The Paranormal Database

Woman in Blue

Location: Woodcroft (Oxfordshire) - Wooded area at Boars Hill
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 20 May 1990
Further Comments: A ghostly figure appeared in a photograph taken at Boars Hill. Partially obscured behind a woman, the apparition is dressed in blue and has a bare foot.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2008-01-06   Last updated: 2008-01-06   ID: #8124

Elizabeth Downing

Location: Woodstock (Oxfordshire) - Bear Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This ghost's footsteps can be pacing across the floor in Room 16, and lights turn themselves on when the ghost is close enough to a switch. Elizabeth's son is also said to haunt the building, and Room 12 is said to be haunted by a workman who fell (or was pushed) from the roof around the seventeenth century.

Source: Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2003-08-23   Last updated: 2003-08-23   ID: #4478

Only Men

Location: Woodstock (Oxfordshire) - Oxfordshire Museum (was Fletcher's House)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: A phantom woman has been spotted near the original staircase and in upper rooms of the building, but only by men.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2025-04-21   Last updated: 2025-04-21   ID: #15880

The Royalist Devil

Location: Woodstock (Oxfordshire) - Woodstock Manor
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 17 October - 02 November 1649
Further Comments: Several Parliamentary Commissioners who stayed in this building were set upon by unseen hands - they were thrown out of bed at night, glass was thrown at them, candles blown out... When the Commissioners left the building in early November, the noisy spirit disappeared.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2002-07-04   Last updated: 2002-07-04   ID: #1607

Six Thousand Horsemen

Location: Yarnton (Oxfordshire) - Road through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 04 July
Further Comments: King Charles I and six thousand horsemen passed through Yarnton to avoid the siege of Oxford. Amazingly, they managed to reach Worcester undetected and now, on the anniversary of their escape, make the journey through Yarnton again in ghostly form.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2023-11-19   Last updated: 2023-11-19   ID: #15185

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