The Paranormal Database

Mrs Langton

Location: Lyme Regis (Dorset) - Angel Inn, Coombe Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A former landlady horrified upon discovering her daughter was an alcoholic, Mrs Langton (or Lawton) took the news quite hard, and has yet to leave her pub. The phantom landlady has been reported several times standing over people's beds, and her presence is described as comforting.

John Ives

Location: Lyndhurst (Hampshire) - Fox and Hounds Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Former landlord John Ives celebrated New Year's Eve by drinking too much and falling into the fire, dying of his injuries. Now John is said to haunt the inn, especially spooking staff in the cellar.

Tall Man

Location: Lyndhurst (Hampshire) - Swan Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend says that the inn is haunted by the ghost of a tall man, thought to be a former landlord who killed himself.

White Lady

Location: Lynmouth (Devon) - Bridge Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000
Further Comments: This pale figure was seen standing over a guest's bed. She has also been observed in the bar.

Monk

Location: Manchester (Greater Manchester) - Church Inn, Prestwich
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: The phantom monk who haunts the cellar under this public house occasionally cries out 'Hello!' to gain attention.

James Heyward

Location: Manchester (Greater Manchester) - Same Yet Inn, Prestwich
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Heyward was robbed and murdered nearby in 1843; his bearded ghost occasionally seen in the pub was blamed when a fire broke out in the bistro in 1994.

White Hart Inn, Manningtree.

Witchfinder General

Location: Manningtree (Essex) - White Hart Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Mathew Hopkins once frequented this establishment, and they say he can still be heard in the building.

Walking

Location: Mansfield (Nottinghamshire) - New Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sound of someone walking around the upper floor has been heard when the area should have been empty. A loud crash has also been heard, as if part of the roof had collapsed, though no damage could be found.

Dame Flogan

Location: Mansfield (Nottinghamshire) - White Hart Inn, White Hart Street, and Dame Flogan Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Flogan was killed in an accident near the inn, her body dragged a short distance by a horse. The ghost is said to haunt the roads and the inn itself.

Old Woman

Location: Mawdesley (Lancashire) - Between old hall and the Black Bull inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hall itself was said to be haunted by this old woman who would every now and then head up the road as if after a quick drink, though she would vanish just before reaching the public house.

Suicide

Location: Meopham (Kent) - Cricketer's Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom lady who haunts this inn is said to have committed suicide discovering her husband had returned from fighting in France with a French mistress.

White Hart Inn, Mersea Island.

Little Old Lady

Location: Mersea Island (Essex) - White Hart Inn (closed 2013)
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wearing a dress of blue velvet, this older woman has been spotted behind the bar. The cellar was also said to be haunted by a dog, and a secret smuggling tunnel connected the cellar to the nearby churchyard.

Grey Lady

Location: Middleston Sands (Lancashire) - Rooftree Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This entity was reported several times lurking around the bar.

Murdered Man

Location: Miterdale (Cumbria) - Area where the Nanny Horton Inn once stood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early nineteenth century onwards
Further Comments: Murdered in a farmhouse, this man returned with such ferocity that no one could live in the building and it fell into ruins. The phantom's influence also resulted in the local Inn also falling into decay, and some believe that he remains in the area.

Woman in Long Dress

Location: Moreton (Essex) - White Hart Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1991, between 00:00h - 01:00h
Further Comments: The silhouette of a young woman was seen through the glass window of the internal kitchen door. The figure wore a long dress, and the witness at first thought the figure to be his wife, until he opened the door and the figure disappeared. Returning upstairs, the witness found his wife asleep. The female entity is thought to have died in an accident in the building and has been seen since the 1920s.

Bell Inn, Moreton in Marsh.

Hugger

Location: Moreton in Marsh (Gloucestershire) - Bell Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This overly friendly phantom is said to distribute the occasion hug.

Black Bear Inn, Moreton in Marsh.

Fred

Location: Moreton in Marsh (Gloucestershire) - Black Bear Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The noisy spirit that sometimes makes itself known here is nicknamed Fred.

Hugger

Location: Moreton in Marsh (Gloucestershire) - Moreton's pub & restaurant (was Cross Hands Inn)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 2008 and into 2009
Further Comments: A ghostly woman, quick temperature drops and electrical appliances which switched themselves on were reported in the pub after a car crashed into the building.

White Man

Location: Morville (Shropshire) - Acton Arms Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A former landlady at the inn said that she sometimes spotted this ghost several times a day. The phantom was described as a man-shaped white form that quickly vanished if seen.

Seaman

Location: Morwenstow (Cornwall) - Bush Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One of the oldest pubs in England, the ghost of a sailor who haunts the building may be one of the unknown men washed up on the nearby beach.

Mary Hollingworth

Location: Mottram (Derbyshire) - Roe Cross Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Seen near the four hundred year old fireplace, the ghost of old Mary wearing a long dress is reportedly quite harmless.

The Ship Inn, Mousehole.

Moving Pint

Location: Mousehole (Cornwall) - The Ship Inn
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 05 October 2012, around 16:00h
Further Comments: While sitting around a table with four other people, one witness said their pint and mobile phone both moved five inches across the table unaided. A phantom modern dressed man was said to have once appeared during the twentieth century, vanishing when a member of staff tried to talk to him.

Faceless Coachman

Location: Muddiford (Devon) - Muddiford Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several entities are said to haunt this inn, including a phantom coachman with no face and a young girl carrying a baby.

Woman in Black

Location: Nannerch (Clwyd) - A541, near the Rising Sun Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Wearing a long black gown with a hood concealing her face, this ghostly woman has been seen along this road several times in the past one hundred years. She either steps from the nearby bushes and vanishes while standing in the road or walks into the dense undergrowth.

Mr Drewrose

Location: Newcastle Under Lyme (Staffordshire) - Comfort Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000
Further Comments: This ghost had been seen for many years and reputedly passed on a message to a visiting medium which revealed an unsafe amount of petrol under the building - Health & Safety Officials removed the hazard.