The Paranormal Database

Grey Lady

Location: Cuckney (Nottinghamshire) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom female is said to lurk around the pews running down the right hand side of the church.

Witch's Footprint

Location: Culross (Fife) - Stone on common land and/or first floor of the church steeple
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: This stone was used as a launch pad by a flying witch - her push off point is marked by her footprint.

Green Lady

Location: Curdworth (West Midlands) - St Nicholas Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly tall woman, wearing a green dress, is said to search the graveyard for the remains of her Royalist husband. The second myth from this church concerns a great treasure that is said to have been buried here along with human remains from a Civil War battle. Unfortunately, the hoard is protected by a headless phantom that intervenes if anyone comes too close to discovering it.

Game of Shinty

Location: Dalarossie, Inverness (Highland) - Land near the local church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December, when it falls on a Sunday (reoccurring)
Further Comments: These people, during life, made the mistake of playing sports when Christmas day fell on a Sabbath. Now they all return from the grave for a quick game once a year.

A soapy 'person'.

Soap Bubble People

Location: Dallington (Northamptonshire) - Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1907
Further Comments: Two girls entering this church found it to be full of people, though they appeared to be made of a material like 'soap bubbles'.

Devil in Disguise

Location: Danbury (Essex) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: 1492
Further Comments: During a violent storm, a ghostly monk appeared during Mass in the church. At the same time, the roof shook with such force that it was feared it would collapse. Some say the monk was the devil in disguise, and he returned a short time later, left scorch marks on the north door, and stole the bell.

Mother & Child Statue

Location: Darlaston (West Midlands) - St Lawrence's Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The child from this statue has been seen leaving the mother figure and walking off. The piece of art has also reportedly glowed in the dark, while a white phantom monk has also been observed in the churchyard.

Peddler

Location: Darley Dale (Derbyshire) - Ghost Lane, runs past the churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom peddler who haunts this lane is said to have been murdered on the spot during the Seventeenth Century.

Drowned Lad

Location: Dearham (Cumbria) - Area around St Mungo's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: The story of the area being haunted by a lad who drowned in the nearby river may date back dozens of years. A soaking wet boy was seen by one witness standing by a bus stop near the Sun Inn - after initially walking past, the witness turned to offer help to the dishevelled child, but he had vanished.

Choir

Location: Deddington (Oxfordshire) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (but pre 1950s)
Further Comments: Villagers heard the church organ and a choir singing in the church but found the building empty and quiet when they entered.

Monk and Friends

Location: Denham St Mary (Suffolk) - Denham Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century?
Further Comments: Several shades haunt this area, including a phantom monk who walks around an old path and a ghostly woman seen stepping from the church gate.

George

Location: Denholme (West Yorkshire) - Private home formerly St Paul's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2020
Further Comments: Owner Debs Kennedy-Tallis witnessed a ghostly figure, nicknamed George, enter the bell tower. During renovation, two workers refused to lay flooring near the tower due to a presence.

Lifting Ring

Location: Denton (Lincolnshire) - Welby vault in the church
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1815
Further Comments: The iron ring on the door of the Welby vault was said to raise and fall unaided prior to a death in the family. It was last seen to move by the family's governess, just prior to Sir William dying. The ring was removed shortly after the death.

Black Tom of Scothill

Location: Dewsbury (West Yorkshire) - Dewsbury Parish Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Black Tom is the name of the bell in the church and is tolled the number of the year (ie, in 2007 it was tolled 2007 times) to ensure Old Nick does not visit the village during the following twelve months. The last peal must occur on the stroke of midnight to ensure success.

Choir

Location: Didling (Sussex) - St Andrew's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: Phantom singing heard here includes both a choir and a single solitary voice, heard at different times.

Twenty Five Clangs

Location: Didlington (Norfolk) - Church
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 14 November 1956
Further Comments: A local policeman reported the bells of the locked church rang 25 times, marking the anniversary of the death of a landowner. The officer entered the church to investigate, finding the bell rope swinging, but no one there.

Disease Cure

Location: Didsbury (Lancashire) - Well in churchyard (may no longer be present)
Type: Other
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: A well here was said to cure disease. People would also leave pins close to it for luck.

Grey Pony

Location: Digby (Lincolnshire) - Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The churchyard is haunted by a man who rides around on a grey (or white) pony. A local superstition says that anyone who runs backwards around the tomb of Robert Cooke will hear crockery rattling in the grave.

Dodechild

Location: Dode (Kent) - Church, and general area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Every seven years (although exact date of the cycle is unknown)
Further Comments: The Black Death of 1349 decimated the village of Dode. A piece of (likely modern) folklore says a young girl hid in the church while the rest of the village caught the illness, although she would also later die. The girl became known as the Dodechild and would manifest every seven years. A local legend claims a plague pit near the church is also haunted.

St Peter's Church, Dorchester.

Nathaniel Templeman

Location: Dorchester (Dorset) - St Peter's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 or 25 December 1814
Further Comments: A former rector, Templeman is only said to materialise to protect the church and its property against thieves and vandals. He was also seen in 1814 by two churchwardens as they rested after decorating the church - they made the mistake of drinking communion wine to warm themselves up, and Templeman manifested to shake his head at them before floating along the north aisle and disappearing.

Deconstruction

Location: Dorrington (Lincolnshire) - Church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church was due to be constructed in the heart of the village, but after building work was demolished three days running and the largest stone moved to the top of a nearby hill, the workers constructed the building at the site where it now stands. Another legend says that if you peer through the keyhole on certain nights of the year, the Devil can be seen playing marbles. Finally, the ghost of a bride will occasionally walk from the church door and follow the path to the road, where she vanishes.

Hooded Monk

Location: Dover (Kent) - Roman lighthouse, near St Mary in Castro Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Both a ghostly monk in a dark habit and a phantom Roman soldier forever walk the area.

Talking Cross

Location: Dovercourt (Essex) - Dovercourt church
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This church once contained a cross that spoke - it is reported that often it was impossible to enter the building as so many people flocked to the cross to listen.

Marriage Tree

Location: Doveridge (Derbyshire) - Churchyard
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Maid Marian and Robin Hood are said to have been married under the old yew tree which stands in the churchyard.

Plunkett

Location: Drogheda (County Louth) - Saint Peter's Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: March 2010
Further Comments: Author Vikki Bramshaw claimed to have video recorded the ghost of Saint Oliver Plunkett, although there is a chance the ghost is a reflection. The ghost had not been seen before nor since.