The Paranormal Database

Silent Stagecoach

Location: Chalfont St Peter (Buckinghamshire) - Amersham Road and Greyhound Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Misty nights
Further Comments: An old fashioned stagecoach pulled by a team of ghostly horses passes along this road and vanishes as it pulls up at the Greyhound Inn.

Upper Bell Inn, Chatham.

Turpin

Location: Chatham (Kent) - Upper Bell Inn (no longer standing)
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This public house was said to be haunted, possibly by the ghost of Dick Turpin, although there is a distinct lack of accounts of any sightings. A headstone which stood in the beer garden most likely added to its spooky atmosphere, as did its location, close to Blue Bell Hill and its infamous vanishing hitchhiker (but more on her another day). One paranormal group claimed to have photographed 'orbs' on this site.

Tapping Behind Sealed Door

Location: Chelmsford (Essex) - Spotted Dog Inn, Tindal Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: No longer standing (replaced by a shopping centre) the Spotted Dog Inn had an infamous sealed room, haunted by the ghost of a guest murdered in his sleep. His tapping would wake any who tried to sleep within, hence the sealing. Some reports exist of the entity in the shopping centre itself, where it earned the nickname of 'Box Monster', due to its habit of throwing cardboard boxes around.

Man and His Dog

Location: Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) - Leckhampton Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1997
Further Comments: A landlord asked a man standing at the bar with a dog what he would like to drink, only for the patron to vanish when he turned away for a second. The landlord was later shown a picture of a man long dead, who he identified as the disappearing customer.

Rattling Chains

Location: Cherington (Gloucestershire) - Trouble House inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s onwards
Further Comments: Large gusts of wind were felt rushing around this public house, normally accompanied by clanking chains in the 1930s, and events grew so bad that the landlord and his family fled. A lady in a blue dress and pinafore, with either long dark hair or a hooded cloak, has been seen more recently; in 2002 she was seen carrying a tray of bottles through a back door.

An old photograph of the Bear and Billet Inn.

Maid

Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Bear and Billet Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom maid, who died of starvation after being locked in a room, is reported to haunt the staircase, and appears only to men. Mild poltergeist activity is also reported at the site, and strange screeching noises have been picked up on a telephone answering machine.

Henrietta

Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Blue Bell Inn (currently East Glory Restaurant)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Henrietta waited for her Royalist lover to return from Battle of Rowton Moor, but soon discovered he had been killed. She committed suicide in the cellar. Her phantom is said to emerge from the cellar and walk to an upstairs window to wait for her lovers return.

Coachman

Location: Chesterfield (Derbyshire) - Sun Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: November 1957
Further Comments: During one November night, bottles were smashed and barrels moved around the locked cellar. The vandalism was blamed on a ghostly coachman whose murdered body was thrown down a well in the cellar during the eighteenth century. The ghost could also be heard walking around the inn.

Legless Woman

Location: Chideock (Dorset) - Clock House Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: A former landlord and his wife saw this young female phantom standing in the middle of the car park. She smiled and vanished, but not before the landlord's wife noticed that the ghost had no legs.

Barrow Dog

Location: Chilham (Kent) - Pilgrim's Way, opposite the Woolpack Inn
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: January 1947
Further Comments: A witness watched this large black creature bounding towards the barrow, where it promptly disappeared.

Grey Lady

Location: Chilham (Kent) - Wool Pack Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This place is allegedly haunted by a phantom grey woman.

Lizzie Dean

Location: Chipping (Lancashire) - The Sun Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A former cleaner at the establishment, Lizzie took her own life after her other half ran away. Her ghost, seen in maid's outfit, still walks the walls of the building, and sometimes disappears through them.

Ye Olde George Inn, Christchurch.

Grey Lady

Location: Christchurch (Dorset) - Ye Olde George Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A priest hole found during repair work on the building contained a skeleton and old clothing. This discovery may explain the phantom grey lady seen around the site. It is also said that wine bottles which have been left on different tables have been found collected and moved to a single area.

Cloaked Man

Location: Chudleigh (Devon) - Bishop Lacy Inn, Fore Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure was seen running up the staircase of the building - when the landlord gave chase, the man vanished into thin air. A white woman has also been seen on site, and at one time a group of bar dwellers watched as a pint of beer was pulled by a phantom hand!

Wooden Legged Man

Location: Church Stretton (Shropshire) - Bottle and Glass Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sounds of a man with a wooden leg has been heard walking around this public house.

Black Horse Inn, Castle Street, Cirencester.

Old Woman

Location: Cirencester (Gloucestershire) - Black Horse Inn, Castle Street
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1933, signature existed until 1992 (until window was smashed)
Further Comments: A guest awoke in her bedroom only to see an 'evil looking' older woman bathed in green light. The guest screamed and the older woman vanished into a wall, just prior to other people entering the room to investigate the commotion. The following morning the word 'W John' was found scratched into a windowpane, albeit upside down. As the writing was not there the night before, it was assumed the name was scratched into the glass by the ghost.

Plough Inn, Clacton.

Hand Holder

Location: Clacton-on-Sea (Essex) - Plough Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The landlady of the inn reported feeling someone take her hand as she went to open a door. Believing it to belong to her husband, she turned to talk to him, but found no-one there. Many visitors to the building also feel as if someone is watching them.

Falling Items

Location: Clacton-on-Sea (Essex) - Ship Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The inn is occasionally troubled by minor outbreaks of poltergeist activity.

Singing Children

Location: Clapham (North Yorkshire) - Goat Gap Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Children reciting nursery rhymes have been heard in one of the rooms here, while in the bar area 'George' (a nickname given to the ghost of a farmer) has been seen watching the world go by from the window.

Black Dog

Location: Clee Hill (Shropshire) - Kremlin Inn
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The outside of this public house is said to be haunted by a ghostly black dog. The inn took the name 'Kremlin' after people reported hearing Russian voices and music emerge from the jukebox during the Cold War.

Leather Clad Cyclist

Location: Cocketon (Devon) - Drum Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Wearing a helmet and dressed in full black biker's leathers, this figure was seen in the kitchen by the landlady. The entity vanished when approached. The biker has also been glimpsed in the cellar.

Friendly

Location: Cockwood (Devon) - Anchor Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A Telegraph news article mentioned this site to be haunted by a friendly ghost and his dog, presumably also a ghost.

Sebastian

Location: Coleford (Devon) - New Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former monk (or Cavalier) in life, Sebastian is thought still to hang around the building.

The Landlord Jarman

Location: Colnbrook (Berkshire) - The Ostrich Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This fourteenth century Landlord murdered fifteen (or sixty, depending on the source) of his rich guests by cooking them in a vat of boiling fat. Hanged for his crimes, his ghost is now held accountable for the creaks, bumps, and whisperings around the inn.

Bearded Man

Location: Combe Martin (Devon) - Pack o'Cards inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A small man sporting a long beard is said to haunt this building, as is a white woman in a flowing gown.