The Paranormal Database

Old Man in Blue

Location: Linlithgow (Lothian) - St Michael's church
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 1513
Further Comments: This apparition, wearing blue and holding a staff, appeared before King James IV and warned him he would lose the Battle of Flodden.

Mound Building Sisters

Location: Linton (Borders) - Hill on which the church stands
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A man who killed a priest had his life spared on the condition his two sisters build a mound on which a new church would stand. The completed the task, although one of the sisters promptly died upon his release (either from exhaustion or joy).

Monk

Location: Linton (North Yorkshire) - St Michael's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This solitary figure is occasionally seen drifting around the church.

Alice

Location: Little Baddow (Essex) - Grace's Walk, pond near Little Baddow church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Lady Alice took her own life in the 1610's, after her horrid uncle pushed her too far... She is now seen near the pond in which she drowned.

Betty Bury

Location: Little Wakering (Essex) - Hall, Wick Meadow, and the area behind the church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Reported to have hanged herself in Little Wakering Hall, her shade now haunts the area.

Funeral March

Location: Little Warley (Essex) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1929
Further Comments: Residents could hear the church organ playing a funeral march, although the building was unlit. The area tended to be avoided because a nearby house had a reputation as being haunted. The village rector said the 'music' could be the noise of traffic from a nearby road.

Footprints

Location: Llanarth (Dyfed) - Llanarth church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown (footsteps still present?)
Further Comments: Up to his nightly no-good antics, the Devil entered this church, scaled the tower and tried to steal the bells. The vicar witnessed this and managed to drive the Devil away - the Horned One jumped from the bell tower, leaving an impression of his foot on a stone in the graveyard.

An Image from An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents.

Church Dragon

Location: Llandeilo Graban (Dyfed) - Llandelio Graban church
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This dragon, which made its home in the church tower, was killed by a local lad. The boy made a dummy dragon out of oak and covered it in steel spikes - the real dragon attacked the model, impaling itself on the spikes and dying of its injuries.

Fad Felen

Location: Llandrillo-yn-Rhos (Rhos-on-Sea) (Clwyd) - Church
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Maelgwn Gwynedd was said to have died after looking through the keyhole of the church door and spotting the beast known as Fad Felen. The monster was said to have emerged from the saltwater marsh and have gold-like eyes, teeth and hair.

Cloaked Figure

Location: Llandrindod Wells (Powys) - Bridge near Disserth church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 01 June 2008, 22:42h
Further Comments: A figure wearing a cloak with hood was spotted by a driver and his passenger while driving over the bridge.

Waving Man

Location: Llanfaelrhys (Gwynedd) - Close to St Maelrhys Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: May 2018, between 22:00h - 03:00h
Further Comments: A strange tall man was spotted waving at cars during the night.

Grabbing Stone

Location: Llanfaes (Gwynedd) - Church (no longer standing)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Circa twelfth century
Further Comments: A boy who tried to raid a pigeon's nest for its eggs was caught and held fast by a stone. After his parents prayed for three days and nights, the boy was released. The boy's handprint remained on the stone.

The Drowned

Location: Llanfaglan (Gwynedd) - Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The shades of everyone whose bodies have been found along the coast near the village walk towards the church on a certain day in June, vanishing as they reach their graves.

Man in Grey

Location: Llanfwrog (near Ruthin) (Clwyd) - Cafe attached to village church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October 1950
Further Comments: A research group visited this location to investigate a reported poltergeist, although the party encountered an old man dressed in grey who spoke in Welsh. The entity claimed to be a former landlord named Owen Roberts and, and a little chat, the ghost agreed to leave the building. It was later discovered that a local man named Owen Roberts had died in 1800.

Relocated

Location: Llangan (South Glamorgan) - Church
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church was supposed to have been built another field, but other entities had different ideas; every night the previous day's building progress was deconstructed and relocated to the site where the church now stands.

Dancing Fairies

Location: Llangua (Gwent) - Llangua church, fields behind
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Witnesses here watched a troupe of fairies dancing in the fields behind the village church. Once the merriment ceased, the fairies headed off towards the wood.

Engraving of the Devil, 1895.

Stolen by the Devil

Location: Llangyfelach (West Glamorgan) - Church with separate tower
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Devil stole the tower of the church but Saint Cyfelach caught him and forced Old Nick to drop it a short distance away.

Giant Rib

Location: Llangynog (Powys) - St Melangell's Church, Pennant Melangell
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A rather large rib, thought to belong to a mammoth, was once said to belong to a giant or Saint Melangell. The saint was famous for saving a hare from a hunt, and local superstition prevented anyone from hare hunting near the church.

Phantom Female

Location: Llangynwyd (Mid Glamorgan) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church is reportedly home to a ghostly young woman.

Thigh Stone

Location: Llanidan (Gwynedd) - Old Church of St Nidan
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Stone no longer present
Further Comments: A thigh shaped stone could once be found at the church and would magically return to the site if removed. In the twelfth century, an earl took the strange stone, chained it to a rock, and had it tossed into the sea. The following day, the thigh stone had returned; the earl instructed that no one should try to remove the stone again. It is thought the stone was stolen during the eighteenth century and this time the stone never returned home.

A dog-headed figure from the Nuremberg Chronical (1493)

Tall Man

Location: Llanilar (Dyfed) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: One of several churches in Wales where the Devil was once said to have appeared in the form of a man with an evil looking face (or the head of a dog), with his appearance causing illness to witnesses.

Teulu

Location: Llanllwch (Dyfed) - Church lane
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local man claimed to have heard a ghostly funeral, known as Teulu, occur on several occasions. The Teulu would occur prior to a death in the neighbourhood and would be a pre-enactment of the burial.

Hatless Man

Location: Llanmadoc (West Glamorgan) - Church and surrounding area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 27 January 1868
Further Comments: During choir practice, Rev John David Davies was disturbed by a scream coming from the graveyard. A young man said he had seen 'a man without a hat' look through his window. Eighteen ships had been wrecked in Broughton Bay, and it was thought the hatless figure to be one of the many sailors who had died.

Auditory Warning

Location: Llantwit Major (South Glamorgan) - General area, and church
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Before a death in the neighbourhood
Further Comments: The ringing of this phantom bell can be heard over the house or building where the death shall occur. Before the funeral of the person, strange noises can be heard in the church - if anyone is brave enough to peep into the building, they can see the forms of everyone who is due to die during the year.

Tall Man

Location: Lledrod (Dyfed) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: One of several churches in Wales where the Devil was once said to have appeared in the form of a man with an evil looking face (or the head of a dog), with his appearance causing illness to witnesses.