The Paranormal Database

Footsteps

Location: Alconbury (Cambridgeshire) - The Megatron (restaurant, demolished 2008)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Early 1990s
Further Comments: A flying saucer-shaped restaurant (sadly no longer standing) became home to a poltergeist that knocked on walls and threw items around. The owner of the restaurant remained sceptical until he heard footsteps that followed him around late at night. The spooky activity ceased after the performance of an exorcism.

Beau Nash House, Bath.

Juliana

Location: Bath (Somerset) - Popjoy's Restaurant (Beau Nash House)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century?
Further Comments: Juliana Popjoy, the mistress of eighteenth century fashionista and dandy Beau Nash, is reported to haunt this restaurant, as is another ghostly woman wearing clothing from the 1960s. They say the latter figure looks perfectly solid until she suddenly vanishes without trace.

Floating Cat

Location: Battle (Sussex) - Gatehouse Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century?
Further Comments: This small ghostly house cat floats along a corridor in the restaurant before vanishing through a wall.

Dorothy Southworth

Location: Blackburn (Lancashire) - Samlesbury Hall (part of the building now a restaurant), and road outside
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 29 May 2006
Further Comments: This pale female spectre haunts an area of the garden where her lover was killed. It is said she is sometimes accompanied by a knight. A bus driver travelling on the road by the hall reported stopping to let a pale girl climb on board, only for her to vanish. In May 2006, the owner of a newly opened restaurant within the building reported a white figure which ran past him, cross the road, and vanished into nearby fields.

Tinkling the Ivory

Location: Bradford on Avon (Wiltshire) - Fat Fowl restaurant
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: The piano in the restaurant is said to occasionally play a note or two under its own accord, while cutlery is moved, and doors close by unseen hands.

Falling Boxes

Location: Bray (County Wicklow) - Domino's Pizza restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2016
Further Comments: The local press reported that lights would flicker, empty boxes fell to the floor and strange noises were heard from the rear of the shop.

Black Lady

Location: Bridgnorth (Shropshire) - Magpie House Restaurant (now Bassa Villa public house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom's children were drowned in the cellar of Magpie House when the River Severn broke its banks. The woman in black has been observed moving around the building and is sometimes heard crying.

Cavalier

Location: Bridport (Dorset) - Pedler Restaurant (was an old water mill?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1980s
Further Comments: Seen a couple of times by the family who owed the establishment, this phantom Cavalier was also caught on film (though there was some debate whether the 'figure' was just a trick of the light).

Brighton's The Coal Shed restaurant.

Jemmy Botting

Location: Brighton (Sussex) - The Coal Shed restaurant, and Boyce's Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather dependent: Dark, windy nights
Further Comments: Botting was a hangman who claimed to have executed 175 during his career. He died in October 1837 after falling out of his wheelchair - he was so despised locally, no one came to help him up. His ghost is said to haunt the Coal Shed, while the sound of his wheelchair is heard passing along Boyce's Street when the weather is right.

Woman in Crinolines

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - La Taverna Dell' Artista restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It is unclear whether it is a single woman or several which have been seen drifting around this arty restaurant.

Quaker

Location: Buckingham (Buckinghamshire) - Old Market House, High Street (currently a restaurant)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: This building is haunted by a tall female Quaker wearing a black dress with high collar. She is more likely to be encountered in the upper parts of the building, though has been known to tap men on the shoulder while they stand in the men's toilets.

Gunman

Location: Butlerstown (County Waterford) - Coach House restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: It is claimed this location is haunted by a gunman shot dead by the British in 1921.

The Old Weaver's House, Canterbury.

Grey Lady

Location: Canterbury (Kent) - The Old Weaver's House, currently a restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen by a domestic assistant, the lady in grey was observed ascending the staircase.

Tiny Tim's Tearoom, Canterbury.

Three Children

Location: Canterbury (Kent) - Tiny Tim's Tearoom (restaurant), 34 St Margaret's Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Workmen working on restoring the building during the 2000s reported the sounds of children playing on the staircase, strange noises in the attic, and youngsters whispering in a panelled room where they had found the relics from several children.

Pourer

Location: Carlisle (Cumbria) - Citadel Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid to late twentieth century
Further Comments: A tall black shape emerged through a wall, pouring itself onto the ground. An old woman wearing grey may also haunt the site.

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.

Face

Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Bombay Palace restaurant, Upper Northgate Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 2013
Further Comments: Co-owner of the restaurant Aaron Ali claimed to have photographed a strange face in the building after hearing banging on a door. However, the face on the photograph does look very similar to one on a ghost creating mobile phone app.

Jack

Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Old Fire Station Restaurant, Northdate Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: Sporting a beard, this phantom fireman wearing a brass helmet was known only as Jack. A fireman who watched the figure sitting on a ladder was so shocked he rang the emergency bell to summon help. Even though the phantom had vanished by the time other people arrived on the scene, the witness quit his job soon after.

Kitchen Hand

Location: Chilton Polden (Somerset) - Rumbling Tum restaurant (still present?), off the A39
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A tall, lean female form was reported in the kitchen of this roadside restaurant. A little old man has also been reported by guests.

Black Clad Figure

Location: Derby (Derbyshire) - MacDonald's restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This entity, wearing a long black raincoat, reputedly emerges from a wall after first appearing in Miss Selfridge clothing store.

Judge Jeffrey's Restaurant, Dorchester.

Condemned Man

Location: Dorchester (Dorset) - Judge Jeffrey's Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Used as a court room by Judge Jeffreys, the ghost that reputedly haunts this building is one of many that the Judge had hanged.

Footsteps

Location: Dunbar (Lothian) - Jersey Arms (currently Creel Restaurant)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This former smuggling inn is said to be home to phantom footsteps which may be using an old tunnel which once lead to the harbour.

Man in Long Coat

Location: Edwinstowe (Nottinghamshire) - Redbrick House restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1989 / 1990
Further Comments: A man with long hair and a long coat has been spotted standing outside this restaurant at various times of the day and night.

Queenie

Location: Emo (County Laois) - Gandon Inn Hotel & Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: More often felt rather than seen, the ghost here picked up the nickname Queenie.

Grey Lady

Location: Eton (Berkshire) - Cockpit Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A petite lady in grey was said to haunt this building.