Hauntings Database

Wainhouse Tower

📍 9 Wakefield Gate, King Cross, Halifax · HX3 0HB

Wainhouse Tower above Halifax is associated with a sighting in the 1990s of a ghostly figure crying or wailing nearby. The account appears in Halifax Courier coverage of Calderdale’s haunted locations. The apparition was not identified, and the report concerns the tower grounds rather than the interior.

Wallace Collection

📍 Hertford House, Manchester Square · W1U 3BN

Ghost stories linked to Wallace Collection include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.

Walworth Castle

📍 Walworth · DL2 2LY

Walworth’s ‘Screaming Maid’, traditionally bricked behind a wall by her lover, reportedly stands beside beds. Footsteps climb a vanished staircase, with moans and hair-pulling linked to Room 17 and the former dungeon.

Wandlebury Ring

📍 Wandlebury Country Park, Gog Magog Hills · CB22 3AE

Wandlebury Ring has a medieval legend of a night-riding knight who accepted challenges within the earthwork. Sir Osbert FitzHugh supposedly defeated him, only for the captured horse to disappear at dawn. The location marks the hillfort as a whole, now within a public country park.

Warner Street

📍 Warner Street · BB5 1HN

Local accounts describe flying objects, flickering lights, icy draughts, a shadow figure called Josiah and a Victorian boy with bloodied hands.

Warstone Lane Cemetery

📍 Warstone Lane · B18 6NF

Reports include mist and a pale woman reportedly crossing paths before passing through iron railings. Another account describes a White Lady in a crinoline dress, accompanied by the smell of pear drops, appearing in the cemetery and nearby streets.

Warwick Castle

📍 CV34 4QU

Ghostly figures, strange sounds and unexplained sensations have been reported at Warwick Castle, adding to the site's long supernatural reputation.

Waterford Castle Hotel

📍 The Island, Little Island, Ballinakill · X91 Y722

Reports from Waterford Castle Hotel include strange sounds, fleeting apparitions and unsettling night-time experiences that have contributed to its haunted reputation.

Watergate Inn

📍 24 Walmgate · YO1 9TJ

The pub's folklore includes an apparition known as Green Jenny.

Watford Central Library

📍 WD17 3EU

Ghost stories linked to Watford Central Library include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.

Watford Palace Theatre

📍 20 Clarendon Road · WD17 1JZ

Watford Palace Theatre is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.

Watlington House

📍 44 Watlington Street · RG1 4RJ

Watlington House in Reading is associated with the reported apparition of Captain Edward Purvis in a red uniform, smoking a pipe at a window.

Weald Lane

📍 Weald Lane · 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.

Well Hall

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

Wellington Inn, Preston

Accounts connected with Wellington Inn, Preston describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.

Wellington Street

📍 Wellington Street

The site is associated with multiple ghost stories and unexplained encounters associated with the old street, though the exact number of reported hauntings is uncertain.

Wells Cathedral

📍 Chain Gate, Cathedral Green · BA5 2UE

Accounts connected with Wells Cathedral describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.

Well Walk

📍 Well Walk · NW3 1BT

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.

Wentworth Woodhouse

📍 S62 7TQ

Staff and visitors report the sound of children running, a motionless man, a monk and unexplained doors or bangs around the great house.

West Cliff Theatre

📍 Tower Road · CO15 1LE

Local accounts describe backstage noises, unexplained footsteps and the strong impression of an unseen presence moving through the theatre.

Westcroft Way

📍 Westcroft Way · NW2 2RH

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.

Westgate Hotel

📍 Westgate Buildings, Commercial Street / Stow Hill

Staff and visitors report a black-clad man and self-moving doors among the unexplained phenomena reported inside the historic hotel.

West Hampstead Railway Station

📍 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.

West Lane

Spooky Isles records reports of apparitions, unexplained sounds and other ghostly activity associated with West Lane, Haworth, adding to its haunted reputation.