Pale Lady

Location: Rowarth - Long Lee Farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom woman in white who once frequently walked through walls and closed doors may be connected to the 'Boggart Room', where an infant's coffin was kept to avoid paying Shroud Tax.

Soldier

Location: Rowsley - Rail station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: Members of the Society For Paranormal Research claimed to have seen a man dressed in soldier's uniform walking along the track, only to vanish when they went to investigate.

Lady in Victorian Clothes

Location: Shardlow - The Lady in Grey public house, Wilne Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Rumoured to haunt the pub, the lady in the title has been seen several times, or felt as she pushes past those in her way.

Invisible Pusher

Location: Shardlow - The Malt Shovel, The Wharf
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: During renovation work on the property, workers reported being pushed, nipped and poked by an invisible entity.

Farmer with Lantern

Location: Shatton - Area near the Noe Bridge, and other general areas
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: Wearing a long smock and carrying a lantern, this bearded farmer once put in fleeting appearances around the hamlet.

Wilfred Hales

Location: Shirebrook - Shirebrook Colliery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1958
Further Comments: Two separate miners reported seeing the glowing form of Wilfred Hales, a worker at the colliery who had died three years previous.

Man in Black

Location: Smisby - Forties Lane
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1967
Further Comments: Walking the area in silence, this phantom is described as dressed in a long open jacket with many small buttons, a waistcoat, tie, short trousers with matching stockings and a top hat.

Blue Lady

Location: Spondon - Church and Vicarage of St Werburgh
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: The blonde lady wearing a blue dress has been seen (and once photographed) within the church and leaving the building via the vestry door. The vicarage is home to an old lady, monk and bishop. A local legend speaks of the 'Devils Gravestone', which from the nearby path you can see the image of Old Nick upon, but up close there is nothing.

The Nine Ladies

Location: Stanton - Moor
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A small stone circle, it is said that a fiddler and nine women were turned into this stones for dancing on the Sabbath.

Sarah Harrington

Location: Staveley - The Hagge (former mansion, now a farm house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Harrington was a former Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta, and is thought to be the phantom woman in white who haunts this building. A mighty oak which stood in the garden was thought to scream and bled when cut; unfortunately the tree blew down during a gale in 1883.

Hooded Figure

Location: Stoney Middleton - Jacob's Ladder (an old, steep bridle road)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s?
Further Comments: A young driver was left in a state of shock after he watched a cloaked figure wearing a hood pass through a stone wall and continue heading towards the Riley slate mine.

Old Man

Location: Stoney Middleton - Sallet Hole Mine
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wayne Anthony, in Haunted Derbyshire and the Peak District, writes that an elderly gentleman in flat cap and long coat takes his dog for a walk around the mine. The apparitions quickly vanish when seen.

Harp Player

Location: Stubley - Stubley Old Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Appearing once a year, the shade of Fatima gently pucks her harp strings. A Roundhead has been reported less regularly, while a young girl skips around the fields outside.

Footsteps

Location: Sutton Scarsdale - Scarsdale Hall (ruined)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Wayne Anthony, in Haunted Derbyshire and the Peak District, writes that the sounds of echoing footfalls have been reported coming from this shell of a former grand hall. Strange floating lights have also been seen after dark.

Monk with Golden Cross

Location: Sutton Wood - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 1970s
Further Comments: On separate occasions, several people in the area had encountered a ghostly monk wearing a large golden cross.

Water Spirit

Location: Swarkestone - River Trent, near Swarkestone Bridge
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The water elemental which frequents these waters is said to require three lives annually to remain pacified. The bridge was built, they say, by two young ladies who saw their lovers taken by the spirit and acted to ensure no one suffered the same loss.

Isaac

Location: Taddington - Taddington Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Isaac 1940s, farmer said to be seen every Monday at dusk
Further Comments: Isaac and his brother ran a Hessian production line in the hall's saddle room, until Isaac's body was found with his throat slit - the sibling was found guilty of the crime. Isaac's phantom voice was heard trying to calm a panicked horse down near the stables, many years after his death. In addition to Isaac's ghost, a phantom farmer rides home every Monday - in the dim and distant past he fell off his horse while drunk and broke his neck.

Blonde Woman

Location: Tideswell - Churchyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom fair-haired lass rises from her grave and travels towards Wheston Hall, where she once concealed her husband's body after murdering him.

Sarah

Location: Tideswell - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: Sarah was a fifty-five year old Victorian barmaid whose husband went missing. She continues to search for him. One story suggests that her appearance during a party in the 1930s successfully scared all the guests away!

Hymns

Location: Tideswell - Stone Chapel
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This old oratory was haunted by the sounds of singing, normally before the death of an important villager. The voices would sound as if they moved down the archway and faded away once reaching the church porch.

Mina FitzHerbert

Location: Tissington - Tissington Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1862 onwards
Further Comments: Young Mina set herself alight with a candle and later died from her injuries. Her ghost is said to make itself known to members of the family.

Headless Rider

Location: Tunstead - Manifold Valley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nights of the full moon (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A beautiful white horse carrying a headless rider gallops across the valley when the night sky is right. The phantom is either a peddler or a soldier, depending on the legend.

Way In

Location: Tunstead - Thor's Cave, Manifold Valley
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wayne Anthony, in Haunted Derbyshire and the Peak District, writes that hidden within the cave is an entrance to the fairy kingdom, though one needs to possess second sight to find it. A Roman centurion also haunts the cave, and is said to guard the mouth.

Homely Skull

Location: Tunstead Milton - Flagg Hall
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The home of another screaming skull, the building would echo with the sounds of cries and moans if the morbid item was removed.

Large Dog

Location: Turnditch - Unnamed lane, and Carsington Water
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 02 September 2008
Further Comments: During a thunderstorm, a driver spotted a large black dog cross the road ahead and move down a residential lane. The driver stopped to look for the hound, but it had vanished. A phantom black dog is said to haunt the nearby Carsington Water.