The Paranormal Database

Force

Location: Waterford (County Waterford) - By the old infirmary, towards John's Park / Polberry Cross Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December 2016, around 03:00h
Further Comments: A witness walking home in the early hours of the morning was pushed two metres by an unseen force. No one else could be seen. The witness said the sensation resembled a push from a horse and counted it as one of their worst experiences.

Headless Horse

Location: Welwyn (Hertfordshire) - White Horse Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The headless horse which runs along this road was said to have been a casualty during the civil war.

Horse and Half A Rider

Location: Wendover (Buckinghamshire) - Steep road off the M40, though Wendover Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: Recorded by the local press, a man reported that his wife had seen a horse pass in front of the car in which she was travelling, and upon the creature was the bottom half of a rider - the figure was not visible above legs. The driver of the car did not spot anything.

The phantom horseman never reaches journey's end.

Speeding Horseman

Location: West Auckland (Durham) - Route between town and Hamsterley Forest
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen galloping at the speed of an arrow, this horseman vanishes once he enters the dense woodland.

Coach

Location: West Kennett (Wiltshire) - Road, exact area unknown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Pulled by a team of four horses, a spectral coach haunts the area.

Headless Driver

Location: West Lulworth (Dorset) - Lane along Coach Lane Gates (gates may no longer stand)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly coach pulled by horses and driven by a headless coachman reportedly travels along this lane. The coachman was said to have been decapitated during a highway robbery.

Pitch Forked Dog

Location: West Woodyates (Dorset) - Manor
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A farmhand discovered a dog laying in the hay - he poked it with his pitchfork, causing the entity to vanish. The sound of a coach has also been heard as it stops by the front of the house, though nothing is seen.

Mad Maude

Location: Weston on the Green (Oxfordshire) - Weston Manor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Burnt at the stake for having an affair with a monk, Maude wanders the hotel, which was once a convent. The eerie sounds of an invisible horse and coach moving around the courtyard have been reported by more than one visitor.

Old Soldiers

Location: Westonzoyland (Somerset) - Sedgemoor Battlefield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 06 July (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The spirits here reportedly include voices that call out to witnesses over the nearby River Carey, and horsemen who gallop silently along. People have also reported pockets of cold air, and watching a white woman glide over the marsh, near where her lover was murdered by Royalists. On the anniversary of the battle, sounds of fighting have been heard.

Coach and Four

Location: Weybourne (Norfolk) - Road through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It was once said that a ghostly coach pulled by four horses and driven by a headless figure would pass through the village and vanish into the church wall.

Officer on Horseback

Location: Wheal Vor (Cornwall) - Godolphin Area
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Two hunters reported seeing a locally known Captain riding his horse over the warren, even though several months had passed since the officer's death.

Coach

Location: Whetham (Wiltshire) - Road heading towards Calne
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly coach is pulled by a team of six grey horses.

Horse?

Location: Whitby (North Yorkshire) - Esk Terrace
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 02 September 2011, 00:20h
Further Comments: While staying in a house along this road, a witness heard a horse walking outside on the gravel - when they looked from the window, nothing could be seen.

Sir Laurence Tanfield

Location: Whittington (Gloucestershire) - General area
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former landowner in the area, Sir Laurence returned after dying and can be seen driving a coach pulled by four black horses. It is said that bad luck falls on any witnesses.

Coach and Horses

Location: Wickford (Essex) - Runwell Hall (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 December (Reoccurring)
Further Comments: After a spectral horse and carriage stops at the top of the driveway, a woman climbs out and walks to the hall's door to be met by a long dead butler. A similar story says that Anne Boleyn travels in a coach along the roads surrounding the Hall around the same time of year.

Horse

Location: Wickham (Hampshire) - Road heading towards Droxford
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2017
Further Comments: A driver spotted a white horse crossing the road ahead and commented to her passenger, who said she could not see anything. As the driver reached the spot the horse crossed, she realised there was nowhere the horse could have gone.

Coffin

Location: Wimborne (Dorset) - B3078, close to Clapgate Junction
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A coffin has been spotted on the roadside here, though it disappears if looked at closely. Some believe it belongs to someone who committed suicide, denying them the right to be buried in a churchyard, being buried close to this spot instead. A phantom black horse is also said to haunt this area.

Sounds of Assault

Location: Winnats Pass (Derbyshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sounds of several miners attacking and murdering Clara and Allan, a young eloping couple, can be heard in this Derbyshire area. One version of the story the miners died or went mad one-by-one, with the final miner confessing to the crime and claiming the ghost of Clara followed him everywhere. Clara may also be seen riding her horse through the area

Coach

Location: Winsley (Wiltshire) - Converted coach house at Winsley Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century?
Further Comments: It was said that horse and carriage could sometimes be heard outside this coach house, even though they could never be seen.

Horse and Cart

Location: Wissett (Suffolk) - Pond near Halleluja Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This spectral horse and cart continue to retrace the final journey which abruptly ended when the creature fell into the pond and drowned.

Coach and Horses

Location: Wokingham (Berkshire) - Bill Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Appearing at midnight on Christmas Eve, a phantom coach pulled by four ghostly horses gallop along this road. Another story (or a variant of the first) states a spectral horse would charge along the road dragging chains which bounced along the ground.

Headless Horseman

Location: Woodhead (Derbyshire) - Area where Crowden Hall once stood (demolished 1937)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This decapitated figure on the back of a stallion still rides around the area where Crowden Hall once stood.

Headless Horses

Location: Woodmanton (Wiltshire) - Location known as Patty's Bottom
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rumoured to be a battleground between Britons and Romans, the sounds of battle, accompanied by the sight of headless horses, have been reported. The battle was said to be so intense, the valley filled with blood.

Coach

Location: Wool (Dorset) - Hethfelton House and/or stone bridge close to Bindon Abbey
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Midnight, prior to disaster (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This horse drawn coach drawn by four horses drives by the house, heading towards the River Frome (or Bindon Abbey passing over the fifteenth century stone bridge over the river. Only those who have Turbeville blood can view the phantom.

Woman

Location: Wool (Dorset) - Ruins of Bindon Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom woman wearing a flowing grey dress is said to be quite beautiful and walks from the ruins to the nearby River Frome.