The Paranormal Database

Soldier

Location: Icklesham - Village pond, opposite the Robin Hood public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This soldier, wearing a uniform from the First World War, has been seen gliding over the pond.

Waiting Woman

Location: Isfield - Lavender Line railway station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Summer evenings (reoccurring), last seen 1990s
Further Comments: This railway museum is haunted by a woman in white who is said to wait for a lover who never returns home. This Victorian woman later took her own life by throwing herself under a train.

Black Dog

Location: Jevington - Harewick Bottom valley
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This black dog vanishes just as quickly as it appears.

Tramp Carrying a Sack

Location: Johns Cross - A21 near Vinehall School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1983
Further Comments: Disappearing halfway across the road, this scruffy man has concerned several drivers who thought they may have hit him.

Summoning

Location: Kingston by Sea - Unknown tree in the area
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: There is said to be a tree somewhere in this area where the skeleton of a murdered man is intertwined amongst its roots. Running around the tree seven (or nine) times is said to summon Old Nick.

Spilt Blood

Location: Kirdford - Exact location not known
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The location where a poacher was injured performing his trade is said to be marked - no grass will grow where his blood fell.

Mimic

Location: Lewes - 4 & 5 North Street
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: This ghost confused several people when it started to mimic the voices of close friends and family in the building.

Thrower

Location: Lewes - All Saint's Church Hall
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Summer 1974
Further Comments: A drummer was left to lock the building up after he and other musicians had used the hall for practice. As the man packed up his drum kit, the hall suddenly became very cold, and the drummer had the urge to flee as quickly as possible. Leaving his kit, the man approached the hall doors where something pushed him in the small of the back. He was sent flying out the doors, landing on the outside pavement.

Man in Brown

Location: Lewes - Crown Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990-2010 (and ongoing)
Further Comments: The Everything Ghost team reported investigating this site and experiencing poltergeist activity and apparitions. The landlady has reportedly seen a man in brown eighteenth century clothing, while other witnesses have spotted a Victorian woman in grey. A priest has also been observed in the cellar.

Chief Inspector

Location: Lewes - Lewes Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 2003
Further Comments: This ghost's rank was determined after one witness was so close to the phantom that he could see the shoulder pips. The shade appears to be in his late forties, wearing police uniform with glasses, and has been seen by officers since the 1960s.

Victorian Woman

Location: Lewes - Lewes Prison
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: This ghostly figure is thought to have dropped dead in the prison after seeing a relative in the nineteenth century.

Knight

Location: Lewes - Mount Caburn - iron age hillfort
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Hillfort still present
Further Comments: A knight in gold armour and a silver coffin are said to be concealed under this fort. The fort was once believed to have created by Old Nick, one of the mounds of dirt he left behind while digging the nearby 'Devil's Dyke'.

Battle

Location: Lewes - Offham Hill
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 May (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This battle fought around the 1300's is still reportedly heard in May - over 3000 people are said to have been killed. The exact date may vary, though the phantom event always occurs in late May.

Suicide

Location: Lewes - Shelley's Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s onwards
Further Comments: Room 26 is reputedly haunted by a suicide which occurred in the 1930s. There are unspecific reports of other phantoms being seen in the hotel.

Scratching

Location: Lewes - Unnamed house, Bradford Road
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: September 1950
Further Comments: This noisy phantom would throw books and dressing gown cords around the bedroom and bang and scratch the walls. A thrown lipstick hit the head of a visiting parent.

Harriet

Location: Littlehampton - Road between Littlehampton and Worthing (may have been replaced)
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: After dark, winter, circa 1833
Further Comments: A man riding back home came across a white female figure standing in the road who he recognised as a family friend who had died a couple of years previous. The man was aware that the future of the woman's two children was in the balance and assured the ghost that he would look after them. After making the promise, the ghostly lady vanished.

An old postcard showing the Littlehampton marina.

Short Man

Location: Littlehampton - The Seahorse, floating restaurant in the marina (no longer exists)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1984
Further Comments: In the first year of opening, several spooky events occurred in the Seahorse, including the manifestation of a short gentleman near the staircase who disappeared when approached.

Monk

Location: Loxwood - Road running through village, near Spy Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This figure stands on the side of the road, sometimes walking out in front of incoming cars before vanishing.

Knuckler

Location: Lyminster - Knucker Hole, and Arun valley (hunting ground)
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The dragon, known as Knuckler, which lived here only came out of its hole to eat the local population and their livestock. It was killed by a heroic knight who is now buried in the local church.

Saint Dunstan and the Devil.

Tongs

Location: Mayfield - Mayfield Convent
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: This convent holds the tongs used by St Dunstan to grab the Devil by the nose - the fallen angel was disguised in woman's clothing, but St Dustan noticed his cloven feet. After the attack, Old Nick ran off to the springs at Tunbridge Wells.

Transparent Man

Location: Midhurst - Approach to town on the A286
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October 1999
Further Comments: An early morning driver along this part of the A286 slowed to let a man in a tricorn hat finish crossing the road, only to notice that he could see right through the pedestrian. The ghost then disappeared into the trees on the opposite side of the road.

Lady Montague

Location: Midhurst - Ruins of Cowdray House & Park
Type: Curse
Date / Time: 1994 (Lady Montague), 10 August 2021 (male figure)
Further Comments: Lady Montague's wraith walks the gardens surrounding what is left of this once great house. The fortune of the building fell after it was cursed by a prioress after the owner ransacked the local priory. In 2021 two witnesses spotted a very tall, black clad figure gliding away from the ruins across the causeway. The figure appeared to be larger than a normal human and moved quicker than is possible.

Cat Attack

Location: Newick - Hill
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 17 October 2001
Further Comments: A man working in the undergrowth was attacked by a lynx-like creature that tried to bite his hands. Luckily, he was wearing thick gardening gloves that protected him.

Headless Torso

Location: Ninfield - Churchyard & area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A disagreement between two brothers ended abruptly when one decapitated the other with a scythe in the churchyard here - the headless brother has been known to make comeback appearances.

Young Lady

Location: Northiam - Hayes Arms Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978
Further Comments: At least two witnesses have reported seeing an attractive thirty year old woman dressed in grey with a white hat. The ghost manifested in their bedroom. A spinning wheel which once stood in the bar was also said to be haunted - the wheel would turn itself, and sometimes a phantom old lady would manifest. The spinning wheel has long since gone, and it is unclear whether the ghosts remain.