The Paranormal Database

Murdered Servant

Location: Dudley - Station Hotel, Trindle Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Room 217 (or 214, depending on the source), and the rooms nearby, are reportedly haunted by a maid murdered in the building. Furniture has been heard moving around the empty room.

Nightmare, by Jean-Pierre Simon.

Devil with his Pack

Location: Halesowen - Between town and Lickey Hills
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: When boars lived wild, the Devil would periodically come out hunting with his hell hounds. They patrolled this area, inducing nightmares in any witness careless enough to watch them.

Large Black Dog

Location: Halesowen - High Street area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: August (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A local legend says that the area where the Saxon church once stood is home to a large black dog which glides around. Its howls are prevalent throughout August.

Victorian Girl

Location: Halesowen - Oldnall Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A young Victorian girl, said to be aged around five, has been blamed for several accidents and near misses along this road.

Sad Victorian

Location: Handsworth - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1953
Further Comments: A team of ghost hunters were summoned to investigate this home after strange events scared the Parr family. Cigarettes would lift and hover over ashtrays, and cushions threw themselves to the floor. One resident also observed an apparition of a sad Victorian woman and a young man.

Polly

Location: Himley - Crooked House public house (destroyed by fire August 2023)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A serving girl named Polly supposedly haunted this building.

Assault

Location: Lower Gornal - St James' Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1881
Further Comments: Ghostly voices had been heard in the churchyard and the local vicar was assaulted by an unknown force. An exorcism finally disposed of the entities.

Pale Man Walking

Location: Lower Gornal - Straits Road, junction of Cotwall End Road
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Winter 1994, 07.30h
Further Comments: A postal worker was surprised to see 17 or 18 year old man wearing an orange t-shirt and jeans out with so few clothes on one early cold, frosty morning. The man carried a small bag, and his skin was incredibly pale. The figure walked past the postal worker, looking right at her but did not speak. The worker was amazed that anyone could have such pale skin and turned to take a second look, only to find that he had disappeared.

Domed Object

Location: Meriden - Footpath in area, exact location not known
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1940
Further Comments: While out walking, Cathie Connelly encountered an illuminated domed object surrounded by tall men wearing one-piece overalls. The men had strangely tall foreheads, and one man cleaned his hands using a duster smiled at the witness. As Connelly left the area, she turned back and realised they had gone.

Night Coach

Location: Meriden - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom coach was said to be driven around this neighbourhood.

Chimney Cat

Location: Old Hill - Private residence along Lansbury Road
Type: Other
Date / Time: May 1999
Further Comments: A family fled their home after hearing loud bangs and scratching sounds throughout the night. An uncle who stayed after the family left realised the noises were coming from the chimney and, together with a gas engineer, freed a trapped cat that fled the scene.

Bearded Man

Location: Oldbury - Blue Ball public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure, complete with an old beaten up hat, has been seen walking through a wall in the bar area.

Moving Items

Location: Quarry Bank - Private residence
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1993/94
Further Comments: A ghosthunter said he had been called to visit a property in this village after items moved from room to room, and pictures removed from walls.

Black haired Woman

Location: Romsley - Bromsgrove Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02 May 2010
Further Comments: The local press carried a story that Parasearch were investigating this road after receiving a report of a phantom black haired woman in a cream coloured cloak who stood on the roadside holding a staff.

Alien Fairy

Location: Rowley Regis - Bluestone Walk
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 4 January 1979
Further Comments: Three figures, all less than four-foot tall with tissue paper wings, drifted into a house in the town and interrogated a housewife for an hour. She said they looked like fairies, though they had laser beams on top of their heads and left via an eight foot long UFO.

Elaine

Location: Rowley Regis - Haden Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth century onwards
Further Comments: Elaine (or Eleanor) and a monk were walled up alive in a secret tunnel which ran between the hall and Hales Abbey after their secret affair was discovered. She is said to now appear near the hall searching for her long dead lover, her hands clasped in regret. Another ghost which haunts the site has been named as Annie Eliza, the last Haden.

Sarah Hughes

Location: Sedgley - Beacon Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Former landlady Sarah may still keep an eye on her former pub; one witness observed a female form walking through a wall, while sounds of movement can be detected emerging from empty rooms. A man in old fashioned clothing has also been observed on the site.

Lady and Sons

Location: Sedgley - Turls Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Folklore places a veiled lady with her two adult sons in this area. The woman's children are said to have taken their own lives nearby in separate incidents.

Royalist

Location: Sedgley - White Lion Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The inn appeared in the local press in 2023 when placed on the market, with one of the unique selling points being two ghosts (a Royalist soldier, and a former landlady).

Man with Cane

Location: Shard End - All Saints Church and Shard End Lake areas
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1991
Further Comments: A man wearing a top hat and black-tailed coat, carrying a cane is said to haunt this area, and may have been spotted several times by the same witness in 1991.

Old Woman in Red Cape

Location: Smethwick - Black Patch Park, area near the canal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: This female entity vanished in front of one witness who walked through the park pushing a pram.

Vanishing Hand

Location: Smethwick - St Philip's Church
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa 1954, mid-summer
Further Comments: Two young boys playing in the church grounds were close to the statue of Saint Philip. They watched the left hand suddenly break off and fall to the ground, leaving a black void in place of the hand. The boys looked away for a few minutes and when they looked back the left hand was back in place.

Emily and Friends

Location: Smethwick - Thimblemill Baths
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: Popular with ghost hunting teams, this building is reputedly home to several paranormal entities, including a horse, a figure in a green boiler suit, and a female named Emily.

A ghostly grey lady.

Lady in Grey

Location: Smethwick - Warley Abbey (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Though the area is now a public park, the area where the abbey once stood is still haunted by the lady in grey. It is rumoured she committed suicide after a love affair.

Strange Sounds

Location: Solihull - Park Hall (demolished 1970), Castle Bromwich
Type: Other
Date / Time: Pre-1970 (or 1930)
Further Comments: A family living in the hall left in 1930 after being driven out by the ghost (or, at least, stories about the ghost). Tales of a phantom being seen or strange noises heard persisted for a few more decades, although a 1958 newspaper article featured a local Alderman who claimed any haunting on the site to be a myth.