The Paranormal Database

CCTV Figures

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Belgrave Hall Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 23 December 1998
Further Comments: Recorded by CCTV, two ghostly figures were briefly seen in the grounds. Though the image was later explained as being 'leaves caught in the light', the building is reportedly haunted by a middle aged woman in a pale dress, who gives off a friendly aura.

Empty

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Newarke Houses (now a museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1908
Further Comments: This property had a spooky reputation and stories said it remained empty for many years due to a haunting.

Children

Location: Limerick (County Limerick) - Frank McCourt museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: March 2015
Further Comments: After carrying out a seance at the site, the Ghost Eire team said they could 'sense' children in wet clothing and two women.

Headless Piper

Location: Lisburn (County Antrim) - Piper's Hill, near the Linen Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This poor ghostly piper is said to have lost his head after an accident with a cannon ball.

German Soldiers

Location: Llandudno (Clwyd) - Llandudno Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012?
Further Comments: The ghosts of two German soldiers are said to haunt a room which once acted as a First World War military office. The smell of tobacco has also been reported as coming from the same room.

Housekeeper

Location: Luton (Bedfordshire) - Museum & Art Gallery, Wardown Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1971
Further Comments: Two engineers working overnight to fix the heating system spotted a woman in a dark dress with a large set of keys on her belt. She walked up the back staircase - the engineers tried to follow her, but she vanished. The following morning the building caretaker confirmed that no one else was in the building during the night. Several other people had heard disembodied footsteps on the same staircase but had never seen to whom they belonged. One local legend says that a Victorian housekeeper drowned herself nearby after a failed romance.

Caroline and Friends

Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - Paradise Mill, Silk Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2002, 31 October 2007
Further Comments: In 2002, a worker at the museum encountered several ghostly children on the site, one of which followed her home. The ghosts were described as non-threatening. The Shadow Seekers paranormal team were called in 2007 and claimed to have used dowsing rods to determine that the spirits of four children remained in the mill - Caroline, Sarah, Rebecca and John.

Pyewacket

Location: Maidstone (Kent) - Maidstone Museum
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: Staff at the museum's cafe reported hearing banking and the name 'Pyewacket' coming from under the floorboards. One witness in the museum reported a door, propped open with a heavy metal weight, closed itself.

Rebecca Alexander

Location: Maidstone (Kent) - The Museum of Kent Life
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rebecca is thought to be a farmer's wife who died in 1912 in an accident involving a cart. Her presence is said to be non-threatening, and she spends her time looking for her newborn baby, who survived the accident.

Guinevere's Tombstone

Location: Meigle (Perth and Kinross) - Museum
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Killed at nearby Alyth, Guinevere (wife of King Arthur) was buried in this small town - what could be her tombstone is on display in the museum.

Mummy

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear) - Hancock Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2004
Further Comments: It was reported in 2004 that this Egyptian mummy's ghost is still active, and now walks around the museum at night.

Aggie McGee

Location: Newtongrange (Lothian) - Scottish Mining Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a coal sorter has been named as Aggie McGee, while other ghost stories include a headless miner and screams of those who died in the pits.

Tobacco

Location: North Berwick (Lothian) - East Fortune Airfield (museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: The smell of tobacco is said to fill the air in the top hangar, even though no smokers are present. Mild poltergeist activity is reported, and occasionally a phantom man is seen wearing dark coveralls.

S for Sugar

Location: NW4 (Greater London) - Hendon Air Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The Lancaster Bomber 'S for Sugar', which is kept on site here, still retains its crew from the Second World War in spirit form. A gunner has been observed sitting in one of the turrets, while the sounds of people working on the aircraft have been recorded late at night.

Woman and Child

Location: Outer London: Harrow (Greater London) - Headstone Manor (Harrow Museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Several entities are reported to haunt this building once owned by Henry VIII. These include visual manifestations of a phantom woman with a child, a man wearing coarsely woven fabric clothing, and of a light floating up the staircase, while the sounds of a baby crying, and plainchant, have also been reported.

Peterborough Museum.

Thomas Hunter

Location: Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) - Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Anzac during the 1970s, others unknown
Further Comments: Sergeant Thomas Hunter, with the Anzacs during the First World War, died in the building 31 July 1916 when it was a hospital. Hunter was last seen drifting up the staircase, though he is blamed for moving items around the building at night or placing icy cold hands on people. Other entities said to haunt here include a scruffy man in the cellar, a white woman in the upper part of the building, a young girl in the former operating theatre, and a phantom Roman soldier who stands by a sword that is on display.

Guildhall, Poole.

Clerk

Location: Poole (Dorset) - Guildhall (former museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1991
Further Comments: A clerk who hanged himself during a state of depression in the guildhall is thought to linger on and is sometimes heard walking around the upper regions of the building.

Dark Shadow

Location: Ramsey (Cambridgeshire) - Ramsey Rural Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2013
Further Comments: Cambridgeshire Supernatural Investigators claimed to have recorded unexplained noises and caught images of a dark shadow while investigating this site.

Drowned Girl

Location: Redditch (Hereford & Worcester) - Forge Mill Needle Museum and Bordesley Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One story says the mill is haunted by a phantom woman who drowned herself in the mill pond. The grounds of the nearby Bordesley Abbey, now ruined, once encompassed the land where the mill stands, which may explain the ghostly monks reported on both sites.

Man in Green

Location: Ripley (Derbyshire) - Butterley Station railway museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 6 May 1991
Further Comments: A visitor to the museum reported seeing a dark-haired man dressed in green clothing that looked like it was from the First World War. The entity sat in an old box coach, used mainly for storage because of bad condition. Other people have complained of a strange atmosphere in the car.

Man with Penny Farthing

Location: Ripon (Yorkshire) - Workhouse Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: A ghostly man standing alongside a penny farthing bicycle has been spotted standing outside the museum. Children's voices can reportedly be heard coming from within the workhouse after it has been closed and locked up for the night.

Grey Lady

Location: Salisbury (Wiltshire) - The Wardrobe (currently a museum)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1970s?
Further Comments: A phantom grey woman was said to haunt this building prior to renovation - it is unclear whether she has remained.

Presence

Location: Scunthorpe (Lincolnshire) - Ironstone Cottage, attached to the Borough museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little is known about this alleged haunting.

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, London.

The Insane

Location: SE11 (Greater London) - Imperial War Museum, Lambeth
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Second World War onwards
Further Comments: The site of the second Bethlem Royal Hospital, the site was used by the Woman's Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War. Staff based there reported hearing ranting and screaming at night, and the sound of chains being rattled. Some believed it was the ghost of Rebecca Griffiths, who moved with the hospital when it relocated from its original location. More recently, a security guard reported hearing shouting and screaming on the site.

Cain

Location: Sheffield (Yorkshire) - National Emergency Services Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2020s?
Further Comments: A former police and fire station, the building is now a museum and used by ghost hunting groups. The site is home to a former prisoner named Cain,