The Paranormal Database

Food Smell

Location: Lidgate - House named John O'Lydgate's
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s onwards
Further Comments: The smell of cooking has been reported, as well as the smell of incense.

Dragon Duel

Location: Little Cornard - Location known locally as Sharpfight Meadow, but now called Shalford Meadow
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: 26 September 1449
Further Comments: A black dragon from Suffolk and a spotted red dragon from Essex met at this location. After fighting for an hour, the Essex dragon won, and both dragons disappeared back to where they came.

Children's Voices

Location: Little Glemham - Glemham Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: When this property appeared on the market, a couple of media outlets made reference to the building's previous ghost hunting events, that focused on ghostly children's voices heard in the nursery and cold spots in the servants' area.

Talking Skulls

Location: Long Melford - Churchyard
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend speaks of a pair of skulls which once resided in the churchyard which would chatter away after dark.

Countess Rivers

Location: Long Melford - Kentwell Hall
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Countess Rivers unknown, other activity in 2006
Further Comments: One story says that, unable to escape the noise of a party, Countess Rivers leaped out of her bedroom window and drowned in the moat below. However, it appears likely that is not the case, and she died quietly in St Osyth's in Essex. Either way, her shade now walks the grounds. More recently, objects have been said to move unaided and strange noises heard.

Poltergeist

Location: Long Melford - The Bull Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1648 onwards, footsteps last heard in 2016?
Further Comments: Once the watering hole of ghost hunter Harry Price, The Bull has reported multiple poltergeist activity, with bottles and china thrown across rooms. Footsteps have also been heard walking in empty rooms and dogs have been reported to act strange in the building. A common local story blames the ghost of Richard Everard, murdered in 1648 at the Bull.

The High Street, Lowestoft.

Grey Lady in Cellar

Location: Lowestoft - 36 The High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Both 35 & 36 reportedly have a grey lady that haunts their cellars - the buildings were once knocked into one but are now currently separate again.

High Street, Lowestoft.

Woman in Long Dress and Mob Cap

Location: Lowestoft - 55 High Street
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1974, November 26
Further Comments: Seen only twice, on the same day, this apparition was seen in the upper part of the house. A builder watched her climb the staircase to the second floor at midday, while both the owner and his dog ran from the form when they encountered it at 17:00h.

Rant Score, Lowestoft.

Man Walks through Wall

Location: Lowestoft - Former Birds Eye Foods building, Rant Score
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Seen by a couple of kitchen workers during the 1970's, the origin of the figure that walked across the room and through a wall is unknown. The area has long been haunted before Birds Eye moved in, mostly from poltergeist behaviour moving around boxes of fish.

Tommy

Location: Lowestoft - Grange Farm, Henstead
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Misty evenings
Further Comments: Seen on marsh fields with another horse at night, Tommy died several years previous, though still enjoys grazing alongside his former friends.

Gunton Cliffs, Lowestoft.

Pale Figure in White

Location: Lowestoft - Gunton Cliffs
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: The ghost, a nun, was once said to haunt a house that stood on the cliff edge, which has now gone. Her form is now seen along the cliffs.

Drunken Fisherman

Location: Lowestoft - Jubilee Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A drunken sailor, in a vain attempt to impress his girlfriend, tried his hand at balancing on the handrail of the bridge - he failed, fell and died. It is now said his dying moans can be heard when you stand under the bridge.

Mariners Street, Lowestoft.

Hooded Figure

Location: Lowestoft - Mariners Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s onward
Further Comments: Rumoured to have once been the site of a priory, this road and the buildings along it have been long haunted by a hooded figure. The ghost was described by some witnesses to be a woman.

Uniformed Man

Location: Lowestoft - North Deans - Second World War defences
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2006
Further Comments: A phantom man dressed in uniform has been spotted here, pointing out to sea.

Edward Rollahide

Location: Lowestoft - North Quay West
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1920s?
Further Comments: Rollahide died in a drunken rage; swinging a weapon at a fellow worker he was playing cards with, Rollahide lost balance and fell into a large pool of cement where he drowned. His ghost is now said to occasionally appear in the area, dripping cement.

Man in Benny Hat

Location: Lowestoft - Road running by the church near Corton Caravan Park
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid 1980s
Further Comments: Two witnesses in a car were convinced they had run over a man who stepped out in front of their car. Described as wearing a 'Benny' hat and having an unforgettable face, they searched the area but could find nothing.

Strange Figure

Location: Lowestoft - Roman Hill Middle School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: During a particularly misty day, a pupil at the school reported seeing a figure which walked through the wall of the school.

Royal Falcon Hotel, Lowestoft.

Protected by Insurance

Location: Lowestoft - Royal Falcon Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2002?
Further Comments: This hotel featured in several media outlets after a poltergeist outbreak resulted in staff watching glasses move unaided across the bar. One story claimed that the phantom was a monk who had killed himself in the building, and that Room 10 was particularly haunted. To protect himself against any ghost-related injury claims lodged by guests, the landlord took out an insurance policy with Ultraviolet, who were known at the time for their quirky range of financial protection against alien abduction and werewolf attack.

The Anchor pub, Lowestoft.

Monk-Like Figure & Cold Blast of Air

Location: Lowestoft - The Anchor public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1976
Further Comments: A figure dressed in monk's garb has been seen in the bedrooms of this building, accompanied by a drop in temperature and gusts of cold air.

Woman in Period Dress

Location: Lowestoft - Unnamed shop along high street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s?
Further Comments: While coming down from the second to the first floor, one man passed a woman in period dress ascending the staircase. Only when the man reached the bottom of the staircase did he realise what had happened.

Knight

Location: Market Weston - Farmhouse
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Circa 1979
Further Comments: The owner experienced mild poltergeist activity with items disappearing and also told the press that former occupants had reported a knight in shining armour who emerged from a cupboard. This claim was rebutted in the local press by a former occupant who said nothing paranormal had happened during her family's time at the farmhouse.

ABC

Location: Martlesham - Between Foxhall & Seven Hills Roundabouts
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 1996
Further Comments: Part of a rash of sightings of ABCs in and around the Ipswich area during 1996.

Glowing Policeman

Location: Martlesham - Farmer's field near the church
Type: Other
Date / Time: 25 March 2006, 03.00h
Further Comments: A man waiting in his car reported seeing a policeman in an old fashioned uniform. who appeared in front of his vehicle and appeared to be scribbling in a notepad. The policeman then glowed and vanished. The witness said that the figure had a 'holographic look' about him.

Pilot

Location: Martlesham - Red Lion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Post-Second World War
Further Comments: This pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a pilot who crashed en route back to his airbase located at Martlesham.

Heathland at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.

Long Dead Airman

Location: Martlesham Heath - Police HQ, heathland, and shopping area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978, 1981 (police station), 2004 (shopping area)
Further Comments: The site of a major airfield during the Second World War, the Police Headquarters and the surrounding heathland has a reputation of being haunted by long dead pilots. Several police officers have seen such shades, while more recently, owners of a shop reported seeing a detached human shadow outside their establishment.