The Paranormal Database

Shadowy Figure

Location: Market Drayton (Shropshire) - Country lane known as 'the rudge', Ashley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2003
Further Comments: A shadowy figure which quickly and silently vanishes has been observed in this area. A pedestrian was said to have felt a heavy weight climb onto his back as he walked down the lane.

Georgian Coach

Location: Market Harborough (Leicestershire) - Unidentified long road in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1924
Further Comments: This Georgian-era coach pulled by four ghostly horses is supposed to be connected to a well-known house in the area. One folktale says a young person mistook the phantom coach as 'real' and asked the driver for directions; coach and horses vanished, leaving only the smell of brimstone.

Coach

Location: Marlborough (Wiltshire) - Granham Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Last sighting unknown, but said to appear at midnight
Further Comments: This coach, driven by a decapitated horseman, manifests on the stroke of midnight and travels through a tiny gap in a hedge.

Funeral Procession

Location: Marnhull (Dorset) - Area near quarry, and/or Sackmore Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Always at midnight, thought the date changes
Further Comments: This line of mourners following a black horse drawn carriage has been reported travelling the roads in Marnhull. Another report states that there are only two pallbearers, and they are more likely to be seen along Sackmore Lane.

Two figures

Location: Matfield (Kent) - Maidstone Road
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 11 December 2009, 06:35h
Further Comments: Two tall figures darted out in front of a car driving along this road in the early hours of the morning. The driver braked hard to avoid them, and they seemed to vanish.

Girl in Orange

Location: Meopham (Kent) - Steel Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A French girl who fell head over heels in love with a soldier was rejected by him and hanged herself - it is she who now haunts this road, dressed in a rustling orange silk dress.

Dawes Lane, Mersea Island.

Young Woman in Long Silk Dress

Location: Mersea Island (Essex) - Dawes Lane
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: A couple out walking watched a woman wearing a bonnet and a long silk dress approach them. They noticed she made little sound, and when the girl walked into a cornfield, the crops did not move around her. The young woman then disappeared.

The causeway along East Mersea Road, Mersea Island.

Roman Soldiers

Location: Mersea Island (Essex) - East Mersea Road, near Causeway
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Quite possibly the oldest ghosts seen in the UK, sightings exist of Roman soldiers wandering around the island. A woman reported that while walking back to her home late one night, she was closely followed by the ghost of a man dressed as Roman soldier.

Red Stagecoach

Location: Mevagissey (Cornwall) - Road between Mevagissey and Truro
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A driver along this road closed his eyes and prepared for a crash when this eighteenth century coach driven by four horses appeared in front of him - but the accident never happened, as the coach vanished into thin air. The witness later said he had also seen the driver and a guard on the coach.

Micklow's ghostly greyhound.

Greyhound

Location: Micklow (Staffordshire) - Eccleshall Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: This phantom greyhound began to haunt the area after a local lady drowned herself nearby.

Transparent Man

Location: Midhurst (Sussex) - Approach to town on the A286
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October 1999
Further Comments: An early morning driver along this part of the A286 slowed to let a man in a tricorn hat finish crossing the road, only to notice that he could see right through the pedestrian. The ghost then disappeared into the trees on the opposite side of the road.

Motorbike

Location: Milford (Surrey) - A3, Milford Junction
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 6 November 2010, around 20:00h
Further Comments: An off duty police officer driving home was forced to brake and swerve to avoid an oncoming motorcycle on the wrong side of the road. Seconds after stopping the driver looked into his mirrors but there was nothing to be seen. The driver also remembered looking to the right as he swerved, seeing the headlight from the side but the rest of the bike was not visible.

Headless Horseman

Location: Millbrook (Bedfordshire) - Station Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom rider is named as local highwayman Galloping Dick.

Car

Location: Milton (Cambridgeshire) - Crossroads turning off to housing estate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Though there are no reports of fatal accidents at this location, the area is reportedly haunted by a car that hits vehicles, bumping them, but leaving no marks.

Milton Abbas, Dorset.

White Lady

Location: Milton Abbas (Dorset) - Road through the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Sightings of this phantom white lady are said not to be uncommon, though any real details are fleeting.

Roman Soldiers

Location: Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) - Watling Street / London Road, Stony Stratford
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: Roman soldiers were said to march along this street, their legs partly covered by the tarmac as if following the height of the old Roman road.

Footfalls

Location: Mitchel Troy (Gwent) - Road towards the common
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, likely twentieth century
Further Comments: A married couple out walking late at night heard footsteps dragging behind them. When they stopped, the footsteps stopped. When a car approached them and illuminated the area, no other person could be seen.

Victorian Girl

Location: Mitchell (Cornwall) - Main road through village
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1965
Further Comments: A car driver passing through the village watched in horror as a young girl dressed in Victorian clothing ran in front of a lorry. The lorry did not stop and appeared to hit the girl, but there was no one there and none of the other pedestrians in the area appeared to have noticed the incident. A few miles down the road the car driver narrowly avoided a serious accident, and once again briefly saw the phantom Victorian girl smiling, as if happy that the accident had been prevented.

Daimler

Location: Modbury (Devon) - Roads in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: Several roads in and around this area have provided witnesses with a ghostly black car, which has vanished without trace.

Gold Figure

Location: Mold (Clwyd) - Chester Road, bank known as Byrn-yr-Ellyllon (Goblins' Hill)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early eighteenth century
Further Comments: A woman walking back from Mold along this road spotted a figure wearing a coat made from gold. The apparition disappeared into a bank of earth. A few years later the bank was dug up, revealing some human remains and a piece of golden armour.

Horse

Location: Monmouth (Gwent) - Monnow Street, around Chippenham House area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The echoing sounds of a horse trotting have been heard, though the reasons why are not clear.

The road toward England from Wales, close to 'leaving Wales' sign.

Black Haired Figure

Location: Monmouth (Gwent) - Road toward England, close to 'leaving Wales' sign
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 2003, around 02:00h
Further Comments: The driver of a coach spotted a woman, dressed in black with long hair, on the hillside to the left who quickly descended and appeared to walk straight into the vehicle's path. The driver's colleague, sitting by the door, shouted that they had hit her - also convinced that they had, the driver stopped the coach. Very shaken, the pair disembarked, expecting to see a body. Nothing could be found. The driver later mentioned it to a friend, who said they had heard of a similar incident in the area.

Phantom on the lane.

Leap or Push?

Location: Monmouth (Gwent) - Watery Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1948 (drowned man), 'postman' unknown
Further Comments: Though nothing exists of the stream that once ran through here, it has not deterred the appearance of a phantom man who drowned in its waters. It is not known whether he took his own life or was pushed. Another ghost was seen by a woman who thought that it was the postman. She tried to catch up to the figure, but seconds before reaching him, he vanished.

Carriage

Location: Monmouth (Gwent) - White Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A horse drawn coach has occasionally been spotted in this area.

Black Dog

Location: Moortown (Lincolnshire) - Road leading to Moortown House
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This large hound was seen several times on the road, always vanishing at the same place. Other animals also felt the presence of the creature, with one pony refusing to travel down the road - the owner had to go the rest of the journey on foot. The same area was also haunted by a woman in a white apron.