The Paranormal Database

Savage Woman

Location: E16 (Greater London) - Connaught Tavern
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The former home of a suicide, the spectre of this semi-mad woman has been seen on at least one occasion - she terrified a staff member as they entered a bedroom, sending them running.

Strange Feelings

Location: E17 (Greater London) - Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre public house, Walthamstow
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 2013
Further Comments: A paranormal team were called in after staff reported feeling ill at ease in the former theatre's dressing room.

Woman in Brown

Location: E2 (Greater London) - Gibraltar public house (no longer standing), Bethnal Green
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Landlord John Harris was said not to by an easy man to live with, although he turned his life around after encountering a phantom woman in brown sitting in his pub. The ghost warned him that if he failed to turn his life around, his daughter would come to a violent end. The apparition then vanished. Even though John became a better man, his daughter still ended up being hanged for an unknown crime.

Woman in Black & Grey

Location: E2 (Greater London) - Nag's Head public house, Hackney Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1968
Further Comments: This aging woman dressed in dark clothing has a grey shawl draped over her bony shoulders, and once haunted the basement. After a series of seances, the ghost disappeared for good.

Florrie Clark

Location: E3 (Greater London) - Ancient Briton public house, Glaucus Street (now demolished)
Type: Manifestation of the Living
Date / Time: 1975
Further Comments: A worker at the pub reported seeing the ghost of a former landlady, even though she was still alive and living a county away.

Lifetime Drinkers

Location: E3 (Greater London) - Black Swan public house, Bow Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A Zeppelin raid killed many people here during the First World War, and now they sometimes return to continue their pints. Two particularly active ghosts are said to be Cissie and Sylvia Reynolds, daughters of the landlord.

Phantom Flusher

Location: E3 (Greater London) - Bow Bells public house, 116 Bow Road
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Early 1970s
Further Comments: A 'ghost' was blamed for the haunting in the woman's restroom, with locked doors being opened and the toilets flushing themselves, though recently a former employee at the building has said that the phantom was invented to generate trade.

Disapproving Man

Location: E3 (Greater London) - Driver's Arms public house?
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1979
Further Comments: A poltergeist outbreak here in the late 1970s was attributed by a medium to a Victorian tenant who disliked women who drank!

Basement Lurker

Location: E7 (Greater London) - Traveller's Rest public house, Cemetery Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A cloaked figure is reported to haunt the shadows of the cellar.

Chatty Landlady

Location: Earl Sterndale (Derbyshire) - Quiet Woman public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former landlord, tired of the 24/7 chattering of his wife, ended up decapitating her. Even though death has kept her silent, her ghostly form remains.

Kiln Worker

Location: Earlswoof (Surrey) - Bull's Head public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local legend says this pub is haunted by a lime kiln worker who died during the seventeenth century.

Dart Throwing

Location: East Boldon (Tyne and Wear) - Black Bull public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: October 2018
Further Comments: In an interview with local press, manger Kelly Hedley said chairs had moved unaided, darts were known to be thrown by an unseen hand, and glasses would slide and smash. Ghostly children and a sad Cavalier are reputed to haunt the site.

Shattering Glass

Location: East Grinstead (Sussex) - The Fox public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: November 2017
Further Comments: CCTV showed a pint glass shattering while on the bar. Owner Claire Kacy was reported in the national press as saying items had been known to move unaided, including a chair.

Shakespeare Lookalike

Location: East Ogwell (Devon) - Jolly Sailor public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2015
Further Comments: The landlord of this public house said in the local press that the 'friendly' ghost which haunts the site looks like William Shakespeare.

Flying Glasses

Location: East Ruston (Norfolk) - Butchers Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2008
Further Comments: Customers have reported seeing a figure standing by a wine cabinet, while items have thrown themselves off shelves and an unseen hand has poured glasses of wine in the kitchen.

Adam

Location: East Stoke (Nottinghamshire) - Public house (no longer operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 2000s
Further Comments: A BBC website claimed three entities made their home here - a woman with a dark complexion, a crying baby, and a young boy named Adam who would throw small items around.in the kitchen.

Red Haired Man

Location: EC1 (Greater London) - Sutton Arms public house, Carthusian Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1997
Further Comments: This smiling redheaded entity materialises only for a couple of seconds at a time, before vanishing as quickly as he appears. He has been described as elderly, dressed in old fashioned clothing, and wearing a large grin on his face.

Robert

Location: EC1 (Greater London) - Viaduct Tavern
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One of the ghosts which haunts this pub goes by the name of Robert. He may be responsible for the poltergeist actions that occur within this building.

George and Vulture public house, St Michael's Alley, London.

Grey Lady

Location: EC3 (Greater London) - George and Vulture public house, St Michael's Alley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The upper floor of this established public house is home to a phantom woman who drifts along its corridors.

Cavalier

Location: EC4 (Greater London) - George Tavern, Strand
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure is said to have appeared several times in the cellar, spotted when staff have been changing the gas for the beer.

Man in Long Coat

Location: EC4 (Greater London) - White Horse public house, Fetter Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure, said to be connected to the coaches that were once used here, rattles bottles in the cellar.

Oliver Goldsmith

Location: EC4 (Greater London) - Ye Olde Cock Tavern (back door), Fleet Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1984
Further Comments: Goldsmith's smiling disembodied head appeared to a girl working here as she stood around the back of the building, her scream being heard by all in the bar.

Shadows and Coughing

Location: Eccles (Greater Manchester) - Duke of York public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2008
Further Comments: Reported in 2008, shadows were said to pass people who are in the cellar, while coughing was also sometimes heard under the pub. Phantoms of a man, woman and young girl were also reported, and customers said to occasionally feel a presence close by. Ten years prior to these reports, two people staying at the pub were awoken by banging coming from behind a locked door on the third floor.

Bony Nun

Location: Ecton (Northamptonshire) - Road outside the World's End public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Said to appear at midnight
Further Comments: This ghost wears the clothing of a nun, but her face is one of a fleshless skull. The pub itself has reported disembodied footfalls and shadowy figures in the cellar.

Deacon Brodie's Tavern, Edinburgh.

Brodie

Location: Edinburgh (Lothian) - Deacon Brodie's Tavern and Brodie's Close
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Deacon William Brodie, respected upstanding citizen by day, sly robber at night, was caught and hanged for his crimes in 1788. The novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was based (loosely) on his life. Brodie's ghost is now said to leave the tavern and quickly cross the road to the close which has also taken his name.