The Paranormal Database

Angel, by Giorgio Ghisi.

White Pigs

Location: Nevern (Dyfed) - Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church was due to be constructed close to the river, but an angel appeared and advised that building work should occur at a site where a white pig would be seen. The advice was taken; a white sow and her white piglets were discovered where the church now stands.

Bleeding Yew

Location: Nevern (Dyfed) - Yew Tree in churchyard
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: The second yew tree on the right on entering the churchyard is known as the Bleeding Tree - blood can be seen dripping from the stump left by a severed branch.

Walker

Location: New Ross (County Wexford) - St Mary's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 2021
Further Comments: A photograph taken of the church at night revealed a blurred female form walking on a path. Although the 'phantom' is likely a real person caught at a slow shutter speed, several mediums stated the woman's spirit to be trapped in the wall outside the church.

Monk with Long Face

Location: Newby (North Yorkshire) - Newby Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1963
Further Comments: Another famous photograph of a ghost was taken in this church; Reverend Ken Lord shot an image which showed a tall thin monk with black hollow eyes standing in front of an altar.

Girl in Blue Dress

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear) - St Andrew's Churchyard
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: A young curate who fell in love with the daughter of a local landowner was now about to set off to see the lass at home when he spotted her walking around the churchyard. The man ran into the churchyard, but she had vanished. The following day he discovered that she had died at home during the night. Though it is said she still walks the area, none have seen her recently.

Newcastle Cathedral.

Knight

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear) - St Nicholas Church (now Newcastle Cathedral)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1882
Further Comments: Before this church became Newcastle Cathedral, there were reports of a tall shadowy knight who would walk around day and night, vanishing around corners and pillars. The clank of ghostly armour was also heard.

All Saints Church, Newcastle.

Jack the Beadle

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear) - All Saints Church, Quayside
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Jack was a well-liked member of the community before being caught and tried for removing and selling lead from coffins. A local legend now places Jack's ghost in the churchyard.

Detail from Salvator Rosa's painting Scenes of Witchcraft Evening.

Evil Eye

Location: Newchurch (Lancashire) - Local church
Type: Other
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: This holy building has a large blue eye built into it, to protect against witches and other evils.

Footsteps

Location: Newchurch in Pendle (Lancashire) - St Mary's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 12 June 2024, 16:10h
Further Comments: After spotting a black figure standing over one of the graves, a witness started to walk away, only to realise she was being followed down the pathway towards the entrance. The witness heard footsteps close behind so moved to one side, allowing the person to pass. However, when no one appeared, the witness realised the immediate area to be devoid of life.

Invisible Guardians

Location: Newchurch in Rossendale (Lancashire) - Church
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Invisible workmen, who also guarded over the site, worked on the construction of this church. The entities could only be seen by one woman who provided them with water.

Devil's Hoof

Location: Newington (Kent) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A hoof print is visible in a stone by the gate. The Devil was once so upset by the sound of the church bells, he climbed the steeple with the intent of stealing them; he slipped and fell, leaving the single piece of evidence behind.

Blue Lady

Location: Newport (Gwent) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A lady wearing a blue dress or veil is seen in a church yard where a local tsunami washed away many of the graves. It is thought that the phantom woman once lived in the village and would look out of the church tower towards the sea, hoping for her sailor husband to return.

Tapping

Location: Newton Longville (Buckinghamshire) - Telephone box outside St Faith's Church graveyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Users of this telephone box have reported the sound of footsteps walking up to it and someone rapping on the glass, even though nothing can be seen.

Headless Torso

Location: Ninfield (Sussex) - Churchyard & area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A disagreement between two brothers ended abruptly when one decapitated the other with a scythe in the churchyard here - the headless brother has been known to make comeback appearances.

Ghost in Waiting

Location: North Leigh (Oxfordshire) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Not as yet!
Further Comments: Two effigies within the church, Sir William Wilcote and his wife Lady Elizabeth Blacket, are said to have once had their hands close together, but now they farther away. When the distance becomes too great, the Lady Blacket will return to haunt the village.

Moved Foundations

Location: North Otterington (North Yorkshire) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church here was intended to be built closer to Thornton-le-Moor but the Devil moved the stones to where the church was finally constructed.

Rain Summoning

Location: North Uist (Outer Hebrides) - Cross shaped stone near St Mary's Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It was once believed that by raising this stone, rain would fall, which would then cease when lowered again.

Foggy Figure

Location: Northampton (Northamptonshire) - St Giles' Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1965
Further Comments: A schoolboy and his friends spotted the upper half of a 'foggy grey' figure in front of the alter, moving towards the windows of the church. The witnesses all fled.

Voices in the Vestry

Location: Northian (Sussex) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: These voices, heard behind the closed and locked door of the vestry, always fall silent if investigated.

The Black Shuck.

Church Dog

Location: Northorpe (Lincolnshire) - Churchyard
Type: Werewolf
Date / Time: Circa early to mid nineteenth century
Further Comments: This churchyard is rumoured to be the haunt of the black shuck, which may have been a shape-changing local wizard. Another tale says the dog's remains were bricked up in the church walls and he is nothing more than a folk memory of the interment.

Ringing

Location: Northwold (Norfolk) - Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 14 November 1956
Further Comments: A policeman cycling through the village was surprised to hear the church bell ringing. The bell rang a total of twenty five times and stopped as the officer approached the church. The door was locked, and there was no one inside, but the bell rope was gently swinging.

Old Lady

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Church Cemetery (also known as Rock Cemetery)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Old lady unknown, Victorian in 1960s
Further Comments: An elderly phantom lady is said to haunt this area, fading away after being spotted. The area is also haunted by a Victorian woman, who when last seen, vanished suddenly.

Lady in White

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Colwick Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1831 onwards
Further Comments: Seen wandering around the gate of the church, this woman in white is thought to be looking for an unknown item. The ruined church itself is home to a tall man who has been seen standing at the location the altar once stood.

Lifted Candlestick

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - St Peter's church, Radford
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Late 1960s
Further Comments: Rev James Lemon claimed a heavy brass candlestick was lifted and dropped, landing around five foot (1.52 metres) from the table on which it had stood. A local paper reported other strange events had occurred at the church, including a vestry door opening unaided.

Hood's Victims

Location: Nottinghamshire (Nottinghamshire) - St Michael's churchyard
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Discovered nineteenth century
Further Comments: Thirteen skeletons unearthed in the churchyard were thought to be foresters that were executed by Robin Hood. A crossbow bolt was found in the skull of one body, seemingly contradicting the fact that Hood and his men were said to use longbows.