The Paranormal Database

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.

Bride

Location: Laindon (Essex) - St Nicholas Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom woman who haunts the site is reputedly a bride who, in the dim and distant past, fell down the stairs leaving the church and broke her neck.

2007-2022

Location: Landcross (Devon) - House near the church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007-2022
Further Comments: Phantoms were blamed when children could be heard playing outside after dark, which playsets left in a garden moved around. A woman in white was also spotted, reflected in a lounge mirror. The house was blessed after unexplained bangs were heard.

Young Woman & Man in Tweed

Location: Langenhoe (Essex) - Langenhoe Church (no longer standing - area is denoted by the overgrown graveyard)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s, 1950s
Further Comments: The woman was first seen in the 1940's, appearing quite normal before she disappeared into a corner of the church. A rector also felt the phantom's naked form push hard against him. She is believed to have been murdered by a former rector. A phantom man dressed in a tweed suit was seen once in 1950, walking along the nave.

Misty Woman

Location: Langley (Berkshire) - Old almshouse near the church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1940s
Further Comments: A woman and her three children living at this almshouse heard knocks and bangs at night. A misty figure was also seen standing by a bookcase and standing over one of the children's beds. A medium, Mr Plume, managed to calm the spirit and it was never seen or heard again.

Reverend John Arundel-Radford

Location: Lapford (Devon) - St Thomas's Church and neighbourhood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1867 onwards
Further Comments: This psychotic Reverend murdered his curate (but was later acquitted) and demanded that his own body be buried inside his church after his death. This was not to be, and as revenge the Reverend's ghost now stalks the area.

Footsteps

Location: Laughton (8 miles south of Scunthorpe) (Lincolnshire) - All Saint's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Mysterious footsteps, belonging to a small group of ghostly people, have been heard coming down the staircase in the church tower. A builder repairing the tower refused to work alone after twice encountering the footfalls.

Kergrim

Location: Launceston (Cornwall) - St Mary Magdalene Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghoul-like Kergrim reportedly frequents this plot of land. Another local myth told of this graveyard is a morbid remedy for a stiff neck - during the last three days of May, the inflected person should visit the grave of the most recently deceased of the opposite sex to collect dew to be rubbed on the sore area.

Lawford Church, Essex.

Bride on Other's Photographs

Location: Lawford (Essex) - Church on the hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: Appearing on three wedding photographs (though none have been published to the author's knowledge), this ghostly bride is said to have died of a broken heart after discovering her husband had been killed when his horse bolted on route to their wedding. In addition, chanting has sometimes been heard coming from the church as it stands empty.

Glowing Gravestone

Location: Lawshall (Suffolk) - Churchyard
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Two men reportedly saw a glowing gravestone whilst returning from the pub one evening, though when they returned the following day, they could find no trace of any gravestone that resembled the stone that they had seen.

Footsteps

Location: Laxton (Nottinghamshire) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Strange sounds were once heard coming from this church, including footsteps and loud bangs. A ghostly figure was observed by one parson.

Voice of Lord Marney

Location: Layer Marney (Essex) - Layer Marney Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Easter (or May) (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Legend says that the voice of Lord Marney can be heard echoing around the church.

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.

Relocated Church

Location: Leake (North Yorkshire) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Legend says that this church was supposed to be built on top of a local hill, but the Devil insisted on moving the building materials overnight.

Former Monk

Location: Leatherhead (Surrey) - St Mary and St Nicholas parish church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 1950s
Further Comments: An older church worker told the sexton that a monk-like figure had passed through the church and disappeared through a bricked up doorway in the north wall. The sexton claimed that footsteps would follow him while walking up the aisle, and ceased upon reaching the chancel. Another story claimed a Victorian woman would occasionally appear in the organ loft, looking for the organist who died too bashful to declare his love for her.

Two Children

Location: Leeds (West Yorkshire) - Private residence near a churchyard, Kirkstall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 1993
Further Comments: Two small children appeared at a witness's bedside in the night. Both children were very still and looking at the witness's girlfriend. The witness started to wake her, but terror prevented him. Not wanting to take his eyes off the children, the witness tried to reach the light switch but could not find the button. The children vanished and the witness stayed awake until dawn.

Golden Haired Woman

Location: Leeds (West Yorkshire) - St Mark's Church, Woodhouse
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa October 1900
Further Comments: A crowd of people gathered to watch a ghostly female figure spotted outside the church, described as having golden hair and sparkling eyes. A woman arrested nearby was named as the 'ghost' and promptly placed in gaol for drunkenness.

Woman

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - St Margaret's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1964
Further Comments: One 1960s psychical researcher claimed the church tower to be haunted by a woman who had fallen from the structure.

Hooded Figure

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Cathedral Church of St Martin (aka Leicester Cathedral)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Figure unknown, bells circa 1800
Further Comments: This hooded phantom was said to glide around the churchyard and periodically kneel with its head on the ground, as if listening to the earth. Around the start of the nineteenth century, two houses on the site became home to bells which would ring without visible cause.

Changing Shape

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Freewheeler Club, Churchgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1972
Further Comments: An exorcist was summoned to this building after staff reported seeing a strange ghost which would change shape.

Leiston Churchyard, Suffolk.

Gallytrot Leaping over Wall

Location: Leiston (Suffolk) - Near Churchyard
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: Seen by Lady Rendlesham and Lady Walsingham, the shuck appeared at midnight, leapt over the low churchyard wall, and disappeared towards the sand hills.

An old magic lantern slide showing the inside of Lelant church.

Relocation

Location: Lelant (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 church was also said to have been the site of a fairy funeral, witnessed by a fisherman returning home late at night and drawn to the church after seeing the lights on.

Man with Goatee

Location: Lenton (Nottinghamshire) - Church of St Anthony
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid-to-late-twentieth century
Further Comments: This church was said to be home to a phantom man with a goatee. An exorcism performed on the site was said to have been unsuccessful.

Evil Short Man

Location: Leominster (Herefordshire) - Grange by the Priory Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Mid 1970s, summer
Further Comments: Something 'male, short and see-through' was said to have jumped on a wall here, scattering the parents and children playing in the area. One witness was said to have called the thing 'absolutely evil'.

Monk

Location: Leominster (Herefordshire) - Priory Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A hooded figure was observed by one woman. She said that the figure's face was unseen, but the entity's sandals were highly detailed.