The Paranormal Database

Goblin

Location: Glen Mor (Highland) - Glen Gloy
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pesky little fellow his said to be half as high as the average person, and twice as vindictive to any trespassers caught on 'his' land.

A male water spirit emerges from a pool.

Wife Seeker

Location: Glen Roy (Isle of Man) - Nikkesen's Pool
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The home of a beautiful male water spirit, the creature sometimes emerges from the pool looking for a young maiden to kidnap and take as his bride.

Mother Stealing Fairies

Location: Glenmoriston (Highland) - Dundreggan
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The population of little people located here were constantly trying to kidnap mothers who had recently given birth, to act as nannies for their own fairy children.

Sewing Fairies

Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Exact location unknown, old tailor's shop
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The tailor who owned this shop left the mayor's clothing unfinished on Saturday and found it completed on the Monday morning. He used this event to advertise the shop, claiming that the little folk had done the work, though it soon transpired that an assistant had worked on the Sunday to avoid going to church.

The Ridge.

Tom's Fairies

Location: Godshill (Hampshire) - The Ridge, and general area of the New Forest
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 1900s - 1930s
Further Comments: Artist Tom Charman took inspiration from the fairies and elementals that he encountered in the forest. He described the entities as ranging from a few inches to two and a half feet (5cm - 76cm) in hight, and they would be smartly dressed. The fairies could create items by simply thinking about them and also created self-portraits using stone.

Cro Sith

Location: Great Bernera (Outer Hebrides) - Coast
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dun and hornless fairy cattle were once thought to live along the coast of Bernera and under the nearby waters.

Hyter Sprites

Location: Great Melton (Norfolk) - Area once known as Blow Hill, aka Coldblow Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Pre-twentieth century
Further Comments: Hyter Sprites were said to be a beneficent type of fairy, though their homes were avoided after dusk. Hyter Sprites were once believed to live in this part of Great Melton.

Army of Small People

Location: Greeba (Isle of Man) - Greeba Castle, road outside of, & St Trinian's Church
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The fairies here are said to ensure that no one ever builds a roof on the nearby St Trinian's Church. A witness watched a long line of little people dancing down the road, coming from the direction of the church.

Raura Peens

Location: Greenfield (Lancashire) - Pots and Pans Stone
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Early nineteenth century?
Further Comments: Raura Peens, the last fairy of the area, may have appeared to a local man at these stones during the nineteenth century. The fairy tried to lure the witness to her realm (or at least a cave under the area) but failed. Another story said the stones were once home to a giant named Heywood.

Dancing Folk

Location: Grindleton (Lancashire) - Catsteps
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Knee high fairies were once said to use the steps as a stage, dancing along them between sunset and sunrise.

Fairy Holes

Location: Gunnerton (Northamptonshire) - Burn on north side of village
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Pre-twentieth century
Further Comments: The marks found along the channel within the burn were said to have been created by the little people.

A musical pixie.

Pixie Place

Location: Hackpen Hill (Wiltshire) - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hill is still reportedly a home for fairies and other little folk, whose music can be heard as it drifts around the area.

Study for 'In the Woods, Evening', by Alexandre Seon

Fresh Flowers on Grave

Location: Haytor (Devon) - Road between Heatree Cross and Hound Tor Inn
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 1860 onwards
Further Comments: Like many nineteenth century suicides, Mary 'Kitty' Jay was buried at a crossroads. Fresh flowers are reported to be found at the grave, though no one has ever seen them placed, leading some to believe the site is tended by fairies. A floating female figure is also reported to have been seen by the graveside, as has a man draped in a dark blanket.

Hyter Sprite

Location: Hempnall (Norfolk) - Area around Hempnall and Topcroft
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to resemble little people, this area was another home to the fairies known as Hyter Sprites.

Ringing Road

Location: Henllan (Clwyd) - Road close to Caerau
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Early eighteenth century
Further Comments: A dip in the road would ring whenever a cart moved across it. Two men excavated the spot and discovered a secret doorway. They decided to stop for dinner, but as they left the spot, a storm blew up and filled the hole.

Tiny Pilot

Location: Hertford (Hertfordshire) - Exact area not known
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 1929
Further Comments: Either an early UFO or fairy sighting (or maybe both), a brother and sister watched a thirty centimetre long biplane land nearby and a tiny occupant dressed in flying gear waved at them. The aircraft then took off.

Poached Faries

Location: Hoghton (Lancashire) - Hoghton Brow
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local folktale says two poachers fled the area after finding their sack filled with fairies they had unintentionally caught instead of rabbits.

Rabbits and fairies living in harmony.

Fairy Tunnels

Location: Hoghton (Lancashire) - Underground in the area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The rabbits and fairies in this village are said to live side by side in the warrens.

Ruined Twice

Location: Holme on the Wolds (East Riding of Yorkshire) - Church
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Fairies advised the people building a church here to place it at the top of the hill and not at the bottom. The builders ignored the advice and twice found their church in ruins just before completion. They moved their third attempt to the top of the hill, where it remains.

Kindly Fairies

Location: Holmesfield (Derbyshire) - Moorwood's Farm (aka Morewood's Farm)
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown, possibly pre-nineteenth century
Further Comments: A woman who lived at the farm returned from her daughter's funeral to find her home had been tidied and a fire burning in the hearth. The woman believed that the little folk had been at work.

Boggart

Location: Horbury (West Yorkshire) - General area around the village
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: Two people were attacked within weeks of each other by a creature they reported as being ice cold, hairy, with glowing eyes. The area is said to have reports going back hundreds of years of a Boggart creeping around, trying to kill the unwary. This creature should not be confused with the white shuck-like dog, which also haunts the neighbourhood.

Short Fellow

Location: Horbury (West Yorkshire) - Unstated lane
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Sabine Baring-Gould's wife encountered a two foot (sixty centimetre) tall figure dressed in green sitting on a hedge. The woman ran away after the figure began to make strange faces at her.

Angry Little Men

Location: Hoy (Orkney) - Cliff top at Torness
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: Seen by a witness throwing themselves off the cliff edge in a mad dance, the witness said that these small men looked 'primitive', with long dark hair.

Boggart

Location: Huddersfield (West Yorkshire) - Lascells Hall
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A nature spirit has been reported haunting the hall.

Home

Location: Humberstone (Gloucestershire) - Hoston Stone (aka Hoston)
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Stone still present
Further Comments: This large piece of granitic rock was once believed to be the home to fairies. A nineteenth century owner of the land removed part of the stone so his plough could pass over it, but after which his fortune vanished, and he died in a poorhouse.