The Paranormal Database

Field Place House in Worthing.

Lady in Glasses

Location: Worthing - Field Place House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 1996
Further Comments: This old lady was watched as she walked down a corridor in a long black dress and vanished into a wall.

Heene Road, Worthing.

Naming Names

Location: Worthing - Insurance company, Heene Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Staff are said to have experienced something tapping them on the shoulder in the basement of this building, while two other workers heard their names being called out when they were alone on the site.

Door Opener

Location: Worthing - Private residence, High Street, Tarring
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: This poltergeist opened and closed doors, created footsteps in empty parts of the building, and shut bedroom windows.

Raising Miller

Location: Worthing - The Miller's Tomb, Highdown Hill
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: 1794 onwards (miller)(?), Dog in 2022
Further Comments: Dancing or walking around the tomb seven times will summon the miller who is buried within, according to one legend. Others say that it will be the Devil who appears when the rite is complete. More recently, two witnesses encountered a large black dog during a rainy evening; the creature silently watched the pair causing the couple to quickly leave.

The Thorntons shop in Worthing.

Two Children

Location: Worthing - Thorntons and Ernest Jones shops
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: Two child-like figures were caught on security cameras in these shops, while staff report strange sounds and phantom activity. One staff member observed a ghostly entity in a storeroom, which spoke the word 'quiet'.

Ragged Child

Location: Worthing - Wyke Gardens
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s
Further Comments: A young child has been seen in this building, looking pitiful and sick.

Luke the Smuggler

Location: Wych Cross - Roebuck Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wearing sea-going clothing and having a well weathered face, Luke sometimes returns to the hotel to raid the rum supply.

Polka

Location: Yapton - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1956
Further Comments: The ghostly sounds of a Polka could be heard in the village during the early evening, though the source could not be traced.