The Paranormal Database

Hare

Location: Humbleton (Northumberland) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom hare which ran around the area would once be hunted by locals, but it could never be killed.

Feline

Location: Hurst Green (Sussex) - Prospect Terrace (private house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This spectral cat has been seen running around the property, a shadow of its former self.

Godstone

Location: Inishkea Islands (County Mayo) - Exact areas unknown
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Godstone pre twentieth century, Crane still present?
Further Comments: The Godstone was said to have granted islanders with control over the weather, credited with increasing the speed of potato growth, and could also put out fires. The stone was cast into the sea at some point in the nineteenth century after a religious man took exception to it. The islands were (or are) also home to an immortal crane - the bird is said to have sat alone from the dawn of time, waiting until the end of the world.

Gentleman in Top Hat

Location: Isle of Yell (Shetland) - Windhouse, near the Lumbister RSPB Reserve
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early Twentieth century
Further Comments: Merely one of the spooks found here, the man in the top hat not putting on the Ritz shares the house with a woman dressed in silken clothes, a former pet dog, and a servant who is doomed to spend the rest of time ascending the staircase.

Sketch by Franz Marc.

White Horse

Location: Ivinghoe (Buckinghamshire) - Ivinghoe Aston to Slapton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Winter 1980/81
Further Comments: While travelling along this road during heavy rain at night, a taxi driver encountered someone riding a white horse. The driver had to stop abruptly to avoid the rider, and when the driver looked up, man and horse had vanished. When the witness later mentioned the encounter to other people, they said it was not the first time the entity had been seen.

House Cat

Location: Kegworth (Leicestershire) - 42 High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom cat is reputed to haunt this building, though tends to be felt rather than seen.

Rusty

Location: Keighley (West Yorkshire) - Bracken Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 2008
Further Comments: Paranormal investigation groups reported recording a laugh and a phantom dog barking after the landlady called them in. Locals named the dog as 'Rusty', a Jack Russell who died seventeen years previous.

Big Collie

Location: Keighley (West Yorkshire) - Woods just outside village
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1893
Further Comments: This spectral dog appeared briefly to prevent a robbery on the roadside, vanishing once the threat had passed.

An old postcard of Kenilworth Castle.

Lost Girl

Location: Kenilworth (Warwickshire) - Kenilworth castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: The gatehouse is haunted by a little girl who asks for her daddy, a man dressed in black killed in a sword fight, and an old lady who breaks the same candle, time after time. A phantom little boy is reported in the stables, as are ghostly chickens and horses.

Victorian Lady

Location: Kennethmont (Aberdeenshire) - Leith Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The ghostly Victorian was just one of several spirits thought to haunt this building; the sound of a small dog was often heard as it ran across the floor, and a man with his head dressed in blood soaked bandages (later named as John Leith, shot by an associate during a duel) was seen by one owner.

Headless Horseman

Location: Kilcummer (County Cork) - Hill in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area was the haunt of a headless horseman who died while racing the country roads. His ghost was put to rest after a local man was brave enough to let the decapitated figure ride by his side.

An old woodcut of a man standing within a magic circle summoning a demon.

Black Cat of Killakee

Location: Killakee (County Dublin) - General area, including the Arts Centre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: The Arts Centre found itself haunted by a violent manifestation during the 1970s, which destroyed rooms which the owners securely padlocked up. A short spectral man was seen to transform into a black cat before vanishing, leading to speculation that the building was haunted by a demon once summoned by the nearby Hell Fire Club.

Unhappy pig, from an eighteen century chapbook.

Black Pig

Location: Kiltrustan (County Roscommon) - Road close to old plantation
Type: Other
Date / Time: April 1918
Further Comments: A phantom black pig made itself known to children. Adults standing in the same area could not perceive it, even when the children shouted that the entity was running around their feet.

Horses

Location: Kinlochbervie (Highland) - Sandwood Loch Cottage (now ruined)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to falling into disarray
Further Comments: Tourists staying in this cottage were said to have been awaken as the building shook due to a stampede of phantom horses. Footsteps have also been heard outside, and the face of a quickly vanishing sailor observed looking in through windows.

Charles Fort in Kinsale.

White Lady

Location: Kinsale (County Cork) - Charles Fort
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1870s
Further Comments: This woman leapt to her death from the battlements after discovering that her father had mistakenly shot dead her newlywed husband. Since her death, she has been seen walking through locked doors and was blamed for knocking unconscious at least two witnesses. The site was also haunted by a rabbit which attacked guards asleep on duty.

Sheepdog

Location: Kirkby Overblow (North Yorkshire) - Area surrounding village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A forgetful farmer left his dog out in the sheep's field, where it finally starved to death. The dog's shade now runs around the village, to warn all farmers never to forget their pets.

Shaggy Foal

Location: Kirton in Lindsey (Lincolnshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Some point between 1842 - 1847
Further Comments: Someone (apparently) encountered a large, shaggy, donkey-like entity in this area.

Bell Ringer

Location: Ladock (Cornwall) - St Ladoca's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century (bell ringer), bird not unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly figure is often spotted out of the corner of one eye, before disappearing. A local legend says that a large, evil bird set up home in the bell tower, interrupting services with its noise - the creature became displaced after the vicar cast a spell with the help of the local community.

A cross cockerel in Cornwall.

Black Cockerel

Location: Lanreath (Cornwall) - Punch Bowl Inn
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This creature is said to still be imprisoned within the walls of this public house - it contained the spirit of an angry local rector who died after falling (or being pushed) down a flight of stairs. In his cockerel form, the rector attacked everyone he met; a maid at the inn finally managed to trap the creature in an oven, and a builder bricked it up.

Headless Chicken Runs Blindly

Location: Layer Marney (Essex) - Layer Marney Churchyard
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Christmas (reoccurring)
Further Comments: With an unknown origin, a headless chicken appears and runs blindly around the gravestones.

Headless Coachman

Location: Leam (Derbyshire) - Leam Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: A groom and his assistant heard galloping approaching Leam Hall. Expecting the lord and lady of the hall, the pair stood outside awaiting the coach. However, instead of the master's coach, the approaching vehicle was of a 'strange design' and was driven by a headless man. The phantom coach was driven straight past the witnesses and vanished into a closed gate.

George

Location: Leamington (Warwickshire) - Brookhurst (demolished 1960), on site of Leamington Golf Club
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1960
Further Comments: Workmen demolishing this old house reported that 'something' was trying to stop them. Brookhurst had a history of hauntings, from the sounds of a large bird-like creature flying around to phantom footsteps and doors which unlocked themselves.

Disconcerting Monk

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Guildhall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: There are mixed opinions to whether the library here is haunted by a grey monk or a white lady. A tormented Cavalier has been seen in the Great Hall, a phantom policeman haunts other parts of the building, a ghostly dog has been reported in the courtyard, a black cat in the Great Hall, and at least one witness claims to have been shocked to see a pair of legs manifest from the portrait of Henry Earl of Huntington hanging in the Major's Parlour. Ghost Scene Investigations and Leicester City Museums released video footage in 2006 of what appears to be a ghostly figure crawling across the floor in one room.

The external wall of Lincoln Castle.

Clark's Dog

Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Outside Lincoln Castle walls
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This malnourished hound, once owned by a criminal hanged nearby, spent the rest of its life as a minor celebrity and now is occasionally spotted lurking around the castle walls.

Strugglers Inn, Lincoln.

Clark's Dog Too

Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Strugglers Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hungry phantom hound reported to haunt the castle walls would sometimes try to enter this inn, scratching and barking at the door.