Hauntings Database
Search ghosts and haunted locations across Britain and Ireland. Hotels, pubs, castles and other haunted places all come from the same Master Places database.
Lumley Castle Hotel
📍 Ropery Lane · DH3 4NX
Ropery Lane · DH3 4NX
The castle’s best-known legend concerns Lady Lily Lumley, whose ghost is said to wander its corridors. Another presence, nicknamed Black Jack, is blamed for hidden belongings, broken glasses and slamming doors.
Macdonald Bear Hotel
📍 Park Street · OX20 1SZ
Park Street · OX20 1SZ
A weeping woman called Elizabeth reportedly appears beside guests’ beds. A ghostly boy known as Christopher is said to play in the corridors, although stories about both figures’ identities vary.
Molesworth Arms
📍 38 Molesworth Street · PL27 7DP
38 Molesworth Street · PL27 7DP
At midnight on New Year’s Eve, a phantom coach is said to enter the inn’s courtyard. Four spectral horses draw it, with a headless coachman driving before the apparition disappears.
Old Church House Inn
📍 Torbryan · TQ12 5UR
Torbryan · TQ12 5UR
A hooded monk reportedly haunts the bar, while bedroom accounts describe a floating arm and a man leaning over a sleeping child. Other stories concern faces appearing in the old wooden panelling.
The Bell Hotel, Winslow
📍 Market Square · MK18 3AB
Market Square · MK18 3AB
The Bell’s ghost stories include a begging man called Marshall, a wandering little girl and children heard in empty corridors. A housekeeper’s apparition is linked with a legend of a fatal staircase argument.
The Black Bull Inn, Sedbergh
📍 44 Main Street · LA10 5BL
44 Main Street · LA10 5BL
Richard Moody describes a two-night investigation at the Bull Hotel in Sedbergh, formerly the Black Bull Inn. His account includes a menu apparently lifting and turning, alongside staff reports of unexplained activity.
The Brocket Arms
📍 Ayot St Lawrence · AL6 9BT
Ayot St Lawrence · AL6 9BT
A small, hooded monk is said to appear in the bar and bedrooms before vanishing. Guests also report heavy bangs and the sound of bare feet running along the upstairs corridor.
The George Hotel Pangbourne
📍 The Square · RG8 7AJ
The Square · RG8 7AJ
The ghost legend centres on Betty Price, a woman accused of witchcraft and said to have cursed the inn. Accounts describe a bedraggled apparition, mournful crying and knocking outside empty corridors.
The Old Bell Hotel, Malmesbury
📍 Abbey Row · SN16 0BW
Abbey Row · SN16 0BW
A sorrowful Grey Lady reportedly appears in the James Ody Room. Elsewhere, guests describe belongings scattered across bedrooms, bedclothes pulled away and a heavy wardrobe blocking a door.
The Ragged Cot
📍 Cirencester Road · GL6 8PE
Cirencester Road · GL6 8PE
The inn’s haunting is linked with the legend of landlord Bill Clavers and his family’s fatal fall downstairs. Accounts describe apparitions in the corridors and sounds of a struggle near the staircase.
A41
📍 A41 Edgware Way, near Apex Corner · NW7 3JX
A41 Edgware Way, near Apex Corner · NW7 3JX
On 13 October 1985, a driver near Stanmore reported striking a man and dog on the A41. Both vanished, no bodies were found and the car showed no collision damage.
Byron Hill Road
📍 Byron Hill Road · HA2 0JD
HA2 0JD
A house on Byron Hill Road is locally said to be haunted by a kindly nurse who had been given the property by a grateful patient.
Canons Park Spinney Gate
📍 Marsh Lane · HA7 4TH
Marsh Lane · HA7 4TH
Near the spinney gate off Marsh Lane, witnesses have reported a cowled, dark-robed figure; similar sightings have also been associated with nearby Du Cros Drive.
Headstone Manor House
📍 Headstone Recreation Ground, Pinner View · HA2 6PX
Headstone Recreation Ground, Pinner View · HA2 6PX
A 2008 overnight vigil reportedly produced claims of nursery cries, poltergeist-like activity, a figure on the staircase, monk-like apparitions and a man dressed in sackcloth.
Herga Road Footbridge
📍 Footbridge into Herga Road · HA3 5AS
Footbridge into Herga Road · HA3 5AS
Around 1975, witnesses near the bridge into Herga Road reported a man with an unnaturally long, pale face and shapeless gown descending the steps before disappearing.
Old Church Farm
📍 Old Church Lane · HA7 2RD
Old Church Lane · HA7 2RD
Old Church Farm's former rectory has a tradition of a ghost rising from a nearby grave, walking into the house and later returning to the grave.
Roxeth Primary School
📍 Brickfields, Byron Hill Road · HA2 0JA
Brickfields, Byron Hill Road · HA2 0JA
A former member of staff reported a spectral ginger cat roaming the school, sometimes disappearing through a wall into a stockroom; she believed it might represent a former teacher.
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
📍 Brockley Hill · HA7 4LP
Brockley Hill · HA7 4LP
The hospital grounds are associated with a cyclical Grey Lady, traditionally said to appear around 13 November; the site was reportedly linked in local lore to an earlier nunnery.
The Grove, Harrow School
📍 1 Church Hill · HA1 3HN
1 Church Hill · HA1 3HN
The Grove is traditionally said to be haunted by Richard Layton, the sixteenth-century rector of Harrow who became one of Thomas Cromwell's agents during the Dissolution.
Uxbridge Road
📍 Uxbridge Road · HA3 6DG
HA3 6DG
Writer Rowland Grey claimed to have seen the ghost of miser Daniel Dancer on what is now Uxbridge Road, dressed in straw and apparently bleeding from a head wound.
Weald Lane
📍 Weald Lane · HA3 5HE
HA3 5HE
A young man in a cream trench coat is said to sit motionless on a Weald Lane bench before vanishing abruptly; a similar figure has also been reported near Courtenay Gardens.
West Street
📍 West Street · HA1 3EF
HA1 3EF
One Harrow tradition places Spring-Heeled Jack on West Street, where the bizarre leaping apparition is said to have terrified a local schoolmaster.
Abbey Road Studios
📍 3 Abbey Road · NW8 9AY
3 Abbey Road · NW8 9AY
A white-clad female apparition, traditionally identified as music-hall performer Edith Rosse, is said to haunt Abbey Road Studios and was reportedly encountered by a policeman in the 1960s.
Capland Street
📍 Capland Street · NW8 8LL
NW8 8LL
A grim local story says the cries of three children can be heard on Capland Street, linked to a father who killed his children and then himself.
