The Paranormal Database

Rapper

Location: Brixham (Devon) - Globe Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The rapping and tapping have reportedly kept previous landlords awake at night, and the poltergeist also enjoys hiding various belongings around the establishment.

Ear Twister

Location: Broad Hinton (Wiltshire) - Crown Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Late 1970s
Further Comments: At least three people reported having their ears twisted by an invisible presence.

Incense

Location: Broadhempston (Devon) - Church House Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Varies: Christmas and Easter (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Once a cottage for monks, the sweet smell is thought to come from the long dead monks celebrating their festivals.

Abe Beer

Location: Buckland Monachorum (Devon) - Who'd Have Thought It Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The aptly named Abe, a former landlord at the pub, still returns to his bar. A Cavalier also haunts the premises, a sad look on his pale face.

Tom Crocker

Location: Burgh Island (Devon) - Pilchard Inn, and surrounding area, Burgh Island
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 13 August (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A smuggler by trade, Crocker met his match outside the pub, where he was shot dead (by customs or by rivals, we do not know). He returns on that fateful day. Other sources state that he was hanged, and that the area around this site generates a melancholy feeling. The ghostly lights from lanterns held by phantom wreckers are also seen on the shore at night.

Mabel?

Location: Burham (Kent) - Toastmaster Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001
Further Comments: A former landlady, Mabel may have been photographed during a New Year's Eve party in 2001, reflected in a picture on the wall. There are also reports of glasses that move themselves and strange sounds.

The Queen's Head.

Peter Warne

Location: Burley (Hampshire) - Queen's Head Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former smuggler, Warne is now said to haunt this inn.

Figure

Location: Burnley (Lancashire) - Swan Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Strange sounds have been heard around this inn, and cleaning staff have seen a figure walk into the men's toilet, yet never coming out.

Black Lady

Location: Burton (near Neston) (Cheshire) - Marshland between Burton and Harp Inn in Neston
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The story of a phantom black lady with a black dog which would cross the marshland was possibly a story manufactured so smugglers could work uninterrupted.

Anvil

Location: Burton Pidsea (East Riding of Yorkshire) - Nancy Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: Once a blacksmith, this public house still has an anvil within which, it is said, if removed causes strange things to occur. One member of staff moved the anvil, only to see it rise and fall again on its own accord. Talking, laughing and the clink of glasses can be heard coming from an empty room.

Rustling Skirts

Location: Burton upon Trent (Staffordshire) - Leopard Inn (no longer operational)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: The sound of a rustling skirt was reported in several parts of the building, and doors were heard to open and slam shut.

George Whewell

Location: Bury (Greater Manchester) - The Pack Horse Inn, Affetside
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: If removed from the public house, this discoloured skull which once belonged to executioner George Whewell is said to scream until returned.

Headless Shadow

Location: Buxton (Derbyshire) - Newhaven Inn, between Buxton and Ashbourne
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One witness described this entity as a black and grey shadow without a head. Thankfully, the ghost is more likely to manifest phantom footsteps along the corridors.

Fisherman

Location: Cadgwith (Cornwall) - Cadgwith Cove Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Fisherman / smuggler unknown, footsteps circa 2008
Further Comments: The inn is reputedly home to a phantom old fisherman and a ghostly smuggler. A witness outside the front of the inn, smoking a cigarette after the bar had closed, heard a set of disembodied footsteps pass by and around the pub.

Woman

Location: Cadham (Hampshire) - White Hart Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Though never seen, this woman's perfume has been reported on several occasions, while her presence is also denoted by a sudden change in temperature.

Nun

Location: Caernarfon (Gwynedd) - Black Boy Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom nun passes through the inn, heading in the direction where a nunnery once stood.

Self-propelled Objects

Location: Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan) - Panteg Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This polt makes his presence felt by animating inanimate objects.

Charlie the Drunkard

Location: Cannock (Staffordshire) - Four Crosses Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: Local psychic Mystic Ed was called to the inn after several strange events, including the smashing of glasses and the fireplace igniting itself. Ed claimed that several spirits were at work; a nineteenth century drunk named Charlie, a middle-aged woman, a soldier, and the ghost of a young boy called Scotty.

Bishop's Finger Inn, Canterbury.

Ellen Blean

Location: Canterbury (Kent) - Bishop's Finger Inn, St Dunstan's Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Every Friday night (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Blean, a housekeeper to a Canon in Canterbury, poisoned him and his mistress when she discovered their affair. Blean disappeared soon after, and many years later her body was discovered walled up in a nearby building. The story goes that Blean's ghost haunts the street and appears in the inn itself, although the story's connection to the inn is said to be fictitious.

Gwrach y Rhibyn

Location: Cardiff (South Glamorgan) - Cow and Snuffers Inn, Llandaff (no longer operational)
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 14 November 1877
Further Comments: A guest staying close to the Cow and Snuffers watched a screeching old woman with wings, red hair, and pale face enter the inn. The guest believed the entity to be a Gwrach y Rhibyn, a death omen. The following day, the guest discovered the innkeeper had died during the night.

Elizabeth

Location: Carrickfergus (County Antrim) - Dobbin's Inn Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Elizabeth, wife of former owner Hugh Dobbins, had an affair with a soldier stationed at the castle. When Hugh discovered the relationship, he murdered the couple. Elizabeth, also known as Maud, now contents herself by stroking people's faces as they sleep or by making fleeting appearances in the reception area.

Rustling

Location: Castle Combe (Wiltshire) - Salutation Inn (was The Gibb Inn)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early - mid twentieth century
Further Comments: The rustling of a woman's skirt could occasionally be heard behind the walls, as could ghostly music.

Murderer

Location: Caxton (Cambridgeshire) - Caxton Gibbet Inn, Room 5 (no longer standing)
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Footsteps pacing around in the upper part of the building have been allocated to a former landlord (or his son) who killed several of the guests. Several other phantoms were also said to haunt the ill, although it has been gutted by fire and may not be rebuilt. The gibbet outside the ruins was made from timbers from a cottage demolition in the village of Caxton in the early 1900s, although it was not the one from which the murderer hanged.

New Inn, Cerne Abbas.

Children

Location: Cerne Abbas (Dorset) - New Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghosts of two young girls are said to haunt the garden of this inn, while inside near the bar, a man in riding gear sits by the fireplace.

Chambermaid

Location: Chagford (Devon) - Globe Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This maid was drowned while being trialled on a charge of witchcraft - her shade returned in protest.