The Paranormal Database

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Location: Radcliffe on Trent (Nottinghamshire) - Manvers Arms public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rumoured to have been used as a temporary mortuary by the church, this pub is home to a poltergeist that moves beer barrels, folds clothing. and smashes glasses.

School Girl

Location: Rainford (Lancashire) - Golden Lion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This public house is reportedly haunted by a teenage girl, raped and murdered by her headmaster just outside the building. A phantom soldier has also been reported, the son of a landlord who died during a world war.

Three

Location: Ravenstonedale (Cumbria) - Kings Head public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 2000s
Further Comments: The pub was said to be haunted by three 'friendly' ghosts, although it is not known whether the entities have been encountered since the building closed and reopened a couple of years later.

Legs

Location: Rawtenstall (Lancashire) - Craven Heifer public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 26 December 2015
Further Comments: A photograph taken by the landlord in the cellar after it flooded reportedly showed a pair of child's legs, the owner of which could not be accounted for. Taps are also said to turn themselves on.

Pregnant Girl in Dark Dress

Location: Rayleigh (Essex) - Rayleigh Lodge public house and nearby pond
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A local girl had an affair with the Lord of the Manor. After falling pregnant, the girl drowned herself in a pond opposite the pub. Her ghost, wearing a dark dress, may have last been seen in the 1970s. Other reports from the pub include a pink mist, a phantom dog, and a former customer,

Woman with Long Hair

Location: Rayne (Essex) - Shalford Road, near The Swan Public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 18 September 2014
Further Comments: Three people in a car spotted a woman with long black hair and a pale face standing by the roadside. She wore purple trousers and a ragged yellow shirt. One of the witnesses speculated that the figure was that of the ghost said to haunt the nearby public house.

Weaving Woman

Location: Rayne (Essex) - The Swan public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A suicide victim, this woman hanged herself in the back of this pub.

Nell Gwynne

Location: Redbourne (Lincolnshire) - Red Lion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It is almost as if every site Nell Gwynne ever visited is haunted by her. Just saying.

Lanky Woman

Location: Redord (Hampshire) - Plough public house (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This grinning character would suddenly appear behind anyone new in the pub, before vanishing just as quick.

Mary Blandy

Location: Remenham (Berkshire) - Little Angel public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Hanged for poisoning her father to prevent him from objecting to her marriage, Mary is sometimes seen around the pub where she fled.

Nurse

Location: Riseley (Bedfordshire) - Fox and Hounds public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A nurse knocked over and killed by a coach near to the pub was taken here after the accident. Her spirit is thought to remain and is held accountable for phantom footsteps and flicking of light switches.

Betty

Location: Rochdale (Greater Manchester) - Owd Betts public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Betty, or 'Owd Betts, was the landlady at the pub during the mid-nineteenth century. After her death it was believed that she remained on the site, occasionally heard walking around the site while looking out for bar staff.

Smiling Old Man

Location: Rochester (Kent) - George public house, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The cellar was once a church crypt and within a small man (sometimes identified as a monk) has been observed.

Aggie

Location: Rochester (Kent) - Nags Head public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former sex worker, Aggie's ghost haunts the site where she took her own life. Her presence is normally denoted by mild poltergeist activity, although her ghost has been reported in the cellar.

Gould

Location: Rochester (Kent) - Queen Charlotte public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A German spy, Frederick Adolphus Gould, reputedly haunts the building, while a phantom older lady with grey hair has made the cellar her home. Speaking on LST TV, one landlord said the cellar had negative energy and dogs would become upset, while describing an upstairs spirit as 'fairly calm'.

Grey Monk

Location: Rochester (Kent) - Cooper's Arms public house, St Margaret's Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Once a year in November, late at night (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Bricked up alive for a long forgotten sin, this misty monk emerges from the wall behind the bar in this ancient building that once was a priory.

Alice Lisle public house, Rockford.

Alice Lisle

Location: Rockford (Hampshire) - Area around Alice Lisle public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Alice Lisle was the last woman to be executed by decapitation, at the hands of Judge Jeffreys. Her ghost rides around the area in a driverless coach, pulled by headless horses.

Grey Shadowy Girl

Location: Rodmell (Sussex) - Abergavenny Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Appearing in front of the fireplace and in the men's toilet, this fleeting female form is also blamed for ringing the 'last orders' bells in the early hours of the morning.

Figure with a Lamp

Location: Ross on Wye (Herefordshire) - King Charles II public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: A photograph taken at the pub during the 1970s shows what appears to be a Victorian gentleman holding a lamp in the cellar. There have also been reports of apparitions and icy chills in the corridor above the cellar.

Old Jeffrey

Location: Rossett (Clwyd) - Golden Lion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ploughman was tried and executed for murder; his body nailed to a wooden board which would later be used in the construction of this pub. His ghost reportedly prefers to frequent Room 2.

Mr White

Location: Rotherham (South Yorkshire) - Cross Keys public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A former landlord who died in the mid-twentieth century, Mr White now manifests as a dark figure in various parts of the building.

Angry Miner

Location: Rotherham (South Yorkshire) - Winter Green public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2022-2023
Further Comments: A ghostly angry miner who once worked the pits under the pub is blamed for poltergeist activity in the pub and is nicknamed Derek by locals.

Mover

Location: Rothley (Leicestershire) - The Grange public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: The enthusiastic poltergeist at work in this pub was well known to the locals.

Gregory

Location: Rothley (Leicestershire) - Woodman's Stroke public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A tall ghost nicknamed Gregory is said to bring luck to anyone who spots him in this pub.

Dog

Location: Rusthall (Kent) - Red Lion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The pub is said to be home to a scruffy phantom hound. The entity sometimes 'sleeps' on the bar floor.