The Paranormal Database

Bodach Beag Chill-a-Chreunain

Location: Kilchrenan (Argyll and Bute) - High road to Nant Woods
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century
Further Comments: A fairy-like being, the Bodach Beag Chill-a-Chreunain took the form of a little man surrounded by shadow.

Mushroom Givers

Location: Kilnsey (North Yorkshire) - Surrounding fields
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A witness who watched a troupe of fairies dancing a circle returned the following morning to find a ring of mushrooms in the same place, given to him for not disturbing their dance.

Fairies in Retreat

Location: Kirk Bride (Isle of Man) - Lough Goayr
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Locals say that when the fairies were last seen here, they shouted out 'Hey for Ireland!'.

King's Home

Location: Knighton (Somerset) - Knighton Farm
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The King of the pixies once lived in this area, but the ringing of the church bells drove him away.

Fairy Music

Location: Kyle of Lochalsh (Highland) - Clann Mhic Crumein
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The finest music in all Scottish fairydom can be heard here.

Donn Dumhach

Location: Lahinch (County Clare) - Sandhills around Dough Castle
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The fairy king known as Donn Dumhach was once believed to live amongst the sandhills.

The cliff edges at Land's End.

Fairy Fairs

Location: Land's End (Cornwall) - Cliff edges
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Only visible from the sea, flickering lights on the cliff side indicate where the little people are celebrating and partying.

Boggles

Location: Lanercost (Cumbria) - Banks of the river
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Pre-nineteenth century
Further Comments: These northern fairies would play merry havoc near the rivers, frightening horses and riders alike.

Tron Tree

Location: Largs (Ayrshire) - Tree in town centre (tree no longer standing)
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Pre twentieth century
Further Comments: The Tron Tree stood in the centre of the community and was a favourite haunt to the elves, until chopped down by a local man. The man's sow was found dead the following day.

Water Nymph

Location: Laugharne (Dyfed) - Laugharne Park, close to the estuary
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 22 November 2009, midnight
Further Comments: While on holiday, one lady observed a pale skinned, red headed woman moving across the park, although the way the entity's green and blue clothing flowed, appeared to be moving through water. The woman smiled before vanishing.

Gnomes

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Private residence, Highfields area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: October / November 1924
Further Comments: For several weeks, explosions were heard in the Highfields area, although no source could be found. One man, rushing to investigate a loud bang, spotted several, grotesque gnome-like entities dematerialising.

Gold Guardians

Location: Lelant (Cornwall) - Trencrom Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This hill was formed when a giant buried his treasure, leaving a troupe of warrior fairies to protect it. They have been called into action at least once, appearing as a would-be treasure hunter arrived armed with pick and shovel.

Little Folk

Location: Lewesdon Hill (Dorset) - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Cat and fairies unknown, headless horseman during late 1970s
Further Comments: The second highest peak in Dorset is said to be home to an extended family of fairies. In recent years, there have been reports of a large black cat living in the area. In the late 1970s, a woman and her two children all witnessed a headless horseman emerging from a fog bank.

Fairy Riders

Location: Limerick (County Limerick) - Carrigogunnell Castle
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Beneath the castle a company of fairies on horseback wait for the day they are needed. The site is also reputed to be home to a phantom woman who wanders around carrying a candle.

A water sprite.

Water Sprite

Location: Linlithgow (Lothian) - River running through area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This malicious little entity is reported to lure the unwary into the water to drown.

Boy playing Flute

Location: Liphook (Hampshire) - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This figure was seen and heard on the lanes, in trees and behind bushes in this village - the music he produced described as enchanting, but with an underlying danger. The same area is haunted by a pale white calf.

Home

Location: Llangadog (Dyfed) - Trichrug (hill)
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hill, another home to fairies, also claimed to house the grave of a giant - anyone who laid within the hill would be granted incredible strength.

Relocated

Location: Llangan (South Glamorgan) - Church
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church was supposed to have been built another field, but other entities had different ideas; every night the previous day's building progress was deconstructed and relocated to the site where the church now stands.

Invisible Hands

Location: Llangattock (Powys) - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The local landlord, Richard the Tailor, was said to keep the company of fairies. A hunter who upset Richard found himself whisked away from the village by unseen hands which pushed and pulled the man until he reached Newport. Although exhausted, the invisible force then motivated him to walk the twenty miles back to the village.

Fiddling Fairies

Location: Llangollen (Clwyd) - Castell Dinas Bran
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An innocent shepherd here was caught up in a fairy dance - he could not stop 'strutting his funky stuff' until the following day, when his master found him in a field. The location is also a contender for the resting place of the Holy Grail.

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.

Dancing Fairies

Location: Llanhilleth (Gwent) - Barn named Ysgubor y Llan (likely no longer standing)
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Pre-twentieth century
Further Comments: While lying in this barn, John Rosser heard music and watched a company of fairies enter and dance around. The fairies danced until morning and then vanished.

Fairy Funeral

Location: Llanhilleth (Gwent) - Road towards the church
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Not only did Isaac William Thomas witness a fairy funeral, but he also reached across the bier and removed the veil which he kept. This fine fairy cloth was supposed to be very light and could be folded down to next to nothing.

Visited Fairyland

Location: Llanllawddog (Dyfed) - Cottage in Llangwyly (woodland), unlikely to be still standing
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: James Davies (aka Iago ap Dewi) was said to have disappeared for seven years, during which he visited the fairy kingdom, although he never admitted it.

Two goblins standing by a tree, illustration by Wayne Lowden.

Dancing Place of the Goblin

Location: Llanwrin (Powys) - Tree in woodland near Mathafarn (woodland may no longer exists)
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Under a certain yew-tree in the centre of the woodland a fairy circle was known as 'The Dancing Place of the Goblin'. Two lads once took a nap in the circle, and upon awaking, one had vanished. The missing lad reappeared a year later - he was grabbed out of the clutches of dancing goblins and saved.