The Paranormal Database

Shadowy Figure

Location: Wellingborough - Lyric Bingo Hall, Midland Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure has been seen by cleaning staff after closing time, since the building was a cinema, and floating balls of light have also been reported. Some believe that he haunted the area long before construction of the building begun.

Unbottled Ghost

Location: Welton - Field next to the church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, likely to be pre twentieth century
Further Comments: The ghost in a field by the church was said to have been tricked into a bottle by members of the local clergy who cast it into a well. The ghost managed to escape and continued to haunt the area.

Vomiting Child

Location: Welton - Manor House
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1658
Further Comments: Furniture was thrown about, banging was heard, and more disturbingly, one of the children would vomit large lumps of coal and stones.

Mrs Heber

Location: Weston - Weston Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 07 October 1873
Further Comments: Author Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell lived here, and although he never experienced the haunting, his aunt's diary from 1873 documented one of the family had been disturbed during the night by the rustling of the ghostly Mrs Heber's silk dress and the tapping of heels.

Former Knight

Location: Whittlebury - Forest in the area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One local legend says that a knight was driven to madness and suicide after having his love rejected by a ranger's daughter. After she died, the knight's ghost returned in the form of the shuck, to hunt and chase the spirit of the woman. Other local legends say that the shuck is just part of a larger phantom hunt.

Sir George

Location: Wilbarston - Old House, Church Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Old House was once believed to be haunted by Sir George and a nun, who both appeared after gravestones were removed. Nothing has been heard of these ghosts as of late.

George

Location: Wilbarston - Pilgrim Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1957
Further Comments: The owner of this cottage was kept awake at night by lights which darted around her bedroom. She also encountered the apparition of a man which disappeared from the waist down, whom she nicknamed George. George did not return after a minister said prayers in the building.

A chalice and the heart.

Andrew Powlet

Location: Woodford - St Mary's Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1862
Further Comments: Appearing only once, Andrew's ghost pointed to an area on a wall, which proved to be a secret compartment containing a human heart and a stolen chalice. A photograph taken by a couple of teenagers in the 1960s showed a greenish transparent figure kneeling by the altar, while in the early 2000s a female witness reported seeing a white shape approach her from the same area in broad daylight.