Hauntings Database

Swan and Royal Hotel

📍 Castle Street · BB7 2BX

Staff and visitors report a weeping female ghost, self-closing doors, unexplained toilet flushing and bedclothes reportedly pulled away at night.

The Mermaid Inn

📍 Mermaid Street · TN31 7EY

At the Mermaid Inn on Rye’s Mermaid Street, whose present building dates to 1420, reports include a repeating ghostly duel, a woman in white, empty-corridor footsteps and furniture apparently moving overnight.

University of Cumbria

📍 Brampton Road · CA3 9AW

On misty nights, phantom marching boots reportedly cross Brampton Road’s Hadrian’s Wall vallum. University folklore attributes them to a Roman patrol swallowed by fog after following strange cries across the earthworks.

Waddow Hall

Witnesses describe Peg O'Neil's spirit associated with the hall and nearby well, with a grim seven-year death tradition.

Well Hall

Local accounts describe older stories of a fairy-like Chatterer and a later poltergeist outbreak that was eventually exposed as trickery.

Ypres Tower

📍 Gun Garden · TN31 7HE

Witnesses describe footsteps in empty rooms, disappearing shadowy figures and the unsettling feeling of someone standing behind visitors.

Asda Crawley

📍 Pegler Way · RH11 7AH

The site is associated with a disappearing little girl, a dark male figure and goods apparently moving without visible cause around the store.

Belgrave Hall

📍 Church Road, Belgrave · LE4 5PE

Reports include a Victorian-looking woman walking through a wall, cold sensations and figures or mist captured on CCTV.

Black Horse, Cirencester

📍 Castle Street · GL7 1QD

Reports include an angry old woman in greenish light, mysterious scratches and a lavender-associated cleaner-like spirit. One tradition describes a stout, angry-looking woman wearing a fawn dress. During an attempted exorcism in 1933, the name James reportedly appeared on a bedroom window.

Bradley Woods

📍 Bradley · DN37 0AH

Local accounts describe the Black Lady, a female apparition said to roam the woodland paths.

Brewery Shades

📍 85 High Street · RH10 1BA

Staff and visitors report a haunted cell area, trapping incidents, pulled bedcovers, unexplained touches and apparitions of a boy and woman.

Church of St John the Baptist

📍 Market Place · GL7 2NX

The site is associated with a grey-clad woman carrying flowers reportedly seen within the historic parish church.

Cirencester Memorial Hospital

📍 Sheep Street · GL7 1RQ

Staff and visitors report a pale girl with skeletal-looking arms reportedly waving before vanishing inside the hospital.

Courthouse Hotel

📍 Toft Road · WA16 0PB

Knutsford’s former Sessions House held courtrooms, underground cells and 150 prisoners. Hotel guests and housekeepers now report self-starting showers, slamming doors, photographic green mist and unease in the top-floor rooms.

Dean Clough Mills

📍 HX3 5AX

Staff and visitors report Victorian children, unexplained bangs and taps and a floating head-like apparition around the former mills.

Fleece Hotel

📍 Market Place · GL7 2NZ

Local accounts describe a Cavalier, an elderly woman, unexplained footsteps, flying boxes and chairs toppling without visible cause.

Former Liquid Nightclub

📍 Fountain Street

The site is associated with a man identified as Raymond Farrar reportedly walking through a wall, closing fridges and then disappearing.

Friends Meeting House

📍 Langley Lane · RH11 0NB

Local accounts describe a sailor-like apparition, two boy spirits in the attic and objects reportedly moving without explanation.

George Hotel, Crawley

📍 High Street · RH10 1BS

Reports include a night porter-like figure called Mark, flickering lights and unexplained shadowy movement around the old hotel.

King's Head Hotel, Cirencester

📍 24 Market Place · GL7 2NW

Witnesses describe a faceless monk, self-opening doors and an armoured figure reportedly seen around the ballroom. Another account describes a Cavalier apparition, possibly associated with Lord Lovelace, alongside poltergeist disturbances reportedly strong enough to shake guests in their beds in 1980.

King Street / Minshull Street

📍 King Street / Minshull Street

Five businesses at Knutsford’s King Street–Minshull Street junction share a haunting tradition. Reports include self-starting hand dryers, objects rearranged overnight and footsteps or movement in otherwise empty upstairs rooms.

Leicester Guildhall

📍 LE1 5FQ

Staff and visitors report a White Lady, moving furniture, doors unlocking, ghostly animals and apparitions including a policeman or Cavalier.

Long Can Hall

Local accounts describe unexplained footsteps, a feeling of not being alone and a Grey Lady reportedly disappearing through floorboards.

Lord Eldon

📍 27 Tatton Street

Annie Sarah Pollitt, Knutsford’s first May Queen and former landlady, reportedly appears in the Lord Eldon’s lower rooms. One landlady described her crossing the bar into the tap room.