The Paranormal Database

Black Monk

Location: Leonard Stanley (Gloucestershire) - Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Face concealed under a large hood, this shade frequents the graveyard, though has not been seen in recent years. A nun was also said to haunt the site.

Busy Madam Gould

Location: Lew Trenchard (Devon) - Countryside around area, Galford Down, and village church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid 1800s
Further Comments: A hard worker during her life, after death she was seen on a plough in a field that she once owned. She has also been seen sitting under a tree in her garden, crossing Galford Down, chasing people who stole apples from her lands, chasing the man who disturbed her tomb in the local church, and frequenting the edge of a nearby mine shaft.

Thrower

Location: Lewes (Sussex) - All Saint's Church Hall
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Summer 1974
Further Comments: A drummer was left to lock the building up after he and other musicians had used the hall for practice. As the man packed up his drum kit, the hall suddenly became very cold, and the drummer had the urge to flee as quickly as possible. Leaving his kit, the man approached the hall doors where something pushed him in the small of the back. He was sent flying out the doors, landing on the outside pavement.

Stone Carrying Cat

Location: Leyland (Lancashire) - Site of St Andrews church (not the original church in the story)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Twelfth century
Further Comments: Locals in the nearby village of Whittle-le Woods wanted to build a church, but night after night their stones vanished and reappeared in Leyland. Two villagers stood guard one evening and watched as a large black cat picked up the stones and carried them away. One of the men tried to fight the cat off, but the creature killed him. The villagers gave in and built the church where it stands today.

Nuns

Location: Lindisfarne (aka Holy Island) (Northumberland) - Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: June 2019
Further Comments: A witness spotted many nuns praying in the church. Mentioning it to a nearby woman, the witness was told the church was empty; no one else had seen the nuns and there was no evidence they had existed.

Ball of Light

Location: Linley (Shropshire) - Church and unknown cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1913/14
Further Comments: Balls of light were seen around the village; one on the church tower and the other passing through a cottage. While the lights were thought to be connected to the phantom white lady said to haunt the area, it could be possible they relate to the geological fault line which runs through the area.

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 that his two sisters build a mound on which a new church would stand. They 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 upon another field, but unknown 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.