The Paranormal Database

Woman with Child

Location: Seaton Delaval - Seaton Delaval Castle, chapel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Her husband failing to return from battle, this woman forever keeps watch from a window in the hope he one day comes home. There are additional reports of phantom music and the pacing sound of woman's heels.

Allen the Guard

Location: Seghill - Seghill Tower
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Killed by raiders, Allen is sometimes seen floating around the former defensive structure, forever on guard duty.

Sleeping Knights

Location: Sewingshield - Castle ruins
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Early 1800s
Further Comments: Legend says the site of King Arthur's hall; a farmer once claimed to have discovered the location, deep underground, accessible only by a secret passage that he'd accidentally stumbled upon. He found a cavern full of sleeping knights, dogs and two royal looking figures - but ran away and could not remember where the passage was.

Accessed by Dreams?

Location: Staward Wood - Staward Pele (aka Staward-le-Pele)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Folklore says that gold and silver had been found in the area after the searchers had had dreams and visions.

Horses

Location: Tarset - Tarset Castle
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: There is said to be a secret passage connected this site and Dally Castle, with phantom horses heard running the route at midnight.

Not Mother

Location: Tillmouth - Tillmouth Park Country House Hotel
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Mid-twentieth century
Further Comments: A guest at this hotel reported seeing the silhouette of a woman standing by the window of her room in the early hours of the morning. She believed the figure to be that of her mother, with whom she shared the room, though after the figure disappeared the witness noticed her mother was still asleep in bed.

Fairy Kitchen

Location: Vindolanda (aka Chesterholm) - West of area, in ruins containing hypocausts
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The scorch marks on these ruins led to some saying the site had been used by fairies as their kitchen.

Breathing

Location: Wallington - Wallington Castle (aka Wallington Hall)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Home to several phantom sounds, these include heavy breathing, the flapping of wings, and banging. An old booklet of 1715 hints that in the past this building was haunted by a ghost that had a habit of sharing a bed with people.

Music

Location: Wark on Tyne - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1987-1990
Further Comments: Music was said to have been heard both inside and outside this private house. Footsteps could be heard on a staircase, even though a staircase did not exist.

Folklore said the well enabled certain people to fly.

Flower of the Well

Location: Wark on Tyne - Three wells, were known as Old Kirk Well, High Well and Riverside Well)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 01 January (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Villagers would visit the wells on New Year's morning in the hope of being the first to sip the waters and obtaining 'the Flower of the Well', a supernatural gift which enabled the bestowed to fly and pass through keyholes, amongst other abilities.

Warkworth Castle, copyright Tim Robinson 2012

Hermit

Location: Warkworth - Coquet & hermitage near to Warkworth Castle, and the castle itself
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After a tragic accident which resulted in him killing his future wife, the knight Sir Bertram became a hermit - his spirit remains. Another knight, or maybe the same one, is said to haunt the castle.

Silky

Location: Welton - Old manor house (may no longer be standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little more is known about this phantom which haunted a manor house constructed in 1616, other than its nickname of Silky.

White Lady

Location: Whittingham - Well north of village, was known as the Lady's Well
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Not much is known about the white lady which haunted the village, other than she had some association with a well which, in turn, may have once been considered a healing well.

Old Jeffrey

Location: Willington - Old Mill (no longer intact, though some of the Rope Works still use the old mill buildings)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1840s
Further Comments: Once said to be the most haunted site in the north of England, the mill was haunted by several ghosts. While the most well known was 'Old Jeffrey', a bald man who floated a metre off the ground, other ghosts included a lady in lavender, another woman in grey, and a third woman with empty eye sockets. Phantom animals spotted on site included a rabbit, cat, and sheep.

Tom Chalkley

Location: Woodhorn - St Mary the Virgin Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Since the First World War
Further Comments: George Charlton, the assistant sexton, spotted Tom passing through the churchyard. George later spoke to Tom's cousin, who informed him the Chalkley family have just received a telegram informing them Tom had been killed in action. Tom has reportedly been seen three times since his first appearance.

Limping Lady

Location: Woodhorn - Vicarage
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Pre 1960s
Further Comments: The Reverand Arthur Wiltshire reported hearing footsteps walking around, which local folklore claimed to belong to an abbess.

Dunny

Location: Wooler - Cave in Cockenheugh Hills, and Fowberry Bridge (and occasionally Tower)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Either a former Border reiver or someone who committed suicide (or maybe both), this entity would manifest as a dun coloured horse and scour the area for his lost treasure.

A devil-like entity standing over a woman.

Devil's Grannie

Location: Wooler - Hanging crag on Doddington Hill Fort
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It was said that the Devil hanged his grandmother from this crag on the fort.

Fairy Wishes

Location: Wooler - Pin Well, Horsdon Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Well still present
Further Comments: By dropping a bent pin or money into this well, visitors to the well would appease the fairy which lived nearby, and maybe have their wish come true.

Dropped Rock

Location: Yeavering - Standing stone (was known as the Druid's Lapfu), aka Battle Stone
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: The stone accidently fell here after a druid had a mishap with their apron.