The Paranormal Database

Silk

Location: Exeter (Devon) - Globe Hotel
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Summer 1932
Further Comments: An American guest at the hotel reported waking several times during the night to the sound of swirling, as if someone were waving armfuls of silk scarves through the air. The woman in the room next door also reported hearing the same noise.

Murdered Maid

Location: Exeter (Devon) - Lord Haldon Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This tragic figure fell pregnant after having an affair with a local landowner - he killed the maid to cover the relationship up, and now she returns to the top of the building, dripping wet.

Coughing

Location: Exeter (Devon) - Royal Clarence Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Built on the site of Walter Raleigh's fathers' house, some attribute the coughing sounds to Walter himself.

Mary Queen of Scots.

Mary?

Location: Falkland (Fife) - Covenanter Hotel, High Street?
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom female that is said to lurk here has been named as Mary Queen of Scots. She occasionally appears standing over guests in their beds.

Brewery Worker

Location: Falmouth (Cornwall) - Falmouth Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local folklore places the ghost of a former brewery worker in the snooker room.

Monks

Location: Fareham (Hampshire) - Crofton Manor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: One guest awoke during the night to see a monk standing at the foot of his bed - the guest shouted out and the monk vanished. There are other reports of phantom footsteps and knocking on doors, while the area is also the haunt of a phantom woman and an aging sailor.

Young Boy

Location: Fareham (Hampshire) - Roundabout Hotel, Wallington
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1979
Further Comments: A young blonde haired boy appeared briefly in the hotel, dressed in a black coat. The apparition soon vanished, leaving only the mystery of his identity.

Serving Girl

Location: Farnham (Surrey) - The Bush Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This servant is said to be friendly in nature, though the way she disappears is said to be disconcerting.

Sounds of a Coach

Location: Farnham (Surrey) - The Hop Bag Hotel, Downing Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sounds of a coach pulling into the courtyard of this hotel have been heard, complete with whinnying horses. A ghostly girl in grey has also been seen waiting for the return of a lost lover killed on the outskirts of the town.

Children's Laughter

Location: Farnworth (Greater Manchester) - Shakespeare Hotel (public house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2016
Further Comments: Glimpses of strange shadows and the sounds of children's laughter are said to be reported by customers at this pub. CCTV footage was said to have shown five different ghostly figures.

He Who Listens

Location: Fenwick (Lanarkshire) - Kiwi Lodge Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid-to-late-twentieth century
Further Comments: Helen Blanchfield watched a man watching her as she played on the piano. She tried to talk to him, but he vanished.

Old Housekeeper

Location: Flitwick (Bedfordshire) - Flitwick Manor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: One of the ghosts that has taken up residence at the hotel is a former housekeeper. She has been spotted wearing a black Victorian dress and a white cap. One witness said she looked like she was crying. Another suggestion is that the ghost is the wife of former owner John Thomas Brooks, who never really recovered from the premature death of her daughter in 1848.

Southcliff Hotel in Folkestone, Kent.

Former Occupant

Location: Folkestone (Kent) - Southcliff Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hotel claims to be haunted by the ghost of a former owner of the building, a soldier, who now frequents the right hand side of the site.

Soldier

Location: Fowey (Cornwall) - Fowey Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A soldier is said to walk through the wall in Room 306, while elsewhere a phantom sailor pleads his innocence to a crime he did not commit.

Shapes

Location: Fowey (Cornwall) - Safe Harbour Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: Licensee Angela Husband told the local press that people had reportedly seen ghostly shapes in this hotel.

WB Yeats

Location: Galway (County Galway) - Renvyle House hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Yeats treated this building as home away from home and is believed to still reside here. Several of the rooms are also haunted by the ghosts of children.

Opening Doors

Location: Ganllwyd (Gwynedd) - Plas Dolmelynllyn Hall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012
Further Comments: A ghost hunting team on this site heard doors opening and closing, the sound of heavy breathing, and claimed to have contacted the spirit of a First World War captain.

Former Waitress

Location: Garve (Highland) - Hotel, exact details unknown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This former worker killed herself after being victimised by her boss. For many years after the event, bells would ring without reason throughout the building.

Piano

Location: Garwick (Isle of Man) - Glen Hotel (no longer operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1955
Further Comments: A witness and their family who lived in the hotel for two years had a number of strange auditory experiences, including a faint piano (that ceased after the family found a handwritten music score), laboured breathing, and the sound of horses passing outside.

Armed Rider

Location: Gerrards Cross (Buckinghamshire) - Area around the Bull Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 10 February 1984
Further Comments: While walking home from the Bull Hotel, Dave Robson heard the thumping of hooves approach him. Within moments, a dark cloaked figure wearing a big hat and holding a gun dashed by on horseback before vanishing near a group of trees.

Woman in an Old Dress

Location: Gilmerton (Perth and Kinross) - Cultoquhey House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2003
Further Comments: This hotel was reputedly haunted by a woman wearing an old dress. She would be seen always entering a certain bedroom, but never to leave. She was reputedly seen by a Dutch visitor in 2003.

Sounds of Children

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Cathedral House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sounds of children have been reported coming from the top floor of this hotel. Other people have claimed to feel something invisible brush against them. In a newspaper interview in 2022, it was stated that Suzi Quatro had reported seeing a ghost here to the manager.

Opening Doors

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Central Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1976-1982
Further Comments: A former worker at the hotel reported that they would walk around during the early hours of the morning closing all the fire doors on the fourth floor, which would then reopen and close themselves a few moments later.

Lovesick Monk

Location: Glastonbury (Somerset) - The George and Pilgrim Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A monk has been reported walking down the corridors of the building, sometimes followed by a well-dressed female figure. Allegedly lovers who never touched, their sexual tension has bound them to earth... Another hotel 'guest' is a man seen wearing a blue sports jacket, who vanishes if approached.

Grey Lady

Location: Glenfinnan (Highland) - Glenfinnan Inn (now Prince's House Hotel)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This location sports two phantoms, both said to be harmless. The first is a grey lady who travels along the corridors before promptly vanishing, while the second is that of a highlander with a beard.