The Paranormal Database

Smugglers

Location: Sheffield (South Yorkshire) - Ship Inn, Shalesmoor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The cellar of the inn is reputedly haunted by two smugglers who drowned during the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864.

Elizabeth Smith

Location: Shepley (South Yorkshire) - Sovereign Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Elizabeth is said to sit in a room upstairs and can be seen watching from a window. The cellar is also said to be haunted by a man who died down there in the 1960s.

Whispering

Location: Shipton Oliffe (Gloucestershire) - Frogmill Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940/50
Further Comments: Still considered haunted today, though to a much lesser degree, the inn was home to strange mist and whispering voices. Three ghostly card players once appeared to a guest in one of the rooms.

Crying Man

Location: Shoreham (Kent) - Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Appearing outside the inn, this phantom man died of a broken heart. He was married to the landlord's daughter but was press ganged and sent to sea. By the time he returned, his wife had died.

Woman in Black

Location: Shorwell (Isle of Wight) - Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2019
Further Comments: A female entity reputedly haunts the dining area, while a male ghost lurks in the attic. In 2019 a reviewer on the TripAdvisor website claimed their dad had spoken to an old woman dressed in black who vanished without trace.

Dark Haired Young Lady

Location: Sible Hedingham (Essex) - The Bell Inn, 46 Swan Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: The lady haunts one of the building's bedrooms and has been known to remove the bed covers of any who sleep in her room.

Turpin

Location: Sibson (Leicestershire) - Road close to Cock Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly highwayman, wearing a tricorn hat with a red coat and identified as Dick Turpin as many phantom highwaymen are, would occasionally be seen at night.

Cavalier

Location: Sidlesham (Sussex) - Crab and Lobster Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: A tall, cloaked figure has been seen both inside and outside the inn. He is thought to be a Cavalier taken to the building after being mortally shot. A visiting medium claimed to see the dying form of the man on the floor of the bar in 1969.

Footsteps

Location: Sidley (Sussex) - New Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: The normal pub polt antics apply here (electrical items operating themselves, lighting turning on and off), though on one occasion footsteps were heard coming from an empty room by a visiting journalist.

Woman

Location: Skipton (North Yorkshire) - Woolly Sheep Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This inn is reputed to be haunted by a woman in a flowing dress.

Small French Man

Location: Smarden (Kent) - The Chequers Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late Spring (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The ghost of a French POW from the Napoleonic war is said to move small items around the premises and upset pets in the building.

Black Dog

Location: Snitterfield (Warwickshire) - Brook House (AKA Bell Brook Inn)
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: An unnaturally large dark hound ran across the lawn.

Waxwork of King Charles the First.

King Charles I

Location: Southwell (Nottinghamshire) - Saracen's Head Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: King Charles I is said to have used this building as a hideout whilst on the run, and his phantom now appears in the King Charles Suite. Another man, sporting a powdered wig, also haunts the building, as does a woman in eighteenth century dress.

Faith

Location: Soyland (West Yorkshire) - Bluebell (or Blue Ball) Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Drowned after an affair with the landlord resulted in an unwanted pregnancy, Faith is heard running along the corridors of the public house after hours; protesting that while all knew her death was murder, no one questioned the official finding that called it a suicide.

Giggling Child

Location: Sparkford (Somerset) - Sparkford Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a small boy, giggling even though wearing scorched clothing, runs through the bar and dining room. Other entities are blamed for the whispers emerging from empty rooms and mild poltergeist activities.

Woman in Black

Location: St Brelade (Jersey) - Smugglers Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly woman in black is said to still haunt this building.

Ghostly Monk

Location: St Briavels (Gloucestershire) - George Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Human inhabitants at the pub have learnt to share the building with the spirit of this former monk.

Hugh Edwards

Location: St Ives (Cornwall) - Globe Inn (aka Tap House), no longer operational
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Once the residence of the Edwards family, the inn was said to be haunted by Hugh, who accidently rode his horse down an open mine shaft at night. The ghost would be heard walking loudly up the staircase and using his riding crop to strike thrice on a bedroom door.

Tall Man

Location: St Neots (Cambridgeshire) - Coach House (was The New Inn)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: The ghostly figure of a tall man, thought to be the Earl of Holland, has not been reported for quite a while.

The devil at work.

New Shoes for the Devil

Location: St Nicholas (South Glamorgan) - Dusty Forge Inn
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This inn was once a forge, where the Devil was caught making new shoes for himself.

Woman in Black

Location: Stamford (Lincolnshire) - London Inn (closed in 2010)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Tuesday evening in December, early 1990s, around 19:30h
Further Comments: Together with a friend working behind a bar in an otherwise empty inn, this witness reported watching a young woman in black walk from the back of the pub and enter the toilets. They waited for her to emerge, wanting to comment to her not buying a drink but using the facilities, but after fifteen minutes one witness grew concerned and went to see if she was okay, but the toilets were empty...

Cat Lover

Location: Stanbury (West Yorkshire) - The Old Silent Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The rear of this public house is reportedly frequented by a spectral old lady who fed all the local stray cats. The ringing of phantom bells has been heard coming from nearby moorland.

Party

Location: Stanley (Durham) - South Causey Inn
Type: Other
Date / Time: 15 October 2009, around 23:45h
Further Comments: While in this pub with her friend, this witness heard a large group of people enter the building. The witness turned and noticed the group were wearing bright clothing, with one woman sporting a turquoise coloured outfit with lots of feathers. The witness briefly turned to her friend intending to point at the crowd, but when she turned back, the colourful group had vanished.

Gassy Ghost

Location: Stapleton (North Yorkshire) - Bridge Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1993
Further Comments: The poltergeist here managed to terrify the landlord by turning the cooker gas taps on during the night. Disembodied footsteps could be heard late at night.

Henry Trigg

Location: Stevenage (Hertfordshire) - National Westminster Bank, High Street (once Old Castle Inn)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Trigg lived in the building in the early eighteenth century, and requested that after he died, his body to be concealed in the loft. This happened, but over the next 250 years, dozens of morbid souvenir hunters removed the bones from the coffin, leaving only a lonely shade that now looks for his remains.