The Paranormal Database

Grey Lady

Location: Handsworth (South Yorkshire) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen standing at the front of the church, the lady in grey quickly vanishes once seen.

Nun

Location: Hanham Abbots (Gloucestershire) - General area, but mainly around the church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The roads of this small village are reportedly haunted by the shade of a nun. A white woman also stalks the area, though this may be the same entity.

Monk

Location: Hannington (Wiltshire) - St John the Baptist Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: A ghostly, monk-like figure was seen in the church by two witnesses.

Drumming

Location: Harpham (North Yorkshire) - Area of the church
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to a death in the St Quinton family
Further Comments: Tom Hewson was killed by a member of the St Quinton's in the 1300s - ever since then he can be heard beating his drum prior to a death in the family. Some report that the drumming emanates from a well.

Woman in a Robe

Location: Haseley (Warwickshire) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Seen several times, this shade is said to cross the nearby road with total disregard for traffic.

Muffled Organ Music

Location: Hassingham (Norfolk) - St Mary's Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A family out for an early morning drive stopped by the church and listened to the music coming from it for several minutes before deciding to enter. As they pushed open the front door, the music stopped, and they could find no one inside.

Built by the Devil

Location: Hastings (Sussex) - Church, Hollington
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local legend says that this church was erected by Old Nick himself, though his motives are unclear.

Little John

Location: Hathersage (Derbyshire) - Churchyard
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: The grave of one of Robin Hood's merry men, Little John, is said to be in this place of rest - the area where the body lies is three meters long. His longbow was once on display in the church but was removed in 1729.

Dwarf

Location: Haughley (Suffolk) - Railway line running past church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A woman travelling by train watched a small man dressed in clothing from two hundred years ago emerge briefly from the floor of the carriage before sinking back.

Neighbours

Location: Haxey (Lincolnshire) - Church
Type: Manifestation of the Living
Date / Time: 24 April (St Mark's Eve) (reoccurring), but year of event unknown
Further Comments: Two men camped out by the porch to see if the legend were true; whether the phantoms of people due to die over the following twelve months would appear upon this night. After one man fell asleep, the other watched as ghostly manifestations of neighbours he recognised, including the man sleeping next to him, walked through the porch. Sure enough, over the following year, everyone he spotted died.

An animated corpse, from a Scottish chapbook.

Flying Corpses

Location: Hayfield (Derbyshire) - St Matthew's Church
Type: Other
Date / Time: 31 August 1754
Further Comments: On this fateful day, hundreds of bodies in the churchyard left their graves and flew into the air, singing as they headed toward the clouds (and, one assumes, heaven).

Sailor

Location: Hayling Island (Hampshire) - Church, Northney
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom sailor is said to walk this area.

Quaker

Location: Hereford (Herefordshire) - Churchill Gardens
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 2002
Further Comments: Passing through the gardens on the way home, a witness described the phantom Quaker which he encountered as taking more form the longer he looked at it. The entity appeared to be pointing in the direction he was walking.

Green Monk

Location: Hertford (Hertfordshire) - Small church on Goldings Estate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Cloaked in green robes, a monk-like figure was seen by one witness for a few seconds before vanishing.

Headless Highwayman

Location: Hickleton (South Yorkshire) - Area near the church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This ghostly figure still rides his horse, still seeking his head that was taken from him as punishment for his crimes.

Loud Footsteps

Location: Higham Ferrers (Northamptonshire) - Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1994
Further Comments: A witness reported hearing disembodied footfalls which scared him away while photographing the building. Earlier the same day, he and two others had heard strange sounds coming from the tower.

The lesser-known tree Grampus.

Grampus

Location: Highclere (Hampshire) - Church
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A tree in the churchyard was home to a Grampus, a kind of water loving animal like a dolphin. After upsetting the locals (by harassing their teenage daughters), a priest was called in and banished the creature for a thousand years.

Previous Priest

Location: Highworth (Wiltshire) - St Michael's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s / 1940s (priest) and 1970s (woman)
Further Comments: The pale phantom priest has been seen peering into the church. Closer examination of his face reveals he has not one - just a grey coloured bumpy surface with two darker tones where his eyes should be. Another story says the area is home to a ghastly woman who only has dark empty sockets where her eyes should be.

Headless Men

Location: Hill Deverill (Wiltshire) - Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Headless figures are said to appear around the churchyard, their motives unknown.

Old Coker

Location: Hill Deverill (Wiltshire) - Gun's Church (or Gunschurch) barrow
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: Even though he died in 1730, Henry Coker is said to still ride his horse, follow his hounds, rattle his chains and blow his hunting horn in the area.

Bleeding Stone

Location: Hinckley (Leicestershire) - Churchyard, grave of Richard Smith
Type: Other
Date / Time: 12 April (reoccurring), or 'when the first green shows on the poplar trees'
Further Comments: Once a year this gravestone is reported to leak blood - Richard was murdered by an army recruiting sergeant in 1727. An old folklore book says that the effect was caused by red sandstone being washed away by the rain. The church itself is home to phantom footsteps, believed to belong to a monk.

Relocated

Location: Hinderwell (North Yorkshire) - Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church was due to be built in a nearby field, but all the building materials would be moved overnight to the location where it now stands.

Unknown

Location: Hinton (Gloucestershire) - Aging chapel along Church Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area of the lane is said to be haunted by a ghostly figure, though the exact details are not forthcoming.

Banished

Location: Hobkirk (Borders) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth century
Further Comments: This church was haunted by shades unknown, but they were exorcised by a local minister.

Card Players

Location: Holbeach (Lincolnshire) - All Saint's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A small gambling party of men were caught by Satan playing cards in the churchyard. The four shades now glimpsed in the porch of the church remain a warning to any who dare do the same. The ghost of Sir Humphrey Littlebury also haunts the building.