Merseyside Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana
Old Man
Location: Liverpool - Royal Philharmonic Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little is known about this shade that is sometimes seen drifting around the building.
First added: 2003-05-31 | Last updated: 2003-05-31 | ID #4274
Former Slaves
Location: Liverpool - Royal Southern Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Once held in cells on the site where the hospital was later constructed, many of the slaves still haunt this area.
First added: 2003-10-26 | Last updated: 2003-10-26 | ID #4727
Edinburgh
Location: Liverpool - Skies above town
Type: Other
Date / Time: 27 September 1846
Further Comments: A white city appeared for a short time over Liverpool - it was thought to be a mirage of Edinburgh, though no one could identify any of the buildings.
First added: 2003-01-23 | Last updated: 2003-01-23 | ID #3689
Mile Long Craft
Location: Liverpool - Skies over Anfield
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 25 July 2007
Further Comments: Lee Jones, his wife and her mother watched a huge saucer shaped craft hovering in the sky, clouds occasionally covering the object. A passenger jet that passed near the craft enabled Jones to estimate the ufo was about a mile long. Other witnesses reported seeing the craft throughout June and earlier in the year.
First added: 2007-09-23 | Last updated: 2007-09-23 | ID #7974
Cellar Dwellers
Location: Liverpool - Slaughterhouse public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: Liverpool's oldest pub, the Slaughterhouse is reported to be haunted by a couple of shades who tend to enjoy lurking in the basement and making fleeting appearances in the bar.
First added: 2004-05-03 | Last updated: 2004-05-03 | ID #5121
Mary Norris
Location: Liverpool - Speke Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mary unknown, hunting dogs in 2007
Further Comments: Rather than face up to her husband's massive debts, Mary is said to have killed her son before taking her own life. Mary is said once to have manifested during a dinner party, most guests watching her disappear through a wall. Other people have reported the sounds of children crying during the night. A night fisherman at the pond heard a voice ask, 'have you caught anything yet?', but upon turning around, he could not see anyone nearby. Finally, two witnesses out walking after dusk in 2007 could hear the sound from a pack of hunting dogs emerging from dark woodland but were unable to spot the source. A modern myth appears to place a werewolf on the site.
First added: 2002-10-03 | Last updated: 2021-08-22 | ID #2522
Tablecloth
Location: Liverpool - Springwood Avenue, close to Allerton Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa September 1979
Further Comments: Two teenagers jogging along the avenue heard what they thought sounded like a horse a short distance behind. Turning to have a look, they observed what appeared to be a tablecloth and a horse's body without a head running along. Frightened, the pair ran faster and when they turned again, the entity had gone.
First added: 2018-12-27 | Last updated: 2018-12-27 | ID #13063
Green Globe
Location: Liverpool - St James Cemetery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 10 May 2021, around midnight
Further Comments: At least one witness spotted a strange green globe within the cemetery. Ghosts reported in the area including a limping man in Victorian attire and a woman in black. One piece of local folklore says the water from a natural spring in the cemetery turns black if boiled (although the Liverpool Echo debunked the claim in 2017).
First added: 2021-05-27 | Last updated: 2025-01-25 | ID #14209
Cloaked Figure
Location: Liverpool - Old Rectory, Walton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 1985
Further Comments: A firefighter tackling a blaze in the former rectory believed he spotted a figure standing by the engine, although no one was there at the time. The building had a reputation as being haunted by the ghost of a cloaked figure.
First added: 2023-10-03 | Last updated: 2023-10-03 | ID #15086
Screaming Woman
Location: Liverpool - Private flat, West Derby
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1994
Further Comments: Two students sought help from a medium after enduring a phantom woman in her fifties who would scream during the night and call out the name 'Shelley Jones'. On one occasion the students returned to find the message 'get out' written out on the floor using their socks.
First added: 2023-05-01 | Last updated: 2023-05-01 | ID #14875
Upstairs Bangs
Location: Liverpool - Private house along Sackville Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: The upper part of the building was subjected to multiple bangs and crashes with no apparent source - the entity was also blamed for pushing a woman down the stairs, causing injuries that required hospital treatment.
First added: 2003-10-25 | Last updated: 2003-10-25 | ID #4696
Thrown Sisters
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Anfield area
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1970s - 1980s
Further Comments: A four-bedroom house became home to a prolonged poltergeist occurrence which threw two sisters from their beds and moved upstairs furniture when the family were all downstairs. On one occasion, the eldest sister was locked in the bathroom and engulfed by the shower curtain. Animals refused to go to the upper part of the building.
First added: 2025-08-25 | Last updated: 2025-08-25 | ID #16036
Young Boy
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Breeze Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000
Further Comments: A photograph taken by the family here showed a smiling young lad, around fourteen years of age, standing behind the sofa. On a different occasion, the father of the family asked the phantom to make him a cup of tea, after mistaking the entity as one of his sons.
First added: 2012-07-20 | Last updated: 2012-07-20 | ID #11010
George?
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Breeze Hill, Walton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A former slave named George may have been responsible for this haunting, during which one man was slapped in the face as he lay in bed. Another person who rented the property left in tears, claiming he had been chased out by some form of angry spirit.
First added: 2012-01-01 | Last updated: 2012-01-01 | ID #10660
Ticking
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Calgarth Road, Huyton
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: July 1977
Further Comments: A couple left their home after a ticking started in their home. Clocks were stopped and removed, yet the sound continued and would move around the property, sometimes coming from the walls. An exorcism did not help, and after the ceremony, a coffee table was found upturned and pictures removed from the walls.
First added: 2026-04-05 | Last updated: 2026-04-05 | ID #16511
Moving Ornaments
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Clubmoor
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1979 - 1984
Further Comments: A family moved out of their property after enduring many strange events, including lights which switched themselves on and off, doors that opened unaided, and ornaments that moved by an unseen hand. A local press story claimed a vicar and housing officials also witnessed paranormal activity.
First added: 2023-03-11 | Last updated: 2023-03-11 | ID #14813
Thrower
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Conleach Road
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: July 1985
Further Comments: It was claimed that a poltergeist which started throwing items around in this property was witnessed by both occupants and police.
First added: 2019-11-04 | Last updated: 2019-11-04 | ID #13397
Encyclopaedia Moving
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Hale Road, Speke
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1982-1986
Further Comments: An outbreak of poltergeist tricks occurred in this property, including a set of twenty encyclopaedias moving from a chest of drawers to a table, a toilet flushing itself and bangs and knocks. Shadows of people would also appear on the walls of the living room.
First added: 2011-06-26 | Last updated: 2011-06-26 | ID #10489
Rapping
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Halewood Road, Gateacre
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: The entity in this home could be heard rapping and occasionally tossed items around. The activity ceased after one occupant shouted 'go to hell' after small objects were thrown at him.
First added: 2025-04-10 | Last updated: 2025-04-10 | ID #15859
Floating Shadow
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Holt Street
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 1956
Further Comments: A mother of two awoke in the early hours of the morning to see a shadow glide past her bed and move towards her daughter's room. As it moved, the entity turned its head to the woman, as if watching her. It vanished through the wall to the child's room. The woman was convinced that the shadow was a message that one of her children would die, and within a week, her daughter passed away.
First added: 2018-12-27 | Last updated: 2018-12-27 | ID #13064
Smoker
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Huyton area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: Lights would turn themselves on and the smell of tobacco would fill the air. One visitor to the site reported seeing a black figure pass a bedroom door. The haunting was blamed on a former chain-smoking occupant who had died prior to the new owners moving in.
First added: 2018-12-29 | Last updated: 2018-12-29 | ID #13078
Tall Woman
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Norris Green
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1971
Further Comments: Despite living in their home undisturbed for 32 years, the Morgan family moved away after experiencing a poltergeist outbreak which tapped on their bedside table, flicked lights on and off, and held both occupants down on their bed. On one occasion, Mr Morgan watched a tall ghostly woman wearing a poke bonnet manifest; Mr Morgan fled the room. Although the family moved to Runcorn, the entity followed them.
First added: 2025-04-26 | Last updated: 2025-04-26 | ID #15884
Pushing
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Old Swan area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: A property here was said to contain something that would try to push occupants down the stairs and generate a bad smell.
First added: 2017-04-08 | Last updated: 2017-04-08 | ID #12358
Bouncing Ball
Location: Liverpool - Private residence, Old Swan area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Over a three year period, the five occupants of this detected house would hear a bouncing ball the source of which could never be discovered. The bouncing was originally heard coming from the attic but eventually spread to the entire house and would occasionally wake the occupants late at night.
First added: 2021-05-03 | Last updated: 2021-05-03 | ID #14092
Cloudy Woman
Location: Liverpool - The Grange Hotel, Aigburth (no longer operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: March 2002. October 2005
Further Comments: While staying at this hotel, one man twice spotted a cloudy shape in the form of a woman, although her features were hard to define. Both times the entity walked past the man and disappeared into a wall.
First added: 2010-08-26 | Last updated: 2010-08-26 | ID #10014
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