The Paranormal Database

Highwayman

Location: Stretton Baskerville (Warwickshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: A highwayman, some say Dick Turpin himself, hid some of his takings in this deserted medieval village. He died before managing to retrieve the money, and now he rides towards the village on horseback.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2008-08-25   Last updated: 2008-08-25   ID: #8816

Syderstone Village Common.

Highwayman with Horse

Location: Syderstone (Norfolk) - Village Common
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Appearing under the light of the full moon, the ghostly highwayman on horseback is reported to say, 'Your money or your life', and other such cliche expressions.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2001-09-06   Last updated: 2001-09-06   ID: #573

The Devil would often lose fights against holy figures.

John Alcock

Location: Temple Grafton (Warwickshire) - Alcocks Arbour (aka Rolls Wood Hill), Croft Lane
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Present
Further Comments: Highwayman John Alcock stashed much of his ill-gotten gains in a cave under this hill, in a chest protected by three locks and guarded by a cockerel. The bird will only let treasure hunters pass if they possessed one of Alcock's bones. Another legend says the Devil created the hill; out picking nuts on Devil's Nutting Day (21 September), Old Nick stumbled across the Virgin Mary who ordered him to drop the nuts. The Devil did, thus creating the hill.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2007-04-03   Last updated: 2007-04-03   ID: #7166

Swift Nick

Location: Tilbury (Essex) - The World's End inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: An old highwayman, Swift Nick has a habit of relighting fires which have gone out hours beforehand.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2001-09-06   Last updated: 2001-09-06   ID: #859

Highwayman

Location: Todwick (South Yorkshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom highwayman has been sighted in this village.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2006-04-15   Last updated: 2006-04-15   ID: #6833

Actor or Highwayman?

Location: W1 (Greater London) - Sheppeys Restaurant, Shepherd Market
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This tall, dark stranger has often been observed standing in the shadows, his face obscured to make identification impossible, though it is speculated he is either a highwayman or a thespian.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-08-25   Last updated: 2002-08-25   ID: #2300

Bleeding Ears Murph

Location: Weeton (Lancashire) - Eagle & Child public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former highwayman, Murph can sometimes be heard mumbling and moaning at the bar late at night.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2007-12-02   Last updated: 2026-10-19   ID: #8077

Jack Diamond

Location: West Peckham (Kent) - Diamond's Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Friday 13, 06.30h (recurring)
Further Comments: Jack Diamond was a highwayman - his ghost, and maybe those of others, have been seen here on the unluckiest dates in the calendar.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2002-06-16   Last updated: 2002-06-16   ID: #1270

Tall Gaunt Figure

Location: Westhoughton (Greater Manchester) - A6
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Date unknown, 19:00h
Further Comments: Two occupants of a car slowed down after spotting a tall gaunt figure start to cross the road ahead of them. The figure stopped on a small traffic island but had vanished as the car reached the spot. The occupants of the car did not mention their sighting to anyone, but twelve months later a friend said that they had seen the same figure. One of the witnesses returned to the area to investigate further; locals shared the story of a phantom highwayman in the area.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2022-11-26   Last updated: 2022-11-26   ID: #14700

Gladys Saxton

Location: Wigglesworth (North Yorkshire) - Plough Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1945 onwards
Further Comments: Gladys Saxton and her maid Margaret Harrison were killed in a fire at the building in 1945. Since that date, a woman wearing a long black dress has been seen by guests at the building. There is also a report of a phantom highwayman being spotted standing in a doorway.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2006-04-17   Last updated: 2006-04-17   ID: #6853

Hiding Highwayman

Location: Winchelsea (Sussex) - Winchelsea Church, monastery ruins
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to have been seen hiding in the trees around the ruins, the highwayman's target can occasionally be heard galloping up the nearby road. A black soldier in a red uniform has also been reported from the churchyard, and a phantom monk has been observed moving above the ground on nearby private land.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-06-02   Last updated: 2002-06-02   ID: #1062

The ghost of Dick Turpin.

Turpin

Location: Woughton on the Green (has also mistakenly been called 'Wroughton') (Buckinghamshire) - Bury Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a highwayman, thought to be Dick Turpin, haunts the Bury Lane approach towards the Old Swan Inn that once acted as one of his many hideouts.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2007-06-08   Last updated: 2022-09-17   ID: #7554

Turpin

Location: Wroughton on the Green (Buckinghamshire) - Road through the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This figure, possibly Dick Turpin wearing a tricorn hat appears to be pacing along the roadside, as if waiting for someone to join him.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2003-08-25   Last updated: 2003-08-25   ID: #4489

Jack

Location: Yarlington (Somerset) - Crossroads
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Highwayman Jack White, gibbeted at Castle Cary, haunts this crossroads as well as the site of his death.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2026-09-13   Last updated: 2026-09-13   ID: #16820

Highwayman

Location: York (North Yorkshire) - Four All's public house, A64
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 06 November 2006, 23:45h
Further Comments: A driver returning home from work reported passing a figure on horseback, dressed in highwayman's clothing, by the outside wall of the pub. When the witness looked in his rear view mirror, the figure had vanished. There is a local belief that the highwayman is Dick Turpin, and sightings of the highwayman are said to go back to the mid-twentieth century. A sandstone cave in the area is said to have been one of Turpin's hideouts.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2006-12-10   Last updated: 2006-12-10   ID: #7065