The Paranormal Database

Quite a Few

Location: King's Lynn - True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: This building is said to be haunted by a few dozen ghosts, although no sightings appear to predate the year 2000. The building's ghosts featured in several news publications in September 2021 after a ghost hunter's motion-activated music box was left on the site, causing museum staff some concern.

Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn.

King's Lynn's Heart

Location: King's Lynn - Tuesday Market Place, house No's 15/16
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Legend unknown, but heart still visible
Further Comments: Several legends explain why this heart is here, though all revolve around the same theme; the market square was once a place of execution, and the heart exploded out from the chest of the unfortunate female victims, embedding into the wall. Number 15 is also home to a poltergeist who throws things to the floor.

White Hart pub, King's Lynn.

Lost Monk

Location: King's Lynn - White Hart public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom which haunts this pub is thought by most to be a monk from the church across the road - the church and public house were once connected by a now bricked up tunnel.

King Street, King's Lynn.

Man in Three Cornered Hat

Location: King's Lynn - 9 King Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s onwards
Further Comments: This eighteenth century gentleman has been observed by several different witnesses in the building. In its latter days as a museum, one visitor spotted the ghostly gentleman walking around with his hands behind his back.

The A148.

Three Tolls

Location: King's Lynn - A148
Type: Other
Date / Time: 02 March 2024, 23:58h
Further Comments: Driving late home from King's Lynn, a witness heard the distinctive sound of a huge bell toll three times. Not being able to see anything nearby that would be chiming so late, the witness interpreted the tolls as a warning and took additional care driving home.

Woman in Black

Location: King's Lynn - Bank House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century?
Further Comments: While several staff have reported feeling as if someone is watching them, only one person has reported seeing the phantom woman wearing a long black dress.

Taps

Location: King's Lynn - Clifton House
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Tradition says this building was home to a tapping entity, but no reports can be found post-1950s.

Devil's Alley, King's Lynn.

Satan's Hoof Print

Location: King's Lynn - Devil's Alley
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: No longer present
Further Comments: A single footprint belonging to Old Nick was said to be visible down this aging alleyway, although the route has now been resurfaced.

Duke's Head, King's Lynn.

The Red Lady

Location: King's Lynn - Duke's Head, Tuesday Market Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This figure in red has been seen walking the corridors and climbing staircases. She is said to be the shade of a woman who killed herself over her two lovers. Room 18 was once haunted after an attempted suicide resulted in a dying man being brought into the suite - his ghostly moaning once drove people away, though now it has faded.

Party Goers

Location: King's Lynn - Eagle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century?
Further Comments: Since the Eagle was rebuilt in the late 1950s, the owners have reported the sounds of a party downstairs. It is thought that these sounds belong to a party which was brought to a sudden end when a German bomb hit the original building in June 1942.

Something

Location: King's Lynn - House (may no longer stand) along Windsor Terrace
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa June 1902
Further Comments: Local press reported that the occupant of this property left after enduring a week of ghostly activity, although the details of the haunting were fleeting. Stories of the ghost had drawn an evening crowd to stand outside the house waiting in anticipation, which the police had to monitor.

Woman with Child

Location: King's Lynn - Mildenhall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The attic of the hotel is reputedly haunted by a woman who died shortly after giving birth to a child outside of wedlock.

Crash and US Airmen

Location: Langham - Apple Orchard, once the World War 2 airbase
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The sound of a crashing aircraft has been reported amongst the trees, and misty figures dressed in US AAF uniform have been seen - always dissipating when approached. Screaming was once heard coming from one end of a former runway, though when the sound was investigated, nothing was found.

Lion Cubs

Location: Langham - Council Tip
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 15 January 1975
Further Comments: A pair of lion cubs were reportedly seen playing on the tip.

Helpful Little Man

Location: Letheringsett - Letheringsett Water Mill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1995
Further Comments: Thought to be a former worker at the mill, this little grey man has been seen walking around the building several times.

Coach

Location: Letton - Road through village (now the road between Letton hall and Cranworth, the Shipdham Road)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1830s
Further Comments: A female witness recalled seeing a phantom coach being pulled by invisible horses along this road, so bright it lit the night up as if day.

Walking Priest

Location: Little Walsingham - High Street, parallel to the back of Priory / back entrance to Richeldis House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: July 2004
Further Comments: While on a pilgrimage to the shrine in the village, a witness reported a figure in a black cassock or black cape with either a hood or a high collar and biretta. As the figure approached, the witness stepped to one side and called out 'Good night Father', only to watch the figure fade away.

Mary Vision

Location: Little Walsingham - Shrine
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 1061 onwards
Further Comments: Lady Richeldis had a vision of the Virgin Mary who commanded that a replica of her Nazareth house be built. Richeldis constructed the shrine and it became highly popular until its destruction during the Reformation. The Shrine and its healing well are now operational again.

Old Hutch

Location: Long Stratton - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom coach driven around this parish contains the ghost of Old Hutch, who is thought to be Edmund Reve - his tomb can be found in the St Mary's Church.

Unknown

Location: Long Stratton - Swan Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This site is said to be haunted, although the exact details are not known.

Monk, Betrayer of the Abbey

Location: Ludham - St. Benet's Abbey, ruins close to River Bure
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 May (reoccurring) (monk), 10 August 2019 (dog)
Further Comments: Now little more than rubble, the site of the old abbey is home to the ghost of the monk who betrayed his brothers to Norman soldiers - the troops later hanged him anyway. Two people searching for the ghostly monk spotted a large black dog-like creature, the size of a small horse, running towards the church. The two witnesses quickly left the area.

Viking Raiders

Location: Ludham - Ludham Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02 April (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This raiding party appears late at night and heads towards the bridge, blowing hunting horns and cracking whips.

An old woodcut of a dragon as it fights and eats a snake.

Dragon's Home

Location: Ludham - Ruins of St Benet's Abbey
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend says that a dragon once moved to the vault here after local people prevented the creature from entering its former home in a hill.

Coach and Four

Location: Lyng - Balor's Pit, Caddors Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This team of horses and the coach all fell into the pit and drowned. Their ghosts run along the fateful route and the accident is periodically replayed.

Nuns

Location: Lyng - Druid Stone Grove
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Coming from the direction of the old nunnery, several of these black and white figures are said to drift along the route they took many years previous.