The Paranormal Database

Jim Barrow

Location: Gatley (Cheshire) - Carr Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Jim was disliked while living, local emotion soon turning to hate once the man returned to the area after he died. The noisy spirit was finally exorcised by a team of preachers.

Woman in Black

Location: Gawsworth (Cheshire) - Congleton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 May 2024, 22:46h
Further Comments: The driver and two passengers of a vehicle could clearly see the solid apparition of a woman dressed in a black Victorian-style dress, including a bonnet type hat. The woman stood motionless on the roadside, near a metal gate, and the witnesses were confident the figure would have been caught on the front and rear cameras which continuously recorded in the vehicle. When reviewing the footage, the location had been recorded but the figure not visible.

Phantom Coach

Location: Geldeston (Norfolk) - Road to Bungay from Geldeston
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A coach drawn by four horses and driven by a headless coachman is supposed to travel from Bungay to Geldeston before returning to its departure point.

Coffin

Location: Gillingham (Dorset) - Unknown road in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A motorist is said to have encountered a ghostly coffin as it lay in the road. A local story says that the funerary box accidently fell from a horse drawn cart, and occasionally reappears.

Jangling Highwayman

Location: Gillingham (Norfolk) - Road past the War Memorial
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sound of chains that can be heard crossing the road as the church bells ring are attributed to a phantom highwayman. He prowled on people using the road between Beccles and Great Yarmouth, and when caught the man was chained and hanged.

Great Ball of Fire

Location: Girsby (Lincolnshire) - Road close to Girsby Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1780s?
Further Comments: A serving boy at the hall was approached by a gang of men who told him that if he did not let them into the hall to rob it, they would kill him. Being dutiful to the last, he informed the owners who captured the gang as they entered. Even so, the boy later turned up dead, having been skinned alive, and his ghost manifested as a large, screaming ball of fire along the road where his body was discovered.

Falling Man

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Edinburgh Road, Cranhill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2016
Further Comments: While walking towards a shop, one witness watched a man stumble across the road holding his throat before falling against a fence. As the witness approached, the figure vanished.

Frog Spawn Woman

Location: Glashakinleen East (County Cork) - Road from Newmarket
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown - poss early twentieth century
Further Comments: Mr Sheahan spotted a female ghost sitting behind him in his car. He stuck the blade of his penknife into her, and she fell into the road. When he travelled back later to have a look, there was a pile of frog spawn there!

Thin Woman

Location: Glossop (Cheshire) - A57 Hurst Reservoir area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2017, 23:00h
Further Comments: Returning over the hills from a friend's house, a driver spotted a woman on the side of the road. She was thin, tall, and eerie. The driver was scared and drove on, only to see the same woman two hundred yards (180 metres) further down the road. The driver did not use the road again.

Marching Soldiers

Location: Glossop (Derbyshire) - Road between Glossop and Hayfield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century?
Further Comments: A small group of spectral soldiers were once said to march between Glossop and Hayfield, their presence marked by beating drums.

Woman in White

Location: Godley Green (Buckinghamshire) - Road from Gee Cross
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1906
Further Comments: Not a 'normal' post-mortem apparition; a woman returning to see her ill brother watched as a ghostly white woman left the building in which her brother lay. She soon discovered her brother had died seconds before her arrival.

An old woodcut of a muscular bull.

Bull

Location: Godolphin Cross (Cornwall) - Jew's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This lane is said to be haunted by a bull, containing the soul of the Jew who hanged himself on a tree along the road.

Moustached Man

Location: Godstone (Surrey) - A22 heading northbound
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 23 December 1967, around 00:30h
Further Comments: Travelling along the road one witness had to brake hard as a man ran out in front of his vehicle. The man was described was around six foot tall, thin faced with a moustache, and wearing a light coloured trench coat. The driver thought he would hit the figure, but when the vehicle stopped, the figure was nowhere to be seen.

Hooded Woman

Location: Goosnargh (Lancashire) - Horns Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 15 November 2007
Further Comments: Several people have reported seeing a phantom woman wearing a long black cloak standing in the middle of the road. Cars have skidded to a halt, only to find the figure has vanished.

Pony and Trap

Location: Gorleston (Norfolk) - A143 - Gorleston/Beccles road; the Lily Pit - once a deep pond, now filled over and a school stands there
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Though there does not appear to have been any reports of this pony since the pond was filled, it was reported that the creature would travel at breakneck speed before vanishing into the water.

Dog with Long Legs

Location: Gorleston (Norfolk) - Suffield Road and High Street
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 2006
Further Comments: A woman reported seeing a strange dog-like creature with long legs on two different occasions around Gorleston. When she spotted the creature the second time running down the High Street, it vanished without trace.

Black Hooded Figure

Location: Gosport (Hampshire) - Green Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 7 November 1999
Further Comments: A taxi driver had to sharply brake to avoid hitting this faceless entity, which slowly dissolved before his eyes.

Headless Coachman

Location: Grafty Green (Kent) - Road past King's Head public house and old rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A driver lost control of his coach and crashed into a large tree near the old rectory, killing all the passengers. The coachman lost his head in the accident. Legends say the scene repeats itself, though now it tends to be heard and not seen. A twist to this tale is that the ghost of 'Dover Bill', a local smuggler who turned King's Evidence, was said to have appeared and caused the accident in the first place.

Pilot

Location: Grangemouth (Falkirk) - Inchyra Road, site of former RAF airport
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Post-Second World War
Further Comments: A phantom pilot dressed in his RAF clothing has been reported haunting the site of his old base.

Black Shape

Location: Gravesend (Kent) - Rochester Road near Chalk Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 19 April 2006, 15:00h, 2009
Further Comments: In 2006, a large black shape was seen by at least one driver as it crossed the road over a small traffic island prior to disappearing into the field opposite. A similar shape was spotted in 2009, with the witness stating that the movement was like that of a deer, although it vanished in front of the path of the car.

RTA involving Old Woman

Location: Greasbrough (South Yorkshire) - Road between town and Nether Haugh
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1985
Further Comments: This phantom old woman steps out in front of incoming cars, hitting the bonnet and convincing the driver that they have hit a living person, until the area is searched by police who find nothing.

Mollie Ram

Location: Great Baddow (Essex) - Molram's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A landowner from several hundred years ago, Mollie Ram now haunts this area.

Man on Old Bicycle

Location: Great Haywood (Staffordshire) - Rueley Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1949
Further Comments: A man on an old style bicycle has been observed travelling down this stretch of road. It is thought to be an engineer who drowned at a nearby pumping station.

Witch Seeking Revenge

Location: Great Leighs (Essex) - Scrapfaggot Green, & crossroads near old US army camp
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: October 1944
Further Comments: The stone that once stood on this crossroads was said to imprison the spirit of a witch. During the Second World War, the US Army moved it, and havoc was reported in every corner of the village. Villagers soon replaced the stone, and the poltergeist activity ceased.

Lady in Red

Location: Great Livermere (Suffolk) - Road towards Thetford
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom lady dressed in red reputedly steps in the path of incoming traffic only to vanish just before impact. A phantom cyclist is also said to haunt the roads in the village, though reports vary to the type of bicycle he rides.