2005 edition

Further Comments: Riding a mottled grey horse, the squire rides circles on the JANUARY driveway, rattling a handful of chains.

14 January 01 January Crying Lady Andrew Mills Location: West Deeping (Lincolnshire) - Location: Kirk Merrington (Durham) - Church Windlestone Hall Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The date of this Further Comments: Andrew went on a woman's death is marked by her phantom killing spree in the hall in the 1600s; he sobs heard emanating from the church at claimed he was talked into it by a devil. The 1am. Her husband was so distressed by the screams of the three people he murdered can death that he took his own life the following sometimes be heard in the village. day.

Sounds of Partying Location: Knighton (Isle of Wight) - Knighton Gorges manor house (no longer standing) Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Though demolished in 1820, the phantom sounds of partying and enjoyment are sometimes reported from the area of the manor house grounds. Night Coach Location: Ilmington (Warwickshire) - Roads of village Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This spectral vehicle runs along the roads, before suddenly veering off and vanishing across local fields. This may be related to the ghostly hunt pack seen in the area, led by a man who was killed by his hounds.

05 January

Squire Surtees Location: Kingston St Mary (Somerset) - Tainfield House Type: Haunting Manifestation 19 January Varies: Normally around January Horses Location: Lostwithiel (Cornwall) - Rushing Horseman Braddock Down Location: East Malling () - Type: Haunting Manifestation Woods Further Comments: The site of a Type: Haunting Manifestation Cromwellian defeat, the anniversary of Further Comments: This figure has been which is marked by phantom hoof falls. both seen and heard as he darts around trees and over roads. One witness said the entity Spitfire charged towards their car, disappearing on impact. Location: Biggin Hill (Kent) - Biggin Hill Airport & village Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Observed flying overhead, and sometimes heard, a phantom FEBRUARY Spitfire haunts the skies of Biggin Hill - January would appear to have become its favourite haunting month. 13 February

Clan MacDonald 20 January Location: Glencoe (Argyll and Bute) - General area Lady Mohun Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Redditch (Hereford & Further Comments: Murdered in cold Worchester) - Moon's Moat blood by the clan Campbell, these forty Type: Haunting Manifestation MacDonald family members return to the Further Comments: This small, moated scene of the crime. island is reportedly haunted by this woman, who is reported to appear every The Lady Lovibond St Agnes Eve Location: Deal (Kent) - Goodwin Sands

Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: A jealous sailor 25 January deliberately ran the Lady Lovibond onto the Goodwin Sands, a treacherous area off the Smith on Horseback coast of Deal, wreaking the ship and killing Location: Nether Lypiatt (estate) all on board. The craft is now said to re- () - Nether Lypiatt Manor enact the crash every fifty years, though Type: Haunting Manifestation there are no reports of any sightings in 1998. Further Comments: An owner of the horse Two other ghostly craft are said to frequent once hanged a blacksmith for failing to the area - the liner Montrose, and a man of complete a piece of work within a tight time war named Shrewsbury. limit - the date of the death is marked by the appearance of a large white horse carrying the dead smith. Another spirit in the house, 26 February that of a grey lady, has been seen several times, and there are unsubstantiated reports Sir Christopher Wren that it has been exorcised. Location: Hampton Court (Surrey) - The

Old Court House

Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Dying in the front room of this building, Wren's footsteps can be heard on the anniversary of his death, pacing up and down the staircase.

February - no exact date

Mary Queen of Scots

Location: Oundle (Northamptonshire) - The

Talbot Hotel

Type: Haunting Manifestation

Further Comments: This hotel contains the staircase from Fotheringay Castle, Mary's place of execution. Her is rumoured to have come with the staircase; pictures move on their own accord, one guest was awoken by 'something' sitting on their bed, and the gaunt face of a woman can be seen staring from out the hotel's windows.

Type: Haunting Manifestation MARCH Further Comments: Juliet took her own life after being jilted by a lover. The pub was later built over her grave, and she is 11 March now seen in the form of a , appearing near the Ferry Boat Inn and Sounds of Murder walking towards the banks of the river on the date of her death. Location: Loch Assynt (Highland) - Banks of the loch Type: Haunting Manifestation 22 March Further Comments: The site where a debt ridden schoolmaster killed a peddler for his Misty Figure gold is marked once a year by the sounds of the crime being reenacted - the crack Location: Ayr (Ayrshire) - Tower of St something hard being brought down on the John's salesman's head, followed by footsteps, a Type: Haunting Manifestation body being dragged, and the splash as it is Further Comments: It is unsure whether thrown into the water. this figure is a builder, friar or warrior.

17 March 29 March

Juliet Tewsley, Her Love Old Soldiers Unrequited Location: Alresford () - Cheriton Location: Holywell (Cambridgeshire) - Ye battlefield Olde Ferryboat Inn, gravestone in bar Type: Haunting Manifestation

Further Comments: These troops are said down the road wearing very little in the way to be doomed to return to their former of clothing. It is thought that the woman battleground every four years (last in 2004) hanged herself from a tree in the lane following a disastrous romantic engagement with a farmer.

Between Lent and Easter Voice of Lord Marney Hounds All Black and Wide-Eyed Location: Layer Marney (Essex) - Layer Marney Church Location: Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) - Type: Haunting Manifestation In all the woods between Stamford and Further Comments: Legend says that the Peterborough voice of Lord Marney can be heard echoing Type: Legend around the church. Further Comments: The scene of a wild hunt, which included large black hounds and riders on horses and goats. Mermaid

Location: Hayfield (Derbyshire) - Easter Mermaid's Pool, near Kinder Reservoir Type: Legend The Black Abbot Further Comments: Anyone who sees the creature, who appears at midnight on the eve Location: Prestbury (Gloucestershire) - of Easter Sunday is said to gain immortality. Church and churchyard One man who came here once a year lived Type: Haunting Manifestation to be 104! Further Comments: Keeping to the same route every year, this ghost materialises in the church, before crossing the churchyard and disappearing through a wall in the High Location: Bodiam (Sussex) - Bodiam Castle Street. It was photographed in 1990 by a Mr Type: Haunting Manifestation Stafford. Further Comments: This spectre stands on

the top of a tower, illuminated by bright Priest with Young Girl moonlight, as if waiting for someone. A child haunts the bridge - the young boy disappears when he reaches the half way Location: Holme Hale (Norfolk) - Hall's point. More stories tell of phantom singing, Green Room music, and words spoken in an unknown Type: Haunting Manifestation tongue which can be heard around Easter. Further Comments: Once frequently seen in and around the Green Room, a priest and a girl are supposed to haunt the building. The priest is believed to have been killed on Spring Good Friday by Cromwellian soldiers; hence the sightings tend to occur around the Small French Man Easter period. Location: Smarden (Kent) - The Chequers Inn Molly Tape Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Hurst () - Road between Further Comments: The ghost of a French village and Hinton, Tape Lane POW from the Napoleonic war is said to Type: Haunting Manifestation move small items around the premises and Further Comments: This shade made local upset any pets in the building during the news in 1971 when she appeared drifting latter part of spring.

Spring Continued

Horatio Nelson

Location: WC2 (Greater London) -

Somerset House, Strand

Type: Haunting Manifestation

Further Comments: Seen striding towards his former office, Nelson always vanishes before he can be approached. Another ghost, that of a wispy female, has been seen a couple of times, drifting down a corridor in the building.

APRIL

02 April

Viking Raiders Further Comments: This shade wrapped in a shawl makes a once yearly visit to the Location: Ludham (Norfolk) - Ludham house. Bridge Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This raiding party 12 April appears late at night and heads towards the bridge, blowing hunting horns and cracking Bleeding Stone whips. Location: Hinckley (Leicestershire) - Churchyard, grave of Richard Smith 07 April Type: Other Further Comments: Once a year this Burge's Pooling Blood gravestone is reported to leak blood - Richard was murdered by an army recruiting Location: Acle (Norfolk) - Bridge sergeant in 1727. Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Murdered by a brother seeking revenge for the death of his sister, 14 April Josiah Burge's blood is now reported to pool at the location and on the day of the fatal Charlotte Dymond attack. The stories state that Burge's ghost has appeared only once - returning to kill the Location: Roughtor (Cornwall) - Near a brother that had murdered him. memorial stone to Charlotte Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: While Charlotte's 09 April boyfriend was hanged for her murder, it is widely believed he was innocent; this could Elderly Lady be the reason why Charlotte now returns, dressed in a gown and silk bonnet. Location: Newport (Isle of Wight) - Orme Type: Haunting Manifestation 24 April meaningless battle is now reenacted once a year. George Marsh Location: Bolton (Lancashire) - Smithills Hall 27 April Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Tried and executed for Sounds of Fighting heresy, Marsh is remembered as his Location: Burgh Castle (Norfolk) - Roman footprint (created when he stamped his foot) castle in the stone floor turns bloody each April Type: Environmental Manifestation 24. His shade is also reported to haunt the Further Comments: Once a year the Green Room, where he was interrogated, sounds of clashing swords and Roman and though that isn't date dependant. A priest is Saxon screaming can be heard in this area. also reported to haunt the vicinity, as is a Another ghost reportedly observed here photogenic grey lady and a cat. during dark nights is a figure that plummets from the ramparts.

The Not Quite Dead Location: Whittlesford (Cambridgeshire) 30 April - Churchyard Type: Manifestation of the Living Dancing Statues Further Comments: All those who will be Location: Burrough Green buried in the churchyard over the next (Cambridgeshire) - School and village green twelve months appear here and lay in the Type: Legend correct place, before being absorbed into Further Comments: Once a year the two the ground. statues standing above the door of the school come alive and dance on the village green - sometimes their footsteps are visible in the The Future Dead grass. Location: Scarborough (Yorkshire) - St Mary's Churchyard Type: Manifestation of the Living Further Comments: All those who will die Varies: Good Friday or 04 between this date and next year's St Mark's Eve appear in this churchyard and walk into April the church. Lady Blanche de Warenne Location: Rochester (Kent) - Castle 26 April Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: A bystander in a battle Kate, her Lover and her Father for the castle, the Lady Blanche was killed when an arrow entered her heart - her shade Location: Poundstock (Cornwall) - has been observed still staggering with the Penfound Manor arrow protruding from her chest. Type: Haunting Manifestation

Further Comments: Kate and her lover, John, had decided to elope before her father married her off to someone else. The pair were caught as they tried to run away; the father and John engaged in a sword fight, managing to kill each other, as well as Kate who had tried to break the scuffle up. This 04 May

Charging Horseman

Location: Prestbury (Gloucestershire) - Shaw Green Lane Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Killed by a MAY Lancastrian arrow in the 1400's, this glowing messenger is doomed to carry his cargo forevermore. Another story says he was decapitated by a thin wire that was 01 May placed across the road.

Viking Funeral Location: South Walsham (Norfolk) - South 08 May Walsham Broad Type: Haunting Manifestation Hell Stone Further Comments: Reports here claim Location: Helston (Cornwall) - Angel that a spectral Viking long boat appears, Hotel, Coinagehall Street burning in the middle of the water. Type: Legend Further Comments: The Devil dropped his stone while fighting with St Michael here, Fighting and is said to return once a year to view it Location: Loch Ashie (Highland) - Shore (the rock now forms part of the building). Type: Haunting Manifestation The hotel also has a resident ghosted named Further Comments: Accompanied by Nelly. silence, a battle has been seen raging once a year on the muddy banks of this loch. 12 May

Secret Door Mediaeval Party Location: Brecon Beacons (Wales) - Llyn Location: Salthouse (Norfolk) - Salthouse Cwm Llwch, somewhere in the area of Pool Type: Fairy Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Once a year, a secret Further Comments: Late at night on the 12 door opens here which will take mortals to May occurs a re-enactment of a mediaeval the fairy realm. (or possibly Roman) feast, including singing, dancing and bonfires. Some sources state that the event happens on the third White Horse Tuesday in May.

Location: River Wharfe (Yorkshire) - Wharfedale's Strid 15 May Type: Fairy Further Comments: Together with a fairy, The Devil Takes His Due this pale horse rises from the dangerous Location: Ormesby (Norfolk) - Exact waters once a year. It has been known to location unknown drown people who come too close. Type: Legend

Further Comments: The Devil is said to appear and burn down an old mill, 21 May containing a miller, his daughter, and a visitor. Henry VI Location: EC3 (Greater London) - , the Wakefield Tower 19 May Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Murdered here by the Anne Boleyn Duke of Gloucester, Henry's spirit appears a Location: Blickling (Norfolk) - Blickling few minutes before midnight, walking Hall around the area in which he died. Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: To mark the anniversary of her death, a coach pulled by 25 May four headless horses pulls up on the driveway, with a decapitated Anne on a seat, Battle her head in her lap. After Anne's headless Location: Lewes (Sussex) - Offham Hill white ghost arrives, it is said then to climb Type: Environmental Manifestation out, before inspecting each room of the Hall Further Comments: This battle fought (the place of her birth and childhood). On around the 1300's is still reportedly heard in the same date, Sir Thomas Boleyn is said to May - over 3000 people are said to have drive a team of headless horses in this area, been killed. The exact date may vary, cursed to cross twelve Norfolk bridges though the phantom event always occurs in (including those at Aylsham, Coltishall and late May. Wroxham).

Monk, Betrayer of the Abbey Location: Ludham (Norfolk) - St. Benet's Abbey, ruins close to River Bure Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Now little more than rubble, the site of the old abbey is home to the ghost of the monk who betrayed his brothers to Norman soldiers - the troops later hanged him anyway.

27 May Margaret's Execution

Location: EC3 (Greater London) - Tower of London, Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Refusing to kneel before the axeman, Margaret Pole was chased around the area and hacked to death by him instead. This horrid scene has been witnessed several times, as have the spirits of Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey.

28 May Redhead Location: Southwold (Suffolk) - Sutherland House 31 May Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This young red Small Man with Slit Throat haired woman is reported to wait for the Location: SW1 (Greater London) - St return of Lord Sandwich, who was killed James's Palace in a navel battle off the coast here. Type: Haunting Manifestation Footsteps and the sound of doors opening Further Comments: Rumoured to have have been heard on 28 May, the been killed by George III's son (the Duke of anniversary of the Lord's death. Cumberland), this restless spirit returns to the crime scene once a year, its throat still dripping blood from a large slit. 29 May

Wolfhound Howls and Doom Mustard Coloured Coach Follows Location: Theydon Bois (Essex) - Hill Hall Location: Southerly (Cambridgeshire) - Type: Haunting Manifestation Near ruins east of the town Further Comments: On the stroke of Type: Haunting Manifestation midnight, a mustard coloured coach is Further Comments: Belonging to one of believed to drive down the driveway of the those who built the original church at ruined building. Its owner is thought to be Southerly, the dog was mistakenly killed by Duke de Morrow, who lived in the building a soldier. Its ghost now hunts the area, and it at the beginning of the twentieth century. is believed that upon hearing the howls, the listener will die within a year.

Varies: May Lady Waving Handkerchief Location: Dundee (Angus) - Claypotts Voice of Lord Marney Castle Location: Layer Marney (Essex) - Layer Type: Haunting Manifestation Marney Church Further Comments: Appearing upset, this Type: Haunting Manifestation white woman frantically waves from a high Further Comments: Legend says that the window once every year - it is rumoured she voice of Lord Marney can be heard echoing was having an affair with the Cardinal around the church. Beaton.

Guilt Ridden Officer 30 May Location: Sleaford (Lincolnshire) - Colbey Blue Lights Dance Grange - former RAF base Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Bawberg (Norfolk) - Bawberg Further Comments: This phantom officer Church in RAF uniform is thought to return briefly Type: Haunting Manifestation around May time, in regret for sending Further Comments: Blue lights are said to dozens of young men off to their deaths, in appear and dance over the church well. particular a close friend of whom he was particularly fond. early part of the twentieth century, and now JUNE returns to the pub on the day she died.

13 June 01 June Children's Paradise Hairy Earth Location: Horsey (Norfolk) - Horsey Mere Location: Wistow (Leicestershire) - Type: Legend Wistow's Grave Further Comments: Said to be the burial Type: Legend place of maybe thousands of children from Further Comments: Concealing the heir to the days of the Romans, they are said to the kingdom of Mercia's body, this grave is return once a year at midnight to play for a reported to sprout hair throughout the month couple of hours. of June, starting on the first of the month.

14 June Woman's Singing Location: Hickling (Norfolk) - Hickling Midair Battle Broad, south of village Location: Naseby (Northamptonshire) - Sky Type: Haunting Manifestation over site of the Battle of Naseby Further Comments: Once a year, a gentle Type: Haunting Manifestation female voice can be heard singing. This Further Comments: Reported less could be the Woman in White, seen punting frequently now, but for one hundred years from one side for the Broad to another, after the battle, locals would sit on the heading towards a mill. nearby hills and watch the battle occur once

again, complete with the sounds of men screaming and cannons firing. 02 June

Ammunition Train Old Lady Location: Soham (Cambridgeshire) - Location: Sevenoaks (Kent) - Approach to the station Road Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Every 2 June an Further Comments: Killed in a road traffic accident that cost the lives of two people is accident in 1959, this ghostly figure now re-enacted. An ammunition train caught fire, steps out in front of traffic on the the explosion shattering every window in anniversary of her death. Soham and destroying the old station. The rebuilt tracks no longer follow the scene of the accident. 15 June

Goring the Cavalier 10 June Location: Hitchin (Hertfordshire) - Hitchin Lily Cove Priory Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Haworth (Yorkshire) - Old White Further Comments: Killed by Roundheads Lion public house, Main Street a few miles down the road during the civil Type: Haunting Manifestation war, the ghost of Goring continues onwards Further Comments: A local celebrity, Lily to his earthly destination once a year. A grey fell to her death from a hot air balloon in the lady has also been spotted in the grounds of The Lonely Shepherd the priory. Location: Clydach (Wales) - Limestone Pillar Type: Legend 19 June Further Comments: A shepherd who drove his wife to suicide was petrified by God as Piper punishment. Once a year, at Midsummer Location: Glen Esk (Angus) - Waters of Night, the rock animates and walks down to Lochlee the River Usk where his wife drowned Type: Fairy herself, before returning prior to dawn. Further Comments: A great and popular piper was once taken by little folk donned in green across the waters here - once a year Dancing Skeletons we mortals have the chance of listening to Location: Worthing (Sussex) - his tunes. Broadwater Green, old oak tree Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: A local tale says that 20 June (or Midsummer these animated bones appear on Eve) midsummer night’s eve to dance and jig until the sun rises on the following day. Fish Stone Location: Crickhowell (Wales) - Stone by Those who will Die the River Usk Type: Legend Location: Tavistock (Devon) - Church Further Comments: One a year this Type: Legend strange shaped stone dives into the local Further Comments: The spirits of those river and goes for a swim. who will die during the following year come here on Midsummer's Eve - they were last seen by a pair of brothers who saw themselves in the crowd.

bridge, the fairy folk have no hesitation in making their presence felt.

Swimming Horseman Location: Ashford (Kent) - and Manor House Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Riding towards the park house, this phantom horseman veers off at the last minute and enters the nearby lake. A white lady haunts the house itself, seen by porters on the night shift, though her appearance is not governed by dates.

Arthur's Table Location: Bossiney (Cornwall) - Bossiney Mound White Dog Type: Legend Location: West Kennet (Wiltshire) - Long Further Comments: Once a year, King Barrow Arthur's table is said to surface from the Type: Shuck mound, briefly waiting for the man to sit at Further Comments: Appearing to mark the it once more. start of the longest day of the year, this pale hound has been observed at sunrise. Some reports say it is accompanied by a ghostly King John's Hounds druid. Location: Purse Caundle () - Purse Caundle Manor Type: Shuck 20 June Further Comments: Once a year, this pack of devil dogs are let loose in the King Arthur neighbourhood (some accounts give 23 June Location: Cadbury (Somerset) - Cadbury as the date, rather than 20 June). Sounds of Castle, and road between North Barrow and ghostly plainchant have been heard coming South Barrow villages from the manor house. Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Escorted by mounted knights carrying lances, King Arthur of the 21 June (or 24 June) Britons traverses this route back to Camelot (as Cadbury is thought to be). White Lady Location: Hampton Court (Surrey) - Landing Stage Sprites & Pixies Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Ballona (Isle of Man) - Ballona Further Comments: Seen by local Bridge fishermen (even though they can't remember Type: Fairy the exact date they witnessed the Further Comments: On this day the fairy phenomenon), the white lady's history is population comes out in force. If they are unknown. not acknowledged by any one crossing the 23 June Captain killed each other in the fight, and now the boat haunts the waters. The Army Marching On haunting may also appear on the 25 June.

Location: Souter Fell (Cumbria) - Side of Mountain visible from Wilton Hall Bishop of Brundall on Barge Type: Environmental Manifestation Further Comments: Over two dozen Location: Brundall (Norfolk) - River witnesses saw a mass of troops ascending Type: Legend the mountain on horseback in 1744, though Further Comments: Sailing up the river, there were no real soldiers in the area. The the Bishop's Barge is covered with fine cloth ghostly army had been seen twice before, and silk, and contains 28 rowers. He is said always on the same date. to bless any ill people that he sails by.

24 June

Anne Blakemore in Blue Late June Location: Blythburgh (Suffolk) - B1125 Blythburgh to Westleton road, crossroads Young Girl know locally as Five Finger Post Location: Rotherfield (Sussex) - The King's Type: Haunting Manifestation Arms Further Comments: Murdered in 1750, the Type: Haunting Manifestation ghost of Anne Blakemore has developed a Further Comments: The spirit of a young habit of running in front of cars, convincing girl is reported to frequent this building - she the drivers that they have run over a living has been felt tugging clothing, and a person. She is commonly seen around 24th mysterious pair of bare feet were once seen June, the date of her death. running along a corridor.

Alexander Cruwys Location: Bickleigh (Devon) - Bridge Type: Haunting Manifestation JULY Further Comments: This shade returns once a year to the place where he murdered a man, throwing the body over the bridge 01 July into the waters below.

Rahere Mayfly with Figures Running about Location: EC1 (Greater London) - St Deck Bartholomew's church Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Oulton (Norfolk) - Oulton Broad Further Comments: This pious monk, who Type: Haunting Manifestation doubled as a jester in Henry I's court, is Further Comments: The ghostly barge thought to be the man who built the church, Mayfly relives its final voyage. With the and has been reported standing by the alter. captain of the boat on deck, chasing and He quickly disappears if seen. murdering a young woman, the boat has been seen with its sails bellowing on calm nights. The captain of the boat was escorting a large sum of money and a woman down the river when he decided to steal the cargo and murder the witness. The woman and 03 July have also reported pockets of cold air, and watching a white woman glide over the Tall Man with Fire for Eyes marsh, near where her lover was murdered by Royalists. On the anniversary of the Location: W6 (Greater London) - St Paul's battle, sounds of fighting have been heard. Churchyard, Queen Caroline Street Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: First seen in 1805, the original witness is said to have died of shock 06 July shortly after seeing the towering figure whose eyes gleamed with fire. The ghostly Footsteps figure is said to appear just prior to Location: East Grinstead (Sussex) - midnight, every fifty years (next due in Ashdown House, Forest Row 2005), although some place this event as Type: Haunting Manifestation happening in August. Since 1805, no further Further Comments: Once a year these reports have emerged, other than mistaken footfalls are heard as they descend the identities. staircase.

05 July 10 July

Old Soldiers Bride Location: Westonzoyland (Somerset) - Location: Chagford (Devon) - Whiddon Sedgemoor Battlefield Park Guest House Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The spirits here Further Comments: Murdered by a former reportedly include voices that call out to suitor on her wedding day, this bride now witnesses over the nearby River Carey, and returns on that fateful date. Dressed in black, horsemen who gallop silently along. People she has been seen standing in the doorway of a bedroom here.

Scottish regalia, both laying dead and others 11 July fighting, have also been recorded. As if this wasn't enough, the area is also haunted by Fighting Galleons the drifting head of a woman murdered on the site during the seventeenth century, and Location: Breydon Water (Norfolk) - the tall white spectre who tries to grab Breydon Water people passing along the roads; if he touches Type: Haunting Manifestation someone, they die within the year... Further Comments: The first set of ships to haunt this area is said to be a procession of dozens of galleons heading towards Burgh Castle, which appear on this date. 28 July The second is a battle between a pirate ship and two smaller vessels. Nun Location: Borley (Essex) - Sight of Rectory, Nun's Walk 17 July Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Once a regular Giant apparition on the lawn of Borley Rectory, the figure still appears where the garden Location: Somerleyton (Norfolk) - Exact once existed. Borley was called the most location not known in Britain, though the chief Type: Legend ghost hunter in the case appears to have Further Comments: The hunting area of a been over enthusiastic in his analysis. giant, who is said to appear on the evening of 17 July. The giant once stumbled across an assassination attempt to be made on him, and so killed the would be killer - his blood is said to rain down on 19 November. Varies: July 21 July Nun Location: Exeter (Devon) - Exeter Morphing Village Cathedral Location: Horning (Norfolk) - General area Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Legend Further Comments: Seen only around Further Comments: Once every five years 7pm in July, the nun quickly disappears (next due in 2006) the village is said to once seen. A monk has been reported in revert back to how it looked several hundred the area surrounding the cathedral. years ago.

Summer 27 July Grey Lady Battlefield Location: East Carlton (Northamptonshire) Location: Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross) - - East Pass of Killiecrankie Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Environmental Manifestation Further Comments: One storyteller Further Comments: The bloody reported that this building was haunted by a battleground between English Government grey female form, who had jumped to her and Jacobite Highlanders, the anniversary of death from a balcony after being jilted by the battle is marked by the ground turning her lover. She only appears on summer blood red. Reports of soldiers in English and evenings.

Victorian woman later took her own life by throwing herself under a train.

Robed Figures Location: Croxden (Staffordshire) - Croxden Abbey Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Both nuns and monks are reported to silently glide over these ruins during the warm nights of the summer months.

Jenny Burn Tail Location: Burton Dassett (Warwickshire) - General area Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Jenny's burning lights have been seen in the warm evenings, normally luring witnesses into nearby woodland. Summer Continued

Stomping Boot Horse sized Dog Location: Harreitsham (Kent) - Location: Thorney (Northamptonshire) - Tavern Woods in the area Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Shuck Further Comments: The sounds of Further Comments: This great dog is said someone stomping on the cellar steps have to be the size of a small horse, also sharing a been heard, stopping just prior to reaching few other equestrian characteristics. the top. AUGUST Ringing Bells Location: Aberdovey (Wales) - Off coast Type: Legend 01 August Further Comments: Swallowed by the sea, church bells belonging to a town lost off the Animated Queen Anne coast here can still be heard on quiet summer evenings. Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster

Type: Haunting Manifestation Waiting Woman Further Comments: Once a year the statue of the Queen becomes animated and walks Location: Isfield (Sussex) - Lavender Line around the neighbourhood. Until recently, railway station the statue was believed to be , Type: Haunting Manifestation until a cleanup operation revealed an Further Comments: This railway museum inscription pointing out the error. is haunted by a woman in white who is said to wait during the summer evenings for a lover who never returns home. This Walking Stone Knights throughout the building. Another report Location: Ingham (Norfolk) - Church states that his smartly dressed ghost has Type: Legend been seen holding his decapitated head Further Comments: The two stone knights under one arm. Other dates given for this in the church are said to wake once a year haunting event are 20 and 22 August. and go for a walk to the water's edge. Here they fight a uniformed Asian soldier, before walking back. Some reports place this event 13 August as happening on 02 August. Tom Crocker Location: Burgh Island (Devon) - Pilchard 02 August Inn, and surrounding area Type: Haunting Manifestation King William II Further Comments: A smuggler by trade, Location: Minstead (Hampshire) - New Crocker met his match outside the pub, Forest, the Rufus Stone where he was shot dead (by customs or by Type: Haunting Manifestation rivals, we do not know). He returns on that Further Comments: Murdered (allegedly) fateful day. Other sources state that he was on this spot by a close friend, William II is hanged. now doomed to rise on the anniversary of his death and walk to Winchester. 15 August 03 August Misty Lady Location: Rock (Northumberland) - Area Tall Man with Fire for Eyes between Rock and South Charlton Location: W6 (Greater London) - St Paul's Type: Haunting Manifestation Churchyard, Queen Caroline Street Further Comments: This mournful spirit Type: Haunting Manifestation makes the journey once a year, marking the Further Comments: First seen in 1805, the death of her husband. original witness is said to have died of shock shortly after seeing the towering figure whose eyes gleamed with fire. The ghostly 17 August figure is said to appear just prior to midnight, every fifty years (next due in Pregnant Nun 2005), although some place this event as Location: Clophill (Bedfordshire) - happening in July. Since 1805, no further Chicksands Priory reports have emerged, other than mistaken Type: Haunting Manifestation identities. Further Comments: After a secret liaison with a male superior, Bertha Rosaca became pregnant - her spirit now appears once a 11 August year in protest of her subsequent treatment. The spirit, when last seen in 1960, wore Sir John Gate Wails black and disappeared through a wall. Location: Maldon (Essex) - Beeleigh Abbey, near Maldon Type: Haunting Manifestation 21 August Further Comments: August 11 marks the date when Sir John Gate was held prisoner Old Man Bern being Chased in the house, waiting to be beheaded, in Location: Reedham (Norfolk) - High Street 1553. He can be heard screaming and crying the rats followed them, and all disappeared into hell.

Varies: August

Joseph Bexfield, Killed by Jack O'Lanterns Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Chased through the Location: Thurlton (Norfolk) - Marshes village by an angry mob, Bern is said to Type: Haunting Manifestation reach the river before jumping into a boat Further Comments: Bexfield drowned in and making his escape. August 1809, after following a Jack O'Lantern (now known to be burning marsh gas). His ghost is said to be still out on the marshes, looking for the way home. 22 August

Figure of a Hooded Person Hanging Highlanders Location: Maldon (Essex) - Beeleigh Location: Newton le Willows (Lancashire) Abbey, near Maldon - Hermitage Green Lane Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Just one of many Further Comments: Caught by spooky happenings at Beeleigh Abbey, the Cromwellian troops, these Highlanders were ghost of what is believed to be a monk has immediately hanged on the surrounding been observed standing in a corner of the trees. The sound of running can be heard James Room. A has also been around the anniversary of the executions. A reported, opening a trapdoor and vibrating couple of people here in January 1990 heard beds. loud drumming which moved down the lane, though nothing could be seen.

24 August Waving White Lady in a Coach Waiting Woman Location: Hockley (Essex) - Road outside Location: Belaugh (Norfolk) - Riverside the church Type: Legend Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: A woman in a white Further Comments: After losing control of dress is said to wait for her Viking lover by the horses, a coach driver and his female the riverside. passenger died. Now, the phantom vehicle is seen outside the church; the white woman in the carriage waves at witnesses before the 31 August coach pulls away and the accident is repeated. Spontaneous Combusting Rat Catchers Location: Beccles (Suffolk) - General area Victorian Woman Type: Legend Location: Sudeley (Gloucestershire) - Further Comments: In order to remove the Sudeley Castle rats, and Black Death, from their village, Type: Haunting Manifestation three men sold their souls to a group of Further Comments: It is always around witches. The men played musical August and September that a ghostly instruments as they walked down the road,

housemaid is seen cleaning and dusting, murdered by brutal soldiers at the site, who dressed in Victorian working garb. are heard once a year.

SEPTEMBER 14 September Fighting Galleons

03 September Location: Breydon Water (Norfolk) - Breydon Water Devil Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The first set of ships Location: Brampton (Hereford & to haunt this area is said to be a procession Worchester) - Brampton Bryan Park of dozens of galleons heading towards Type: Legend Burgh Castle. The second is a battle Further Comments: Local legend says that between a pirate ship and two smaller on the day Cromwell died, the park was laid vessels, which occurs on 14 September. to waste as the Devil passed though it to collect the soul due to him. Now, once a year, Old Nick rides out and returns to the park to ravage it once more. 18 September

Bishop of Brundall on Barge 12 September Location: Brundall (Norfolk) - River Type: Legend Janet Dalrymple Further Comments: Sailing up the river, the Bishop's Barge is covered with fine cloth Location: Bladnoch (Dumfries and and silk, and contains 28 rowers. He is said Galloway) - Baldoon Castle ruins to bless any ill people that he sails by. Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: On her wedding night, Janet went insane; she stabbed her husband several times, and had to be dragged away 21 September by servants. Janet's husband survived, though she died shortly after - the date on Edward II Screams which her shade returns to the scene of her outburst. Location: Berkeley (Gloucestershire) - Berkeley Castle Type: Haunting Manifestation 13 September

Murdered Women Location: Selkirk (Borders) - Newark Castle Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The castle is said to contain the souls of the women and children

Further Comments: Murdered on orders of his wife Queen Isabella (her fate is Autumn documented elsewhere in this database), the anniversary of the King's death is marked by Drifting Nun his screams echoing around the castle. Location: Fawkham Green (Kent) - Pennis

Lane Type: Haunting Manifestation 28 September Further Comments: Appearing at dusk, the figure of a nun has been reported floating Sir Walter down this lane. Location: Sherborne (Dorset) - Castle Type: Haunting Manifestation Female Jumper Further Comments: Sir Walter Location: Boston (Lincolnshire) - Boston Raleigh is said to appear here once a Stump (church) year on St Michael's Eve, near a tree Type: Haunting Manifestation that was named after him. At one Further Comments: Holding a young time, it was thought the castle was child, a woman is seen to leap from the cursed, as ill fortune befell several of tower of the church, vanishing just before the owners. hitting the ground.

Poacher with Bag Location: Wadhurst (Sussex) - Beggars Bush, Best Beech Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This thieving ghost in a tan coloured coat is seen struggling along the road on autumn evenings, his brown sack bulging with stolen food.

Coach Arriving Location: Dartmouth (Devon) - The Royal Castle Hotel, The Quay Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Early morning, during the time of golden leaves, the sound of a horse and coach can be heard coming to a stop outside the hotel. There are sounds of someone jumping on board, before the hooves can be heard pulling away. One of the bedrooms may be haunted by a robed figure, and the sounds of two people fighting can be heard in the courtyard.

Crying Child Location: Baldock (Hertfordshire) - Hinxworth Place Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Thought to relate to a particularly ironic incident when a maid accidentally killed a child who had dressed up as a ghost (!) to scare her, the infant's screams can now be heard echoing down the corridors on dark stormy autumn nights. appears in the month of September, as he walks around the building, looking into Varies: September rooms and pacing along corridors.

Lady in Black Victorian Woman Location: Pembroke (Wales) - Manorbier Castle Location: Sudeley (Gloucestershire) - Type: Haunting Manifestation Sudeley Castle Further Comments: This feminine figure Type: Haunting Manifestation dressed in black seems to appear near the Further Comments: It is always around gatehouse. these September and August that a ghostly housemaid is seen cleaning and dusting, dressed in Victorian working garb. Princess Alice Location: Thamesmead (Kent) - Thames River Type: Haunting Manifestation OCTOBER Further Comments: When a collier rammed a pleasure boat (the Princess Alice) here in 1878, over 600 people died - many 01 October of them being poisoned by the outflow of London's sewage which emerged from a Staring Man pipe by the accident site. Their pitiful cries for help can sometimes be heard around the Location: Audlem (Cheshire) - Audlem time of the accident. Road leading to Corbrook Court Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This entity was seen Monk twice by the same witness, exactly a year separating the sightings (2001 & 2002). The Location: Minster (Kent) - Old Oake witness said he was driving down the road Cottage when he saw the strange looking figure on Type: Haunting Manifestation the roadside, who stared into the car as he Further Comments: This strange looking drove past. The figure did not appear in the figure of a monk always appears as if rear view mirror. silhouetted behind an intense light. He is always heard before appearing, shuffling feet marking his appearance. 03 October

Grenadier Climbing Stairs Alexander MacAllister Location: Glenlivet (Moray) - Location: SW1 (Greater London) - The Altnachoylachan Hill Grenadier public house, Wilton Row Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The site of a battle in Further Comments: This young trooper 1594 between the troops of James VI and was killed after it was discovered he cheated rebel Scots is haunted by the headless ghost in a card game in the public house - he only of MacAllister riding on horseback - he fought on the side of the English, and was decapitated by the first canon shot. story says that a lorry of German POWs was hit during World War 2, and that one of these soldiers now haunts the area. Either 09 October way, the ghost appears at 4pm.

White Horse Location: Stratford upon Avon 22 October (Warwickshire) - Walton Hall Hotel Type: Haunting Manifestation Black Cat Further Comments: This pale riderless Location: Poynton Green (Shropshire) - horse gallops over the gardens, twice a Field in the village decade. The hotel itself is haunted by a Type: Other young man, who some speculate to be the Further Comments: Two Czech pilots died rider of the aforementioned creature. here on 22 October 1941, crashing in the field as they ran out of fuel. A local farmer rushed to the field in an attempt to save 16 October them, but was beaten back by the flames. He did, however, see a black cat emerge from Black Chrysler Hit by Express the burning wreckage. The creature made its home with a local old woman, and when she Location: Conington (Cambridgeshire) - died, the cat vanished - it now appears once Railway junction (8m NE Peterborough) very ten years at the crash site, and is next Type: Haunting Manifestation due in 2011. Further Comments: 1948 saw the tragic death of Colonel Mellows, when he drove his car over the tracks, only to be hit by a speeding train. Another explanation of the 23 October

Battle of Edgehill Repeating Location: Edgehill (Warwickshire) - Kineton Type: Environmental Manifestation Further Comments: A bloody battle of the English Civil War, the fighting repeated itself for several successive nights in 1642, in front of dozens of witnesses. More recently, sounds of battle have been reported, though the visuals are not forthcoming. The date of recent battle sounds is said to be 23 October.

29 October

Duel

Location: Rye (Sussex) - Mermaid Inn

Type: Haunting Manifestation

Further Comments: Several shades haunt

this public house. A pair of ghostly duellers

have been seen engaging each other with rapiers (the victor then drags the body Further Comments: The monk was caught through the hotel and drops it through a with a woman and killed for his crime. The trapdoor), while a female figure dressed in abbey is also home to phantom horsemen, grey haunts the upper part of the building. and Roesia of Dover who is looking for her Room 5 is one of her haunts, while in rooms heart (it was buried here by her father). 10 and 18, a fading man has been seen entering and leaving (often through a wall). Sow with Litter Location: Bransby (Lincolnshire) - 30 October Bonnewells Lane Type: Haunting Manifestation Lady Blunt Further Comments: This spectral sow with Location: Lydiard Millicent (Wiltshire) - her young appears along this lane once a Rectory year. The same stretch of road is also Type: Haunting Manifestation haunted by a woman in a silken dress which Further Comments: It was on this date that rustles as she moves, and there have been Lady Blunt watched her fiancée murdered; reports of a shuck. the shock she suffered was strong enough to leave an enduring psychic echo which has lasted over two centuries. Hunt Location: Burnley (Lancashire) - Eagle's Crag, Cliviger Gorge Pack of Hounds Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Todmorden (Yorkshire) - Area Further Comments: Lord William between Todmorden and Mankinholes Towneley and his dog appear once a year, Type: Shuck giving chase to a nimble doe. Another Further Comments: Wailing at the moon, variant of the tale names the hunter as this pack of devil dogs run over both land Gabriel Ratchets, while yet another story and water looking for people to terrify. states that a man and his wife manifest on the same date - he killed and buried her on the spot. 31 October

Black Dog Monk and Author Location: North Shields (Northumberland) Location: Hitchin (Hertfordshire) - - Milbourne Place, now Smith's Dockyards Minsden Chapel Type: Shuck Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The area near the Further Comments: Haunted by the docks is haunted by the ghost of a sailor phantom monk, a local author also who was murdered by his parents, who threatened to haunt the location. Mr failed to recognise their own son after his Reginald Hine, at the start of the twentieth many years at sea. He returns in the form of century, said he loved the place so much that a large black dog once a year, patrolling the he threatened to haunt the church in order to area where the crime was committed. protect it from any redevelopment work. An unconvincing photograph does exist of the phantom monk. Headless Monk Location: Plumstead (Northamptonshire) - Returning Maid Lesnes Abbey Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Abbots Langley (Hertfordshire) - Churchyard and Vicarage Type: Haunting Manifestation young girl wearing a tartan dress, quietly Further Comments: This young girl, who crying and looking for her mother. died suddenly, rises from the grave once a year and returns to the vicarage. Opinions differ on whether she is a former vicar's World War One Soldier daughter or a maid mistreated by the vicar's wife. Location: (Dorset) - Bournemouth Town Hall Type: Haunting Manifestation Lady Hobbingdon Further Comments: This incorporeal Location: Hindlip (Hereford & Worchester) soldier appears here once a year to - Hindlip Hall (original building no longer help himself to a drink of water. standing) and grounds There are also a few reports of Type: Haunting Manifestation phantom horses and carriages being Further Comments: The shade of the Lady, together with a phantom white calf, seen outside the building, while a would be seen moving around the house ghostly cat is also said to haunt revealing all the secret priest holes once a several of the town hall rooms. year - during life she performed the same task, feeding those who hid within. The grounds are now said to be haunted by a Lantern Bearer Location: Hawkesdale? (Cumbria) - Hawkesdale Hall Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Having hanged himself in the hall, this young lad holding a lantern appears once a year and walks towards the nearby river Caldew, vanishing into its cold waters.

Ringing Bells Location: Armboth Fell (Cumbria) - Thirlmere Lake Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Phantom bells have been heard coming from beneath the waters. Lady Fleetwood Location: Fleetwood (Lancashire) - Rossall School Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This pallid woman is reported to traverse the school grounds once a year.

Secret Meeting

Location: Maybole (Ayrshire) - Coves of Culzean Type: Fairy Further Comments: The little people are reported to gather here once a year for secret planning sessions.

Screaming Location: Inverurie (Aberdeenshire) - Pittodrie House hotel Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The cries for help Further Comments: Several witnesses heard once a year emerge from the staircase. have reported seeing large burning fires on They may belong to a maid who was once the hills, with figures dancing around them, caught in a fire which engulfed the building talking and singing loudly in an - she fell to her death trying to escape. A unrecognised language. When investigated, ghostly carriage pulled by a single horse there is never any evidence of the fire or haunts the driveway, while another spook figures. has been reported in the library.

Blind Peter Varies: October Location: Netley (Hampshire) - Netley Abbey ruins Knights Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Battle (Sussex) - Site of the 1066 Further Comments: Once a year a trio of Battle of Hastings misty women appears and walk along the Type: Haunting Manifestation ruins walls. The sounds of bells can also be Further Comments: A phantom knight on heard on this night. Another presence, Blind horseback appears on the anniversary of the Peter, is less choosey on the date on which battle, while other figures have been seen he appears, and wanders around the ruins of more sporadically. The ground is also said the abbey. to bleed after a storm.

Fire Location: Warminster (Wiltshire) - Cley Hill Type: Environmental Manifestation

03 November

NOVEMBER Constantia Screaming Location: N17 (Greater London) - Bruce Castle 01 November Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The Lady Coleraine is of the Future seen once a year, screaming as she jumps off a balcony trying to escape the possessive Location: Middleton (Lancashire) - St nature of her husband. A couple walking Leonard's Church past one night witnessed a party occurring Type: Legend on site, complete with people dressed in Further Comments: The souls of all those eighteenth century garb - they realised who will die by the following All Souls' Day something was strange, as there was no walk through the church at midnight. A sound, and the figures appeared to glide... former member of the clergy is also reported to haunt the church, though his appearance is not date related. 11 November

Richard and Little Girl Marching Troops Location: Sawbridgeworth (Hertfordshire) - Location: Horley (Surrey) - Haroldslea Hyde Hall House Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Once owned by the Further Comments: A phantom bell singer Suzi Quatro, she claimed that begins to toll as the sun sets here, slowly 'Richard' haunted the guest room, while the growing louder until midnight comes and little girl walked other parts of the house. a small army of men pass through the Both are believed to be benevolent. Another kitchen door. ghost, that of Sir John Jocelyn, is said to appear once a year riding down the driveway. 13 November

Grey Lady 2 November Location: Outer London: Stanmore (Greater London) - Royal National Orthopaedic Fire Hospital Location: Warminster (Wiltshire) - Cley Type: Haunting Manifestation Hill Further Comments: Built on the site of a Type: Environmental Manifestation nunnery, this gliding figure is thought to Further Comments: Several witnesses come from the former building. have reported seeing large burning fires on the hills, with figures dancing around them, talking and singing loudly in an 19 November unrecognised language. When investigated, there is never any evidence of the fire or Giant and Bloody Rain figures. Location: Somerleyton (Norfolk) - Exact location not known Type: Legend Further Comments: The hunting area of a giant, who is said to appear on the evening 'saving' them, and receiving rewards that she used to pamper herself. She was reported by a group of monks, and was subsequently of 17 July. The giant once stumbled across bricked up alive behind a wall. She now an assassination attempt to be made on him, walks the hill, gliding silently along. and so killed the would be killer - his blood is said to rain down on 19 November. Grey Monk Location: Rochester (Kent) - Cooper's 23 November Arms public house, St Margaret's Street Type: Haunting Manifestation Cries Further Comments: Bricked up alive for a Location: Pyecombe (Sussex) - General long forgotten sin, this misty monk emerges area of village from the wall behind the bar in this ancient Type: Haunting Manifestation building that once was a priory. Further Comments: These sounds are said to come from the area where the village smith was once based. DECEMBER

30 November 04 December Ringing Bells Location: Romford (Essex) - Old Church Cries of the Trapped Road Location: SE13 (Greater London) - Type: Legend Lewisham Station, & St Johns area Further Comments: After the church sank Type: Haunting Manifestation into the ground, the only 'evidence' of its Further Comments: A crash in 1957, existence is the phantom ringing of the bells. caused partly by fog, killed ninety people and injured over one hundred. It is their cries that can be heard on the anniversary on Varies: November the accident.

Mr Goddard Location: Whitestone (Warwickshire) - 19 December Private house along Gypsy Lane Type: Haunting Manifestation Emily Further Comments: A former owner of a Location: Haworth (Yorkshire) - Haworth house along here, Mr Goddard returned after Parsonage, surrounding moor land, the path his garden was split in half and a new to Bronte waterfall, and former Weaver's property built on the site. He makes his Restaurant presence known by opening locked doors, Type: Haunting Manifestation moving items around rooms, and shorting Further Comments: The famous abode of out electrical items. the Bronte Sisters, it is Emily who now haunts the grounds, her head bowed as in deep thought and meditation. She suddenly Sister Barbara vanishes of anyone comes too close. The Location: Marham (Norfolk) - Vinegar Hill apparition may appear several days either Type: Haunting Manifestation side of the date given. Further Comments: The sister would pay men to pretend to rob travellers, before Coach Location: Holford (Somerset) - Normansland driveway Type: Haunting Manifestation 20 December Further Comments: Appearing on the stroke of midnight, this coach pulled by a Footfalls down the Stairs team of black horses circles the driveway before mysteriously vanishing again. Location: Great Baddow (Essex) - White Horse Inn Type: Haunting Manifestation Ringing Bell Further Comments: The site of a murder on a distant 20 December has resulting in Location: Shrewsbury (Shropshire) - the ghostly footsteps coming down the attic Bomere Pool stairs in this pub Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: A bell once lost in the water can be heard pealing once a year. 24 December Radley Headless Horseman Location: Halam (Nottinghamshire) - Location: Beccles (Suffolk) - Roos Hall Valley southeast of village driveway Type: Environmental Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The buried village of Further Comments: Pulled by headless Radley is hidden somewhere in this area, horses, a coach is said to arrive by the front and long vanished church bells can be heard door every Christmas Eve. on Christmas Eve.

Night Coach White lady Location: Ilmington (Warwickshire) - Location: Worstead (Norfolk) - Church Roads of village Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Legend says this lady Further Comments: This spectral vehicle has scared to death at least one young bell runs along the roads, before suddenly ringer. Poltergeist activity has also been veering off and vanishing across local fields. reported, around the 1950's. This may be related to the ghostly hunt pack seen in the area, led by a man who was killed by his hounds.

Charles Dickens Location: Rochester (Kent) - Castle Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Charles Dickens's ghost haunts the moat of the castle; he has been seen both here and at the Corn Exchange clock.

Peeling Bells Location: Evesham (Hereford & Worchester) - River Type: Legend Further Comments: Hidden in the river when the local abbey was closed for business in 1539, the silver bells still sing their song around Christmas.

Abigail in her Carriage Location: High Laver (Essex) - Main road through village Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Abigail Masham spent her remaining years in the village - her residence now gone, she passes through the village once a year to have a quick sad look at where her house once stood before disappearing.

Lost Lady Location: Brigg (Lincolnshire) - General Harp Player area Location: Stubley (Derbyshire) - Stubley Type: Haunting Manifestation Old Hall Further Comments: An old lady who left Type: Haunting Manifestation her house to beg for money to buy her Further Comments: Appearing once a Christmas lunch became lost in the snow year, the shade of Fatima gently pucks her and fog, and froze to death. Her ghost is harp strings. A Roundhead has been sometimes seen, asking for directions home. reported less regularly, while a young girl skips around the fields outside.

Grey Monk Location: Salford (Lancashire) - Kersal Cell Farmer on Pony Back Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Egremont (Cumbria) - Tarpot Further Comments: This misty shade area appears but once a year. Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This old man vanished without trace when returning home from an Anne Boleyn inn on a long forgotten Christmas Eve - both Location: Hever (Kent) - Bridge over the he and his ride are occasionally seen on the Eden anniversary of the mystery. Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Boleyn's spirit crosses the bridge once a year. The area is also Screaming Horses haunted by a farmer, robbed and murdered Location: Wythall (West Midlands) - Black nearby. Greve Farm Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Locals say that the horses belonged to a Roman chariot; the driver lost control in the ice and snow, and the entire team fell into a deep ditch and died.

Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville Location: East Barnet (Hertfordshire) - Oak Hill Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Sir Geoffrey, complete with red cloak and jangling spurs, appears here once at midnight every six years and heads towards the church to disappear through its wall. He is next due in 2010.

Lady Ursula Hynde

Location: Madingley (Cambridgeshire) -

Madingley Hall

Type: Haunting Manifestation

Further Comments: One witness claimed to have heard the sounds of a ghostly party, followed by the sighting of a stuffy young man, whose face resembled that of a skeleton. Others have also reported similar occurrences, describing the man as having a decaying green face. Lady Ursula Hynde also returns to the hall once a year, upset at her son's actions - he pulled down a church, and used the wood to finish construction of the Hall.

Heavy Trampling Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Saffron Walden (Essex) - Cross Further Comments: A butterfly is reported Keys, Corner of King Street and High Street to haunt the theatre, manifesting briefly once Type: Haunting Manifestation a year. Further Comments: Any listener here is said to hear footsteps marching up and down a passageway between 11pm and midnight. Monk They are rumoured to belong to a soldier of Location: Strata Florida (Wales) - Former Cromwell. A ghostly woman is said to haunt site of abbey one of the bedrooms, and it is alleged she Type: Haunting Manifestation was Cromwell's mistress. Further Comments: This phantom devotee

of God returns to his old home once a year.

25 December Final Bear Butterfly Location: Fernhurst (Sussex) - Ruins of Location: Bath (Somerset) - Theatre Royal Verdley Castle & Garrick's Head Hotel Type: Haunting Manifestation Shadowy Figure Location: Boughton Green (Northamptonshire) - St John the Baptist church ruins Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This figure, also heard moaning around the same time of year, is thought to be a criminal hanged in 1826. Others speak of a darker tale - that the ghost takes the form of a beautiful man or woman, depending on the witness, and asks them for a kiss. If it is given, the kisser is doomed to die within a month.

Phantom Runner

Location: Bolton (Lancashire) - Hall i' th' Wood Manor House Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Always heard but never seen, this spook frequents the old staircase; the footsteps are heard rushing between 25 Dec and the 6 January. Other Further Comments: This is said to be the ghosts reported here include an old woman location where the last wild bear in seen in the kitchen and two men, one was pointlessly killed; the creature's ghost dressed in black and the other green. now returns in protest.

Breathing & Hollow Footsteps Jolly Monk Location: Sandringham (Norfolk) - Country Location: Wonersh (Surrey) - Grantley House Arms public house Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Becoming active Further Comments: This figure once during Yuletide, the ghostly presence appeared every Christmastime, though has creates echoing footfalls in empty corridors, kept his head down over recent years. and heavy breathing in a room on the second floor. Christmas cards are also moved by the spirit, and lights are turned on and off. The Moaning entity is thought to be a nun who seduced a monk on the site - those who have seen her Location: Broughton (Northamptonshire) - say she has hollow eye sockets. Others Church of St John blame a young lamplighter who died many Type: Haunting Manifestation years ago while on his rounds. Further Comments: A criminal once held here has returned as an indistinct shadow, softly moaning in pain and regret, always Middle Aged Man around the Christmas period. Location: Oldham (Lancashire) - Temperance Hall, next to the Colosseum Theatre Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This grey figure has appears bound in chains once a year on been seen standing in doorways always Christmas Day. The sound of a suicide (the around the Christmas period, and is believed single shot of a pistol) is occasionally heard to be the ghost of a suicide. on the first floor - the private secretary to King Edward VII ended his life here.

Lucette Location: Clayton le Moors (Lancashire) - Little Girl with Rag Doll Dunkenhalgh Hall (currently a hotel?) and Location: Exeter (Devon) - Prospect Inn nearby bridge Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: This young child only Further Comments: This former maid at appears once a year in the upper part of the the hall fell pregnant after a torrid affair building. She is said to smile sweetly at any with the master - he wasn't interested in her witnesses, before quickly fading away. long term future, so she took her own life. Her misty white form now comes back around Christmas to remind others of her Monk with No Legs fate. Location: Cranham (Essex) - St Mary's Lane Type: Haunting Manifestation Kids Further Comments: This ghost is said to Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Courtts float silently across the road. He was last Bank seen in the 1970s. Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Once a Mecca for toy sellers and buyers, the sounds of joyous Betsy Jane children can be heard briefly once a year. Location: Solway Firth (Dumfries and Another entity, claiming to be an Galloway) - Waters of Elizabethan nobleman, was exorcised during Type: Haunting Manifestation the early 1990s - he was thought to be either Further Comments: Laden with a golden the Earl of Essex (executed in 1601) or profit made from selling slaves, God Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk... extracted revenge on this morally questionable practice by sinking the ship and killing all the crew on Christmas Day, Lillie Langtry just prior to the vessel docking. The Location: SW1 (Greater London) - passenger ship Rotterdam, which sunk in the Cadogan Hotel, Sloane Street nineteenth century with the loss of all hands, Type: Haunting Manifestation is still seen here also, normally as a warning Further Comments: This quiet little spook prior to a major disaster at sea. A hearty mix is said only to come out when the hotel is of other spectral vessels have also been nearly empty. During life, Lillie was the reported. mistress of the Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII. Game of Shinty Location: Dalarossie, Inverness (Highland) Chained Monk - Land near the local church Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: These people, during Type: Haunting Manifestation life, made the mistake of playing sports Further Comments: Said to predate the when Christmas day fell on a Sabbath. Now construction of the palace, this monk they all return from the grave for a quick game on Christmas Day when it falls upon a Sunday.

26 December Headless Anne Boleyn

Location: Rochford (Essex) - Rochford Hall Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The family home of Anne Boleyn, her decapitated ghost haunts the building for the twelve days following Christmas.

27 December St Thomas of Canterbury 31 December Location: Lapford (Devon) - Road through village Green Hunter Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Fawsley (Northamptonshire) - Further Comments: This figure appears Dower House once a year, passing through the village on Type: Haunting Manifestation horseback. Further Comments: This woodland figure dressed in green, manifesting minutes before midnight, is thought to be an ill omen if 28 December observed.

Glowing Train with Red Lights Location: Wormit (Fife) - Tay Bridge King John's Hounds Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Purse Caundle (Dorset) - Purse Further Comments: The badly designed Caundle Manor Tay Bridge collapsed in 1873, a passenger Type: Shuck train crashing down with the faulty structure Further Comments: Once a year, this pack into the cold waters of the Firth of Tay of devil dogs are let loose in the below. The scene is reenacted on the neighbourhood. Sounds of ghostly anniversary of the crash. plainchant have been heard coming from the manor house.

29 December Man on Black Horse Knight in Shining Armour Location: Ranworth (Norfolk) - Location: Kemsing (Kent) - Kemsing Neighbourhood of Ranworth Broad Church Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Origin unknown, Further Comments: This gallant looking locals tell of an unknown man on a black figure rides up to the church, enters and horse that is believed to haunt the area. briefly prays at the alter before vanishing for Appearing on 31 December, the Devil races another year. across the Broad along with his horse-riding associates and their hounds. The devil is seen riding across the broad every 31 house was demolished many years previous. December, with the soul of a Colonel under Even when not seen, locals have reported his arm, who had dared hunt on the Sabbath. hearing the sounds of music coming from the site.

John Bibby Location: Bootle (Lancashire) - Peel Road Leaping Shadow Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Further Comments: Since (allegedly) once Westminster Bridge a year, Bibby rides his coach with his Type: Haunting Manifestation decapitated head in his lap. Further Comments: Just as the New Year begins, a phantom man is said to throw himself off this bridge - many believe it to Coach & Four be the ghost of Jack the Ripper, taking his Location: East Wellow (Hampshire) - Area own life. from Embley Park to St Margaret’s Church Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Moving at breakneck Laird Beardie speed, this phantom coach leaves the park Location: Moonzie, Fife (Fife) - just before midnight on the last day of the Lordscairnie Castle year. Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Beardie played cards against the Devil and lost - the fateful game Coach and Horses is now replayed at midnight once a year, Location: Wickford (Essex) - Runwell Hall though it is warned that anyone watching the Type: Haunting Manifestation game will also travel to hell with the Laird Further Comments: A spectral horse and at the end of the match. carriage pulls up the driveway, a woman climbs out, walking up to the door to be met by a long dead butler. Varies: December

Pale Donkey Scarlet Rider Location: Studland (Dorset) - Newton Location: Bramhall (Stockport) (Cheshire) - Heath Bramhall Hall Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: A small white donkey Further Comments: This figure on haunts the area where its master was robbed horseback, dressed in an unmistakable red, and murdered while travelling across the appears once a year - in 1630 he is said to heathland. While the owner's body was have taken the life of the owner of the hall. found, the donkey vanished without trace, now only appearing briefly once a year around Christmas time. Black Knight Location: Downend (Isle of Wight) - Area near Knighton Gorges William Terriss Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Covent Further Comments: A large black knight Garden Station, Piccadilly Line on horseback is still occasionally seen once Type: Haunting Manifestation a year in this region. Also manor house has Further Comments: A theatre manager, Mr been seen in the area, a party in full flow Terriss was stabbed to death in December visible through its windows. However, the 1897 at a nearby theatre. His ghost, tall in Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Maude of Ditching's screams and cries can occasionally be heard in the ruins - her lover was bricked up in the dungeon after being caught by Maude's husband.

Marge in a Bridal Gown Location: Terrington St Clement (Norfolk) - Parish Church, the 'Lovell' pew Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The legend says that the chest next to the west door once contained the remains of a bride, who was trapped inside after a game of hide and seek went wrong. She is reported to emerge once a year on the last Sunday before Christmas to join in with the choir.

Hungry Children

Location: Steyning (Sussex) - Bramber

Castle

Type: Haunting Manifestation

Further Comments: These wraiths have

been seen begging for food, but

disappearing when approached. They, along

with their parents, starved to death (though strangely it is thought not at this castle, but Varies: December cont at Windsor), after upsetting King John. stature, has been seen dressed in a grey suit with white gloves, standing on the platform late at night. Dark Horseman Location: Ellistoun (Renfrewshire) - Ellistoun Castle The Black Abbot Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Prestbury (Gloucestershire) - Further Comments: Possessing a grinning Church and churchyard skull barren of flesh, this dark horseman and Type: Haunting Manifestation his black stead gallop furiously down Further Comments: Keeping to the same muddy paths, towards the nearby waterfalls. route every year, this ghost materialises in the church, before crossing the churchyard and disappearing through a wall in the High Winter Street. It was photographed in 1990 by a Mr Stafford. Squeaking Cycle

Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Saltney Wailing Junction railway station, area of Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Steyning (Sussex) - Bramber Castle Further Comments: An old man on a along the middle of the road, causing squeaky bike haunt the area around this old oncoming traffic to stop before he station - it is thought that he hanged himself vanishes into thin air. in a shed here. The bike can be heard early in the morning Nicholson Location: Penrith (Cumbria) - Gibbet Hill, Traffic Dodger six kilometres outside of Penrith (gibbet Location: Wigglesworth (Yorkshire) - Road marked by a stone) leading to Tosside Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Hanged for the murder Further Comments: A couple of accidents of his godfather, Nicholson's body was left that occurred along this road blamed a dangling throughout the winter of 1766 / flitting female form, which ran out in front 1767 as a deterrent to others... Some say it of them before disappearing. Locals say it is still makes an appearance during harsh a girl who drowned nearby. winters.

Simon Cunliffe Disembodied Voices Location: Colne (Lancashire) - Wycoller Location: Castle Coombe (Wiltshire) - Hall Parsonage Wood Type: Crisis Manifestation Type: Unknown Ghost Type Further Comments: Simon rides the area Further Comments: The phantom ranting where he once lived, blowing his horn prior of a small crowd has been heard in the forest to a tragedy. It is said that he scared his wife after dark - those who continue to listen to death by riding a horse up the staircase of have reported a piercing scream that finally their home, chasing a fox that had ran inside lays quiet the voices. to escape the hunt. Another tale states that the horseman isn't Simon, but an assassin, who was killed by a manservant before he Fast Moving Old Lady could murder the master of the hall. Either Location: Farnham (Surrey) - West Street way, the ghost appears once a year, during Type: Haunting Manifestation the winter months. Further Comments: Limping, this OAP runs by witnesses at a rate of knots on wet winter nights and disappears into the Stomping Boot doorway of a house along the street. The Location: Harreitsham (Kent) - Ringlestone same street is also haunted by a black dog Tavern which performs a similar action to that of Type: Haunting Manifestation the old woman. Further Comments: The sounds of someone stomping on the cellar steps have been heard, stopping just prior to reaching Signalman the top. Location: Barkston (Lincolnshire) - Barkston Junction Station Type: Haunting Manifestation Man in the Road Further Comments: Maybe protesting Location: Pentreuchaf (Wales) - Road in about the automated signals, this ghost has the area been seen crossing the track in front of Type: Haunting Manifestation incoming trains, and climbing and checking Further Comments: Both young and the obsolete signals. smart in appearance, this male walks Woman with a Red Scarf Location: Outer London: Uxbridge (Greater London) - Ickenham Station Notes: Type: Haunting Manifestation This document may be distributed Further Comments: This ghostly figure freely in a unmodified and unedited stands at the end of the platform, near where she fell and was electrocuted during the form. It may not be sold either whole 1950s. She sometimes waves to attract or in part, either as a stand alone file attention before vanishing. or part of a collective.

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