East Riding of Yorkshire Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana
Shuffling
Location: Hull - White Rose Hairdressing
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: This salon was haunted by shuffling feet that could be heard moving around the upper part of the building. Sometimes a dragging sound would accompany the steps.
Drowned Smugglers
Location: Hull - Ye Old Black Boy public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pub was once connected to the docks via secret tunnels and was used extensively by smugglers. One stormy day the tunnels were flooded with sea water and several smugglers drowned - they now haunt the pub. Bottles have flown off the shelves, and several people have seen ghostly hands materialise through panels on the wall.
Freda
Location: Hull - Ye Old White Hart public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: It is said that if the Freda's skull located behind the bar of this pub is moved, the former owner returns and haunts the building until the cranium is replaced.
Stone Thrower
Location: Hull - 22 Pennington Street (no longer standing)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: December 1854
Further Comments: People living at this address called police after they were bombarded by lumps of coal and stones. Police were unable to find who was responsible, and the attacks carried on for several days.
Monks
Location: Hull - Bransholme general area, including Foredyke Stream
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Ghostly monks haunt this area, perhaps connected to the former Cistercian community wiped out by the black death. The story has resulted in wooded statues of monks being erected along the roadside.
Wet Couple
Location: Hull - Brazil Nut Company, east bank of the river Hull (now Thompson's Plastics?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s and 1970s
Further Comments: Several workers at the plant reported seeing a woman and a decapitated man, both dripping wet. The phantom figures vanished within seconds of being spotted. They were said to be the parents of two children who fell into the river - the whole family were drowned in the accident, though the bodies of the parents were never recovered.
Footsteps
Location: Hull - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: July 2013
Further Comments: The new owners of this building reported hearing footsteps in the empty rooms above them and feeling a rush of air as something invisible ran by them.
Shouting Child
Location: Hull - Hull Council of Disabled People building, Ferensway
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2016
Further Comments: The local newspaper covered the experiences of Rachel Nason's ghost hunting activities, which have included encountering the shouts of a ghostly child and mild poltergeist activity.
Floating Charlie
Location: Hull - Hull New Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: His real name unknown, this man with dark straggly hair wears a long grey coat. He has been seen several times and is often heard banging or walking around the theatre.
Beryl
Location: Hull - Manchester Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 01 November 2012
Further Comments: Lisa Fowler believed to have caught the pub's phantom, nicknamed Beryl, on the CCTV camera, although the 'figure' could be lens flare. The owners have also reported the sensation of someone running fingers through hair and of glimpsing fleeting shadows which vanish.
Fast Ball
Location: Hull - Noddle Hill Playing Fields
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1992
Further Comments: At least four people watched a fast moving ball, around the size of a car, pass overhead. After the object moved away, the witnesses were left with an odd static feeling.
Thick Necked Creature
Location: Hull - Off coast
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1927-1930s
Further Comments: While travelling along the coast in heavy fog, the crew of a steamship spotted what they first mistook for a mast jutting out of the water. The 'mast' then moved to the side of the ship, the men realising that it was the neck of a large creature. It then drew a large black body from out the water, then dived and vanished. Sightings of the creature continued for several years.
Mr Yates
Location: Hull - Old Grammar School, Trinity Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Most likely to be seen at 20:40h
Further Comments: A former vicar at St Mary's Lowgate, Mr Yates is considered an unlucky ghost, and those who have seen him drifting along the first floor corridor have suffered misfortune.
Avro 694 Lincoln
Location: Leconfield - Road close to Molescroft Grange Farm
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2016 and November 2018, 08:00h to 09:00h
Further Comments: Traveling in the front passenger seat of a car, the same person twice witnessed the aircraft suddenly appear over houses and, in a steep dive, look as if about to crash into fields. The aircraft disappeared before impact. The witness suggested that haunting relates to an AVRO 694 which crashed on 26 November 1951, which killed two and injured thirteen.
Lelley Boggle
Location: Lelley - Crossroads in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s, 1980s
Further Comments: This entity may take the form of a phantom carriage - to gaze into the headlights will bring certain doom. The entity was blamed for setting fire to two cars in a carpark in the 1930s, while in the 1980s it was said the entity caused a driver to become temporarily paralysed.
Slapper
Location: Leven - Road near White Cross
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It is said the area was once haunted by a headless white woman who would hunt down highwaymen and give them a slap. What became of the entity is not known.
Figure in Black
Location: Leven - Unnamed brook in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Like other ghosts in this area, the ghostly figure in black is headless. The entity was seen squatting by the brook before reaching out and chasing the witness away.
Halifax
Location: Lissett - Former Second World War airfield
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: This phantom bomber only made itself visible to a crew once inside their aircraft, if they were all going to die together.
Walled Up Skull
Location: Lund - Manor house
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown if still present
Further Comments: Not much is known about the skull and its surrounding legend, other than to prevent the removal of the object, it was bricked up in the attic.
Fairy Home
Location: Nafferton Slack - Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hill was said to be a major home for fairies - they could be heard inside, and several times there have been reports of the little people entering or leaving the place.
Black Cat
Location: New Ellerby - Field quarter of a mile outside of village
Type: ABC
Date / Time: May 1992, morning
Further Comments: From around one hundred metres distant, a witness spotted a large black panther-like cat drinking from a ditch at a field edge.
Headless Man
Location: North Frodingham - Road between village and Foston on the Wolds
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Possibly nineteenth century
Further Comments: A headless man who walks this area is said to have only been seen the once, many years ago.
Burning Spitfire
Location: Pocklington - Airfield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom burning spitfire was claimed to haunt this airfield. Another ghost reputedly at home here is a pilot who frequents the control tower, although his history is unknown.
Hanging Highwayman
Location: Pocklington - Feathers Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This unpleasant footpad murdered a serving girl in the pub and was hanged in the yard for the crime. His shade still ensures he is not forgotten.
The Rudston Monolith
Location: Rudston - Churchyard
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: The tallest monolith in the UK, one tale states the stone was thrown by the Devil with the intent of knocking down the nearby church. Another tale states that the rock was dropped from the sky, killing one or two people intent of desecrating the graves.
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