The Paranormal Database

Just a Rumour

Location: Chettle (Dorset) - Castleman Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It was briefly mentioned in a national newspaper that this location was rumoured to be haunted, although the exact details were omitted.

The Hanging Judge

Location: Chilcompton (Somerset) - Court Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Eternally busy, Judge Jeffreys' has been seen at this establishment, where he once pronounced judgement on criminals and rebels.

There's Something About Mary

Location: Chingford (Essex) - Royal Forest Hotel, Rangers Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Killed in a fire in 1912, Mary's shade returned to the building once it was rebuilt - she sits on a bed on the upper part of the building when not spooking the dogs.

Lady in Grey

Location: Chippenham (Wiltshire) - The Bear public house (currently a hotel)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1965
Further Comments: A barman was disturbed by loud voices in a room which he thought was unoccupied. When the barman checked, he realised that he was right - no one could be found. A maid outside the building spotted a figure in grey drawing a curtain inside a bedroom. When she investigated, she found the room unused and empty.

Bangs

Location: Chiseldon (Wiltshire) - Chiseldon House Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1995
Further Comments: A local newspaper reported that staff in the hotel had experienced five years of poltergeist behaviour in the hotel, which included moving pictures and loud bangs from an empty kitchen.

Faceless Figure

Location: Cirencester (Gloucestershire) - King's Head Hotel
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This ghostly monk has reportedly scared one member of staff into quitting her job and has upset several members of the public with inopportune manifestation and subsequent disappearing. Another ghost, a cavalier, has also been seen by staff members.

Friar

Location: Clappersgate (Cumbria) - Grey Friars Lodge hotel and lanes in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A phantom friar has been spotted walking down nearby lanes. The hotel itself is reportedly haunted by a bishop, described as an older thin man dressed in purple who sits in the dining room.

Young Girl

Location: Clapton Bridge (Warwickshire) - Alveston Manor hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Having died in the building during an Edwardian party, this young spook sometimes appears in one of the bedrooms.

Marion Carruthers

Location: Clarencefield (Dumfries and Galloway) - Comlongon Castle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This lady, now said to have a green hue, jumped from the tower rather than spend any more time with her husband.

Lucette

Location: Clayton le Moors (Lancashire) - Dunkenhalgh Hall (currently a hotel) and nearby bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A former maid at the hall, Lucette fell pregnant after a torrid affair with the master - he was not interested in her long term future, so Lucette took her own life. The maid's misty white form now comes back around Christmas to remind others of her fate.

Angry Landlord

Location: Cleckheaton (West Yorkshire) - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The landlord wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with beer, though his family decided against it when he finally died. His ghost now haunts the building in want of his missing alcohol. An unknown farmhouse in the village was haunted by an old woman, before being exorcised by three parsons.

Mary

Location: Cleobury Mortimer (Shropshire) - Talbot Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Mary is said to haunt the inn; her presence often accompanied by blasts of cold air. A tunnel running between here and a nearby church is also reputedly haunted, this time by a group of ghostly parishioners attempting to escape religious persecution.

Jumping Bottle

Location: Cleveleys (Lancashire) - Cleveleys Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: July 1952
Further Comments: Around a dozen staff watched a bottle of beer lift from a work surface, move and drop to the floor. Over the next three days, other bottles and glasses would fall from shelves, with one witness claim he watched bottles of beer sequentially jump out of their crate and smash. Police investigated the incident and a barmaid admitted to causing the activity, although not all the stories align with her confession of throwing bottles when unobserved.

Annie Druce

Location: Clitheroe (Lancashire) - Swan and Royal Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Annie was disowned by her parents so moved to this hotel where she killed herself. Another tale says the ghost is that of a bride who lost her husband in the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War.

Nun

Location: Coatham Mundeville (Durham) - Hall Garth Golf and Country Club Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Room 2 is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a nun bricked up alive within the walls after her affair with a monk was discovered.

Alice Mellor

Location: Colchester (Essex) - Red Lion Hotel, Lion Walk Shopping Precinct
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1972
Further Comments: Killed in 1633, Mellor's ghost is said to have been so terrifying that her old room was sealed up and forgotten about. Now part of the hotel, no sightings have recently occurred, though the building is also home to a monk who died in a fire.

Green Lady

Location: Comrie (Perth and Kinross) - Royal Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom woman, dressed in a flowing green dress, wanders the corridors looking for her lost love who perished in a snowstorm.

Morby

Location: Connemara (County Galway) - Ballynahinch Castle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A friendly older man wearing a black hat has been named as Morby, a former gardener who still returns to the gardens post-mortem.

Chambermaid

Location: Conwy (Clwyd) - Castle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s-1990s?
Further Comments: A few days from death, a chambermaid from the inn requested that her body be sent back to Anglesey. The landlord at first agreed, though failed to carry out her last wish, and soon after the building was besieged by otherworldly activity. The owner finally had the body returned to her home, but the ghost has still been seen in the hotel. A phantom cat has also been felt climbing over beds at night.

Lost Monk

Location: Coombe (West Midlands) - Coombe Abbey (currently a hotel)
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Twentieth century?
Further Comments: Seen by witnesses as he floats around the grounds of the abbey, this monk is thought to have been murdered in 1345. Phantom footsteps have also been reported on the stable yard cobbles and are thought to belong to a young gypsy girl who cursed the family after they mistreated her. Finally, a phantom cyclist, thought to be a Victorian woman, has been observed on the road just by the former abbey.

Crying Baby

Location: Cork (County Cork) - Commodore hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local myth says the upper part of the hotel is haunted by the cries of a young baby, the body of which was once discovered in a cupboard.

Upset Lady

Location: Corwen (Clwyd) - Owain Glyndwr Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After a disastrous forbidden relationship with a monk, this woman died of a broken heard and has since been reported within the hotel.

Anti-Cleaning Cleaner

Location: Coventry (West Midlands) - Aston Court Hotel, Holyhead Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Several ghosts are thought to be at home here, including a former cleaner who disliked her job so much she now hides the cleaning equipment in the hotel! A slightly younger ghostly girl is blamed whenever men are hurt on the site - it is stated that she was beaten by a former master and is now extracting revenge.

Mark the Night Porter

Location: Crawley (Sussex) - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: In the early days of the hotel's history, the night porter was found dead - he had drunk a glass of poisoned wine left out to trap a thief. His shade is blamed for electrical problems in the building, and a shadowy outline of a man is believed to belong to him.

Grey Lady

Location: Crewe (Cheshire) - Crewe Arms Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly grey lady is said to be seen (and heard) as she moves along a corridor in the hotel.