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.
Colindeep Lane
📍 Colindeep Lane · NW9 6BU
NW9 6BU
Mrs Griffiths is said to haunt Colindeep Lane after drowning in a nearby pond. Another local tale describes a mysterious little man who vanished while being pursued by a policeman.
Crocker's Folly
📍 24 Aberdeen Place · NW8 8JR
24 Aberdeen Place · NW8 8JR
Local legend says founder Frank Crocker haunts the former pub around the tills. The often-repeated suicide story is later folklore: records indicate Crocker died naturally.
Foot of Church Hill
📍 Church Hill · HA1 3EA
Church Hill · HA1 3EA
Former Harrow School hatter Robert Burns recalled reports of a white-sheet apparition near the foot of Church Hill, prompting armed locals to gather in hopes of catching the supposed ghost.
Former American Shoe Stores
📍 321-323 Kilburn High Road, corner of Dyne Road · NW6 7JR
321-323 Kilburn High Road, corner of Dyne Road · NW6 7JR
Workers at the American Shoe Stores reported a year-long poltergeist outbreak beginning in 1949: tools flew, shoes moved or changed colour, doors opened and lights or candles behaved strangely.
Former Tenterden Hall Site
📍 Former Tenterden Hall site · NW4
NW4
Before Tenterden Hall was demolished in the 1930s, a dark monk-like figure was reportedly seen on the staircase of the former school.
Grafton Road
📍 Grafton Road · NW5 4BA
NW5 4BA
After a Kentish Town antique shop sold a suit of armour in 1980, a sad bearded figure in old-fashioned clothing reportedly appeared; witnesses speculated he was connected to the armour.
Lawrence Street
📍 Lawrence Street · NW7 4JE
NW7 4JE
After a buried body was found beneath Lawrence Street in the 1960s, residents reported a cloaked figure and phantom music; older tradition also speaks of a man in a broad-brimmed hat.
Nan Clark's Lane
📍 Nan Clark's Lane · NW7 4HH
NW7 4HH
Nan Clark, an eighteenth-century inn landlady, is said to return to the lane named after her. Conflicting versions say she murdered or was murdered by a husband or lover.
St Mary's Church, Hendon
📍 Church End / Greyhound Hill · NW4 4JT
Church End / Greyhound Hill · NW4 4JT
Phantom monks are said to make themselves known around religious festivals, while the singing of an unseen male choir has also been reported inside the ancient church.
St Mary's Churchyard
📍 Church Hill · HA1 3HL
Church Hill · HA1 3HL
St Mary's churchyard has a phantom-nun tradition. One Great War-era episode may have been a verger in a sheet, though the prank may itself have drawn on older local lore.
Sunningfields Road
📍 Sunningfields Road · NW4 4QJ
NW4 4QJ
Three generations of one family reportedly experienced activity in a Sunningfields Road house, including a hooded monk in the garden, running footsteps and a child-like figure on the stairs.
The Hyde
📍 The Hyde · NW9 5BA
NW9 5BA
The Hyde has an unusual animal-ghost tradition: a spectral donkey said to shine with vivid colour and light as it passes through the area.
West Hampstead Railway Station
📍 West End Lane · NW6 2LJ
West End Lane · NW6 2LJ
Around 1907, a traveller saw a woman in mourning enter her railway carriage and vanish; at the next stop an apparently identical living woman boarded and sat down.
Adamson Road
📍 Adamson Road · NW3 3HP
NW3 3HP
Residents of a flat were warned about 'Old Charlie'. They later reported moved furniture, a vanished plate of fish and a hunched figure appearing during a séance.
Church Row
📍 Church Row · NW3 6UU
NW3 6UU
Hampstead folklore tells of a red-haired servant girl carrying a carpet bag towards the church, said to contain the remains of a child she had murdered.
Church Walk
📍 Church Walk · NW3
NW3
A house on Church Walk was associated with persistent unexplained sighing, traditionally linked to a story that a mother had killed her young child there.
East Heath Road
📍 East Heath Road · NW3 1AH
NW3 1AH
Witnesses have described a smiling elderly man in a brown coat following them along East Heath Road, only to fade away when they turn to confront him.
Finchley Road and Frognal Junction
📍 Finchley Road at Frognal · NW3 6EP
Finchley Road at Frognal · NW3 6EP
Old local folklore placed a woman in white near the corner of Finchley Road and Frognal, with reports said to date back to the early nineteenth century.
Fitzroy Park and Millfield Lane
📍 Fitzroy Park at Millfield Lane · N6 6JA
Fitzroy Park at Millfield Lane · N6 6JA
Four people in a parked car in 1975 reported an illuminated woman in Victorian dress gliding silently past on the gravel near the Millfield Lane junction.
Former Golders Lodge Site
📍 Golders Gardens / Golders Green Road · NW11 9BP
Golders Gardens / Golders Green Road · NW11 9BP
Local legend says a tenant exploited a lease requiring an owner to remain 'above ground' by keeping the dead man's body in the loft; his ghost was later linked to the grounds.
Former Leighton House
📍 103 Alexandra Road · NW4 2RX
103 Alexandra Road · NW4 2RX
At the former Leighton House, demolished long ago, disembodied voices heard during the 1960s were attributed locally to the ghost of actress and socialite Lillie Langtry.
Haverstock Hill
📍 Haverstock Hill · NW3 2AE
NW3 2AE
A private house on Haverstock Hill was linked to a 1957-58 poltergeist: objects were thrown, furniture moved, a marble tabletop split and one witness was tipped from bed.
King William IV
📍 77 Hampstead High Street · NW3 1RE
77 Hampstead High Street · NW3 1RE
The pub is said to have two apparitions: a young girl seen staring through the windows from outside, and the ghost of a doctor's murdered wife inside.
St Mary's Church, Willesden
📍 Neasden Lane · NW10 2TS
Neasden Lane · NW10 2TS
Tradition places a jovial monk near the old well in the vicarage garden, while a second clerical presence is blamed for unexplained movement of church doors.
