The Paranormal Database

Dog Walkers

Location: Pluckley (Kent) - Station Road, area around Greystones House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Couple unknown, monk reported seen in 1971
Further Comments: Victims of the all-too-common love triangle that ends in suicide, this couple and their little dog can be heard walking and chatting down this area of the road. The road is also the haunt to a ghostly Cavalier, while Greystones itself is reputedly home to a phantom monk.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2002-06-03   Last updated: 2026-02-22   ID: #1074

Horses & Carriage

Location: Pluckley (Kent) - The main village street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen trotting down the main street, the history of the carriage pulled by two horses (or four, depending on the source) is unknown.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-06-03   Last updated: 2002-06-03   ID: #1077

Taxi Fare

Location: Pluckley (Kent) - Unnamed road in village
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Late twentieth century / circa April 1976
Further Comments: A taxi driver reported seeing a man on the roadside who flagged the taxi down. The fare climbed into the back of the cab, but when the driver turned around to ask his passenger where he was heading, he found the car empty. While the motif of this story is a common urban legend, it may be a corruption of a newspaper story from April 1976, where taxi driver Michael Spalding claimed he hit a 'tramp' who walked in the middle of the road. Spalding felt a bump, stopped the car, but was unable to find the figure he had hit. After thirty minutes of searching the area, he reported the incident to the police.

Source: Historical Record, User Submission
First added: 2004-08-13   Last updated: 2026-03-22   ID: #5295

Toplis

Location: Plumpton (Cumbria) - A6 close to the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A known accident black spot, some blame the ghost of a murderer named Toplis - he was shot and killed by police as he tried to escape justice.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2007-10-14   Last updated: 2007-10-14   ID: #8045

Horse and Coach

Location: Polstead (Suffolk) - Near the village green
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Summer, 1990s, around 16:00h
Further Comments: Mrs Hackford was driving her car at around 4pm when a horse and carriage carrying an old lady and two men in Victorian clothing rode past her in the opposite direction. Because of the weirdness of the situation, the witness looked behind her, only to realise the coach was no longer there.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2005-08-06   Last updated: 2005-08-06   ID: #6476

Hanging Judge Jeffreys

Location: Pontblyddyn (Clwyd) - Plas Teg
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: As well as the notorious judge's ghost drifting around the building, one witness has also reported seeing the shade of a young blonde girl. She also haunts the road outside the building, causing passing motorists to stop sharply. The road in turn is also haunted by three horsemen.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2004-05-03   Last updated: 2004-05-03   ID: #5122

Woman in Silk

Location: Porlock (Somerset) - Red Post Steep, road heading towards West Luccombe
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in white silk with a dark spotted pattern, this woman is said to have been seen many times. She is said to vanish where a house once stood.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2009-04-12   Last updated: 2009-04-12   ID: #9200

Runaway Horses

Location: Porlock (Somerset) - Road leading downhill to the town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: These horses were all killed when they broke away from their coach on the hill and lost control on a tight bend. They are heard re-enacting their final moments.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2003-02-14   Last updated: 2003-02-14   ID: #3855

Victorian Woman

Location: Port Isaac (Cornwall) - B3314 towards Tintagel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: Pulling over after fearing she had hit an animal which had darted out in front of her car, Ms H Talbot looked in her rear view mirror. In the middle of the road stood a woman wearing Victorian-style clothing who stared at the driver before vanishing. Shaken, Ms Talbot drove away.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2006-11-19   Last updated: 2006-11-19   ID: #7039

Accident Prone

Location: Portlaoise (County Laois) - Road between Stradbally and Portlaoise
Type: Other
Date / Time: Mid eighteenth century
Further Comments: After dozens of serious and fatal accidents occurred along this road, a priest walked the distance reciting prayers. The accidents ceased to occur.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2022-07-09   Last updated: 2022-07-09   ID: #14549

Car Lights

Location: Portree, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Road between Portree and Sligachan
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Lights of an incoming car have been reported along this road, although they suddenly vanish without trace. Some say the lights belong to a car which fell from the ferry (although there may be two different phantom cars).

Source: Published Media
First added: 2011-09-24   Last updated: 2011-09-24   ID: #10582

Hairy Hands of Dartmoor.

Hairy Hands

Location: Postbridge (Devon) - Area of road between Two Bridges and town, & B3212
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The Hairy Hands of Dartmoor were blamed for several fatal road traffic accidents, after a motorcyclist who survived a crash reported a large pair of hands that appeared over his own and made him crash. A few years later, a woman reported seeing a large hairy hand crawling over her husband as he lay sleeping in a caravan. A small childlike figure has also been seen standing by the roadside, moving its arms as if trying to flag down passing drivers.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2002-06-08   Last updated: 2002-06-08   ID: #1129

Lord Rokeby

Location: Postling (Kent) - Stone Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Lord Rokeby races around the area, minus his head, being drawn by a team of four horses.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2009-04-18   Last updated: 2009-04-18   ID: #9256

Lady Carew in a Coach Pulled by Four Black Horses

Location: Potter Heigham (Norfolk) - Arched Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 May, Midnight (recurring)
Further Comments: Occurring on the stroke of midnight, the phantom coach driven by a skeleton is seen to crash into the side of the bridge and fall into the river below. After selling her soul to the Devil, Lady Carew was taken away by two skeletons driving a coach pulled by four black horses on her wedding day. The coach disappeared on the bridge over the River Thurne, and the scene is repeated every 31 May. Another version of the story says the phantom is Lady Evelyn, who died when her coach crashed in 1741.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2001-09-06   Last updated: 2023-04-21   ID: #565

Funeral Procession

Location: Potterne (Wiltshire) - Road near the Sandfield Farm gates
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: A female witness watched this funeral procession, complete with coffin and mourners, pass her by on the opposite side of the road.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2009-05-31   Last updated: 2009-05-31   ID: #9389

Woman in Green

Location: Potterne (Wiltshire) - Road near the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1936
Further Comments: A driver travelling to pick up his wife from a party pulled over to give a lift to a woman in a green suit standing on the roadside. She climbed into the back of the car, and as he drove away, he felt the air grow cold - the woman in green had vanished.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2009-05-31   Last updated: 2009-05-31   ID: #9393

Pallbearers

Location: Powerstock (Dorset) - Lane leading to West Milton, once known as 'The Cutting'
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Carrying a coffin, a small group of pallbearers move along this lane. It is not known if this is the same ghostly pallbearers that travel towards North Poorton.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2009-06-28   Last updated: 2009-06-28   ID: #9563

Six Pallbearers

Location: Powerstock (Dorset) - Road leading to North Poorton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Six decapitated men carrying a coffin are said to slowly move along the country lanes.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2009-06-28   Last updated: 2009-06-28   ID: #9562

Little Old Lady

Location: Prestbury (Gloucestershire) - High Street and Mill Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Several witnesses have seen strange figures drifting in and around these roads, and though they differ slightly in appearance, it is suggested that they are all the same entity.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2003-02-05   Last updated: 2003-02-05   ID: #3733

Charging Horseman

Location: Prestbury (Gloucestershire) - Shaw Green Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 04 May (recurring)
Further Comments: Killed by a Lancastrian arrow in the 1400's, this glowing War of the Roses messenger is doomed to carry his cargo forevermore. Another story says he was decapitated by a thin wire that was placed across the road, while a different version of the tale claims the ghost to be a Royalist courier killed when he rode into a rope strung across his route.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-05-22   Last updated: 2026-03-22   ID: #993

Farmer

Location: Preston on Stour (Warwickshire) - Alscot Park, and road by the entrance
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The phantom figure who haunts the area around the entrance of the park is believed to be a farmer who died after falling from his horse. He reputedly appears by the entrance and crosses the road before vanishing into a wall.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2007-04-06   Last updated: 2007-04-06   ID: #7180

Searcher

Location: Princetown (Devon) - Road between town and Plymouth
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: This hound was once the pet of a traveller murdered in the area, and now continues to look for its owner. One man who reached out and tried to stroke the hound was struck by lightning.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2018-05-28   Last updated: 2018-05-28   ID: #12856

Rattling Hound

Location: Puncknowle (Dorset) - Road between village and Swyre, and area near the Old Rectory
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This large demonic dog is reputed to jump around, rattling a chain behind it.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2009-06-17   Last updated: 2009-06-17   ID: #9528

Horseman

Location: Purton (Wiltshire) - Roads in the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly horseman has been heard and occasionally observed heading out of the village.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2006-08-08   Last updated: 2006-08-08   ID: #6914

Woman in Mac

Location: Pyecombe (Sussex) - London Road, where the A281 meets the A27
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A woman in a pale beige raincoat runs across the dual carriageway, disappearing halfway across. Several motorists have reported hitting her and have reported the 'accident' to the police, fearing they have killed someone. Just slightly further down the A281, a ghostly girl with blonde hair has been seen stumbling alongside the road - she vanishes if approached.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2002-07-21   Last updated: 2002-07-21   ID: #1902