-31 | Last updated: 2003-05-31 | ID #4273
Earl of Sefton
Location: Liverpool - Croxteth Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century, camera in April 2009, most recently July 2013
Further Comments: The Sixth Earl of Sefton has been sighted walking through the tearoom and in his former bedroom. An incorporeal young boy was once seen standing by the fireplace in the dining room, while other strange shadows have been reported drifting down various corridors. Footage from a CCTV camera in April 2009 reputedly shows a phantom figure moving across the grounds, though the image is more likely to be a close-up of an insect. Two people exploring the basement in 2013 encountered a short hideous figure in a cloak, before later spotting the figure on the staircase where he vanished.
First added: 2004-06-20 | Last updated: 2004-06-20 | ID #5199
Gin Runner
Location: Liverpool - David Lewis Northern Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Beaten to death nearby by Customs officers who caught the man trying to bring his illicit goods ashore, the ghost of the smuggler has been reported in the hospital that was built close to the site of his murder.
First added: 2003-10-26 | Last updated: 2003-10-26 | ID #4726
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