The Paranormal Database

Lady in Black

Location: Glyncorrwg (West Glamorgan) - Bakery, village church and surrounding area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1933 (Bakery) and 1900s (general area)
Further Comments: A baker quit his job after encountering an elderly lady dressed in black. The woman drifted into the bakery and stared at the baker before vanishing. At the time of the 1933 sighting, older members of the community recalled that the woman in black had been seen thirty years previous around the church and within the village itself.

Godshill Church, Isle of Wight.

Moving Foundations

Location: Godshill (Isle of Wight) - Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Church still present
Further Comments: The church was to be built at the bottom of the hill, but after the stones moved themselves up to the top one night, the construction workers took the hint and finished the job in the new location.

Lollard Girl

Location: Gradbach (Staffordshire) - Lud's Church (a local chasm), also known as Ludchurch
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Following a banned religion during the 1400's, the Lorrards used this place to worship. Alice, a member of the family, was killed as soldiers raided the illegal gathering and now her ghost frequents the spot over her grave. Wayne Anthony writes that the area is also reportedly the site where Sir Gawain killed the Green Knight.

Unlucky Strike

Location: Graveley (Hertfordshire) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Devil tried to throw several lumps of earth at Stevenage - he missed the town, but one of the shots knocked down the steeple at Graveley church.

Hairy Jack

Location: Grayingham (Lincolnshire) - Area around the church
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1870s
Further Comments: This large black dog was said to have a particularly shaggy coat.

Blue Lady

Location: Great Abington (Cambridgeshire) - Field next to the churchyard, and the river
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom blue lady is said to cross this field. Her journey starts at Great Abington church, where she floats straight over the river, and ends at Little Abington church where she is said to vanish.

Monk Slides

Location: Great Baddow (Essex) - St. Mary's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The monk who has been seen sliding down the aisles and leaving through the door on the west side is supposed to be connected to the secret tunnels beneath the building. In addition to this ghost, soldiers from the English Civil War have been seen standing outside the church watching the building.

An old woodcut of a bull's head.

Great Bull

Location: Great Chart (Kent) - Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 1600s?
Further Comments: A large phantom bull appeared within the building during a thunderstorm, stampeding and killing or injuring several people. As the creature left, it knocked down a part of a wall.

Woman in Black

Location: Great Longstone (Derbyshire) - Little Church Lady House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The woman dressed in black who haunted the house was only visible to children who referred to her as the 'Little Church Lady'. Their parents, as a sign of affection, renamed the house after her.

Legless Monk

Location: Great Oxendon (Northamptonshire) - St Helen's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid to late-twentieth century
Further Comments: This cowled figure has been seen drifting around the outside of the church by many of the local villagers, a few reporting that it travelled several centimetres above the ground.

St Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth.

Intermittent Rapping

Location: Great Yarmouth (Norfolk) - St Nicholas Church
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After the incomplete burial of an Egyptian Princess, mysterious rapping started to occur at the church, the vicarage, and a few more surrounding buildings. The rapping ceased when the princess's burial rite was completed. Another local legend says if you circumambulate the church three times and shout 'Bloody Queen Mary', the face of Mary Tudor appears through a window.

Coffin Mover

Location: Greatford (Lincolnshire) - Church vaults
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1867
Further Comments: A poltergeist was blamed for moving coffins in the vaults of this church.

Built in a Night

Location: Grosmont (Gwent) - Bridge between Grosmont and Kentchurch
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Devil agreed to build a bridge between the two locations over the river Monnow, but on condition that he would have the soul of the first creature to cross. Before using the bridge for the first time, a local woman threw a bone for her dog across the bridge - the canine ran to fetch it, and thus cheated the Devil of his human soul.

Jack o'Kent

Location: Grosmont (Gwent) - Churchyard wall
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local folk hero who constantly tricked the Devil, Jack was finally laid to rest under the churchyard wall to prevent Satan from taking his soul.

Weaver

Location: Guildtown (Perth and Kinross) - St Martins Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After the sale of this church, local media reported that the site had the reputation as being haunted by a minister's wife who was also a weaver.

White Figure

Location: Guisborough (North Yorkshire) - St Nicholas' Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A group of youths in want of playing a joke on the new sexton wrapped themselves in white sheets and hid behind a gravestone, lying in wait for the man. Hearing approaching footsteps, the teenagers jumped up - a shrouded figure with a skull for a face starred back at them. What happened next is unclear, but it is safe to assume the stunt was not repeated any time soon. Another ghost story told of this location is that one occupant of a grave was cursed to return each night. To end the haunting, the slab over the grave was covered in an iron chain which prevented the spirit from rising.

Moved

Location: Gunwalloe (Cornwall) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: During construction, the Devil moved the stones each night to where the church now stands.

The Duke of Lauderdale

Location: Haddington (Lothian) - St Mary's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This former duke is seen in the church and has been blamed for disturbing his own coffin in the crypt.

Pleasant Old Man

Location: Hadstock (Essex) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s onwards
Further Comments: Little is known about this ghost, but his company is said to be non-threatening.

John Middleton

Location: Hale (Cheshire) - Churchyard
Type: Other
Date / Time: Grave still present
Further Comments: The grave of Middleton can be found here, a local hero who stood around 282 centimetres tall.

Shady Figure

Location: Halford (Warwickshire) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: This spectre was seen by two women taking a walk during winter.

Strange Figure

Location: Halifax (West Yorkshire) - Halifax's Square Church spire
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: March 2005
Further Comments: A photograph taken by Anthony Finnigan, part of the team working on repairing the spire, revealed a strange figure hovering in the tower. Foreman Barry Done said that his team were now to scared to work in the area alone.

Headless Man

Location: Halifax (West Yorkshire) - Parish Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This church is said to be haunted by a decapitated figure, most likely a priest.

Glowing Windows

Location: Hampreston (Dorset) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Named as haunted by Elliott O'Donnell, though the ghost hunter admitted that the windows which sometimes glowed at night could just be reflecting the light of the moon.

Old Tanner

Location: Hampstead Norreys (Berkshire) - Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This figure has been observed drifting amongst the gravestones.