The Paranormal Database

Charlie

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Greyhound Hotel (no longer standing - replaced by the Galleries Shopping Centre)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hotel which once stood here was said to be haunted by a ghost named Charlie. It is not known whether the spook now frequents the new building on site, the Galleries Shopping Centre.

Napoleonic Figure

Location: Brixham (Devon) - Berry Head Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2013
Further Comments: A wedding guest was said to have seen a figure in Napoleonic clothing during the night. Local legend says that the building is haunted by the ghost of a soldier.

Monk

Location: Brixham (Devon) - Churston Court Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Reports exist of a monk seen within this building; as a witness enters, he leaves via another doorway. There are also reports of candles lighting themselves.

One for Dinner

Location: Brixham (Devon) - Smugglers Haunt Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This lonely shade was spotted sitting by itself at a dinner table but could only be seen when looked at through a mirror.

White Lady

Location: Broad Haven (Dyfed) - Haven Fort Hotel (aka Havens Hotel)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre 1970
Further Comments: A local legend claimed a white lady haunted the hotel grounds.

Mist

Location: Broadford, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Broadford Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Mist like figures have been reported here in the past, as have a former housemaid, although the hotel now appears quiet.

Grey Lady

Location: Brodick (Ayrshire) - Killmichael County House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little is known about the smoky female shade which haunts the hotel.

Where is Anne?

Location: Bromyard (Hereford & Worcester) - Falcon Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1964
Further Comments: The ghost of a young gentleman who walks around the second floor of the building has been heard asking the question 'Where is Anne?'.

Woman

Location: Buckler's Hard (Hampshire) - Master Builders Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre 1965
Further Comments: The building was thought to be haunted by a woman, and the sounds of children, the latter heard by a waiter on two occasions. The haunting ceased after a priest instructed the waiter to sleep with holy water and rosary beads under his pillow.

Friendly Thing

Location: Builth Wells (Powys) - Llanelwedd Arms Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost which was said to haunt this site was described as friendly.

Rosehill House Hotel, Burnley.

Shadowy Figure

Location: Burnley (Lancashire) - Rosehill House Hotel, Rosehill Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 2000s
Further Comments: Though most of the hotel dates back many years, this figure was seen sitting on the end of a bed in a new extension to the roof - the occupant insisted on changing his room. The entity was also seen on the staircase.

Flying Statuette

Location: Burslem (Staffordshire) - Leopard public house/hotel, Market Place (razed by fire January 2022)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: No one appears to know for sure what haunts this public house (some claim the entity was a murderer), but people report feeling a presence, and a horse statuette once flew off the mantelpiece.

Monk

Location: Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) - 38 Buttermarket, currently a bookshop (was the Suffolk Hotel)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid to late twentieth century
Further Comments: Reportedly connected via underground tunnel to a long gone priory, monks have been reported creeping around the sight.

Mary

Location: Buxton (Derbyshire) - Old Hall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Mary Queen of Scots stayed in room 26 prior to her execution. Some believe her presence is still felt.

Stable Boy

Location: Carlops (Borders) - Allan Ramsay Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010s?
Further Comments: Paranormal investigators who visited the hotel reported seeing the apparition of a stable boy, whilst another claimed to have had his bed shaken by a pair of unseen hands.

Elizabeth

Location: Carrickfergus (County Antrim) - Dobbin's Inn Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Elizabeth, wife of former owner Hugh Dobbins, had an affair with a soldier stationed at the castle. When Hugh discovered the relationship, he murdered the couple. Elizabeth, also known as Maud, now contents herself by stroking people's faces as they sleep or by making fleeting appearances in the reception area.

Violinist

Location: Castle Green (Somerset) - Castle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century?
Further Comments: Wearing an evening dress, sightings of this female violinist have slowly petered out as time has gone by, and the only recent reports of her say she can only be heard playing the instrument she carried.

Bride in White

Location: Castleton (Derbyshire) - Castle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Left standing at the altar, this bride who never was now haunts the place where her reception should have been. A maid who saw her ran screaming from the building, while another witness said the ghost was cut off at the knee. A more recent ghost is that of a man in a blue pinstripe suit, seen by two different proprietors.

Sidney Godolphin

Location: Chagford (Devon) - Three Crowns Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980
Further Comments: A Royalist officer, Sidney died on doorstep of the hotel - he was last seen standing in full uniform at the door of the dining room, by a surprised chef.

Knight

Location: Chard (Somerset) - Chough Hotel (aka The Choughs)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A knight in full armour reported in the hotel could be connected to the tomb stone that stands behind the fireplace, said to be impossible to photograph. If not, maybe another hotel ghost, an old woman, can claim it as her headstone. Judge Jeffries reputedly stayed at the hotel while busy executing locals involved in the Monmouth Rebellion, and as such is said to haunt a bedroom.

Old Man

Location: Charford (Devon) - Charford Manor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: Spotted drifting around the dining room, the ghost of an elderly man is also thought to haunt the cellar where he moves bottles and creates footsteps.

Dog

Location: Chatteris (Cambridgeshire) - Cross Keys Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly dog is said to remain at the hotel.

Bar Woman

Location: Cheddar (Somerset) - Cox's Mill hotel, The Cliffs
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2008
Further Comments: As well as the phantom woman who sits by the bar, small items have been known to move themselves to new locations.

Nanny

Location: Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) - Hotel de la Bere (former girl's school)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A nanny who worked for the school hanged herself in her bedroom, and now walks along the corridors checking rooms to ensure her charges are asleep.

Little Girl

Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Queen Hotel, Station Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, possibly 2010s
Further Comments: In an area thought to be a former nursery, people are said to have their hair pulled by a phantom female child.