The Paranormal Database

Flying Glasses

Location: Nottingham - Ferry Inn, Wilford
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: An exorcist was brought in to deal with the poltergeist that slid glasses around on the bar and created loud banging.

Lady in Grey

Location: Nottingham - Flying Horse Hotel (now Flying Horse Walk, a shopping arcade)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: While staying at the hotel, one male guest refused to re-enter his room after encountering a grey lady passing down a corridor. The beer cellar was also said to be haunted, with lone staff reporting feeling a tapping on their shoulder.

Footsteps

Location: Nottingham - Food shop (since closed), Oakdale Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s, 2000s
Further Comments: It was said that footsteps could be heard in empty parts of the food store. After it closed, it reopened as a new business, which experienced doors slamming shut on their own accord and hand driers in the toilets being switched on and off repeatedly.

Young Girl

Location: Nottingham - Former antiques shop, Mansfield Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1975/6
Further Comments: This young girl, said to be around ten years of age, had a pale face and large eyes. She wore dark clothing, a white pinafore, and her boots had holes in the toes. A medium was called to the shop, after which the phantom disappeared.

Moaning

Location: Nottingham - Former Police Station, Canal Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1976
Further Comments: This building, while being used by a private company, was said to be haunted by moans and groans, banging and by a light being switched on by an unseen hand. The manager of the firm was not impressed with the stories and discovered that all strange activity (except the moaning) could be stopped by changing the electrics.

Matron

Location: Nottingham - Former Trent FM Radio studio, was once a former hospital, 29/31 Castle Gate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: The studios where Trent FM broadcast from until January 2007 were said to be haunted by a female apparition that resembled a matron. Another ghostly woman, elderly and dressed in black, has also been reported, as has a man in military uniform. Heavy soundproof doors developed a habit of opening and closing themselves.

Hanged Criminals

Location: Nottingham - Galleries of Justice (were known as Shire Hall and County Gaol)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007 (Shiba), 2010 (young girl)
Further Comments: The courtrooms are reputedly haunted by criminals who were executed on the site. Actor David Shiba reported hearing footsteps and seeing a shadowy figure in the cave system who he took to be another actor, though he later discovered everyone else in the building were upstairs at the time of his sighting. A more recent sighting in 2010 involved the sighting of a happy young girl, around eight years old, who vanished while running towards the witness.

Terrier

Location: Nottingham - Gedling House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s-1960s
Further Comments: This small white dog was spotted by two witnesses in separate incidents, on one occasion the hound was accompanied by an elderly woman using a walking stick. Other witnesses have only heard the lady walking around, her stick tapping on the ground.

White Lady

Location: Nottingham - Gedling Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: This piece of woodland is reputedly haunted by a white lady, a nun and disembodied screaming.

White Lady

Location: Nottingham - Grounds of Colwick Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Thought to be the same ghost encountered at the nearby church, this white woman is thought by some to be Mary Ann Chaworth-Musters reputedly Lord Byron's first love.

Older Man

Location: Nottingham - Hayward House, City Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2012
Further Comments: Three members of nursing staff contacted security on the emergency line after they saw an unknown elderly male walking at the far end of a corridor at night. He was said to be wearing a flat cap. Upon arrival, security checked the building but could not find any sign of the male. The intruder alarm had also not been set off.

Young Boy

Location: Nottingham - Headstocks public house, Cinderhill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2023
Further Comments: Two non-threatening spirits are reported in this pub, a young boy who has been observed by employees behind the bar, and the ghost of a former landlord whose reflection was spotted in a mirror.

An old woodcut of three men wearing Cavalier English Civil War clothing.

Cavaliers

Location: Nottingham - Hippo Club, Bridlesmith (no longer operational)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1971
Further Comments: Staff on late shifts claimed to see phantom Cavaliers and other dark figures moving around the club. Some people also reported the sensation of invisible hands touching them.

Thrown Milk

Location: Nottingham - Hollywood (hairdressing) Salon, Upper Parliament Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: September 1974
Further Comments: A priest blessed the site after the poltergeist threw a can of open milk at one employee. A brush also hit the same member of staff. The entity had previously kept its activities limited to 'pranks' (although what these comprised of was not disclosed).

Shaking Headboard

Location: Nottingham - Hyson Green
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1954 -1966
Further Comments: One occupant of this household would be kept awake by their bed's headboard violently shaking. The activity would cease for the evening when the occupant said they needed to sleep.

Footfalls

Location: Nottingham - Industrial estate near Silverdale
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One of the buildings on this modern industrial estate is rumoured to be haunted. Footsteps have been heard above the ceiling, lights are flicked on and off, and unpowered machines start and stop.

Footsteps

Location: Nottingham - Jesse's Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1988
Further Comments: This building is reputed to be haunted by the sound of footfalls heard moving around in empty rooms.

Sobbing Boy

Location: Nottingham - Lee Rosys tea shop (17 Broad Street)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2006
Further Comments: A local newspaper reported that staff and one customer had heard phantom sobbing from behind a wall. Puddles of water appeared without cause and cups would fall from tables without reason.

Pale Man

Location: Nottingham - Lenton Abbey, Classic Cinema
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Built on the site of a former priory, this cinema is haunted by a figure that could be a monk, though it appears to dress in 'normal' clothing.

Victorian Girl

Location: Nottingham - Loggerheads public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This little girl is said to enjoy playing along the corridors in the upper part of the building. The bar downstairs is home to a First World War officer, a Cavalier, and even possibly Dick Turpin who once stayed here en route to York.

Hello?

Location: Nottingham - Mapperley Hospital, Porchester Road (closed 1994)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Since closing, the ghosts of this former asylum have found their voice. Workers on the site have heard their names being called by an unknown voice, and disembodied footsteps also heard. A woman has been observed walking down corridors, and a man has been heard to call out 'hello', though he can never be found.

Steam Engine

Location: Nottingham - Mapperley Tunnel, southern end
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: Two school children playing in the tunnel heard a steam engine rapidly approaching them - terrified they ran out into the fresh air. A few seconds after their escape they realised that the train could not have existed, as the north end of the tunnel was barricaded.

Romans

Location: Nottingham - Military installation, Derby Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1947
Further Comments: The Nottingham Evening News reported that the sound of someone speaking in a 'foreign language' and the noise of clashing metal led some to speculate the military installation was home to a Roman soldier. Local folklore said the site had previously been a Roman camp.

Marshal Tallard

Location: Nottingham - Newdigate House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: More likely to be heard rather than seen, the phantom man reported here has been named as Marshal Tallard. Footsteps and voices have been heard, and people have reported the sensation of being watched by unseen eyes. Other entities reported here are thought to be friends of Tallard.

Spooky

Location: Nottingham - NHS Walk-In Centre, Derby Road
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1970s onwards
Further Comments: A former AA building, the poltergeist here has been nicknamed 'Spooky'. He upsets items in the kitchen and creates loud bangs and crashes. The polt may be connected to the ghost of a man who has been spotted standing around, staring at people before vanishing.