01 January distressed by the death that he took his own life the following day. Location: Redditch (Hereford & Worcester) - Moon’s Moat the gates. Andrew Mills Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Ferryhill (Parish of Merrington) (Durham) - Brass Farm, now Further Comments: This small, moated island is reportedly haunted by known as High Hill House farm 15 January this woman, who is reported to appear every St Agnes Eve. Type: Haunting Manifestation Upset Husband 28 February Further Comments: Andrew went on a killing spree at the farm in 1863; Location: Tallington (Lincolnshire) - Footbridge over the railway line he claimed he was talked into it by a devil. The wild cries of Andrew Type: Haunting Manifestation White Lady Mills can be still heard near the locality of the farmhouse. Further Comments: After the death of his wife, this grief-stricken individual 13 February Location: Hathersage (Derbyshire) - Vicarage jumped from the footbridge over the railway track and was hit by the train from 25 January Clan MacDonald London, which killed him instantly. The incident is reenacted once a year. Smith on Horseback Location: Glencoe (Argyll and Bute) - General area Type: Haunting Manifestation Jamaican Woman Location: Nether Lypiatt (estate) (Gloucestershire) - Nether Lypiatt Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: Even though the phantom white Location: Ireby (Cumbria) - Overwater Hotel Manor Further Comments: Murdered in cold blood by the clan Campbell, these Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation forty MacDonald family members return to the scene of the crime. lady has not been observed for around one hundred Further Comments: Formerly Overwater Hall, the building was pur- Further Comments: An owner of the horse once hanged a blacksmith for years, she still opens a single door on one night per chased in 1814 by Joseph Gillbanks. Legend has it that Gillbanks had failing to complete a piece of work within a tight time limit - the date of annum. an affair with a Jamaican girl who he tried to drown at Overwater Tarn the death is marked by the appearance of a large white horse carrying 24 February when she told him she was pregnant. As she struggled to pull herself out the dead smith. Another spirit in the house, that of a grey lady, has been Something Down There of the water, he chopped her arms off. Her armless apparition is now 19 January seen several times, and there are unsubstantiated reports that it has been Location: Northrepps (Norfolk) - Shrieking Pit, along a lane off Hungry said to appear here once a year. exorcised. Hill Horses Type: Haunting Manifestation Walking Stone Location: Lostwithiel (Cornwall) - Braddock Down Further Comments: Some say that the entity that appears in the pit is the Location: Reynoldston (Wales) - Arthur’s Stone Opening Gates spirit of a woman who took her life, while others believe it is something Type: Legend Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Stroud (Gloucestershire) - Manor House much darker that lures the unwary to their deaths. Further Comments: A legend says the stone walks down to the sea once Further Comments: The site of a Cromwellian defeat, Type: Haunting Manifestation a year for a quick drink. Further Comments: After a local blacksmith was found guilty of a crime Also in February the anniversary of which is marked by phantom hoof and sentenced to hang, the judge offered him a reprieve if he made the Maude Carew falls. gates to the lawman’s house. The blacksmith did so, but was executed Location: Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) - St Mary’s Churchyard Skater of Hickling Broad 05 January anyway. Once a year, the blacksmith’s ghost returns and opens the gates. Type: Curse Squire Surtees Further Comments: Cursed by a monk after Maude murdered the Duke Location: Potter Heigham (Norfolk) - River Thurne Location: Kingston St Mary (Somerset) - Tainfield House Spitfire of Gloucester in 1447, her shade is now said to appear once a year at Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Biggin Hill (Kent) - Biggin Hill Airport & village 11pm. Further Comments: Riding a mottled grey horse, the squire rides circles Further Comments: In love with a rich man’s daugh- Type: Haunting Manifestation on the driveway, rattling a handful of chains. Further Comments: Observed flying overhead, and sometimes heard, a phantom Also in January ter, a drummer boy would skate across the frozen Spitfire haunts the skies of Biggin Hill - January would appear to have become Rushing Horseman river to secretly rendezvous with his forbidden girl- its favourite haunting month. Airmen dressed in trench coats have been reported Location: East Malling (Kent) - Barming Woods 26 February in the village; they stop people and ask directions before disappearing. Type: Haunting Manifestation Sir Christopher Wren friend. However, one winter night the ice cracked Further Comments: This figure has been both seen and heard as he darts 14 January Location: Hampton Court (Surrey) - The Old Court House and the boy drowned - leaving his ghost to continue around trees and over roads. In 1971, one witness said the entity charged Crying Lady Type: Haunting Manifestation towards their car, disappearing on impact. the drumming. A phantom female rower has also Location: West Deeping (Lincolnshire) - Church Further Comments: Dying in the front room of this building, Wren’s Type: Haunting Manifestation footsteps can be heard on the anniversary of his death, pacing up and been seen on the river. 20 January Further Comments: The date of this woman’s death is marked by her down the staircase. Lady Mohun phantom sobs heard emanating from the church. Her husband was so Priest with Young Girl the banks of the river on the date of her death. Location: Holme Hale - Hall’s Green Room 01 March woods between Stamford and Pe- Type: Haunting Manifestation Small French Man Hymns Further Comments: Once frequently seen in and around the Green HMS Gladiator Location: Smarden - The Chequers Inn Location: St David’s - St Nonna’s church ruins terborough Room, a priest and a girl are supposed to haunt the building. The priest Location: Colwell Bay - Off the coast Type: Haunting Manifestation Type: Haunting Manifestation is believed to have been killed on Good Friday by Cromwellian soldiers; Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: The ghost of a French POW from the Napoleonic Further Comments: The sound of phantom singing is heard coming from Type: Legend hence the sightings tend to occur around the Easter period. Further Comments: An islander who spotted an old ship on misty morning war is said to move small items around the premises and upset pets in these church ruins on the evening of St David’s Day. claimed it was HMS Gladiator, which sank in 1908. some say that the ship is the building. Further Comments: These woods appears every ten years, though it is approaching half a century since the last 22 March report. Misty Figure were the scene of a wild hunt, Voice of Lord Marney 11 March Location: Ayr - Tower of St John’s Molly Tape Location: Layer Marney - Layer Marney Church Sounds of Murder which included large black hounds Faces of the Dead Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Loch Assynt - Banks of the loch Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Hurst - Road between village and Further Comments: Legend says that the voice of Lord Marney can be Type: Haunting Manifestation Further Comments: It is unsure whether this grey and loathsome riders on the backs Hinton, Tape Lane Location: Cerne Abbas - St Austin’s Well, aka St Augustine’s Well, heard echoing around the church. Further Comments: The site where a debt ridden schoolmaster killed a aka Silver Well peddler for his gold is marked once a year by the sounds of the crime man is a builder, friar or warrior. of mares and goats. Type: Haunting Manifestation being reenacted - the crack of something hard being brought down on Type: Legend Date / Time: Easter the salesman’s head, followed by footsteps, a body being dragged, and Further Comments: Anyone looking into the waters of the well in Horatio Nelson the splash as the corpse is thrown into the water. Further Comments: This shade made local news the early hours of Easter morning will see the faces of those fated to Location: WC2 - Somerset House, Strand in 1971 when she appeared drifting down the die within a year. Women who drink the water and pray to St Cather- Type: Haunting Manifestation Incense Further Comments: Seen striding towards his former office, Nelson 29 March ine will soon be married. Location: Broadhempston - Church House Inn road wearing very little in the way of cloth- always vanishes before he can be approached. Old Soldiers Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Alresford - Cheriton battlefield ing. It is thought that the woman hanged herself 14 March Further Comments: Once a cottage for monks, the sweet smell is Type: Haunting Manifestation Parliamentarians thought to come from the long dead monks celebrating their festivals. from a tree in the lane following a disastrous Further Comments: These troops are said to be doomed to return to their former Location: Hopton - Hopton Castle Throughout Spring... Screaming Groom battleground. romantic engagement with a farmer. Type: Haunting Manifestation Location: Nannau - Mules Well Further Comments: The ghosts of twenty eight Parliamentarians return Type: Haunting Manifestation on this date. They held out in the castle against a force of five hundred Roman Legion Further Comments: The seasonal sounds of screaming can be heard in Royalists for two weeks, the siege only ending when the defenders were The Black Abbot Mermaid Location: Longdendale Valley - Bleaklow Mountain this location, dating back from when a young groom was killed when tricked into surrendering in exchange for their lives - they were slaugh- Location: Prestbury - Church and churchyard Location: Rostherne Mere - General area the horse he was tending panicked and trampled the man to death.