The Paranormal Database

Mr Baker

Location: Melbury Bubb (Dorset) - Dirt track along Bubdown Hill, known as Murderers Lane?
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 10 November (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Mr Baker was a farmer murdered on the hill in 1694. His ghost returns on the anniversary of the crime, possibly driving a horse and carriage.

Arthur Bryant Haig

Location: Melrose (Borders) - Bemersyde House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Post-1918
Further Comments: Former owner of the house, Arthur Bryant Haig, is still said to mount his (now phantom) chestnut horse and ride through his lands towards a nearby river.

Goose

Location: Melsonby (North Yorkshire) - Berry Well (may no longer exist)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This well was haunted by a ghostly entity which had taken the form of a white goose.

The Horse and Groom pub, Melton.

Large Black Tomcat

Location: Melton (Suffolk) - The Horse and Groom Public House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: The pub (particularly room number 3) has been home to a ghostly cat. The phantom feline has a habit of laying across the throat of people sleeping, only to jump off and vanish once they awake.

Greyhound

Location: Micklow (Staffordshire) - Eccleshall Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: This phantom greyhound began to haunt the area after a local lady drowned herself nearby.

Echoing Footfalls

Location: Monkton Farleigh (Wiltshire) - King's Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: These footsteps, associated with long dead feet, have been reported moving around the building. One group of people in the bar heard the swooping of wings close above them, though no birds could be seen. The pub is also haunted by the sounds of a wailing woman, said to cry on the anniversary of her death, caused when her runaway coach smashed into a wall of the building.

Lucky Venture?

Location: Motherwell (Lanarkshire) - Trotting Stadium
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: The stadium was briefly haunted by a horse named Lucky Venture which died on the track. The animal's shade was exorcised by a couple of local university students.

Heavy Dog

Location: Muthill (Perth and Kinross) - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1971-2003
Further Comments: Three members of the family which lived here experienced the sensation of a heavy dog laying on them in bed. The property was also home to a lady in an old fashioned floor length dress, and a man in a suit and waistcoat who told a builder to 'get on with it' - the builder refused to re-enter the house and quit.

Bacon's Chicken

Location: N6 (Greater London) - Pond Square, Highgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: The site where Francis Bacon put theory into practice with refrigeration in 1626; the featherless, panicking chicken that has been seen running around the area on cold winter nights is all that remains of that early experiment.

Mother Marnes

Location: N6 (Greater London) - Ye Olde Gatehouse public house, Highgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (Marnes), 2012 (Bacon)
Further Comments: Murdered many moons ago for her money, Mother Marnes now meanders around the building with her pet cat. A ghost hunting team claimed to have contacted Francis Bacon (philosopher, not painter) in the basement during an investigation.

The Blue Lady

Location: Nettlestone (Isle of Wight) - The Priory hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This young teenage girl once haunted the former priory along with her little dog, though sightings have been rare as of late. The dog outlived the girl by several years, was stuffed after its death, and is now kept in a glass case within the building. The haunting is said to grow quite intense if the hound is ever removed from the hotel.

Heavy Footsteps

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear) - Willington Mill
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1835-1847
Further Comments: Just a small part of the phenomena, the footsteps were heard first. Over a period of weeks, these developed into bangs, whistling, the sounds of machinery, and finally a voice that spoke. Phantom animals were seen around the building. The family finally moved out, though the spirit stayed a little longer (but was much quieter).

Sounds of a Horse

Location: Newmarket (Suffolk) - Stables near Park Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1991, winter
Further Comments: While looking for two pet cats in a barn, this witness heard a horse wearing metal shoes walking directly outside. The witness thought the horses had come back from racing so left the barn to help, but nothing could be seen. Two different members of staff later told the witness that they had also heard horses moving around but could never find the creature responsible, and one said that they had been told by the former owner of the yard that the site was haunted by a racehorse.

The fox escapes.

Fox

Location: Newton Abbot (Devon) - Golf Club
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A creature so cunning that it was never caught by the local fox hunting group, it now gloats by sitting on the golf club walls.

Lion

Location: NW1 (Greater London) - Regent's Park
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s (glowing lion), August 2010 (glowing figure)
Further Comments: A zookeeper and his granddaughter came across the glowing apparition of a lion while out walking in the park at evening. The creature faded away as they approached it. The keeper knew that one of the lions at his zoo was ill, and when he went into work the following day, was told the sick lion had died the previous evening - at the time of the sighting. More recently, a glowing green figure was observed by a witness in the park after midnight and had actually caused the witness to flee; another person with the witness was unable to see anything. The witness returned to the scene the following day to try to understand what they had seen and realised the figure first manifested in a bush and had moved at a very fast pace.

Dazzling Little Donkey

Location: NW9 (Greater London) - The Hyde, between Hendon and Kingsbury
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly donkey reportedly radiates colour and light as it passes.

Horse

Location: Odstock (Wiltshire) - Lane adjoining St Marys Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 June 2017
Further Comments: A woman in the sitting in the passenger side of a car opened her window as the vehicle left the church. Suddenly both the woman and driver heard a horse trotting alongside the vehicle, even though no animal could be seen. As the vehicle reached the main road, the trotting ceased.

Robert Leigh

Location: Old Cleeve (Somerset) - Bardon House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1700s onwards
Further Comments: One of many ghosts belonging to this building, Leigh was reported to walk around the grounds carrying an unknown person's head under one arm. A woman in white rustling silk glides along the corridors of the building, the sad sounds of a harpsichord can be heard, and on occasion a black dog lurks outside.

Knight

Location: Outer London: Richmond (Greater London) - Kingston Hill area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom knight upon a white horse was once thought to haunt this area.

A photograph of a raven.

Raven

Location: Outer London: West Drayton (Greater London) - West Drayton church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1883 (another version says circa 1749)
Further Comments: For many years, this large black bird haunted the church and its grounds - it would tap and peck at coffins, sit on the pews, and generally create a nuisance.

Woman in Crinoline

Location: Pembroke (Dyfed) - Bush House (currently a boarding house?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1954 (man with dogs), August 1955 (female)
Further Comments: A night watchman spotted a man carrying a gun and accompanied with three dogs walk across the grounds and vanish into a pond. A year later, three guests at the house were awoken by persistent hammering on the door and walls of their room. The following night they spotted a woman wearing a long dress in the garden bathed in a strange light - she disappeared through a wall.

White Hare

Location: Pengersick (Cornwall) - Former castle (on site of current castle)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former lord of the castle had an affair with a woman in a faraway land, who gave birth to a son. When the lord returned home (and back to his wife) the woman and child followed him. The lord threw his former lover and the child into the sea. The child survived and was picked up by a passing ship, but the woman drowned, returning as a white hare which haunted the lord for the rest of his life.

Horse & Dog

Location: Penselwood (Wiltshire) - Sloane Track - between Penselwood and Stourton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A man who wagered that he could cross the track in record time fell from his horse and snapped his neck. The man on horseback, now minus a head, with a hound in tow, tries again and again to make the journey once a year.

Woman with Dog

Location: Pewsey (Wiltshire) - Cuckoo Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Sometime between 1939-1945
Further Comments: A farmer and an aid chasing down stray cattle encountered a phantom woman dressed in black crossing the bridge. She was accompanied by a large dog, being led by a diamond chain.

Monk

Location: Pewsey (Wiltshire) - Fyfield Manor, the Monk's Tower
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Monk in mid twentieth century, coach unknown
Further Comments: One man was told by a gardener that a phantom monk could be heard ascending the staircase in the tower. The man went on to spend three years living in the tower and never heard a thing. Another local story states that the driveway of the building is haunted by a phantom coach and four.