The Paranormal Database

Edwardian Gentleman

Location: Chingford (Essex) - Friday Hill House, Simmons Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Said to resemble Stan Laurel, this ghost was seen in Friday Hill House by a former occupier. A crying woman in a white veil has also been seen on the site.

White Lady

Location: Chorley (Lancashire) - Heskin Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Hanged during the Civil War by a traitorous priest, this female member of the Mundesley family still returns home. The beam of wood from which her body dangled is considered lucky if you touch it.

Cloaked Man

Location: Chudleigh (Devon) - Bishop Lacy Inn, Fore Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure was seen running up the staircase of the building - when the landlord gave chase, the man vanished into thin air. A white woman has also been seen on site, and at one time a group of bar dwellers watched as a pint of beer was pulled by a phantom hand!

Lady Banks

Location: Church Knowle (Dorset) - Stone Bridge along Knowle Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Lady Banks held nearby Corfe Castle against the Roundheads during the English Civil War. The defences were only broken after a treacherous Royalist officer opened the gates. Lady Banks has been named as the lady in a white flowing dress who haunts the bridge.

White Woman

Location: Churchill (Oxfordshire) - Crossroads close to Lyneham Longbarrow
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A white female phantom is said to walk this area. It is unclear whether the ghost is that of an old woman who once lived in a nearby cave and watched over a hoard of treasure.

White Lady

Location: Cilfynydd (Mid Glamorgan) - Woods in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1968
Further Comments: Last seen by a newspaper editor and a friend, this phantom lady darts between the trees on a hillside. Some say she is accompanied by another white figure in a cloak.

White Lady

Location: Clacton-on-Sea (Essex) - Wilson House, Leas Road (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid-to-late-twentieth century
Further Comments: The white lady was said to have been seen by several schoolgirls when this building was a dorm. Sounds of heavy foots could also been heard walking along the corridors late at night.

A ghostly white lady.

Quake

Location: Clogher (County Tyrone) - Rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December 1885 onwards
Further Comments: The rector wrote of a deep rumbling which manifested in the kitchen, like an earthquake, although no furnishings moved. The noise suddenly stopped and was replaced by smashing crockery in the pantry. Together with his servants, the rector approached the pantry, but before reaching the door, it opened and a white woman emerged. Pursued by the rector, the white woman moved upstairs and vanished in front of the rector's son. The woman appeared several more times afterwards, but never so dramatically.

White Woman

Location: Clonmel (County Tipperary) - Unnamed road leading southwards, passing over a bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Further Comments: Walking to a friend's house late at night, this witness spotted a glowing woman in white with long hair cross a bridge ahead of him. The girl vanished without trace, and upon mentioning it when he arrived at his destination, his friend told him that the same figure had appeared at the foot of his bed a few nights previous.

Moon or Hitchhiker

Location: Coalisland (County Tyrone) - Mullaghmoyle Road, Brackaville
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 2009
Further Comments: Reports of a white phantom in the form of a woman resulted in an approximately sixty car long traffic jam as people tried to spot the spook. Local Councillor Desmond Donnelly said the 'ghost' was more likely to be the moon reflecting in the nearby river.

Spike Island, Cobh.

White Woman

Location: Cobh (County Cork) - Spike Island - general area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (woman and solider), tall figure in May or June 1914
Further Comments: A white female form is reputedly one of the phantoms which haunts the island as is a phantom soldier with two black holes instead of eyes. In 1914, a witness fled from a tall, off-yellow glossy figure that stood looking over the sea towards Cobh.

Woman in White

Location: Colchester (Essex) - Dolcis shoe shop (since closed)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1991
Further Comments: A former member of staff reported seeing a woman in a long white dress in the stockroom, hearing footsteps, and witnessing boxes of shoes jump off shelves. The worker eventually refused to work in the room.

East Lodge, Colchester.

Faceless White Lady wearing Perfume

Location: Colchester (Essex) - East Lodge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Possibly twentieth century
Further Comments: There is little to suggest who this white lady is, but those who have witnessed her standing on the staircase have been in shock for some time afterwards. The accompanying smell of perfume is said to be very strong.

White Woman

Location: Colne (Lancashire) - Hare and Hounds public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pub is rumoured to be the home of a phantom white lady.

Simon Cunliffe

Location: Colne (Lancashire) - Wycoller Hall
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Once a year, middle of winter (reoccurring), sound recorded 26/07/1996
Further Comments: Simon rides the area where he once lived, blowing his horn prior to a tragedy. It is said that he scared his wife to death by riding up the staircase of their home, chasing a fox that had ran inside to escape the hunt (ghost hunters Colin Veacock and Peter Crawley recorded a sound like a riding crop here in 1996). Another tale states that the horseman is not Simon but an assassin, killed by a manservant before he could murder the master of the hall. The young daughter of a family living here during the twentieth century told her mother that a 'white woman' would visit her during the night - the sightings stopped when the child changed bedrooms.

Bearded Man

Location: Combe Martin (Devon) - Pack o'Cards inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A small man sporting a long beard is said to haunt this building, as is a white woman in a flowing gown.

An illustration of a ghostly monk by Wayne Lowden.

Grey Monk

Location: Conisborough (South Yorkshire) - Conisborough Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1971
Further Comments: Sightings of this spectral figure date back to the 1770s, when he was first seen drifting among the ruins. Reports also exist of sightings of a white woman, and the sounds of quiet voices and bumping.

Woman in White

Location: Coventry (West Midlands) - Private cottage, Wall Hill Road, Allesley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s - 1960s
Further Comments: Occupants in this cottage witnessed three ghosts, one a woman in white who resembled a nun, a woman in black, and a man wearing a nightshirt, handing a candle, descending the staircase Doors would open unaided and footsteps crossed the upstairs landing. The family would also hear rattling chains several times a week; when renovation work took place on the roof, a secret room was discovered that chains hanging from a wall.

Lady Mary

Location: Crieff (Perth and Kinross) - Ferntower House, tower (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1940
Further Comments: Polish troops based at this house claimed the tower was haunted by a white woman. The tower was demolished in 1963.

Piper

Location: Culrain (Highland) - Carbisdale Castle (aka Castle of Spite)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Though only a hundred years old, the castle is said to be haunted by a traditional piper and a lady in white, the latter named as Duchess Blair (or Betty, for short).

An old postcard of Furness Abbey.

Monk

Location: Dalton in Furness (Cumbria) - Furness Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A ghostly figure in robes was seen walking towards the gatehouse before vanishing into a wall. It is said the monk sometimes appears on horseback, and the site is also haunted by a white woman.

Woman in White

Location: Darlington (Durham) - Former guest house (no longer operating), Corporation Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1996
Further Comments: The ghostly woman who haunted this guest house is said to have been killed on the road outside many years earlier. She would be seen standing on top of the staircase by the manager. Poltergeist activity was also reported on the site - items in the kitchen would be moved overnight, lights would turn themselves on, and the manager was 'held' at the top of the staircase by an unknown force.

Hunting for the Child

Location: Darwen (Lancashire) - Old cemetery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A woman in white is said to haunt the old cemetery, looking for her child. She either died in childbirth or was murdered by men who then stole her baby. A local myth says that by speaking the words 'white lady, white lady, I stole your black baby' she will appear.

A ghostly white lady.

White Lady

Location: Delamere Forest (Cheshire) - Deep within the forest, between Frodsham and Delamere Forest rail station
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: July 2006
Further Comments: While walking to Frodsham from the Delamere Forest station, two people encountered a white lady. She stared at them for a couple of minutes before floating upwards into the trees.

Classic illustration of a woman in white (public domain).

White Lady

Location: Derby (Derbyshire) - Derby Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen on the steps behind the structure, this white lady is known to make brief appearances. A woman in tears has also been seen near the cathedral, carrying a young child. The same location is home to a man wearing old fashioned clothing, not forgetting the former executioner who killed his father and brother who jointly haunts the area.