The Paranormal Database

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.

Moll's Stone

Location: Llowes (Powys) - Moll Walbee's Stone (aka St. Meilig's Cross, on display in the church)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: Moll Wallbee, also known as Matilda de Braose and Maud de Braose, was said to be a giantess who married William de Braose, the Forth Lord of Bramber. While carrying stones in her apron (to rebuild a castle), one fell into her shoe. She picked it out and tossed it into the churchyard of Llowes, some three miles from where she stood.

Stone Witch

Location: Long Compton (Warwickshire) - Church
Type: Other
Date / Time: Tomb still present
Further Comments: A tombstone in the church is said to be either a petrified witch, or someone a witch turned to stone. Visitors are supposed to be able to feel the stone staring at them as they circumambulate the church.

Talking Skulls

Location: Long Melford (Suffolk) - Churchyard
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend speaks of a pair of skulls which once resided in the churchyard which would chatter away after dark.

Pins to See

Location: Loose (Kent) - All Saints church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church is reputedly home to two ghosts that can only be seen after one has stuck a pin in a yew tree in the churchyard and quickly circumambulated the church thirteen times.

An old woodcut of a knight on horseback slaying a dragon.

Dragon of Aller

Location: Low Ham (Somerset) - Church
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church is home to a spear that was used to kill a local dragon which lived in Athelney Fens - the creature snacked on the local livestock until a local hero bore arms against the beast.

Assault

Location: Lower Gornal (West Midlands) - St James' Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1881
Further Comments: Ghostly voices had been heard in the churchyard and the local vicar was assaulted by an unknown force. An exorcism finally disposed of the entities.

Demonic Attack

Location: Ludgvan (Cornwall) - Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The spire of this church was once torn down by a devil during a storm. The church yard is also haunted by a tall figure in white.

Tall Grey Woman

Location: Ludlow (Shropshire) - St Lawrence's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This elderly female wearing a dressing gown runs around the graves after dark, occasionally heard screaming.

Murmurs

Location: Lychett Matravers (Dorset) - Church path - the Whispering Corner
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area is reportedly so haunted that one can go at any time of the day and night and listen in to the quiet whispers of the dead.

Knelling Woman

Location: Lydgate (West Yorkshire) - St Ann's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2009
Further Comments: A freelance photographer caught an image of a misty woman kneeling by a gravestone at this churchyard. He later returned to the location and found that the grave at which the woman was photographed belonged to a child who died in the 1800s.

Cowled Figure

Location: Lydiard Tregoze (Wiltshire) - St Mary's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The grey spook wearing a cowl was spotted in the corner of the church when the building should have been empty. Unworldly organ music and singing has also been reported after the building has been locked at night.

Wish Steps

Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Church of St Michael and All Angels
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Local legend says that if you can run up the cobbled steps in one breath you will receive anything you wish for.

White Figure

Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Large, private house near churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1958
Further Comments: A family moved out of their home after seeing a white figure with a grotesque face in one of the rooms - the two witnesses knocked a door from its hinges while trying to escape the entity.

Horses

Location: Maesteg (Mid Glamorgan) - St David's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A legend once said that horses were driven around the area of the church by an invisible entity. Fire emerging from the horses' nostrils would be blamed for darkened grass and the flaking paint on fencing. In the same area, a phantom donkey was said to have been banished after a man kicked the creature.

Smallpox Victims

Location: Maidstone (Kent) - Holy Trinity Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Three young girls, the daughters of a local vicar, died of smallpox on the same day and are believed to haunt the graveyard. They were last seen by a woman walking her dog in the area.

Candle Carrier

Location: Malew (Isle of Man) - Parish Church
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa 1900
Further Comments: The church had a brief reputation for being haunted by an entity which carried a candle through the building at night. The reverend put the ghost to bed after pointing out the lighthouse beam hit the church, causing the lighting effect.

An old woodcut of a woman hanging from a tree.

Elizabeth Thomas

Location: Marazion (Cornwall) - St Hiliary's Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Hanging herself after being jilted by her lover, Elizabeth was said to appear at the church on the day her former partner was due to marry another woman.

South of the River

Location: March (Cambridgeshire) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Church still present
Further Comments: The villagers of March wanted their church in the village, but the Devil felt so passionately about his fenland he moved the construction materials across the river.

Moved Materials

Location: Marrick (North Yorkshire) - Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church was due to be constructed upon the hill by the village, but each time construction was to begin, stones and mortar were moved a half mile out of the village. After the third time, the architect gave up and built it where the materials were left.

An old photograph showing the doorway of Marske by the Sea Church.

Reconstructing Building

Location: Marske by the Sea (North Yorkshire) - Church
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It is said that the church here was once pulled down to make way for a new building - after the last brick was removed and night fell, the church rebuilt itself; the builders took the hint, and the church has remained standing ever since. It was said that the hobman, a type of fairy, was responsible.

Dropped Church

Location: Marston Moretaine (Bedfordshire) - St Mary the Virgin church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Devil tried to steal the bell tower, but found it too heavy and dropped it after several steps - church and tower remain separated to this day.

Choirman

Location: Marton (Lincolnshire) - Church of St Margaret of Antioch
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid-twentieth century
Further Comments: A ghostly old man dressed in green, spotted by the vicar on many occasions during his Sunday services, was later identified as a former choirman who had died at the end of the nineteenth century.

Moved Stones

Location: Matching (Essex) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Devil tried to prevent the church from being built by moving stones at night, but he ultimately failed.