The Paranormal Database

Not enough ghosts advertise beer.

Woman in Lace

Location: Croydon - The King's Cellars public house, 48 Park Street (no longer a public house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: The ghost of a young woman has appeared several times at the King's Cellars. Glowing blue, she scared staff when she spoke the words 'help me'. The pub is said to have been built over an old fire station where a gruesome murder was carried out, and the ghost of a former fireman also haunts the site.

Elizabethan Handmaiden

Location: Croydon - The Old Palace (currently a school)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This ghost is said to date back at least two hundred years and is followed by an aura of sadness whenever seen or felt.

Moving Bottles

Location: Croydon - Wheatsheaf public house, Thornton Heath
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: One landlady reported bottles which relocated themselves in the bar area and a permanently cold boiler room. A local legend says that the ghost is that of an old landlord's daughter murdered on the site.

William Mullins

Location: Dorking - 58 - 60 West Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Mullins took his wife and child across to the Americas on the Mayflower. He and his family died soon after their arrived in the new lands, and now Mullins has come home to stay.

Rider

Location: Dorking - Graveyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A decapitated rider on horseback follows a road that no longer exists - the figure crosses the gravestones and vanishes through a hedge.

A ghostly butler amongst the books.

Lady in Grey

Location: Dorking - Pippbrook House (currently Dorking Library)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a woman wearing a long grey dress is reputed to haunt the staircase, while a phantom butler has also been reported.

Whirlwind

Location: Dorking - Polesden Lacey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: The original house no longer stands, but the ghosts remain. Nun's Walk is said to be haunted by an apparition which resembles a whirlwind, while the bridge is haunted by a figure dressed in a brown robe and hood which conceals its face.

Duke of Norfolk

Location: Dorking - White Horse Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ninth duke of Norfolk remains in the inn, apparently too drunk to depart this plain of existence.

Kiln Worker

Location: Earlswoof - Bull's Head public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local legend says this pub is haunted by a lime kiln worker who died during the seventeenth century.

Accident

Location: Effingham - A246
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 2015, between 03:00 - 03:30
Further Comments: A motorcyclist spotted a pair of red taillights on the road ahead. Despite changing speed several times, the lights stayed the exact distance away, until they veered off the road into trees. The motorcyclist heard a crash, and fearing an accident, pulled over and looked for the crashed vehicle. Nothing could be found.

Piano

Location: Effingham - The Lodge
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Pre 1964
Further Comments: This building had a piano stored in a locked room which would occasionally be heard to play. Bread would be rolled across the kitchen by unseen hands. Staff also claimed a white lady walked the stairs at night.

Little Man

Location: Egham - Hillside villa
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: The subject of three legal battles (between 1903 & 1907) debating whether the house was haunted, and ergo fit for human habitation, the house was alleged to contain the spirit of a child murderer - a little man whose footsteps could be heard at night.

Phone Call

Location: Egham - Private residence east of M25
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 05 May 2022
Further Comments: While a husband and wife were alone downstairs in this property, the husband's mobile phone that had been left upstairs placed a call to the wife's phone. When the husband went to grab his phone, he realised that his boots had moved from the stairs and had been placed on the bed, where he had previously been.

Thomas Holloway

Location: Egham - Royal Holloway University
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Founded by Thomas Holloway, the man himself is said to haunt the Founder's Building, though he manifests in the form of a black cat. Jane Holloway, Thomas's wife, is said to haunt the fourth floor of the same building.

The Other Mother

Location: Englefield Green - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2000
Further Comments: The residents in this property experienced items being moved, lights which turned themselves on, and doors which slammed shut. One resident also heard whisperings, while a child on the site would talk to someone they described as their 'other mother', an older woman wearing grey. An old man was once also seen on the site, looking out of the empty living room window.

Heavy Footsteps

Location: Englefield Green - Wooded area off Coopers Hill Lane
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: April 2021
Further Comments: While walking through this wooded area, one person heard heavy footsteps approaching along the footpath. No one could be seen, even though there was a disturbance on the ground. Even though it was a bright sunny day, the area felt oppressive, and the witness left the area terrified.

Aged Gentleman

Location: Esher - House lived in by Anna Porter, the author
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Anna Porter claimed to have seen a man known to her enter a room and sit down, before suddenly rising and leaving again. She thought the gentleman looked unwell, and sent a servant over to his house, who discovered that he had died earlier in the day.

Girl in the Cupboard

Location: Esher - Marquis of Granby hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The young woman was locked in the cupboard and left to die; now, years later, her spirit is trapped inside the small room by a large family bible propped against the door.

Orange Flash

Location: Esher - Portsmouth Road, between Esher and Cobham
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1953
Further Comments: Seventy-one cars had their windscreen smashed along this road during 1953, with one driver reporting an orange flash along the empty road before his window shattered.

Agnes

Location: Ewell - Former Antiques Shop, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Unseen footsteps were heard here, and customers felt 'something' push them aside. Some believe that this is the ghost of a woman called Agnes.

The cloaked ghost of Ewell.

Cloaked Figure

Location: Ewell - Nonsuch Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area around the eastern gate is said to be home to a phantom concealed within a cloak. The sounds of partying have also been reported and are thought to come from the palace that was burnt down during the seventeenth century.

Plague Victims

Location: Ewell - St Mary The Virgin
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several graves belonging to plague victims are thought to be haunted by their occupiers.

Horse and Coach

Location: Ewell - William IV Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sounds of a horse pulling a coach have been heard outside this inn, though never seen.

Drunken Man

Location: Farnham - Castle Street, & Castle Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen climbing down from a phantom coach, this figure staggers across the road and enters a nearby house. The Castle Theatre that stands down this road is reportedly haunted by a suicide which plays with the lights and record player.

Dancing Girl

Location: Farnham - Farnham Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Though long since removed, the bell that was once housed in the castle tower can still be heard to chime. A shadowy figure haunts the guard room, while the long gallery is home to a phantom monk. A knight n armour appeared in certain rooms, and a lady in white glided along corridors. Lastly, a little dancing girl haunts a staircase, where she collapsed and died. Outside the castle, on the hill where it stands, disembodied footsteps are heard.