The Paranormal Database

Lightless Cyclist on Wrong Side of Road

Location: Braintree (Essex) - Road near Faulkbourne Hall, south of Braintree
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Cycling like a madman, this ghostly rider charges at mortal cyclists and tries to knock them over!

Treasure Hunter

Location: Braishfield (Hampshire) - Dark Lane, and the surrounding area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area is reportedly haunted by the shade of an Edwardian woman looking for a hoard of treasure she hid while living in a building along the road. She is said to be more likely to be seen by dogs, which react by howling for no apparent reason, rather than people.

Highwayman

Location: Bramshot (Hampshire) - Roads in the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Roads running in and through the village are reportedly home to several phantom entities. A highwayman, a cavalier, a small group of Tudors have all been reported here.

Teenage Lad

Location: Brandon (Suffolk) - A1065 heading towards Lakenheath
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2011, around 06:00h, and February 2014
Further Comments: A lone driver heading away from Brandon in 2011 glanced into her rear-view mirror and spotted a lad, around fourteen years of age, sitting in the backseat of her car. She looked again, only to see he had gone. A similar occurrence occurred to a male driver three years later.

Sow with Litter

Location: Bransby (Lincolnshire) - Bonnewells Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 October (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This spectral sow with her young appears along this lane on Halloween. The same stretch of road is also haunted by a woman in a silken dress which rustles as she moves, and there have been reports of a shuck.

Misty Figure

Location: Branston (Derbyshire) - Clays Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 10 March 2019
Further Comments: A local news outlet reported that a couple had encountered a misty figure which ran out in front of their car before vanishing.

Funeral

Location: Bratton (Wiltshire) - Unknown road in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom horse drawn funeral procession occasionally passes by the area.

Jack White

Location: Bratton Seymour (Somerset) - Jack White's Gibbet (junction along the A371, Bratton Seymour and Holton)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Jack was a murderer and left in a gibbet to starve to death. His ghost is said to wander the site of his crime and punishment.

Woman in Floral Dress

Location: Bretby (Derbyshire) - Mount Road and Ashby Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2015
Further Comments: A local newspaper carried two stories about drivers who had spotted a woman in a floral dress standing on the roadside. On one occasion she stood with a bicycle. As one driver passed her, they looked in their rear view mirror and noticed that she had vanished.

Nick's Hole

Location: Briantspuddle Heath (Dorset) - Culpepper's Dish
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend said that this deep (naturally occurring) pit was dug out by the devil.

Lane passing by Culpepper's Dish, Briantspuddle Heath.

Funeral

Location: Briantspuddle Heath (Dorset) - Lane passing by Culpepper's Dish
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Four ghostly figures carrying a coffin have been spotted walking along this country lane.

Pocock

Location: Bridgwater (Somerset) - A39 between Street and Bridgwater
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1980s
Further Comments: Pocock, a highwayman, was badly injured in a fight. Pocock managed to escape and hide, only to die of his wounds in a cave which has never been discovered. His ghost has been seen on horseback, curiously galloping on the spot, and has been blamed for several accidents in the area.

Tall Soldier

Location: Bridgwater (Somerset) - Road from Bridgwater to Stogursey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wearing a red jacket, this tall soldier still stands around the area where he is thought to have been hanged.

Hymns

Location: Bridgwater (Somerset) - Road from Bridgwater to Weston Zoyland
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 06 July (reoccurring)
Further Comments: As the Duke of Monmouth retreated after their defeat, his troops sang hymns to try to boost their morale. Their song can still be heard.

Grey Lady

Location: Bridport (Dorset) - Gipsy Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: There have been several reports of a grey Edwardian woman along this road - her skin is the same ash grey colour as her clothing.

Lady in Red

Location: Bridport (Dorset) - Road in Bridport or Dorchester area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A driver remembers stopping at a roundabout on a busy single lane road and seeing the lady in red ahead. The driver looked right to see whether any traffic was coming, but when they looked straight again the lady had gone.

Lady in Mackintosh

Location: Brighton (Sussex) - A23 southbound, north of town between pylons and roadside cafe
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, likely mid to late twentieth century
Further Comments: One woman driving home watched as a lady wearing a mackintosh step out in front of the car. There was no impact and, looking back into the rearview mirror, the lady in the mackintosh could not be seen. Many years later, the driver listened to a work colleague as he described a similar incident that had occurred to his friend. The friend had reported it to the police who told him sightings of the ghostly lady were fairly common.

Nile Street in Brighton.

Hooded Man

Location: Brighton (Sussex) - Nile Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Thought to be a monk from the small chapel of St Bartholomew which stood here before being destroyed in 1514, a hooded figure is reputed to haunt the street.

Woman in White

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - A38 near Barrow Gurney Reservoir
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A certain part of the road is said to be covered in skid marks where various cars have had to brake to avoid hitting a phantom woman dressed in a white coat. The figure always vanishes immediately afterwards.

Jogger?

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - A38, Bedminster Down
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: December 2012, 06:50h
Further Comments: Whilst driving to work this witness spotted a smiling woman in a red top and black jogging bottoms running towards them in the middle of the road. After they passed each other the woman could not be seen in the rear view mirrors.

Morphing Shuck

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Dead end lane in Hallen Bristol, next to the M49 bridge
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1908 and December 2004
Further Comments: The large black dog seen here in 1908 was seen to climb out from a hedge, before transforming into a donkey and standing on its hind legs. A very similar creature was seen in 2004, as it passed through a car, shaking the occupant.

Old Lady

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Highworth Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1950s
Further Comments: The ghost of an elderly woman who frequented a house down this road was exorcised by a local priest.

Jenkins Protheroe

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Pembroke Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Executed nearby, Protheroe (or Protheror) was once a beggar who discovered that more money could be made by murder (until he was caught and hanged).

Victorian Couple

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Southmead Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century?
Further Comments: A phantom man and woman in Victorian clothing have been reported walking down this road.

A long-haired phantom.

Long Haired Figure

Location: Broad Blunsdon (Wiltshire) - Road near the 'Fork-ed Elm'
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century?
Further Comments: Two men driving past this spot encountered a white figure standing by the roadside. The figure had long hair but the witnesses could not define the sex, and the most striking aspect of the entity was it appeared to float thirty centimetres above the ground.