The Paranormal Database

Organ

Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - St James's Parish Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1934, 01:10h
Further Comments: A man on his way home from the station could hear the organ being played in the church, although the gates were locked and the building in darkness.

Teddy & Beehive Woman

Location: Gower (West Glamorgan) - Beach at Whitford Bay
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 17 September 2005
Further Comments: A woman with her family which had a long stretch of beach to themselves suddenly found a middle aged couple had set up deckchairs and windbreaks around twelve metres away. The couple, one with a Brylcreem teddy boy hair style, the other with a beehive, were listening to 1950s/1960s music. The woman was intrigued as to how the couple had managed to set up everything without her noticing, and even more surprised when she turned to talk to her daughter and, turning back, found they had vanished.

Self-Playing Piano

Location: Great Burstead (Essex) - Hope House, aka Tower House School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s
Further Comments: As well as the piano, phantom footsteps have been heard outside the building.

Heavy Dragging Upstairs

Location: Great Cornard (Suffolk) - Abbas Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02 March 1952
Further Comments: Sounds of something being dragged in the upper part of the building, together with footsteps, have been reported, as have sightings of an old woman looking through the windows of the house. One story claims the ghost of a hooded nun walks through the area, sometimes accompanied by eerie harpsichord music. In 1952, seven American servicemen from Lakenheath spent the night on the site and reported the temperature fluctuating from stifling hot to freezing cold, and hearing bells pealing through the building. Finally, a secret tunnel is said to run from the hall to the former Highbury Barn public house.

A musical pixie.

Pixie Place

Location: Hackpen Hill (Wiltshire) - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hill is still reportedly a home for fairies and other little folk, whose music can be heard as it drifts around the area.

Muffled Organ Music

Location: Hassingham (Norfolk) - St Mary's Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A family out for an early morning drive stopped by the church and listened to the music coming from it for several minutes before deciding to enter. As they pushed open the front door, the music stopped, and they could find no one inside.

An old woodcut of Thomas Becket being murdered.

Hungry Prisoners

Location: Hastings (Sussex) - Hastings Castle, the area called The Mount
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Several manifestations exist here. The sounds of prisoners rattling their chains and calling out for food have been heard under the castle; the upper areas are haunted by phantom organ music. Thomas Becket, dean of the church college, walks the area, as does a nun caught on film during the 1970s.

Music

Location: Healey (Northumberland) - Vicarage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1933
Further Comments: A newspaper article briefly mentioned that the new vicar of Healey had performed an exorcism to rid this site of ghostly music.

Choir

Location: Helpston (formally Helpstone) (Cambridgeshire) - Area close to the Exeter Arms Inn (no longer open)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1950
Further Comments: A ghostly choir could be heard somewhere in this area, close to the spot where a quartered skeleton had been discovered a few years previous.

Fiddling

Location: Helpston (formally Helpstone) (Cambridgeshire) - Langley Bush Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sounds of a wildly played fiddle haunted this area after dark, the road becoming off limits to travellers. Along the same road, the gibbet had stood before being moved closer to the inn.

Red Lady

Location: Hinton (Wiltshire) - Hinton Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly woman in red is said to play the harpsichord in the music room and smile at anyone who observes her.

Tall Lady in Black

Location: Hinton Ampner (Hampshire) - Old Manor House (no longer standing) and new Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: From 1765 until 1960
Further Comments: The old Manor House was haunted to such an extent that it was finally demolished and rebuilt a few meters down the road. Reports of apparitions, footsteps, untraceable music and finally screaming all drove out the occupiers of the original building. The replacement building suffered briefly from elements of the haunting, though nothing since it was gutted by fire and re-rebuilt...

Band Music

Location: Hove (Sussex) - Western Lawns Bandstand (no longer standing, area redeveloped in 1968)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1968
Further Comments: Prior to the area being redeveloped, the bandstand fell into disrepair, although people would still hear music coming from the abandoned area.

An old postcard showing Inveraray Castle.

Harp Player

Location: Inveraray (Argyll and Bute) - Inveraray Castle
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Executed in 1644, this ghostly musician now returns and plucks his strings around the time of a Duke of Argyll's death. He is also heard in the library throwing books around, though none are ever moved.

Fairy Music

Location: Iona, Isle of Mull (Argyll and Bute) - Sithean Mor - Fairy Mound
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: From this grassy knoll sweet music has been heard by both locals and visitors to the area.

Staring Woman

Location: Ipswich (Suffolk) - Crown Hotel, 346 Felixstowe Road (no longer operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010
Further Comments: A face of a woman looks down from the window in bedroom 2, even though the room is empty. Mild poltergeist activities have also been reported, the piano has been heard playing itself, and a crashing sound, as of a wardrobe falling over, also reported.

Organ Music

Location: Kenfig (Mid Glamorgan) - Prince of Wales public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: After the landlord reported hearing phantom music and voices in his pub, John Marke and Allan Jenkins used the building to experiment with their 'stone wall' theory. While they recorded some sounds, it could be debated that there was a rational source to the sounds.

Fairy Music

Location: Kennavarra, Tiree (Argyll and Bute) - Kennavarra Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Two children, a sister and brother, were hunting for birds in the snow. Music that emerged from deep underground terrified the pair; they ran home, the girl losing her shoes in her haste to escape.

Future Events

Location: Kirkcaldy (Fife) - Bell Craig (or crag?) (no longer present)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Weather dependent: stormy nights (piper), cave activity unknown
Further Comments: The crag was said to be haunted by a phantom bagpiper, who would be heard when weather conditions were right. In addition, a cave, since destroyed by mining, was believed to be perfectly located between heaven and hell, and as such, visitors within could see the future.

Fairy Music

Location: Kyle of Lochalsh (Highland) - Clann Mhic Crumein
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The finest music in all Scottish fairydom can be heard here.

Bagpiper

Location: Lady Wood (Northamptonshire) - The Soldier's Grave
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Standing over the lonely grave of a highlander killed during an uprising, this piper appears unwilling to let people forget about the grassy mound.

The sea between Cornwall and Scilly Isles.

Lyonesse

Location: Land's End (Cornwall) - Between Cornwall and Scilly Isles
Type: Other
Date / Time: 25 December (bells) (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This mythical land was once said to connect Cornwall to the Scilly Isles - as recently as the early twentieth century, people claimed to be able to see flooded woodland between the two land masses. Some legends say that Merlin sank Lyonesse as Mordred's men tried to escape across it, while others say it sank after a judgement from Heaven. On Christmas day, 149 submerged bells are said to ring and in days gone by, Cornish fishermen would sail out and listen to the undersea music.

Pianist

Location: Leeds (West Yorkshire) - City Palace of Varieties (theatre)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Two ghosts have made a home of this theatre - one plays the piano late at night, the other is an unknown lady who brings with her a zone of cold.

Boy playing Flute

Location: Liphook (Hampshire) - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This flute-playing figure was seen and heard on the lanes, in trees and behind bushes in this village, with the music produced described as enchanting but with an underlying danger. The same area is haunted by a pale white calf.

Funeral March

Location: Little Warley (Essex) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1929
Further Comments: Residents could hear the church organ playing a funeral march, although the building was unlit. The area tended to be avoided because a nearby house had a reputation as being haunted. The village rector said the 'music' could be the noise of traffic from a nearby road.