The Paranormal Database

Ffolkes Arms, Hillington.

Nanny

Location: Hillington - Ffolkes Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pub is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a young nanny who leapt to her death from one of the attic bedrooms during the late nineteenth century.

White Lady

Location: Hockwold cum Wilton - Hockwold Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The gates to this hall are reportedly haunted by a white lady who has unnerved several drivers through the village.

Lady Mary

Location: Holkham - Holkham Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century?
Further Comments: Lady Anne Glenconner told a local newspaper that Lady Mary haunted the site and would make Glenconner's sister cry. The phantom lady would also open locked doors and be heard moving around in the cellar and the attic.

Priest with his Throat Cut

Location: Holme Hale - Bury's Hall, Green Room & grounds
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Murdered by Cromwell's soldiers, a priest is said to walk the grounds, his throat slit. A girl has also been reported in the area.

Priest with Young Girl

Location: Holme Hale - Hall's Green Room
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Easter (Reoccurring)
Further Comments: Once frequently seen in and around the Green Room, a priest and a girl are supposed to haunt the building. The priest is believed to have been killed on Good Friday by Cromwellian soldiers; hence the sightings tend to occur around the Easter period.

Sounds of Fighting

Location: Holme Hale - High Street, near the public house
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A couple of witnesses reported hearing horses and fighting which moved through the village street and over a field in the early hours of the morning.

Frail Shadowy Form of a Girl

Location: Horning - Ferry Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1500s onwards, seen once every 20 years?
Further Comments: Raped and murdered by a group of monks, the twenty five year old girl in the green dress has been observed gliding through the bar of the inn, disappearing into the river outside. She has also been seen along the riverbank close to the abbey.

An old postcard of Horning village in Norfolk.

Morphing Village

Location: Horning - General area
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 21 July, every five years (next in 2021) (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Once every five years the village is said to revert to how it looked several hundred years ago.

Children's Paradise

Location: Horsey - Horsey Mere
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 13 June, around midnight (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Said to be the burial place of maybe thousands of children from the days of the Romans, they are said to return once a year to play for a couple of hours.

Highwayman

Location: Horsford - Holt Road, north of village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June / July over several years in 2000s
Further Comments: A phantom highwayman with his cloak thrown over one shoulder is reputed to haunt this road. The figure disappears as any witness approaches.

Church Cat

Location: Horsham St Faith - Church
Type: ABC
Date / Time: April 1996
Further Comments: A large cat was observed by the church, standing around 25 meters from the witness.

Coach

Location: Horstead - Meyton bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 19 May (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A ghostly coach and four passes over this bridge once a year. It is said to be driven by a headless Sir Thomas Boleyn and is one of eleven (or twelve) bridges that he passes over on the night of his daughter Anne's execution.

The 19:45 to King's Lynn

Location: Hunstanton - Disused rail track between Hunstanton and King's Lynn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This train crashed in August 1863, killing six people. Even though the line was removed from service during the 1960s, people still reported a phantom locomotive travelling along for several years after.

Golden Lion Hotel, Hunstanton, Norfolk.

Young Girl with Ringlets

Location: Hunstanton - Golden Lion Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 29 July 2005
Further Comments: A female guest at the hotel claimed to have woken up during the night to see a young girl with soft ringlets, wearing a blue and white dress in an 'old fashion style'. She appeared at the end of the witness's bed before skipping over to a wardrobe in the corner of the room.

Walking Stone Knights

Location: Ingham - Trinitarian Priory
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 01 August or 02 August (reoccurring) - stone knights, dancing monks unknown
Further Comments: Chas Sampson wrote that the two stone knights in the church are said to wake once a year and go for a walk to the water's edge. Here they fight an Asian soldier in uniform, before walking back. Other stories claim that phantom dancing monks can occasionally be seen in the area.

Rector of Ingoldisthorpe?

Location: Ingoldisthorpe - The Drift
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1961, & 01 July 2013 11:30h
Further Comments: A young male witnessed a floating glowing lantern down the bottom of The Drift while walking a dog. The dog stopped dead in his tracks and refused to go any further. The witness's family found a document online which claimed the exact same thing was last seen there in 1961, and it is believed to be the apparition of the Victorian Rector of Ingoldisthorpe who suspected his wife of not being honourable.

Cold Spot

Location: King's Lynn - Private residence, close to the docks
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: March - June 2002
Further Comments: Perhaps attached to a visitor who briefly stayed at this house, the site was subjected to several poltergeist-like incidents. These included a cold spot, bangs and doors opening unaided. A shadowy figure was seen in the kitchen, briefly mistaken for a real person before it faded away.

Lady in Black

Location: King's Lynn - Private residence, Seabank area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970 - 1976
Further Comments: A former occupant of this home reported hearing disembodied footsteps walking up and down the staircase at night. Doors and windows would also bang shut. On one occasion the witness awoke to see a woman in black and dark grey. It was said that an exorcism was performed on the site prior to the family moving in.

King's Lynn Public Library.

Monk

Location: King's Lynn - Public Library
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This figure is reported to haunt the basement of the building, once a monastery. At one time, staff were apparently too scared to enter the area by themselves.

King's Lynn Quay, Norfolk.

The Bride

Location: King's Lynn - Purfleet Quay
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This woman killed herself the day after being wed - her ghost loiters around the Purfleet area before screaming and throwing itself into the quay waters. Other screams, belonging to fighting soldiers, can also be heard in the area, during which the water runs red with blood.

The Exorcist's House, King's Lynn, Norfolk.

Mrs Buckley

Location: King's Lynn - The Exorcist's House
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The ghost of a former occupant of this old house was seen briefly by the two daughters of the man who had just purchased the property.

The Globe Hotel, King's Lynn.

The Chill

Location: King's Lynn - The Globe Hotel, Tuesday Market Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rather than a building design flaw, this 'chill' has been blamed on the spirit of a man once murdered in the stables, a site now incorporated inside the building.

Tudor Rose Hotel, King's Lynn.

Small Lady

Location: King's Lynn - The Tudor Rose Hotel, 11 Nicholas Street
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Shortly after a wedding, the bride was stabbed to death by her new husband in the hotel. Since then, a short woman in a long white dress has been spotted and phantom footsteps heard.

Lantern Carrier

Location: King's Lynn - The Walks (Park)
Type: Other
Date / Time: August 1875
Further Comments: This figure walking around carrying an unlit lantern caused a witness to report his encounter to the police. Locals armed with clubs and stones attempted to hunt the ghost, which was soon discovered to be a scientist looking for moths.

Thoresby College, King's Lynn.

Mover

Location: King's Lynn - Thoresby College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: At least one cleaner has reported that small items vanish, only to reappear in different places around the building.