The Paranormal Database

Leaping Cat

Location: Glemsford - Cornfield in the area
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 2006, Summer
Further Comments: A witness watched a large black cat as it leapt around in a cornfield, as if hunting. A week later the witness and a friend came across footprints almost the size of dinner plates in the same field.

Kitchen Clanger

Location: Great Bealings - Bealings House
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 02 February-27 March 1834
Further Comments: Another famous case, the bells in the dining room and kitchen rung erratically for a two month period, while carefully watched by the occupiers looking for a rational explanation. None could be found.

Footsteps

Location: Great Bealings - Grotto - private house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 1950s
Further Comments: The owner of this building reported hearing footsteps crossing the first floor, though there would be no one else in the house. The event always occurred around 19:30h.

Man in Cap

Location: Great Bealings - Rosery Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s
Further Comments: This strange figure was observed twice moving past a window. The owners dashed to see who was outside but could find no one; with no other exit other than the one from which they emerged, the witnesses were at a loss to explain their sighting.

Noisy Ghost

Location: Great Cornard - 30 Lindsay Avenue
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1971, 1983
Further Comments: Unusually occurring twice, outbreaks of violent energy have upset the owners living in this building.

Heavy Dragging Upstairs

Location: Great Cornard - Abbas Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02 March 1952
Further Comments: Sounds of something being dragged in the upper part of the building, together with footsteps, have been reported, as have sightings of an old woman looking through the windows of the house. One story claims the ghost of a hooded nun walks through the area, sometimes accompanied by eerie harpsichord music. In 1952, seven American servicemen from Lakenheath spent the night on the site and reported the temperature fluctuating from stifling hot to freezing cold, and hearing bells pealing through the building.

Face

Location: Great Livermere - Rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century, late twentieth century
Further Comments: Author M R James was said, as a child, to have looked out his window and seen a ghostly face, pink and hot, staring back at him from the outside wall. On a 1995 TV programme about the author, a local woman said that a few folk had seen apparitions in the area outside the rectory and that dogs did not like to go near the area.

Lady in Red

Location: Great Livermere - Road towards Thetford
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom lady dressed in red reputedly steps in the path of incoming traffic only to vanish just before impact. A phantom cyclist is also said to haunt the roads in the village, though reports vary to the type of bicycle he rides.

Three Men

Location: Great Waldingfield - Road to Sudbury, near the public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012
Further Comments: Three men wearing long coats and large boots were spotted on the road by a driver. Convincing they were going to hit one of the men, the driver slammed on their brakes; the figures vanished, leaving the witness quite shocked. The witness was later told that the area was once a US air base during the Second World War, and that other people had encountered phantom airmen and even heard old aircraft in the area.

Mary Miller

Location: Hadleigh - Road between Hadleigh and Layham (B1070), near Holbecks park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The grave of Mary lies somewhere along this road - she was a suicide, and her ghost haunts the area.

Seaman

Location: Hadleigh - The White Lion.
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1979
Further Comments: A landlord of the pub reported waking up one evening and finding an old man in his bedroom. Though nothing was said, the publican 'felt' the ghost was of a seaman.

Squire Baker

Location: Halesworth - Chediston Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This street is reputedly haunted by Squire Baker, infamous for throwing a vicar down the stairs and breaking both his legs. An unnamed house along the road is also said to be haunted by heavy footsteps that pass through it.

Vanishing Man

Location: Halesworth - Unstated residence
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1982
Further Comments: George Davey awoke to find a man in his bedroom, reaching above the wardrobe. The figure wore a brown overcoat and Tilbury hat. George grabbed his nearby shotgun, only to watch the figure vanish. The entity's shoes and socks remained for a second longer, before also vanishing.

Big Black Cat

Location: Hartest - Exact location not known
Type: ABC
Date / Time: Mid 1996
Further Comments: A large black cat was seen by a witness, around fifteen metres separating them.

Dwarf

Location: Haughley - Railway line running past church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A woman travelling by train watched a small man dressed in clothing from two hundred years ago emerge briefly from the floor of the carriage before sinking back.

Puma

Location: Haverhill - A1071 Sturnmer Roundabout, and general area
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 1999 onwards
Further Comments: The Big Cats of Suffolk website reports that large felines have been seen in and around Haverhill for over twenty years, ranging from black leopards to creatures resembling puma and lynx.

Ann

Location: Haverhill - Ann Suckling Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The road takes its name from an eighteenth century woman killed along it; some believing Ann to have been a highwaywoman shot during her nefarious, others that she was only running to meet a coach containing her lover. Either way, Ann remained postmortem.

Albert

Location: Haverhill - Counting House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2007
Further Comments: Members of the Pure Energy Multimedia team reported this building to be haunted by footsteps, moving items, and a figure which would appear on the staircase (whom they nicknamed Albert).

Dilly

Location: Haverhill - Place Farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1690 to mid eighteenth century
Further Comments: Dilly, a young farm hand, was murdered by his master. It is reported his ghost frequently returned until a minister was called to exorcise the spirit.

Slamming

Location: Haverhill - Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1960s / 1970s?
Further Comments: Heavy doors were heard to slam, though they were locked, and typewriters could be heard being used late at night in empty offices.

Sad Nun

Location: Hengrave - Hengrave Hall
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Her origin unknown, the figure of a lonely nun with her head hung low has been spotted walking across the grounds.

Raining Straw

Location: Hepworth - Area around the Duke of Marlborough public house
Type: Other
Date / Time: 28 July 1992
Further Comments: A rain of barley straw fell in the village, covering one end of the place. A local man watched the straw spinning around in the air below stopping and suddenly falling.

Luck of Hintlesham

Location: Hintlesham - Hintlesham Hall
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A cursed mannequin was once stored here - if removed, it was believed disaster would soon follow, and the owner would lose possession of the hall.

Remorseful Stepmother

Location: Hintlesham - Hintlesham Hall. Stairs and library
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a female Lloyd family member walks the stairs and library, eternally suffering for letting her stepson starve to death. The sound of a baby crying was also said to haunt a room but stopped after the remains of a young child were recovered from a fireplace.

Horses' Hooves

Location: Holbrook - Stutton Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hill is apparently home to the sound of horses moving around, the noise providing an uneasy feeling to any witness.