The Paranormal Database

Lyme Regis Harbour, Dorset.

Duke of Monmouth

Location: Lyme Regis (Dorset) - Harbour area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghostly figure of the Duke of Monmouth, upon a white horse, is said to ride inland.

Coach and Horses

Location: Lyme Regis (Dorset) - Road near Trent Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This piece of road is haunted by a coach that vanished without trace many years ago.

Coach and Four

Location: Lyng (Norfolk) - Balor's Pit, Caddors Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This team of horses and the coach all fell into the pit and drowned. Their ghosts run along the fateful route and the accident is periodically replayed.

Winner

Location: Maesteg (Mid Glamorgan) - Mountainside near Colliery
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A group of miners playing cards invited a passing stranger to join their game. He sat with them, quickly winning all hands, although the game quickly came to an end when the miners fled, having realised their guest had cloven feet.

Horses

Location: Maesteg (Mid Glamorgan) - St David's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A legend once said that horses were driven around the area of the church by an invisible entity. Fire emerging from the horses' nostrils would be blamed for darkened grass and the flaking paint on fencing. In the same area, a phantom donkey was said to have been banished after a man kicked the creature.

Maghull in Lancashire, taken by Peter Crawley.

Sounds of Battle

Location: Maghull (Lancashire) - Exact place not known, but south of the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One would have hoped that this Jacobite battle would have finished by now, but it is not the case. The occasional headless horseman is reported in the area. Image (c) Peter Crawley.

Headless Coachman

Location: Maidenwell (Lincolnshire) - Ostler's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: A headless coachman, his missing cranium in a box besides him, drives his coach and four along this lane.

Blazing Eyed Dog

Location: Malahide (County Dublin) - Feltrim Hill
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A large black hound with burning red eyes was said to lurk in this area. A phantom grey horse is also reported, as is an old woman laden down with a bundle of faggots, drifting towards the Holy Well.

Horse

Location: Mamhead (Devon) - Area around the obelisk
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 18 October 2009
Further Comments: Walking her dogs, this witness heard and felt a large horse trotting towards her. She called the dogs to one side, to let the rider pass, but upon turning around, she could she nothing there.

Pounding Hooves

Location: Manifold Valley (Staffordshire) - Road leading to Throwley Hall (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: The local stories state that many years ago, a coach returning guests to the hall crashed along the road, killing all on board. The horses (and sometimes the wheels of the coach) can still be heard on occasion, thundering along the road.

Golden Coach

Location: Manningford Bruce (Wiltshire) - The Hatches
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 01 January (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Pulled by a team of four headless horses, this golden coach appears at The Hatches.

Georgian Coach

Location: Market Harborough (Leicestershire) - Unidentified long road in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1924
Further Comments: This Georgian-era coach pulled by four ghostly horses is supposed to be connected to a well-known house in the area. One folktale says a young person mistook the phantom coach as 'real' and asked the driver for directions; coach and horses vanished, leaving only the smell of brimstone.

Roman on Horseback

Location: Market Lavington (Wiltshire) - Ridgeway
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This Roman centurion passes through the area on horseback.

Catherine Ferrers

Location: Markyate Cell (Hertfordshire) - Area around the priory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen riding her horse topless, and swinging around tree branches without a stitch on, the ghost of the highwaywoman Ferrers continues to create the same amount of havoc that she did whilst living.

Coach

Location: Marlborough (Wiltshire) - Granham Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Last sighting unknown, but said to appear at midnight
Further Comments: This coach, driven by a decapitated horseman, manifests on the stroke of midnight and travels through a tiny gap in a hedge.

Racing Driver

Location: Marlow (Buckinghamshire) - Finnamore Wood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom coach driver takes is said to dash through the wood, whipping his horses to breakneck speed.

Lord on Horseback

Location: Marlpool (Derbyshire) - Shipley Hall (now ruined)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s / 1950s lion, other sightings unknown
Further Comments: A former owner of the hall is now said to ride around the area on horseback. A lion was seen by several people just after the Second World War, though no tangible evidence was ever found - it is unclear whether is qualifies as an ABC or a feline phantom.

Funeral Procession

Location: Marnhull (Dorset) - Area near quarry, and/or Sackmore Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Always at midnight, thought the date changes
Further Comments: This line of mourners following a black horse drawn carriage has been reported travelling the roads in Marnhull. Another report states that there are only two pallbearers, and they are more likely to be seen along Sackmore Lane.

Phantom Coach and Horses

Location: Mashbury (Essex) - Forecourt of The Fox
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Witnessed by the wife of a landlord, a phantom coach pulled by a team of horses entered the courtyard, quickly fading from view.

Horseman

Location: Matlock (Derbyshire) - Bakewell Road, outside of the Railway Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2001
Further Comments: One woman being driven along this street reported seeing a dark man on horseback. He wore a long cape and a large floppy hat partly covered his face.

Laird on Horseback

Location: Maxton (Borders) - Littledean Tower
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy nights
Further Comments: Killed by a local witch, this former owner of the tower can be seen riding his mare, lost on the barren land. Another ghost story from the area says a woman returned from the grave to ensure that her hidden treasure was given fairly to the landowner and a kind serving girl.

Woman riding Horse towards Clouds

Location: Mayland (Essex) - Skies over the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This sight could only be seen while looking through the branches of a certain tree in the area at night. However, the tree has since been cut down...

Mr Baker

Location: Melbury Bubb (Dorset) - Dirt track along Bubdown Hill, known as Murderers Lane?
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 10 November (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Mr Baker was a farmer murdered on the hill in 1694. His ghost returns on the anniversary of the crime, possibly driving a horse and carriage.

Arthur Bryant Haig

Location: Melrose (Borders) - Bemersyde House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Post-1918
Further Comments: Former owner of the house, Arthur Bryant Haig, is still said to mount his (now phantom) chestnut horse and ride through his lands towards a nearby river.

Coach and Four

Location: Merriott (Somerset) - Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This team of horses, together with their ghostly coach, have been seen approaching the front door to this building.