The Paranormal Database

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.

Hazy Lady

Location: Crewkerne (Somerset) - Old Parsonage Hotel (no longer open?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1985
Further Comments: Sometimes white and sometimes grey, this phantom woman had an indistinct look but was seen several times by different witnesses during the early Eighties.

Man in Tweed

Location: Crieff (Perth and Kinross) - Rosebank Hotel (no longer operational)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1992
Further Comments: While waiting alone in the bar, a witness watched a man in a tweed jacket walk through the wall and, after taking a couple more steps, vanish just as the landlady entered. The witness told the woman what he had seen, and she said that she too had seen the figure. The wall he had passed through where the original bar door was before refurbishments.

Elizabeth Buchan

Location: Crocketford (Dumfries and Galloway) - Galloway Inn (now Galloway Arms Hotel)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Elizabeth, who founded the fanatical sect of the Buchanites, was said to haunt this old inn.

Henry Girdlestone

Location: Crowland (Lincolnshire) - Abbey Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Henry wanted to prove that he could walk 1000 miles in 1000 hours to his peers and managed to do so in 1844. However, even post-mortem he has found it hard to stop, and the phantom footsteps reported in this building are just Henry doing what he did best.

Whipped Woman

Location: Cullen (Moray) - Seafield Arms Hotel and surrounding roads
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom female reputed to haunt this site was whipped to death by her husband four hundred years ago. Her ghost is said to be bloodied and confused.

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Location: Culloden (Highland) - Culloden House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This shade is said to haunt the hotel, though much of the original building has been replaced.

Woman in Wedding Dress

Location: Cullompton (Devon) - Manor House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to frequent room 6, this bride was jilted at the altar, and still awaits her partner's return.

Floating Monk

Location: Cupar (Fife) - The Royal Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978
Further Comments: Built on top of a Cathedral's burial ground, this hotel is home to a tall phantom monk that drifts along the corridors.

The Tartan Lady

Location: Darlington (Durham) - Blackwell Grange Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly Scot came to Blackwell after the Duke of Cumberland stole her portrait and brought it here in 1746. Though the painting has since been destroyed, the Tartan Lady still haunts the building.

Small Girl

Location: Dartford (Kent) - Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The occasional poltergeist activity is blamed on the ghost of a young girl named Winifred. A cavalier and a dog also haunt the site.

Coach Arriving

Location: Dartmouth (Devon) - The Royal Castle Hotel, The Quay
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Autumn months, 02:00h (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Early in the morning as leaves fall from the trees, the sound of a horse and coach can be heard coming to a stop outside the hotel. There are sounds of someone jumping on board before the hooves can be heard pulling away. One of the bedrooms may be haunted by a robed figure, and the sounds of two people fighting can be heard in the courtyard.

Humphrey

Location: Dawley (Shropshire) - Swan Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wearing a long coat with untanned leather trousers, Humphrey is said to appear quite friendly. He is said to also walk up and down the corridors, heard outside the bedrooms.

Grey Lady

Location: Dawlish (Devon) - Former hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: A grey lady was said to walk into wardrobes where she would disappear. Shadows were seen walking on the staircase and cold spots were also reported on the site.

Elsa, Weeping with Hands to her Face

Location: Dedham (Essex) - The Sun Hotel, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2002
Further Comments: Elsa once worked at the Sun Hotel and was killed after being accused of witchcraft (one of the last such executions in Essex). Her form has been seen crying in various parts of the building and has also been heard walking the corridors. Two witnesses reported watching Elsa just outside the pub in 2002, carrying a bundle and dressed in a black cape.

Black Monk

Location: Derby (Derbyshire) - Friary Hotel, currently the Friar Gate Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: One of the corridors in this building, built on the site of a friary, is haunted by a monk dressed in black robes. Other witnesses claim to have seen more than one monk here, sometimes headless. Another shade is that of a Victorian gentleman, who may have killed himself on site.

Pin Striped Man

Location: Derby (Derbyshire) - Georgian House Hotel, Ashbourne Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom guest of this hotel, the man in the pin striped suit is blamed for slamming doors and falling items.

Maid in Derby

Location: Derby (Derbyshire) - Bell Hotel, Sadler Gate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former employee at the hotel, the maid dressed in eighteenth century clothing continues to work post-mortem. A Victorian woman has also been reported as she slowly fades away before witnesses.

Slamming Doors

Location: Derby (Derbyshire) - Former Howard Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Once housing prisoners in the basement, the cell doors can still be heard being slammed closed - even though they were removed years previous. People have reported seeing an apparition that could be a former guard or a prisoner, though why the shade of a little child heard crying is here is anyone's guess.

Ambrose Sainsbury

Location: Devizes (Wiltshire) - Black Swan hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: Ambrose was named by the Paranormal Site Investigators team as one of the ghosts that haunts the hotel, one of the other entities being a murdered woman. Shadowy figures have been reported in the building, as well as cold spots and strange tapping.

Smashed Glass

Location: Devizes (Wiltshire) - Castle Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 15 March 2011
Further Comments: It was reported that a glass flew from a shelf and landed in pieces on the ground. Staff have had objects vanish only to reappear in different locations and have heard music coming from the old ballroom.

Silver Haired Man

Location: Dinas Mawddwy (Gwynedd) - Public toilet opposite Red Lion Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This toilet appeared in the media after it was claimed to be the most haunted loo in the UK, although it was admitted that no witnesses to the haunting appeared to exist (which I guess suggests it is the least haunted loo?).

Two Little Girls

Location: Dingwall (Highland) - Tulloch Castle Hotel, Room 8
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 2004
Further Comments: A guest staying the night in this room reported feeling the two adolescent girls sitting on his chest as he lay in bed, as if trying to suffocate him. Previous guests in the room have reported a figure sitting at the end of their bed, door handles rattling, and other strange disturbances. The castle is also known for its Green Lady, who died after falling down a spiral staircase after witnessing her father's adultery.

Blue Light

Location: Donegal (County Donegal) - Abbey Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: Paranormal activity featured in a few online reviews, with one claiming a blue light hovered over a bed, and another discussing the mild poltergeist activity experienced during the night.

Wessex Royal Hotel, Dorchester.

Woman in Bonnet

Location: Dorchester (Dorset) - Wessex Royal Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wearing a bonnet and a long dark dress, this phantom woman has been seen from outside the hotel, glazing from a window on the ground floor.