The Paranormal Database

Pesky Polt

Location: Lostwithiel (Cornwall) - Trout Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1987
Further Comments: There was alleged poltergeist activity in this hotel during 1987, though details are patchy.

Royal Falcon Hotel, Lowestoft.

Protected by Insurance

Location: Lowestoft (Suffolk) - Royal Falcon Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2002?
Further Comments: This hotel featured in several media outlets after a poltergeist outbreak resulted in staff watching glasses move unaided across the bar. One story claimed that the phantom was a monk who had killed himself in the building, and that Room 10 was particularly haunted. To protect himself against any ghost-related injury claims lodged by guests, the landlord took out an insurance policy with Ultraviolet, who were known at the time for their quirky range of financial protection against alien abduction and werewolf attack.

Girl in Mini Skirt

Location: Ludlow (Shropshire) - Area around Feathers Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This unlikely shade has long black hair and looks around eighteen years old - at least two witnesses have seen her walk through parked cars before vanishing.

Cat

Location: Lydd (Kent) - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978
Further Comments: People have reported being woken during the night when a small cat jumps on their bed, though they can no trace of it when they turn on the light to investigate.

Missing Corner

Location: Lyme Regis (Dorset) - Old Black Dog Hotel (was the Black Dog public house)
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Corner incident unknown, phantom last seen 1959
Further Comments: The shuck which lives here is reported to have knocked off the corner of the pub while passing by one night. The shuck was last seen in 1959 and was described as the size of a calf with glowing red eyes.

Hanged People

Location: Lyme Regis (Dorset) - Royal Lion Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Facing the old executioners place, the hotel is home to some of the spirits of those killed for their crimes. Disembodied footsteps and misty figures have both been reported here.

Small Man

Location: Lymm (Cheshire) - Statham Lodge hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: More likely to be a distant folk memory than a true ghost story, the attic of this building was said to be haunted by a little man. In truth, James Wilson (a very short man) lived in the attic in the early nineteenth century, most likely to escape mockery, and after his death, his desire for privacy lived on in the minds of his neighbours.

Tall Man

Location: Lytham (Lancashire) - Ship and Royal Hotel, Clifton Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Materialising several times, this ghostly male also reportedly disturbed paperwork and played about with the telephone.

Something

Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Shrigley Hall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A few references exist of this site being haunted, but by what and who is pretty unclear.

Llywarch Hen

Location: Machynlleth (Powys) - Plas Dolguog Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The poet Llywarch Hen is rumoured to haunt the hotel. A cheerful male spirit named Charles with an injured leg has also been seen on the staircase, along with a female spirit known as Mary who frequents a rocking chair in the parlour room.

Madeley Court House Hotel, copyright 2006 Lawson Clout.

Smiling Old Lady

Location: Madeley (Shropshire) - Madeley Court House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: As well as shadowy phantom monks, this building is also the haunt of an old woman who is seen smiling before dematerialising. Cries of a woman in pain have been heard coming from the surrounding gardens. (Image copyright 2006 Lawson Clout)

Charlotte

Location: Maidstone (Kent) - Larkfield Priory Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: Charlotte was an eighteenth century serving girl who died after an abortion went sadly wrong. The ghost created so much havoc during the 1980s, the owner called on a medium to help calm her down. During this process it was discovered gallows once stood on the site, and that many unhappy spirits remained.

The Caretaker

Location: Maidstone (Kent) - Royal Star Hotel (now replaced by the Royal Star Arcade shopping centre)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1970s
Further Comments: Two family members encountered a man wearing a flat cap and overalls. One spotted the caretaker standing by a family friend, and later when asking the about the man, the friend said that they had been alone at the time.

Sad Grey Lady

Location: Malmesbury (Wiltshire) - Bell Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 July 2004, 03:00h
Further Comments: This ghostly woman was observed by a priest staying in the hotel. The clergyman stated the phantom lady wore seventeenth century clothing that swept along the floor and that she had a distressed look. The woman's portrait hangs in the restaurant hotel, though no one remembers her name. A former occupier of the hotel said that the phantom was known to walk along outside the building, passing through a hedge.

Young Employee

Location: Manchester (Greater Manchester) - Great Western Hotel, Moss Side
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This figure dressed in grey is often reported in the basement.

Shakespeare Hotel, Manchester.

Girl on Fire

Location: Manchester (Greater Manchester) - Shakespeare Hotel, Fountain Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: Reportedly built on the site where SHC had killed a young maid, the hotel is now home to the ghostly girl. She has been seen standing at the top of a flight of stairs, once appearing to be on fire.

Grey Lady

Location: Manchester (Greater Manchester) - Trafford Park Hotel (as of 2020, not operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990
Further Comments: Traditionally the haunt of a grey lady (in this instance, a maid who had fallen or jumped to her death in the 1900s), the phantom which made its presence known in 1990 could be heard laughing and caused the air to crackle.

Emily

Location: Manchester (Greater Manchester) - Yang Sing Hotel (closed 2009)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2008
Further Comments: The hotel put a call out to help identify a ghost that staff nicknamed 'Emily', a young girl that had manifested and sang to guests in two different rooms. Staff had also heard the singing but not seen the ghost.

Chamber Maid

Location: March (Cambridgeshire) - Ye Olde Griffin Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former employee of the hotel was said to have found it hard to let of her job.

Woman

Location: Margate (Kent) - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hotel was hit by German bombs during the Second World War; the phantom woman observed here is thought to have been killed during the attack.

Murdered Woman

Location: Market Harborough (Leicestershire) - Angel Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The bar in the area that once housed the stables is reputedly haunted by a woman once murdered here.

John Fothergill

Location: Market Harborough (Leicestershire) - Three Swans Hotel
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The portrait of John Fothergill that hangs above the bar is no longer touched - if removed from its spot a disaster befalls the handler or hotel.

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.

George And Abbotsford Hotel, Melrose.

Footsteps

Location: Melrose (Borders) - George and Abbotsford Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century, and 2020
Further Comments: Guests staying on the top floor of the George and Abbotsford Hotel would hear footsteps above them, even though there is nothing there. In 2020, the hotel featured in the local press; poltergeist activity had resulted in lights being turned on and off by an unseen agency, and the chef having her hair violently pulled.

Grey Lady

Location: Middlesbrough (Derbyshire) - The Tree Bridge Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: There are reports of a grey lady who wanders through the halls.