The Paranormal Database

Governess

Location: Seighford (Staffordshire) - Seighford Hall Hotel, Room 8
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (Governess), 29 March 1785 (Catherine Elde)
Further Comments: A governess based at the hall two centuries ago, the woman killed herself when her love for the master of the property became clear. She manifests to children who stay in room 8. The rustling of her dress may also be heard down the corridors of the building. Mr Eld, a visitor to the hall in 1785, spotted a misty figure which resembled his mother, Catherine Elde, although Mr Eld knew his mother to be alive. Two days later, Mr Eld received word his mother had died at the time of the sighting.

Grey Lady

Location: Shaftesbury (Dorset) - Grosvenor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: This phantom woman is thought to be a nun who escaped from a nearby Abbey. An ethereal, hooded monk is also reported to haunt the hotel cellar, and some guests have reported having their sheets removed.

Shadowy Woman

Location: Shaftsbury (Dorset) - Grosvenor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This building has been home to sightings of a phantasmal grey lady and phantom monks. An order of monks once lived here before the building became a public house.

Attacker

Location: Sheffield (South Yorkshire) - Woodseats Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It is said that this hotel is home is to a violent entity which has been known to attack members of staff. Phantom children's voices have also been heard.

Hanging Woman

Location: Shrewsbury (Shropshire) - Prince Rupert Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 22 March 2026
Further Comments: Room Six is said to be home to a phantom woman who has been spotted hanging from the ceiling. Other rooms have much less grisly mild poltergeist activity which result in small objects being moved around. In 2026, a visitor sharing a twin room awoke to see her friend sitting on the end of the bed fiddling with clothing before standing up and walking across the room. The witness then realised her friend was actually still in bed, and that the figure was obviously not her. The witness said the figure's body had a white light around the edge.

Grey Lady

Location: Shrewsbury (Shropshire) - The Lion Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: A lady in grey reputedly haunts the Adam Ballroom, and is seen standing on the balcony. The Tudor bar is said to be the home of an old soldier in uniform.

Shannon Passengers

Location: Skegness (Lincolnshire) - The Hildred's (former hotel and pub, demolished in 1987, now shopping centre)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: H Samuels in 2013, others unknown
Further Comments: A sudden storm capsized the pleasure boat Shannon; only three passengers survived and twenty-eight drowned. Twelve bodies were initially recovered and laid out at Hildred's hotel for the coroner to conduct an inquest. The event is blamed for a strange atmosphere found in some parts of the building. Staff at H Samuels Jewellers reported poltergeist activity in 2013. Another ghost, that of Eva May Saxby who died in 1936 after falling through a fanlight, was also said to haunt the site.

Dragging

Location: Skibbereen (County Cork) - Eldon Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Circa 2015
Further Comments: The spirit of a woman who burnt to death in a fire in Room 28 (or 29) reputedly haunts this site. Cork Supernatural Society, while visiting the site, witnessed a wardrobe door opening with considerable force, and heard loud banging and dragging noises in the corridor.

Blue Lady

Location: Slipton (Northamptonshire) - Samuel Pepys Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This woman in a blue dress was seen by a child in the building, while others reported hearing footsteps and seeing poltergeist like events.

Molly

Location: Southampton (Hampshire) - Dolphin Hotel, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former cleaner at the hotel, the shade of Molly is said to always materialise at two in the morning, drifting a couple of feet above ground level.

Elizabeth Bessie Hewitson

Location: Spennymoor (Durham) - Whitworth Hall County Park Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in black, Elizabeth is still said to walk around the building even though she died in the 1800s. Another ghost here, this time male, is reported to have died of a broken heart.

An old photograph of the ruined Dryburgh Abbey.

Preacher

Location: St Boswells (Borders) - Dryburgh Abbey Hotel (particularly room 216), and general area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1900s
Further Comments: Dressed in black clothing, this clergyman was seen several times during the early nineteenth century. He was killed after it was discovered that he and the Lady of the Manor were engaged in a questionable relationship, and it is reported that she took her own life after discovering the preacher's death. She now takes the form of a grey lady seen in the hotel. More recently (?), plainchant has been reported from the former abbey.

Green Lady

Location: St Catherine's (Highland) - Loch Fyne Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A barmaid dropped a tray of drinks and ran screaming from the drinks store after hearing heavy breathing down her neck. The room is said to be the location that a former female employee hanged herself while wearing a green dress, and now her emerald form drifts around the hotel creating mischief.

Green Lady Removes Bedcovers

Location: St Ives (Cambridgeshire) - Golden Lion Hotel, Room 13 (or 14, depending on source)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: With a habit of opening and closing doors and removing sheets from beds, the Green Lady has been seen many times in room 13.

Death Eater

Location: Stansted (Essex) - Kings Arms Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2012
Further Comments: A photograph taken on a mobile phone revealed a strange looking entity which the photographer described as resembling a 'Death Eater' from the Harry Potter films, although others believe it is nothing more than the back of someone's hooded top.

Murdered Landlord

Location: Steeple Aston (Oxfordshire) - Hopcroft's Holt Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The shade seen here is thought to be a former landlord murdered on the site, along with his wife. Another story has the highwayman Claude Duval as haunting the site.

Foot Dragging

Location: Storrington (Sussex) - White Horse Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One of the bedrooms here is haunted by shuffling footsteps and a presence that taps bystanders on the shoulder.

King's Arms hotel, Stow on the Wold.

Victorian Woman

Location: Stow on the Wold (Gloucestershire) - King's Arms hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: This old hotel is said to be haunted by a woman in Victorian clothing who looks quite real. Wailing and crying has also been reported from within the property.

The Old Stocks Hotel, Stow on the Wold.

Pianist

Location: Stow on the Wold (Gloucestershire) - Old Stocks Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The sounds of the piano can sometimes be heard in the building, though the instrument is not present. The ghost of an aged vicar is also reported here.

The Royalist Hotel, Stow on the Wold.

Victorian Children

Location: Stow on the Wold (Gloucestershire) - Royalist Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth / early twenty-first century
Further Comments: Several ghosts are reported to haunt this building. A young man has been seen to vanish near the reception area, two children in Victorian clothing may be responsible for the strange tapping sounds, a pretty woman in a long dress and a cavalier both haunt the staircase, and a knight in black armour has also been observed on site.

Mercure Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Lucy and Friends

Location: Stratford-upon-Avon (Warwickshire) - Mercure Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: A few entities are said to haunt this location. A member of staff claimed to have spotted an old soldier running down a corridor, while Lucy haunts one of the rooms, having committed suicide after an assault.

Running Man

Location: Sturminster Newton (Dorset) - Plumber Manor (currently a hotel)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former lord of the manor is said to have been killed and eaten by his hunting hounds. His ghost is said to run out of the building, his pack of hounds with a hungry look in their eyes, close behind.

Mummified Feline

Location: Sudbury (Suffolk) - Mill Hotel
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: If removed, this cat is said to bring ill fortune to the building and the occupiers. When the cat was first discovered (before the mill became a hotel), it was sold to a nearby shop. The shop burned down, so the cat came back has stayed ever since.

Laughter

Location: Sumburgh (Shetland) - Sumburgh Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1987
Further Comments: Air crew staying at this hotel would say rooms 28 and 33 were haunted. One visitor staying in room 33 would be awoken multiple times by the TV turning itself on and heard a child's laughter.

Headless Man

Location: Sutton Coldfield (West Midlands) - New Hall Hotel and Wylde Green Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1820s onwards
Further Comments: This headless figure is thought to have been a local man mistakenly found guilty for being a Jacobite spy. The man was executed, and his head left in an oak tree where it remained until the 1820s - the tree was cut down and the skull rediscovered. Since then, the headless phantom is said to walk around the area (or the head rolls around looking for its body, depending on the source).