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.

1,997 haunted places
Hampstead · Greater London

The Holly Bush

📍 22 Holly Mount · NW3 6SG

22 Holly Mount · NW3 6SG

Pub

Customers have reportedly given food or drink orders to a waitress who later proves not to be a member of staff, giving the pub one of Hampstead's better-known ghost stories.

Hampstead · Greater London

The Priory

📍 Church Row · NW3 6UU

Church Row · NW3 6UU

Church / Cathedral

A nineteenth-century legend claims a builder bricked one of his daughters into this Church Row property, after which a young girl's ghost was said to haunt the house.

Hampstead · Greater London

Well Walk

📍 Well Walk · NW3 1BT

NW3 1BT

Street / Road

Accounts describe knocking, soft footsteps and whispering in an upstairs room; one guest later reported a woman in blue ascending the staircase and disappearing into that room.

Cricklewood · Greater London

Westcroft Way

📍 Westcroft Way · NW2 2RH

NW2 2RH

Street / Road

A 1960s household reported marbles and milk bottles being thrown, furniture hovering and other poltergeist effects. Two attempted exorcisms reportedly failed to stop the activity.

Camden Town · Greater London

Camden Market Stables

📍 Chalk Farm Road · NW1 8AH

Chalk Farm Road · NW1 8AH

Visitor attraction

Market traders have reported phantom hoofbeats on the old cobbles and, occasionally, distant cries for help, echoing the Stables' history as a horse hospital and transport complex.

Marylebone · Greater London

Former 33 Harewood Square Site

📍 Melcombe Place / former Harewood Square · NW1 6JJ

Melcombe Place / former Harewood Square · NW1 6JJ

Street / Road

In May 1851, a couple at 33 Harewood Square reported two flame-like lights hovering over their bed. When one was grabbed, the lights seemed to liquefy and vanish.

Regent's Park · Greater London

London Zoo Aquarium

📍 Outer Circle, Regent's Park · NW1 4RY

Outer Circle, Regent's Park · NW1 4RY

Visitor attraction

Zoo staff around the former aquarium have reported unexplained whistling, traditionally attributed to the ghost of an early engineer associated with the site.

Regent's Park · Greater London

New Diorama Theatre

📍 15-16 Triton Street, Regent's Place · NW1 3BF

15-16 Triton Street, Regent's Place · NW1 3BF

Theatre

Duty managers have reported the accessible toilet locking itself and its alarm activating while the room is empty, a recurring oddity noted at the theatre in 2021.

Regent's Park · Greater London

Outer Circle

📍 Outer Circle · NW1 4RU

NW1 4RU

Street / Road

Two friends on the Outer Circle in November 2007 reportedly heard a jogger running past them on a rain-cleared evening, although no runner could be seen.

St Pancras · Greater London

St Pancras Railway Station

📍 Euston Road · N1C 4QP

Euston Road · N1C 4QP

Station

Eurostar staff reported doors opening and closing by themselves and chairs behaving oddly in corridors beside Pancras Road during a cluster of unexplained incidents in 2013.

Enfield Wash · Greater London

Bell Lane

📍 Bell Lane · EN3

EN3

Street / Road

A phantom horse-drawn coach is said to race along Bell Lane on dark winter nights, travelling several feet above the road before vanishing.

Enfield · Greater London

Capel Manor Gardens

📍 Bullsmoor Lane · EN1 4RQ

Bullsmoor Lane · EN1 4RQ

Historic house

Capel Manor is included among Enfield's historic houses said to have its own ghostly resident, forming part of the borough's wider haunting tradition.

Camberwell · Greater London

Churchyard Passage, St Giles' Church

📍 Camberwell Church Street · SE5 8RB

Camberwell Church Street · SE5 8RB

Cemetery / Graveyard

An elderly priest has reportedly appeared in Churchyard Passage and vanished, while later witnesses have heard pursuing footsteps with nobody visible behind them.

Camberwell · Greater London

Former Queen Pub Site

📍 81 Neate Street, now Burgess Park · SE5

81 Neate Street, now Burgess Park · SE5

Pub

Before demolition, the empty Queen pub was reportedly heard full of voices and music; witnesses approaching found the abandoned building dark and silent.

Enfield · Greater London

Forty Hall

📍 Forty Hill · EN2 9HA

Forty Hill · EN2 9HA

Hall

Forty Hall has a longstanding reputation for activity on its first-floor landing, with local accounts describing unexplained footsteps, figures and other disturbances.

Camberwell · Greater London

Fox on the Hill

📍 149 Denmark Hill · SE5 8EH

149 Denmark Hill · SE5 8EH

Pub

A barmaid reported repeated footsteps on the stairs and landing outside her room, part of a local haunting tradition attached to this Denmark Hill pub.

Enfield · Greater London

Myddelton House Gardens

📍 Bulls Cross · EN2 9HG

Bulls Cross · EN2 9HG

Historic house

Myddelton House is among Enfield's country houses with a resident ghost tradition, recorded in local paranormal research alongside other historic estates in the borough.

Camberwell · Greater London

Old House on Camberwell Green Site

📍 Wren Road, south side of Camberwell Green · SE5

Wren Road, south side of Camberwell Green · SE5

Historic house

A local legend tells of a jealous merchant confronted by the ghost of the wife he murdered and secretly buried beneath his seventeenth-century house.

Cockfosters · Greater London

Trent Park House

📍 13 Daffodil Crescent, Trent Park · EN4 0BZ

13 Daffodil Crescent, Trent Park · EN4 0BZ

Historic house

The Grey Lady reportedly walks at the building's former floor level, once appearing half-emerged from a corridor floor and then from the ceiling below.

Spitalfields · Greater London

29 Hanbury Street

📍 29 Hanbury Street · E1

E1

Street / Road

The former murder site of Annie Chapman is linked with autumn hauntings, including sounds resembling the killing and reports of a headless female apparition.

Barnes · Greater London

Barnes Old Cemetery

📍 Rocks Lane, Barnes Common · SW13 0BY

Rocks Lane, Barnes Common · SW13 0BY

Cemetery / Graveyard

The abandoned cemetery is associated with a floating nun and a grotesque, pointed-eared figure said to climb the railings and attack startled witnesses.

Camberwell · Greater London

Burgess Park - Former Surrey Canal

📍 150 Albany Road · SE5 0RJ

150 Albany Road · SE5 0RJ

Park / Woodland

On the former Surrey Canal route, people have reported unseen children playing, splashing water and the thud of boots jumping between imaginary barges.

Whitechapel · Greater London

Durward Street

📍 Durward Street · E1

E1

Street / Road

A luminous woman lying in the gutter has been reported near the spot where Mary Ann Nichols was found, alongside other unsettling sounds and apparitions.

Bethnal Green · Greater London

Former Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children Site

📍 Hackney Road · E2 8PS

Hackney Road · E2 8PS

Hospital

When the former children's hospital stood derelict, witnesses reportedly heard the cries of children echoing through its empty corridors and wards.

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