Examining folkloric, paranormal & cryptozoological locations in the UK and beyond
Location: Droylsden (Greater Manchester) - Ashton Hill Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This entity drifts along the road and has been reported wearing both dark clothing and white clothing (or, of course, they could be two different shades).
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2003-10-04
Last updated: 2003-10-04
ID: #4630
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Roper's Rest, leading to Love Lane
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Winter (recurring)
Further Comments: This decapitated figure rides along the road once darkness falls, and is thought to be an ill omen for any witness, or one of their family.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-12
Last updated: 2022-09-19
ID: #6097
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Area around Old Bawn Road and the Dodder
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 08 September (recurring)
Further Comments: Said to either be driven by or containing Archdeacon Bulkeley, a coach drawn by six headless horses containing two passengers together with two footmen, drives through this area of Dublin. Anyone who spots the coach is said to die within 366 days.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2012-07-22
Last updated: 2012-07-22
ID: #11027
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Jones's Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Riding headless on the back of a white horse, this phantom is named as Buck Jones, former City Sheriff (though the man died in a debtor's prison).
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-12
Last updated: 2005-04-12
ID: #6110
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Kimmage Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: The area where an old woman was murdered by a tramp was haunted by a strange jangling sound. Two sisters who heard the jangling were hit by a blast of air as it passed them.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2011-04-30
Last updated: 2011-04-30
ID: #10402
Location: Duddon (Cheshire) - Roads around village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A story says that young Dorothy was accidentally decapitated by her father as he tried to save her from a group of drunken Roundheads. Her headless form is now reported to drift aimlessly around the village. The local pub is named after her sad tale.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-10-21
Last updated: 2002-10-21
ID: #2776
Location: Dudley (West Midlands) - Road alongside Woodside Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2015
Further Comments: A woman and her son walking along this road could hear shuffling footsteps behind them, although when they turned around, nothing could be seen. The sounds, and the feeling of being followed, lasted until the pair turned off the road.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2020-02-15
Last updated: 2020-02-15
ID: #13559
Location: Dundalk (County Louth) - Castletown Road leading to bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Murphy originally hailed from the area and took to haunting this stretch of road. The sounds of ghostly rattling chains and clattering feet would be heard moving along the road, only ceasing when they reached the Castletown bridge.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2020-08-30
Last updated: 2020-08-30
ID: #13877
Location: Dundee (Angus) - Dalkeith Road (and adjacent areas)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1927
Further Comments: Five thousand people turned up to look for a ghost which was said to have been seen riding a white pony. They failed to find their quarry.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2015-06-21
Last updated: 2015-06-21
ID: #11854
Location: Dunfermline (Fife) - Coal Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007
Further Comments: While driving past Pittencreif Park, one witness spotted a figure dressed in a Victorian policeman's uniform standing in the shadows at a space of the wall.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2012-08-19
Last updated: 2012-08-19
ID: #11076
Location: Dunfermline (Fife) - Ferry Toll Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: July 2009
Further Comments: A female driver reported passing a young man dressed in military uniform walking towards the dockyard. She checked her rear view mirror to have another look at him, but he had vanished. The witness said there would not have been time for him to turn off.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2009-09-03
Last updated: 2009-09-03
ID: #9659
Location: Dunsford (Devon) - Roads in area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Driving a coach pulled by four headless horsemen, the squire passes though the village only at certain times of the year.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-12-27
Last updated: 2003-12-27
ID: #4951
Location: Dunstable (Bedfordshire) - A5 between Markyate and Dunstable
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1958
Further Comments: The lost spirits of two cricketers have been seen walking along this road, heading towards the Pack Horse public house. They are thought to have been killed in a road traffic accident while travelling back from a cricket match.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2004-10-24
Last updated: 2004-10-24
ID: #5505
Location: Dunstable (Bedfordshire) - Road 'two or three' miles north of town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An older woman holding an attache case steps off the path into oncoming traffic, dissolving before any impact occurs.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-12-23
Last updated: 2024-12-23
ID: #15762
Location: Durham (Durham) - A1 heading towards Durham
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2015
Further Comments: A horse-mounted highwayman stood on the roadside, looking towards Durham. The legs of the horse disappeared at the knee, and the ghost would vanish if approached.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2018-02-24
Last updated: 2018-02-24
ID: #12773
Location: Durnford (Wiltshire) - Salisbury Road between Durnford & Amesbury, near Chalk Pit Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This creature, only heard and not seen, would gallop on the road and in the fields in this area.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-07-04
Last updated: 2002-07-04
ID: #1600
Location: Easingwold (North Yorkshire) - Road between village and Thirsk
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Fletcher was murdered by three men and buried just off this road - his ghost hounded one of his killers to such a degree that the murderer told his sister of the crime, and she reported it to the authorities. All three men were executed. Still not content that justice was done, Fletcher continued to haunt the scene of the crime, upsetting horses travelling along the road at night.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-01-05
Last updated: 2003-01-05
ID: #3487
A dark lane leading to the ruined chapel in East Bridge, Suffolk.
Location: East Bridge (Suffolk) - Road towards ruined chapel
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Observed by a group of bird watchers, a woman in white was seen drifting down an old trail that leads to the ruins of a chapel. It is unclear if her 'pointed head' was a hat or bonnet.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2001-09-06
Last updated: 2001-09-06
ID: #316
Location: East Chinnock (Somerset) - Main road in the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Midnight
Further Comments: The sounds of a horse have been heard as it gallops down the street. Some believe it carries two eloping lovers from the rectory.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2009-04-12
Last updated: 2009-04-12
ID: #9197
Location: East Halton (Lincolnshire) - Manor Farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: A ghost, thought to possibly be a monk, was laid in an iron pot contained within the small basement. Household members considered it unlucky to move the container, and its removal would result in the ghost returning. Lord Alfred Tennyson is said to have used the incident as inspiration for 'Walking to the Mail'.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2009-05-03
Last updated: 2023-10-28
ID: #9314
Road ghost.
Location: East Hanney (Oxfordshire) - Road close to bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This road is thought to be haunted by a man who previously died in an accident. Wearing an overcoat and cap, he is seen to run out in front of cars, only to vanish on impact.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2010-03-07
Last updated: 2010-03-07
ID: #9808
Location: East Lulworth (Dorset) - Unnamed road in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1982
Further Comments: A driver passed a mother and child both dressed in clothing from the 1860s; the child was crying, and the mother looked angry. When the driver turned for another look, the figures had vanished. The driver spotted the couple several times in the same area during 1982, but never again after the year ended.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2016-01-03
Last updated: 2016-01-03
ID: #12006
Location: East Scrafton (North Yorkshire) - Main road through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A light is said to float down the middle of this road at night, causing motorists to swerve.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-10-17
Last updated: 2002-10-17
ID: #2711
Location: East Vicarage (Somerset) - Unnamed road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October, late nineteenth century?
Further Comments: Driving their mule drawn cart on a cold October morning, two women stopped along the road when a strange woman crossed the road ahead of them. Despite the freezing temperature, the lady wore a pink summer dress with a white lace headscarf. The two women in the cart then realised that the pedestrian was floating around thirty centimetres from the ground, and that the figure had skin and eyes like grey dust. One of the women fainted, and their mule bolted, not stopping until two miles separated it from the entity.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2007-08-27
Last updated: 2007-08-27
ID: #7882
Location: Eastbourne (Sussex) - A22, Willington Road junction
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Killed in a large accident which occurred at the site in 1923, this phantom woman has been seen many times; she steps out in front of oncoming traffic, as if deliberately trying to cause a crash. She is most often seen late in the afternoon.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-07-21
Last updated: 2002-07-21
ID: #1867