The Paranormal Database

Teenage Girl

Location: Hartland (Devon) - West Country Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: This teenager, named as Elvira, was lured away from her home by a gypsy who murdered her. Her presence made itself known by opening curtains and the sound of her footsteps.

Lady Hamilton

Location: Harwich (Essex) - Three Cups Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Once haunted by Nelson's wife, when the pub had a wall knocked down, the spirit disappeared forever.

Could be Dick

Location: Hastings (Sussex) - The Stag Inn, All Saints Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1988
Further Comments: Thought to be Dick Turpin by the witness, no real evidence exists to back this claim up.

Lady in Black

Location: Hastings (Sussex) - Wishing Tree Inn and road outside, Hollington
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: This Victorian woman has been felt pushing past witnesses in the public house and has been seen outside with a pram. Another ghost, nicknamed 'Funny Face' by locals, reportedly appears to children and makes them laugh.

Crowd with Torches

Location: Havenstreet (Isle of Wight) - Road leading to village, and area near Hare & Hounds Inn
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: 4 January 1969
Further Comments: A couple out in their car found themselves surrounded by hundreds of people running across nearby fields holding burning touches. As they drove to the nearby village, one of the figures stepped out in the road and passed straight through their car.

Headless Woman

Location: Haxey (Lincolnshire) - Unknown road in the area (leading to an inn)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (but said to occur on very dark nights)
Further Comments: A ghostly woman sans head reputedly walks towards an unnamed inn.

Study for 'In the Woods, Evening', by Alexandre Seon

Fresh Flowers on Grave

Location: Haytor (Devon) - Road between Heatree Cross and Hound Tor Inn
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 1860 onwards
Further Comments: Like many nineteenth century suicides, Mary 'Kitty' Jay was buried at a crossroads. Fresh flowers are reported to be found at the grave, though no one has ever seen them placed, leading some to believe the site is tended by fairies. A floating female figure is also reported to have been seen by the graveside, as has a man draped in a dark blanket.

Belinda

Location: Haytor Vale (Devon) - Rock Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in grey clothing, this ghost has been seen brush in hand, sweeping away along the corridors. It is said she was murdered by the wife of a man whom she was having an affair with.

Pacing Anne

Location: Heathfield (Sussex) - Blackboys Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: When it was discovered she was pregnant, friends and family shied away from Anne, and her worried pacing can be heard as her ghost still debates her future.

Laughter

Location: Heddington (Wiltshire) - The Bear Inn (now a private house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: The sound of laughter and glasses being knocked together were once said to echo in the basement of this former inn.

Choir

Location: Helpston (formally Helpstone) (Cambridgeshire) - Area close to the Exeter Arms Inn (no longer open)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1950
Further Comments: A ghostly choir could be heard somewhere in this area, close to the spot where a quartered skeleton had been discovered a few years previous.

Contemporary Person

Location: Helston (Cornwall) - Beehive Inn, Market Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This entity, normally seen only briefly out of the corner of one's eye, appears to be normal in every respect. Another ghost reportedly haunts the upper part of the pub; an old lady who rocks gently in her chair.

Hunched Monk

Location: Henley on Thames (Oxfordshire) - Bull Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure, seen standing over a bed, may also be to blame for the strong smell of burning candles that is sometimes detected in the bar.

Sylvia

Location: Henllan (Clwyd) - Llindir Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Legend has it that Sylvia would sleep around behind her husband's back when he was away at sea. One night he returned early, found his wife and another man in a compromising position, and murdered them both. Sylvia's ghost is now said to lurk around the inn.

Tom

Location: Higher Brea (Cornwall) - Brea Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The poltergeist here has been nicknamed Tom and is blamed for hiding and moving small items.

Jasper

Location: Hodnet (Shropshire) - Bear Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom known as Jasper found in this pub is said to be friendly. One paranormal group said the phantom was Jasper Neilsen, a merchant who died of hypothermia late in the sixteenth century.

Monk

Location: Holbury (Hampshire) - Old Mill Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom monk reported here has an intense red beard.

Scented Woman

Location: Holland-on-Sea (Essex) - Footpath between Oakwood Inn and Aylesbury Drive
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: People have occasionally caught a hint of perfume as they pass this way - the scent is thought to belong to a phantom woman who walks the area.

The ghostly Juliet appears once a year.

Juliet Tewsley, Her Love Unrequited

Location: Holywell (Cambridgeshire) - Ye Olde Ferryboat Inn, gravestone in bar
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 17 March (Reoccurring)
Further Comments: Juliet took her own life after being jilted by a lover. The pub was later built over her grave, and she is now seen in the form of a white lady, appearing near the Ferry Boat Inn and walking towards the banks of the river on the date of her death.

Frail Shadowy Form of a Girl

Location: Horning (Norfolk) - Ferry Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1500s onwards, seen once every 20 years?
Further Comments: Raped and murdered by a group of monks, the twenty five year old girl in the green dress has been observed gliding through the bar of the inn, disappearing into the river outside. She has also been seen along the riverbank close to the abbey.

Lady in Brown Dress

Location: Hove (Sussex) - Hangleton Manor Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mostly unknown, tap felt in October 1995
Further Comments: Local legend says this ghost is a serving girl whose child was killed when the lord of the manor threw it from an attic window. A pair of disembodied hands have been reported floating around the building, also said to belong to the former servant, while on the odd occasion, a male figure in spurs has been observed. A visitor to the manor in 1995 felt a strong tap on her shoulder. Expecting it to be her boyfriend, she turned, but was alone in the room. There are several other local legends about the manor, including hauntings by a horse and carriage, a phantom woman, and ghostly birds.

Young Girl Hold a Teddy

Location: Hunmanby (North Yorkshire) - Swan Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2013
Further Comments: After the inn became under threat of closure, the local press reported that the site had two phantoms. One was a young girl with scraggly hair who held a teddy bear, while another was named as a woman called Margret.

Ned King

Location: Hurst Green (Lancashire) - Punch Bowl Inn (demolished June 2021), and general area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A highwayman caught at the public house and hanged nearby, Mr King returned post-mortem for several years after the event, knocking on doors and windows late at night.

Landlady

Location: Hythe (Kent) - Bell Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The inn is reputedly home to a grey lady, who was a former landlady who died in childbirth, and two revenue men whose bodies were hidden within the building.

Catherine Scothers

Location: Hythe (Kent) - King's Head Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Scothers was named as the phantom who would open locked doors around the site.