December
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04 December (reoccurring)
Cries of the Trapped
Location: SE13 (Greater London) - Lewisham Station, & St Johns area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A crash in 1957, caused partly by fog, killed ninety people and injured over one hundred. It is their cries which can be heard on the anniversary on the accident.
19 December (reoccurring)
Emily
Location: Haworth (Yorkshire) - Haworth Parsonage, surrounding moor land, the path to Bronte waterfall, and former Weaver's Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The famous abode of the Bronte Sisters, it is Emily who now haunts the grounds, her head bowed as in deep thought and meditation. She suddenly vanishes of anyone comes too close. The apparition may appear several days either side of the date given.
20 December (reoccurring)
Footfalls Down the Stairs
Location: Great Baddow (Essex) - White Horse Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The site of a murder on a distant 20th December has resulting in the ghostly footsteps coming down the attic stairs in this pub
23 October (reoccurring), also 23 December 1642, lasting several nights
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 the more recent battle sounds is said to be 23 October.
24 December (reoccurring)
Lost Lady
Location: Brigg (Lincolnshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: An old lady who left her house to beg for money to buy her Christmas lunch became lost in the snow and fog, and froze to death. Her ghost is sometimes seen, asking for directions home.
24 December (reoccurring)
Farmer on Pony Back
Location: Egremont (Cumbria) - Tarpot area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This old man vanished without trace when returning home from an inn on a long forgotten Christmas Eve - both he and his ride are occasionally seen on the anniversary of the mystery.
24 December (reoccurring)
Farm Girl
Location: Brough (Derbyshire) - Traveller's Rest public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The pub is haunted by a local farm girl who died after falling down the stairs trying to escape a drunken labourer on Christmas Eve. A phantom woman in black has also been seen drifting around the inn holding a large set of old fashioned keys.
24 December (reoccurring)
Harp Player
Location: Stubley (Derbyshire) - Stubley Old Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Appearing once a year, the shade of Fatima gently pucks her harp strings. A Roundhead has been reported less regularly, while a young girl skips around the fields outside.
24 December (reoccurring)
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 in a carriage once a year to have a quick sad look at where her house once stood before disappearing.
24 December (reoccurring)
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.
24 December (reoccurring)
Anne Boleyn
Location: Hever (Kent) - Bridge over the Eden
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Boleyn's spirit crosses the bridge once a year. The area is also haunted by a farmer, robbed and murdered nearby.
24 December (reoccurring)
Grey Monk
Location: Salford (Lancashire) - Kersal Cell
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The misty shade of a monk appears but once a year.
24 December (reoccurring)
Coach
Location: Holford (Somerset) - Normansland driveway
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Appearing on the stroke of midnight, this coach pulled by a team of black horses circles the driveway before mysteriously vanishing again.
24 December (Reoccurring)
White lady
Location: Worstead (Norfolk) - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Legend says this lady has scared to death at least one young bell ringer. Poltergeist activity has also been reported, around the 1950's.
24 December (reoccurring)
Radley
Location: Halam (Nottinghamshire) - Valley southeast of village
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Further Comments: The buried village of Radley is hidden somewhere in this area, and long vanished church bells can be heard on Christmas Eve.
24 December (reoccurring)
Ringing Bell
Location: Shrewsbury (Shropshire) - Bomere Pool
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A bell once lost in the water can be heard pealing once a year.
24 December (Reoccurring)
Headless Horseman
Location: Beccles (Suffolk) - Roos Hall driveway
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Pulled by headless horses, a coach is said to arrive by the front door every Christmas Eve. A local legend says that on an inside wall of the hall, in a bedroom cupboard, there is the imprint of the Devil's hoof branded into solid brick. Another tale says there is a window at the hall which always opens itself, even if locked shut.
24 December (reoccurring)
Screaming Horses
Location: Wythall (West Midlands) - Black 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.
24 December (reoccurring)
Black Tom of Scothill
Location: Dewsbury (Yorkshire) - Dewsbury Parish Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Further Comments: Black Tom is the name of the bell in the church, and is toiled the number of the year (ie, in 2004 it was toiled 2004 times) to ensure Old Nick doesn't visit the village during the following twelve months. The last peal has to occur on the stroke of midnight to ensure success.
24 December 2010, midnight, next due, then every sixth year
Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville
Location: East Barnet (Hertfordshire) - Oak Hill Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Sir Geoffrey, complete with red cloak and jangling spurs, appears here on horseback and heads towards the church to disappear through its wall. Even though the ghost is said to appear on Christmas Eve, the last verified sighting of Sir Geoffrey was on 17 December 1932.
24 December Lady Ursula is seen, but the party reported in Sept 1963
Party with Ugly Young Man
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.
24 December, 11pm - Midnight
Heavy Trampling
Location: Saffron Walden (Essex) - Cross Keys, Corner of King Street and High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Any listener here is said to hear footsteps marching up and down a passageway. They are rumoured to belong to a soldier of Cromwell. A ghostly woman is said to haunt one of the bedrooms, and it is alleged she was Cromwell's mistress.
25 December (butterfly seen), Grey Lady last seen 1975
Grey Lady
Location: Bath (Somerset) - Theatre Royal & Garrick's Head Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: An actress from the 1880's, this lady killed herself in the hotel when she discovered her husband had murdered her secret lover. Her last performance at the theatre was the night of her death, and there she wore a grey feather dress - the same clothing she still wears. A butterfly is also reported to haunt the theatre, manifesting briefly once a year.
25 December (reoccurring)
Little Girl with Rag Doll
Location: Exeter (Devon) - Prospect Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This young child only appears once a year in the upper part of the building. She is said to smile sweetly at any witnesses, before quickly fading away.
25 December (reoccurring)
Chained Monk
Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Buckingham Palace
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Said to predate the construction of the palace, this monk appears bound in chains once a year on Christmas Day. The sound of a suicide (the single shot of a pistol) is occasionally heard on the first floor - the private secretary to King Edward VII ended his life here.
25 December (reoccurring)
Lillie Langtry
Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Cadogan Hotel, Sloane Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This quiet little spook is said only to come out when the hotel is nearly empty. During life, Lillie was the mistress of the Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII.
25 December (reoccurring)
Kids
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Courtts Bank
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Once a Mecca for toy sellers and buyers, the sounds of joyous children can be heard briefly once a year. Another entity, claiming to be an Elizabethan nobleman, was exorcised during the early 1990s - he was thought to be either the Earl of Essex (executed in 1601) or Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk.
25 December (reoccurring)
Lucette
Location: Clayton le Moors (Lancashire) - Dunkenhalgh Hall (currently a hotel?) and nearby bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A former maid at the hall, Lucette fell pregnant after a torrid affair with the master - he was not interested in her long term future, so Lucette took her own life. The maid's misty white form now comes back around Christmas to remind others of her fate.
25 December (reoccurring)
Middle Aged Man
Location: Oldham (Lancashire) - Temperance Hall, next to the Colosseum Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This grey figure has been seen standing in doorways always around the Christmas period, and is believed to be the ghost of a suicide.
25 December (Reoccurring)
Breathing & Hollow Footsteps
Location: Sandringham (Norfolk) - Country House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Becoming active during Yuletide, the ghostly presence creates echoing footfalls in empty corridors 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 entity is thought to be a nun who seduced a monk on the site; those who have seen her say she has hollow eye sockets. Others blame a young lamplighter who died many years ago while on his rounds.
25 December (reoccurring)
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 gender of the witness, and asks them for a kiss. If it is given, the kisser is doomed to die within a month. This is said to have last happened to a man called William Parker on Christmas Eve 1875; after meeting a red headed girl at the church who faded away shortly after engaging with her, William died exactly one month later.
25 December (reoccurring)
Moaning
Location: Broughton (Northamptonshire) - Church of St John
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A criminal once held here has returned as an indistinct shadow, softly moaning in pain and regret, always around the Christmas period.
25 December (reoccurring)
Jolly Monk
Location: Wonersh (Surrey) - Grantley Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This figure once appeared every Christmastime, though has kept his head down over recent years (maybe as he was said to have been exorcised by a Roman Catholic barmaid).
25 December (reoccurring)
Final Bear
Location: Fernhurst (Sussex) - Ruins of Verdley Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This is said to be the location where the last wild bear in England was pointlessly killed; the creature's ghost now returns in protest.
25 December (reoccurring)
Monk
Location: Strata Florida (Wales) - Former site of abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This phantom devotee of God returns to his old home once a year.
25 December (Reoccurring) - last reported 1970s
Monk with No Legs
Location: Cranham (Essex) - St Mary's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This ghost is said to float silently across the road.
25 December - Betsy Jane appears, and the Rotterdam prior to a maritime disaster
Betsy Jane
Location: Solway Firth (Dumfries and Galloway) - Waters of
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Laden with a golden profit made from selling slaves, God extracted revenge on this morally questionable practice by sinking the ship and killing all the crew on Christmas Day, just prior to the vessel docking. The passenger ship Rotterdam, which sunk in the nineteenth century with the loss of all hands, is still seen, normally as a warning prior to a major disaster at sea. A hearty mix of other spectral vessels has also been reported.
25 December, midnight (reoccurring)
Petrified Thief
Location: Llandyfrydog (Wales) - Just outside the village - Carreg Lleidr (Robber's Stone)
Type: Legend
Further Comments: Legend has it that an oddly shaped stone here was a thief who stole a bible, and while carrying it over his shoulder, was turned to rock. Every Christmas the stone runs three times around the field in which it stands.
25 December, when it falls on a Sunday (reoccurring)
Game of Shinty
Location: Dalarossie, Inverness (Highland) - Land near the local church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: These people, during life, made the mistake of playing sports when Christmas day fell on a Sabbath. Now they all return from the grave for a quick game once a year.
27 December (St John's Eve) (reoccurring)
St Thomas of Canterbury
Location: Lapford (Devon) - Road through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This figure appears once a year, passing through the village on horseback.
28 December (reoccurring)
Glowing Train with Red Lights
Location: Wormit (Fife) - Tay Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The badly designed Tay Bridge collapsed in 1873, a passenger train crashing down with the faulty structure into the cold waters of the Firth of Tay below. The scene is reenacted on the anniversary of the crash.
29 December (reoccurring)
Knight in Shining Armour
Location: Kemsing (Kent) - Kemsing Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This gallant looking figure rides up to the church, enters the building and briefly prays at the alter before vanishing again until another year goes by.
31 December (reoccurring)
Scarlet Rider
Location: Bramhall (Stockport) (Cheshire) - Bramhall Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This figure on horseback, dressed in an unmistakable red, appears once a year - in 1630 he is said to have taken the life of the owner of the hall.
31 December (reoccurring)
Coach and Four
Location: Wadebridge (Cornwall) - Molesworth Arms Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Materialising in the courtyard, this phantom coach driven by a decapitated coachman leaves via the hallway. While some people are said to have seen the apparition, others can only hear it pass by.
31 December (Reoccurring)
Coach and Horses
Location: Wickford (Essex) - Runwell Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A spectral horse and carriage pulls up the driveway, a woman climbs out, walking up to the door to be met by a long dead butler. A similar story says that Anne Boleyn travels in a coach along the roads in the area of the Hall around the same time of year.
31 December (reoccurring)
Coach & Four
Location: East Wellow (Hampshire) - Area from Embley Park to St Margaret’s Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Moving at breakneck speed, this phantom coach leaves the park just before midnight on the last day of the year.
31 December (reoccurring)
John Bibby
Location: Bootle (Lancashire) - Peel Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Since (allegedly) once a year, Bibby rides his coach with his decapitated head in his lap.
31 December (reoccurring)
Man on Black Horse
Location: Ranworth (Norfolk) - Neighbourhood of Ranworth Broad
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Locals tell of an unknown man on a black horse that is believed to haunt the area. The devil is seen riding across the broad every 31 December, with the soul of a Colonel under his arm, who had dared hunt on the Sabbath.
31 December (reoccurring)
Green Hunter
Location: Fawsley (Northamptonshire) - Dower House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This woodland figure dressed in green, manifesting minutes before midnight, is thought to be an ill omen if observed.
31 December (reoccurring)
Horse & Dog
Location: Penselwood (Wiltshire) - Sloane Track - between Penselwood and Stourton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A man who wagered that he could cross the track in record time fell from his horse and snapped his neck. The man on horseback, now minus a head, with a hound in tow, now tries again and again to make the journey once a year.
31 December knight seen (reoccurring), house reported in the twentieth century
House Party
Location: Downend (Isle of Wight) - Area near Knighton Gorges
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Further Comments: A manor house has been seen in the area, a party in full flow visible through its windows. However, the house was demolished many years previous. Even when not seen, locals have reported hearing the sounds of music coming from the site. A large black knight on horseback is still occasionally seen, once a year.
31 December, Midnight (reoccurring)
Laird Beardie
Location: Moonzie Moonzie, Fife (Fife) - Lordscairnie Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Beardie played cards against the Devil and lost - the fateful game is now replayed once a year, though it is warned that anyone watching the game will also travel to hell with the Laird at the end of the match.
31 December, midnight (reoccurring)
Leaping Shadow
Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Westminster Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Just as a new year begins, a phantom man is said to throw himself off this bridge - many believe it to be the ghost of Jack the Ripper, taking his own life.
Activity more intense during winter (Reoccurring)
Relocation
Location: Rochford (Essex) - New houses along Rectory Road
Type: Poltergeist
Further Comments: A group of residential buildings erected on the site of a demolished mansion are reputed to be paranormally active, mainly by disruption by poltergeist, though manifestations occasionally happen.
Around Christmas (reoccurring)
Pale Donkey
Location: Studland (Dorset) - Newton Heath
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A small white donkey haunts the area where its master was robbed and murdered while travelling across the heathland. While the owner's body was found, the donkey vanished without trace, now only appearing briefly before Christmas once a year.
Around Christmas (reoccurring)
Sobbing
Location: Wimborne (Dorset) - Griffin Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: One room in the hotel is filled with sobbing around Christmas - some say the cries belong to a girl upset at her father's death. A grey haired woman in a brown skirt has also been reported in the hotel, and was seen near Bedroom 4 during the 1940s.
Around Christmas (reoccurring)
Stealing Cashier
Location: W11 (Greater London) - Former Coronet Cinema, Notting Hill Gate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Caught stealing from the night's takings, this cashier killed herself in the building when confronted by the manager. Her footsteps are heard running up the stairs towards the area where she leapt from, breaking her neck in the fall.
Around Christmas (Reoccurring)
Lady Jane Grey
Location: Bradgate (Leicestershire) - Bradgate Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Raised here as a child, Lady Jane's tormented shade now haunts both the mansion and the grounds surrounding the building. One ghost story says that she arrives in a coach pulled by four black headless horses at the house on Christmas Eve.
Around midnight, winter months (reoccurring). Last seen 1972?
William Terriss
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Covent Garden Station, Piccadilly Line
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A theatre manager, Mr Terriss was stabbed to death in December 1897 at a nearby theatre. His ghost, tall in stature, has been seen dressed in a grey suit with white gloves, standing on the platform late at night.
Christmas (reoccurring)
Headless Chicken Runs Blindly
Location: Layer Marney (Essex) - Layer Marney Churchyard
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Further Comments: With an unknown origin, a headless chicken appears and runs blindly around the gravestones.
Christmas and Easter (reoccurring)
Incense
Location: Broadhempston (Devon) - Church House Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Once a cottage for monks, the sweet smell is thought to come from the long dead monks celebrating their festivals.
Christmas and Easter (reoccurring)
The Black Abbot
Location: Prestbury (Gloucestershire) - Church and churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Maintaining the same route every year, this ghost materialises in the church before crossing the churchyard and disappearing through a wall in the High Street. It was photographed in 1990 by a Mr Stafford.
Christmas Time (reoccurring)
Headless Horses
Location: Penryn (Cornwall) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Pulling a coach, this team of headless horses has a tendency to manifest around the season of goodwill. Legend states if stared at, it will whisk the witness away to the nether realm.
December (reoccurring)
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 at Windsor), after upsetting King John.
December (reoccurring)
Wailing
Location: Steyning (Sussex) - Bramber Castle
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.
December (reoccurring) - exact date not known
Drowning Duchess
Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Duchess Lake, Purdown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A now forgotten duchess once drowned in the icy waters of this lake - the scene has been known to replay once per year.
December nights (reoccurring)
Dark Horseman
Location: Ellistoun (Renfrewshire) - Ellistoun Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Possessing a grinning skull barren of flesh, this dark horseman and his black stead gallop furiously down muddy paths, towards the nearby waterfalls.
December, during wartime
Fighting Armies
Location: East Lulworth (Dorset) - Flower's Barrow and Grange Hill
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Further Comments: The ghostly figures found here when Britain is at war generate screams, horses and the clashing of swords as they move over the hills overlooking the coast. The apparitions are said to have last appeared during the Second World War.
Early 1980s (porter), woman in blue 2000s (normally during winter months)
Porter
Location: Rothley (Leicestershire) - Railway Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A ghostly porter was spotted at the station by a member of the public returning from a party at 2am one Sunday morning. The building is also home to a ghostly dog and its owner (they were killed on the line a short distance away prior to the start of World War Two), and a phantom woman in blue who appears in the waiting room.
Early winter mornings (reoccurring)
Squeaking Cycle
Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Saltney Junction railway station, area of
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: An old man on a squeaky bike haunt the area around this old station - it is thought that he hanged himself in a shed here.
Early winter mornings (reoccurring)
Traffic Dodger
Location: Wigglesworth (Yorkshire) - Road leading to Tosside
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A couple of car accidents that occurred along this road were blamed on a flitting female form which ran out in front of the vehicle before disappearing. Locals say it is a girl who drowned nearby.
Every Sunday before Christmas (reoccurring)
Marge in a Bridal Gown
Location: Terrington St Clement (Norfolk) - Parish Church, the 'Lovell' pew
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: 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 to join in with the choir.
Once a year, middle of winter (reoccurring)
Simon Cunliffe
Location: Colne (Lancashire) - Wycoller Hall
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Further Comments: Simon rides the area where he once lived, blowing his horn prior to a tragedy. It is said that he scared his wife to death by riding up the staircase of their home, chasing a fox that had ran inside to escape the hunt. Another tale states that the horseman isn't Simon but an assassin, killed by a manservant before he could murder the master of the hall.
Summer & Winter (reoccurring)
Stomping Boot
Location: Harreitsham (Kent) - Ringlestone Tavern
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The sounds of someone stomping on the cellar steps have been heard, stopping just prior to reaching the top.
Twelve days following Christmas (Reoccurring)
Headless Anne Boleyn
Location: Rochford (Essex) - Rochford Hall, and roads in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: At the family home of Anne Boleyn the former queen's decapitated ghost walks briefly around the building after Christmas.
Twentieth century, particularly active around Christmas
Headless Bride
Location: Winster (Derbyshire) - The Angel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: The decapitated ghost caused one witness to faint as it ascended the staircase and headed towards the viewer. A local legend states that the ghostly woman and her lover both committed suicide the day before she was due to be married to another man. The building has a history of phantom footsteps and doors that open themselves.
Varies: 20 June or 23 June and 31 December (reoccurring)
King John's Hounds
Location: Purse Caundle (Dorset) - Purse Caundle Manor
Type: Shuck
Further Comments: Once a year, this pack of devil dogs is let loose in the neighbourhood. Sounds of ghostly plainchant have been heard coming from the manor house.
Varies: 24 December and 01 January the pack hunt, date of coach unknown
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.
Varies: between 25 December - 6 January (reoccurring)
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 always rushing. Other ghosts reported here include an old woman seen in the kitchen and two men, one dressed in black and the other green.
Varies: Blanche on Good Friday or 04 April, Dickens on 24 December (reoccurring)
Lady Blanche de Warenne
Location: Rochester (Kent) - Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A bystander in a battle for the castle, the Lady Blanche was killed when an arrow entered her heart - her shade has been observed still staggering with the shaft protruding from her chest. It is also believed that Charles Dickens's ghost haunts the moat; he has been seen both here and at the Corn Exchange clock.
Weather Dependent: Cold winter nights
Red Eyed Sailor
Location: Faversham (Kent) - Shipwrights Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Having died as a result of a shipping accident, the phantom sailor now appears on icy nights. His favourite trick is to open the front door and walk in, only to disappear moments later, leaving only a strange disconcerting odour.
Weather Dependent: Wet winter nights
Fast Moving Old Lady
Location: Farnham (Surrey) - West Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Limping, this OAP runs by witnesses at a rate of knots and disappears into the doorway of a house along the street. The same street is also haunted by a black dog which performs a similar action to that of the old woman.
Weeks leading up to Christmas (reoccurring), last seen November 1961
Black Coach
Location: Outer London: Enfield (Greater London) - Bell Lane, Enfield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: A popular local story tells of the Phantom Coach of Enfield, flying two metres off the ground where the road once lay. Seen a couple of times in the twentieth century, the ghostly passengers are said to be quite clear and distinct. A 14 year old boy cycling over a railway bridge in Hoe Lane (an extension of Bell lane) claimed to have passed through the apparition.
Winter (reoccurring)
The Young
Location: Chesterfield (Derbyshire) - North Wingfield Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: It said that apparitions are occasionally seen carrying young children in their arms.
Winter (reoccurring)
Lord Norbury
Location: Dublin (Leinster) - Cabra district
Type: Shuck
Further Comments: The otherworldly black hound which stalks the area is said to be the ghost of Lord Norbury, a harsh judge renown for his overuse of the hangman's noose.
Winter (reoccurring)
Headless Horseman
Location: Dublin (Leinster) - Roper's Rest, leading to Love Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This decapitated figure rides along the road once darkness falls.
Winter (reoccurring)
Man in the Road
Location: Pentreuchaf (Wales) - Road in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Both young and smart in appearance, this male walks along the middle of the road, causing oncoming traffic to stop before he vanishes into thin air.
Winter evenings (reoccurring), 1950's onwards
Woman with a Red Scarf
Location: Outer London: Uxbridge (Greater London) - Ickenham Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: This ghostly figure stands at the end of the platform, close to where she fell and was electrocuted. She sometimes waves to attract attention before vanishing.
Winter nights (reoccurring)
Nicholson
Location: Penrith (Cumbria) - Gibbet Hill, six kilometres outside of Penrith (gibbet marked by a stone)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Hanged for the murder of his godfather, Nicholson's body was left dangling throughout the winter of 1766 / 1767 as a deterrent to others... Some say it still makes an appearance during harsh winters.
Winter nights, reoccurring
Disembodied Voices
Location: Castle Coombe (Wiltshire) - Parsonage Wood
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Further Comments: The phantom ranting of a small crowd has been heard in the forest after dark - those who continue to listen have reported a piercing scream that finally lays quiet the voices.
Winter, reoccurring
Signalman
Location: Barkston (Lincolnshire) - Barkston Junction Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Maybe protesting about the automated signals, this ghost has been seen crossing the track in front of incoming trains, and climbing and checking the obsolete signals.
