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.
The Old Bell Hotel, Malmesbury
📍 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 Old Coach House
📍 Dean Street · FY4 1BP
Reports include a cloaked coachman-like figure seen in bedrooms, alongside unexplained knocks and footsteps in empty hallways.
The Old Cock Inn, Halifax
📍 Old Cock Yard, Southgate, Halifax · HX1 1DS
The Old Cock Inn in Halifax is associated with a chambermaid and her baby said to haunt the building. The former townhouse dates to the late 16th or early 17th century and retains historic interiors. The haunting is described in local newspaper coverage of Calderdale’s ghost stories, although the woman’s identity and the circumstances behind the tradition are unclear.
The Old Convent Building
📍 Former convent building, Pump Street
Reports include a black-clad woman and child, physical attacks and an intensely uneasy atmosphere reported in former dormitories and rooms.
The Old Crown
📍 188 High Street, Deritend · B12 0LD
Birmingham’s Old Crown carries a story of a woman searching for a child said to have fallen into its well. Overnight guests report white mist, sudden chills and feeling watched; CCTV reportedly showed a bottle moving across the floor.
The Olde Boars Head
📍 111 Long Street · M24 6UE
Middleton’s Olde Boars Head is associated with a child said to have died in a chimney and reformer Samuel Bamford. Reports include hair-pulling, cold draughts and an apparition, with particular interest in the Sessions Room and cellar.
The Old Linacre
📍 46 Linacre Lane · L20 5AL
The former Old Linacre pub in Bootle now houses the Linacre Bridge Community Hub. Staff and visitors have reported footsteps in empty rooms, moving glasses, shadowy figures and cold patches around the cellar stairs.
The Old Queen's Head, Sheffield
📍 40 Pond Hill, Sheffield · S1 2BG
The Old Queen's Head on Pond Hill has a ghost tradition involving an old soldier appearing near the fireplace. Other local accounts describe a dog that seems to settle on visitors' feet. The timber-framed pub dates from the 15th century, and its reported haunting features in local coverage of Sheffield's oldest buildings.
The Old Rectory, Loughborough
📍 Rectory Place · LE11 1UW
Reports include strange figures and shifting shadows in the windows, together with sudden eerie stillness around the old rectory.
The Old Vic
📍 103 The Cut · SE1 8NB
Former manager Lilian Baylis is said to haunt the theatre, alongside a woman seen clutching apparently bloodstained hands to her chest.
The Oracle Shopping Centre
📍 Bridge Street · RG1 2AG
Staff and visitors report unexplained voices and sudden cold spots reported around parts of the modern shopping centre.
The Ostrich Inn
📍 42 High Street, Colnbrook, Slough, SL3 0JZ · SL3 0JZ
The Ostrich Inn is associated with the story of Jarman, an innkeeper said to have murdered guests using a hinged bed that tipped them into boiling water. Ghostly activity has been reported at the inn, although the identity of the apparition is uncertain.
The Oval
📍 25 South Main Street, Cork City · T12 Y15D
The Oval on South Main Street in Cork is reputed to be haunted by a soldier in a ragged uniform. Witnesses have described him walking towards the fireplace, sitting down and then disappearing. Staff have also reported seeing figures in the locked pub after closing time. The soldier's ghost is acknowledged in the pub's own heritage account.
The Pack Horse
📍 208 Woodhouse Lane · LS2 9DX
Phantom footsteps and the sound of giggling children are reported in the upstairs room of this historic Leeds pub.
The Pied Bull
📍 53-57 Northgate Street · CH1 2HQ
The Pied Bull’s cellar apparition is traditionally John Davies, allegedly killed falling downstairs with a knife. Other accounts place a chambermaid in Rooms 7–9 and a silent man in Room 9.
The Plough Inn
📍 Holford · TA5 1SD
Reports include a murdered Spanish traveller, dark figures and unexplained footsteps reported around the old inn.
The Poor Relation, Cork
📍 19–20 Parnell Place, Cork City · T12 HX98
Cork Supernatural Society investigated The Poor Relation after its manager reported unusual activity in an upstairs office. During questioning, investigators say an audio recorder captured a man's voice apparently replying that he was alone in the building. The team described the recording to the Cork Independent in 2024. The voice was not heard by those present at the time.
The Priory
📍 Church Row · NW3 6UU
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.
The Queen's Oak
📍 The Queen's Oak, Church Lane · RG40 4LS
The Queen’s Oak is associated with a woman said to sit at the same place beside the bar. In a 2017 newspaper interview, a landlady also described seeing a face behind the bar and hearing unexplained sounds. The Church Lane pub remains open to customers.
The Queen at Chester Hotel
📍 52 City Road · CH1 3AH
A little girl is said to haunt second-floor corridors, with laughter, footsteps, cold spots and a phantom tricycle also reported.
The Ragged Cot
📍 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.
The Railway Tavern
The Railway Tavern, Chelmsford is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
The Real Mary King's Close
📍 2 Warriston's Close, High Street · EH1 1PG
Local accounts describe strange figures, unexplained sounds and eerie sensations at The Real Mary King's Close, where ghost stories remain part of the site's folklore.
The Red Lion, Southampton
📍 SO14 2NS
Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with The Red Lion, Southampton, adding to its haunted reputation.
