The Paranormal Database

Final Battle

Location: Barnardiston - Blood Hill
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Hill still present
Further Comments: Folklore names the hill as the location of Boadica's final battle.

Shuck Haunt

Location: Barnby - Bridge over Hundred Stream
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Legend states the stream (and sometimes the further area) to be the haunt of a Shuck. As a sidenote, King Edmund reputedly used an unidentified ford in the village as a hiding place while escaping the Danes.

Saxon Traitor

Location: Barnham - Tutt Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The man who helped the Danes take Thetford was rewarded for the treachery with execution by his newfound 'allies'.

Rolling Stone

Location: Barrow - Stone in pavement near village school
Type: Legend
Date / Time: New Year's Eve (Reoccurring)
Further Comments: A stone set into the pavement here is reported to mark the spot where a highwayman was hanged. Once a year the stone turns itself over on the stroke of midnight.

Old Blunderhazard

Location: Barsham - Between Barsham and Norwich
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Once per year, just before Christmas, a ghostly member of the Blennerhassett family leaves the village in a coach pulled by headless horses. The phantom would travel to Hassett's Tower in Norwich before returning home before sunrise.

Footfalls

Location: Barsham - Holy Trinity church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Disembodied footsteps have been heard in the church and are thought to belong to a phantom Georgian woman who is very occasionally seen in the area.

Soldier

Location: Baswell - Wyken Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom soldier reputedly walks along the road.

Butler

Location: Bawdsey - Bawdsey Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: Soldiers and workers based here during the Second World War are said to have encountered the phantom of a former butler who would stare out from the windows.

UFO Technology under R&D

Location: Bawdsey - Top secret location
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1980s/1990s
Further Comments: A relatively new myth, this location is said to house downed UFO technology, under reverse engineering by UK scientists.

Beccles Cemetery, Suffolk.

White Dog

Location: Beccles - Cemetery
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: A woman passing through the cemetery watched a large white dog as it faded away in front of her.

Art Critic

Location: Beccles - Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Pictures which fall to the floor without identifiable cause are said to have been moved by this pub's ghost, which can be heard ascending the staircase and moving through rooms in the upper part of the building.

Lynx

Location: Beccles - Exact location not known
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 1991
Further Comments: This cat was shot and killed by a local farmer, who claimed both police and the Government asked him to destroy the body and tell no one about the incident.

Spontaneous Combusting Rat Catchers

Location: Beccles - General area
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 31 August (reoccurring)
Further Comments: To remove the rats and the Black Death from their village, three men sold their souls to a group of witches. The men played musical instruments as they walked down the road, the rats followed them, and all disappeared into hell. They are allowed a brief respite once a year.

Gibbet and Those Hanged

Location: Beccles - Park near Roos Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An oak tree standing in the park is said to be haunted by those once hanged there (including a woman in white), and that the Devil can be summoned by walking around it six times.

Roos Hall, Beccles, Suffolk.

Headless Horseman

Location: Beccles - Roos Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Christmas Eve is marked by the arrival of a coach driven by a headless horseman and pulled by headless horses, which travel down the driveway and vanish as they arrive by the front door. Close by, an oak known as Nelson's Tree is reputed to have been used as gallows and is haunted by a woman in white, although it is not clear whether she was one of the tree's victims or mourns the loss of a loved one. In the hall itself, on a wall within in a bedroom cupboard, there is the imprint of the Devil's hoof branded into solid brick. Finally, another tale says there is a window at the hall which always opens itself, even if locked shut.

Huge Talking Figure

Location: Beck Row - Aspel Farm, found along the road from Beck Row to Holywell Row
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One night at the farm, a large figure appeared in front of a group of locals, telling them 'Don't fear me, fear what follows me'. The figure then vanished, and within seconds a huge gust of wind pushed past the witnesses.

Headless Monk

Location: Bentley - Bridge on road linking Brantham and Bentley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Based at Dodnash Priory that once stood nearby, this decapitated monk now haunts the road between two villages. A single stone remains at the site of the priory, and it is said treasure is concealed underneath. Another piece of folklore says a tunnel ran from the priory to a nunnery in East Bergholt.

The Crown Inn, Bildeston.

Two Children Holding a Music Box

Location: Bildeston - The Crown Inn, 104 High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1947-1984
Further Comments: The Victorian children who were rumoured to haunt this site have not been reported for a good many years. Sightings of a grey woman who also haunts the building seem to be rare, but the ghost may be responsible for poltergeist activity in the gentleman's toilets, opening cubical doors for customers as they enter the room. Another ghost, that of an old man in a three-cornered hat, has been seen by staff sitting by the front door of the public house, though they believe him to be a teetotaller. Finally, a local tradition says a secret passage runs from the pub to the clock tower in the market.

Growing Stone

Location: Blaxhall - Stone Farm, Blaxhall Stone
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: The Blaxhall Stone is slowly growing. Cynicism abound, if this stone is really increasing in size, then it could not have been very large to start with...

Monk?

Location: Blundeston - Flixton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 20 September 2009, 21:30h, and earlier
Further Comments: Returning home in their car, two people encountered a small monk-like figure as it glided across the road ahead of them. It wore a hessian type garment, and the figure had an aura-like glow about it. Once out of the car's headlights, the figure was not be seen again. The entity may have been seen twice previously close to the prison.

Cracking Sounds and Footsteps

Location: Blyford - The Queen's Head
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: As well as loud sounds disturbing the owners and customers, small balls of blue light have also been observed, floating around the first floor and disappearing into the walls. Cracking was heard on the first floor by the landlord and a room full of customers in 1969 - several people dashed upstairs to investigate but found nothing. Folklore says a tunnel runs from the pub to the nearby church.

Female in Long Dress with Highwayman

Location: Blythburgh - A12 from Ipswich, towards Kessingland, near Blythburgh common
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1700s onwards
Further Comments: Sometimes appearing with a horse, the unknown woman and highwayman have been reported a few times over the past two hundred years.

The road between Blythburgh and Westleton, Suffolk.

Anne Blakemore in Blue

Location: Blythburgh - B1125 Blythburgh to Westleton road, crossroads known locally as Five Finger Post
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 June (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Possibly murdered in 1750, the ghost of Anne Blakemore has developed a habit of running in front of cars, convincing the drivers that they have run over a living person. She is commonly seen around 24 June, the date of her death.

Blythburgh Church, Suffolk.

Shuck

Location: Blythburgh - Holy Trinity Church
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 04 August 1577, and 1973
Further Comments: During a church service in 1577, a large black dog burst in and created havoc. Blackened scorch marks said to be caused by the creature still exist today on the church door. Many years later, in 1973, a man working in the marshes near the church reported hearing a panting dog standing beside him, though nothing could be seen. A local story says a tunnel runs from the church to the sea.

Flowing

Location: Blythburgh - Lady's Well (aka Wishing Well, Lady's Fountain, and Queen Anne's Well)
Type: Other
Date / Time: AD 654 onwards
Further Comments: Folklore says this well formed on the spot where East Anglian King Anna (or Onna) died in battle