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The Disturbed

Location: Woking - Former shop, Knaphill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: An old shop in this area was said to have picked up a ghost after redevelopment work on the site.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2021-03-18 | Last updated: 2021-03-18 | ID #14086

Reverend Mr Marshall

Location: Woking - St Paul's Church
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1932
Further Comments: A friend of the recently deceased Reverend reported seeing his ghostly form standing close to the communion rail during a service.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2005-06-07 | Last updated: 2005-06-07 | ID #6289

Price's Ghosts

Location: Woldingham - Seven bedroom home belonging to Katie Price
Type: Other
Date / Time: March 2010
Further Comments: The digitalspy.co.uk website carried the story that Katie Price was moving from her home after being hounded by two phantoms. Her husband Alex Reid was also reported to have encountered a ghostly elderly lady within the building.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2010-04-02 | Last updated: 2010-04-02 | ID #9817

Jolly Monk

Location: Wonersh - Grantley Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This figure once appeared every Christmastime, though has kept his head down over recent years (perhaps the exorcism performed by a Roman Catholic barmaid succeeded).

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-29 | Last updated: 2002-10-29 | ID #2914

Medieval Visitors

Location: Woodmansterne - Fairlawns, Croydon Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1948
Further Comments: Three different entities were identified haunting this house - two men and a woman all wearing clothing dating back to medieval times. The entities were spotted around the site and said to have caused footsteps along empty corridors and rapping from the walls. A series of seances finally laid the ghosts to rest.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2007-04-11 | Last updated: 2007-04-11 | ID #7286

Dr Samuel Wilberforce

Location: Wotton - Wotton House
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 19 July 1873
Further Comments: Dr Samuel Wilberforce was killed after being thrown from his horse while travelling through Deerleap Woods. Around the time of his death, four people at Wotton House reported seeing Wilberforce looking through a window, even though the doctor had no connection to the building and had never visited the site. As a side note, the building is said to be haunted by a man carrying fishing gear, who was seen in 1964.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2008-03-02 | Last updated: 2008-03-02 | ID #8300


A ghostly man in grey.

Man in Grey

Location: Wraysbury - Railway Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s-present
Further Comments: A man dressed in 1930s clothing, a grey overcoat and flat cap is reported walking up and down the platforms here.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2013-03-31 | Last updated: 2013-03-31 | ID #11319

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