The Paranormal Database

White Ladies

Location: Kilmany (Fife) - Area known as Ghouls' Den (aka Gouls Den), near Kilmany Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Two white ladies are said to lurk in the ravine, as are the ghosts of people who found the area so pretty that they were unable to leave.

White Woman on Horseback

Location: Kilpatrick (County Cork) - Road near old quarry
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Moonlit nights (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Manifesting when moonlight hit the ground, this white lady is said to have been killed as her horse bolted somewhere north of the village, the panicked creature throwing her into a quarry.

White Lady

Location: Kilspindie (Perth and Kinross) - Lady's Brig, area of land close to Balmyre Farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The history of this phantom female is unknown, but speculated to have been murdered, or was a murderer, or could have been a nun. Or all three. Or none.

Woman in White

Location: Kineton (Warwickshire) - Area known as Madam's Lane (no longer present?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: A ghostly woman in white would upset anyone using the lane.

Tudor Rose Hotel, King's Lynn.

Small Lady

Location: King's Lynn (Norfolk) - The Tudor Rose Hotel, 11 Nicholas Street
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Shortly after a wedding, the bride was stabbed to death by her new husband in the hotel. Since then, a short woman in a long white dress has been spotted and phantom footsteps heard.

White Lady

Location: Kingham (Oxfordshire) - Langston Arms Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1964
Further Comments: Her appearance preluded by coughing and shuffling sounds, staff and customers in the building spotted the apparition of an old woman as she passed down the corridors. A later story would emerge that the owner, Jack Bond, created the ghostly tale, asking a friend to wear a white sheet and pass by the building's windows.

Charles Fort in Kinsale.

White Lady

Location: Kinsale (County Cork) - Charles Fort
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1870s
Further Comments: This woman leapt to her death from the battlements after discovering that her father had mistakenly shot dead her newlywed husband. Since her death, she has been seen walking through locked doors and was blamed for knocking unconscious at least two witnesses. The site was also haunted by a rabbit which attacked guards asleep on duty.

Desmond Castle in Kinsale.

White Lady

Location: Kinsale (County Cork) - Road from Fort to Desmond Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Julian Hawthorne's minor vampire story Ken's Mystery is said to be based on an encounter with a phantom woman who travelled from the fort to Desmond Castle, where she vanished.

Pale Woman

Location: Kirkbean (Dumfries and Galloway) - Road between village and Prestonmill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1890
Further Comments: A woman in white was said to haunt this stretch of road, walking along the treetops and occasionally on the road with (mortal) travellers.

Woman in White

Location: Kirkbean (Dumfries and Galloway) - Road coming in from the north
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1894
Further Comments: This phantom woman's past is unknown, although her quiet form was said to startle passersby. One local story says that a local farmer's daughter exploited the story; dressing in a white sheet to meet her lover by the roadside ensured no one came to speak to her.

Dunn

Location: Kirkbean (Dumfries and Galloway) - Three crossroads, near Arbigland
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1894
Further Comments: The body of a young stableman by the name of Dunn was found here - the law believed he had committed suicide, but others thought he had been murdered by the brother of a woman he was romantically involved with. Dunn's ghost was said to have returned to the spot, and occasionally the area was also haunted by a white lady.

Jenny

Location: Kirkcaldy (Fife) - Kinswood Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: When a private house, this building was haunted by a white woman in a beautiful flowing dress. There were also reports of a phantom goose, which would peck at the young girl who lived there.

Woman with Dog

Location: Knowl Hill (Berkshire) - Seven Stars Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A woman dressed in white escorted by a ghostly dog are said to haunt this inn. Other spectres reported here include a headless lady and a man dressed in black.

White Lady

Location: Lancaster (Lancashire) - Ashton Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This lady's untrusting husband locked her in a room as he went overseas to war - by the time he returned, all that remained was her shade, which now haunts the tower.

White Woman

Location: Langley (Northumberland) - Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Singing has been reported coming from the building when it is empty, and a ghostly woman dressed in white has also been seen. This entity may be the same as the grey lady reportedly seen in the chapel.

Woman in White

Location: Langstone (Hampshire) - Royal Oak public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1969
Further Comments: This female form was briefly seen before vanishing into the corner of a bedroom. At least one guest left suddenly after spending the night in the room.

An old photograph of Loch Tay from Lawers.

Lady of Lawers

Location: Lawers (Perth and Kinross) - General area of the ruined village, on banks of Loch Tay
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2006
Further Comments: This long deserted village is home to the phantom white lady of Lawers. Workers at a nearby hotel report the feeling of being watched in the area.

Woman in White

Location: Leebotwood (Shropshire) - Unnamed pool in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A woman wearing white who took her own life in the reputedly bottomless pool emerges at night and wanders lanes in the area.

An old photograph of Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds.

Abbot

Location: Leeds (West Yorkshire) - Kirkstall Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1935, 1970s
Further Comments: The former Abbot of the abbey walks the area that has been converted into a museum. It is more usual to hear the spirit moving around than see him. Traditionally the entity is said to wear white robes, although the sighting in the 1970s reported the ghost's robes as being brown/red. The abbey grounds are also home to a white female entity named Mary who witnessed her lover committing murder and turned him in.

May

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Braunstone Hall and Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several phantoms are reported to haunt this area, including a young woman in white who walks the corridors. She is named as May, who died aged eighteen of tuberculosis. Other phantoms are said to be carriages pulled by black horses which vanish into the trees, a groom who hanged himself in a room above the stables, and a sad looking boy who glazes from an upstairs window.

White Woman

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Graveyard in Belgrave area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pale woman has been seen moving around the headstones.

Disconcerting Monk

Location: Leicester (Leicestershire) - Guildhall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: There are mixed opinions to whether the library here is haunted by a grey monk or a white lady. A tormented Cavalier has been seen in the Great Hall, a phantom policeman haunts other parts of the building, a ghostly dog has been reported in the courtyard, a black cat in the Great Hall, and at least one witness claims to have been shocked to see a pair of legs manifest from the portrait of Henry Earl of Huntington hanging in the Major's Parlour. Ghost Scene Investigations and Leicester City Museums released video footage in 2006 of what appears to be a ghostly figure crawling across the floor in one room.

Slapper

Location: Leven (East Riding of Yorkshire) - Road near White Cross
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It is said the area was once haunted by a headless white woman who would hunt down highwaymen and give them a slap. What became of the entity is not known.

An old postcard showing Newstead Abbey.

Lord Byron

Location: Linby (Nottinghamshire) - Newstead Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The story goes Lord Byron once met the ghostly black friar that haunted this building for close to 500 years, though contemporary legends state Bryon himself now sits in the corridor, near his own picture. Also reported in the area is a white lady who smells of rose petals, Bryon's pet dog Boatswain, and a woman in black who is considered unlucky.

Great Hall, Lincoln.

White Woman

Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - Great Hall, near Edward King's House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The woman who haunts this building may be connected to the skull which is bricked up within a wall. The skull once stood in a room, but when it was removed from the building it started to scream. The owners decided it would be for the best to brick it up in a wall to prevent future accidental removal.