White Rider
Location: Marazion (Cornwall) - Area once known as Marazion Green
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1840
Further Comments: In the days when horses were the main form of transport, this white woman would leap onto the back of a passing rider and refuse to leave until taken to the Red River, where she would vanish. The last witness, Buck Billy, died in 1840.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-12-31
Last updated: 2002-12-31
ID: #3355
White Lady
Location: Market Lavington (Wiltshire) - Old Rectory (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: The building was haunted by a white female spectre murdered in the property.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2007-09-04
Last updated: 2007-09-04
ID: #7945
White Woman
Location: Maryport (Cumbria) - Netherhall Mansion (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1973
Further Comments: Before the mansion burnt down, it stood empty for twenty years. The caretaker reported seeing a phantom grey lady within the building, and even though the mansion was boarded up, furnishings and fittings would be found thrown around within. Some believe the grey lady started the fire which finally reduced the mansion to a shell which was demolished.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-04-07
Last updated: 2007-04-07
ID: #7217
White Lady Riding
Location: Melbury Osmund (Dorset) - Unidentified Barn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, likely nineteenth century
Further Comments: A drunk man fell asleep in the barn, waking at midnight to see a woman in white riding around on a buck. She moved so fast that the wind whipped up dust, causing the man to sneeze - the sound causing the lady to vanish.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2014-01-04
Last updated: 2014-01-04
ID: #11457
White Woman
Location: Mere (Wiltshire) - Tudor Tea Rooms
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1965
Further Comments: Two members of staff, on different occasions, witnessed a woman in a long flowing dress pass through a room in this building. There have also been reports of poltergeist activity, which included a large table being overturned.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2004-11-26
Last updated: 2004-11-26
ID: #5654
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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-08-10
Last updated: 2008-08-10
ID: #8733
Mary Way
Location: Much Wenlock (Shropshire) - Crossroads two miles southeast of town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth century
Further Comments: This crossroads was said to be haunted by the ghost of Mary Way, murdered on the site. The phantom is reputedly headless and wears a shimmering white dress. A murderer was also said to be buried at the crossroads, although it is not clear whether it was Mary's killer.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2011-04-25
Last updated: 2011-04-25
ID: #10282
Monks Cooking
Location: Musselburgh (Lothian) - Old Craighall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Several shades of religious people have been seen here, including monks, a bishop and a woman in white. The smell of fresh meat being cooked sometimes wafts through the house, even when no one is cooking.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-01-26
Last updated: 2003-01-26
ID: #3718
Woman with Hollow Eyes
Location: N16 (Greater London) - 69 Spencer Grove (no longer standing), Stoke Newington
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 1967
Further Comments: This ghost, dressed in white, was seen emerging from a wardrobe by several members of the family. The family finally left the building after a mysterious fire broke out.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-08-07
Last updated: 2002-08-07
ID: #2038
White Woman
Location: N2 (Greater London) - Strawberry Vale, East Finchley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: The pallid ghost of a lady was reported here.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-08-31
Last updated: 2005-08-31
ID: #6510
White Woman
Location: N3 (Greater London) - Nether Street, West Finchley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One police officer is said to have lost his mind after seeing this phantom woman and became obsessed with reading everything he could about local ghost stories.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2009-09-13
Last updated: 2009-09-13
ID: #9699
An old postcard showing the Hill of Tara.
Man with Hound
Location: Navan (County Meath) - Skyrne Castle, Hill of Tara
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom man, tall and covered by a cloak, once haunted this area, accompanied by his hunting hound. The area is also home to a shadowy nun and a woman in white who screams as she is chased by an unidentified shadow.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-13
Last updated: 2005-04-13
ID: #6153
An old postcard of Naworth Castle.
White Lady
Location: Naworth (Cumbria) - Naworth Castle
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Falling in love and becoming pregnant by the lord of the castle, a local girl committed suicide after being shunned by him after their love affair. Though her mother then cursed the evil lord (resulting in his death, and that of the estate's future heir), the young lass still returns to the site.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-06-24
Last updated: 2002-06-24
ID: #1429
Woman in White
Location: Nettlestone (Isle of Wight) - Road near the old church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Exact date not known
Further Comments: Several motorists are said to have encountered the phantom woman dressed in white that haunts this road, reporting their sightings to the police after driving through her.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2007-10-02
Last updated: 2007-10-02
ID: #7993
Bride
Location: Newton le Willows (Merseyside) - Willow Park (and other meres and woods in the area)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1947, and September 1949
Further Comments: This woman in white is said to be a bride murdered by her husband on their wedding night hundreds of years ago. She may have last been seen by a married couple who spotted a figure with folded arms standing amongst trees. Two years prior to this sighting, two women passing Castle Hill observed the phantom woman in white.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2013-03-17
Last updated: 2023-11-19
ID: #11286
White Lady
Location: Newton Stewart (Dumfries and Galloway) - Slaughterhouse Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s onwards
Further Comments: The woodland takes its name from a disused slaughterhouse. The white female form seen drifting in the area is thought to be the ghost of a woman involved in a car accident nearby.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2009-04-19
Last updated: 2009-04-19
ID: #9272
White Woman
Location: North Berwick (Lothian) - Private residence, Glenorchy Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: The staircase of this property is reputedly haunted by a benign white feminine spirit. The house may have been built over the graveyard of a nunnery.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2011-01-02
Last updated: 2011-01-02
ID: #10134
White Lady
Location: North Berwick (Lothian) - The Lodge (aka North Berwick House)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom white lady reputedly walks this area, as does a hooded figure said to be a former pageboy murdered in London. Another story, possibly a variation of the latter, says a headless figure haunts the site and is identified as Matthew Henderson. He was a footboy who murdered his mistress in London after she beat him for standing on her foot. Henderson was executed at Tyburn, but his ghost returned to his former home.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2010-04-11
Last updated: 2010-04-11
ID: #9852
White Lady
Location: North Kilvington (North Yorkshire) - Borrowby Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s
Further Comments: Killed by soldiers when she was discovered in a chapel, the shade of this white lady has been reported many times since.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-17
Last updated: 2002-10-17
ID: #2719
Lady in White
Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Colwick Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1831 onwards
Further Comments: Seen wandering around the gate of the church, this woman in white is thought to be looking for an unknown item. The ruined church itself is home to a tall man who has been seen standing at the location the altar once stood.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2008-04-06
Last updated: 2008-04-06
ID: #8396
Ghostly children in the woods.
Children
Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Colwick Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghosts of a white woman and of two children have been reported in this wooded area. While the woman in white has been named as Mary Chaworth Musters, the children are thought to have been murdered by their father William Saville, hanged for the crime in 1844. The sound of horses has also been reported.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2008-05-05
Last updated: 2008-05-05
ID: #8524
White Lady
Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Gedling Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: This piece of woodland is reputedly haunted by a white lady, a nun and disembodied screaming.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2008-05-27
Last updated: 2008-05-27
ID: #8640
White Lady
Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Grounds of Colwick Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Thought to be the same ghost encountered at the nearby church, this white woman is thought by some to be Mary Ann Chaworth-Musters reputedly Lord Byron's first love.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-04-06
Last updated: 2008-04-06
ID: #8409
Woman in White
Location: Oare (Wiltshire) - Road through the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A bus driver passing through the village was left unnerved after watching a woman dressed in white cross the road ahead of him. She disappeared suddenly.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2009-06-14
Last updated: 2009-06-14
ID: #9517
White Woman
Location: Old Catton (Norfolk) - White Woman Lane, and George Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Doomed to repeat her actions for reasons unknown, the woman in white has been seen on countless occasions in the area. A lad out on his early morning paper round saw her crossing a field, vanishing without warning.
Source:
Historical Record, User Submission
First added: 2000-08-17
Last updated: 2000-08-17
ID: #220
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