Rotating Stone

Location: Colwall - Stone in the centre of the village
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Every night at midnight (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Old Nick appears at midnight every night to turn the stone around.

Booted Person

Location: Cropthorne - Unknown private house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Always heard, never seen, this entity would walk through the house, climb the stairs, and end the trip once reaching the attic.

Black Rain

Location: Crowle - General area
Type: Other
Date / Time: 3 May 1884
Further Comments: This downpour of blackened water was so intense that local streams were still black 24 hours after it had resided.

The Hummadruz

Location: Dorstone - Arthur's Stone
Type: Other
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: For a number of years people have reported hearing a strange humming sound around this area, without apparent cause.

Terrified Woman

Location: Drakes Broughton - Residence along Walcott Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, but said to be a monthly occurrence
Further Comments: Entering the house from the rear, this phantom is said to vanish after passing the door to the living room. She appears to be running from something or someone, and looks terrified.

Cavalier

Location: Droitwich - Three unnamed house on Chawsen estate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1979
Further Comments: Several residents from houses on this council estate reported seeing a ghostly Cavalier in their respective properties - one man watched the entity walk through a wall.

Drink

Location: Elmley Castle - Bambury (aka Banbury aka Bembury) Stone
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Midnight (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The stone is said to travel down to the nearby River Avon for a quick drink at midnight.

Lynx

Location: Evesham - Area around Unipart site, Shinehill Lane
Type: ABC
Date / Time: Spring 2006
Further Comments: A brown, pointed eared cat was spotted on this site by a security guard, the third such sighting at this location.

Sound of Silver

Location: Evesham - River
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Hidden in the river when the local abbey was closed for business in 1539, the silver bells still sing their song around Christmas.

Colin

Location: Evesham - Spiritus, 85 High Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Named Colin, this shop phantom is said to move furniture and throws items around.

Snuff Box

Location: Garnstone - Unknown pond (may no longer exist) and Field's End
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a farmer who committed suicide would manifest in the form of a calf. During an exorcism, the entity was trapped within a snuff box - the container was thrown into a pond, where ghost and box still remain.

Drowning Lovers

Location: Goodrich - Goodrich Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A failed escape from Cromwellian soldiers resulted in a young officer and his lover drowning in the river Wye. Their ghosts, mounted on horseback, have been reported struggling in the river. Both people have also been standing in the ruins of the nearby castle.

Unlucky Strike

Location: Graveley - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Devil tried to throw several lumps of earth at Stevenage - he missed the town, but one of the shots knocked down the steeple at Graveley church.

Friar's Curse

Location: Great Malvern - Ragged Stone Hill
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Falling insane after penance took its toll, a friar cursed the church and anyone who stood in its shadow. Another tale reports it is the rock summit of Raggedstone Hill that casts the cursed shadow.

Devil with his Pack

Location: Halesowen - Between town and Lickey Hills
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: When boars lived wild, the Devil would periodically come out hunting with his hell hounds. They patrolled this area, inducing nightmares in any witness careless enough to watch them.

Emma Vernon

Location: Hanbury - Country Girl inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1981
Further Comments: This local lass drowned herself in the village pond, now covered over. She was blamed for a brief poltergeist outbreak in the bar during the early eighties.

Quaker

Location: Hereford - Churchill Gardens
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 2002
Further Comments: Passing through the gardens on the way home, a witness described the phantom Quaker which he encountered as taking more form the longer he looked at it. The entity appeared to be pointing in the direction he was walking.

Herbalist

Location: Hereford - Seventeenth century house in town centre, towed into a new location in 1966, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After accidentally killing his assistant via overdose, the herbalist who worked here then took his own life. His ghost has haunted it since.

White Monk

Location: Hereford - St Peter's Square and Hereford Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s
Further Comments: A phantom monk moves away from the area of the war memorial, and heads towards the cathedral. Once at the destination, the phantom vanishes through the oak door. The ghost was observed by two policemen during the 1930s. The unnatural monk has also been spotted moving around the cathedral, normally in December. It is also worth noting that while normally dressed in white, other reports state the ghost wears dark clothing.

Old Taylor

Location: Hereford - White Cross and Morning Pit
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly figure is reputed to walk around the area.

Devil Hound

Location: Hergest - Hergust Court, now a farmhouse
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Prior to death in family
Further Comments: This hound would appear to members of the Vaughan family before one of their number died. It is said that when Black Vaughan was beheaded in 1483, his faithful hound seized and ran off with the head. The creature is said to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write 'Hound of the Baskervilles'.

Lady Hobbingdon

Location: Hindlip - Hindlip Hall (original building no longer standing) and grounds
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 October (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The shade of the Lady, together with a phantom white calf, would be seen moving around the house revealing all the secret priest holes once a year - during life she performed the same task, feeding those who hid within. The grounds are now said to be haunted by a young girl wearing a tartan dress, quietly crying and looking for her mother.

Black Lady

Location: Holt - Holt Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Workers in the castle were too scared to visit the attic, where it is said the ghost haunts. The basement in turn is haunted by a raven that attacks any source of light taken down there.

Lady de Wintour

Location: Huddington - Huddington Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 January (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This decapitated shade still mourns the passing of her husband Robert Wintour - he was executed for playing a part in the Gunpowder Plot.

Cat Attack

Location: Inkberrow - St Peter's churchyard
Type: ABC
Date / Time: December 1993
Further Comments: While hunting for the locally named 'Beast of Inkberrow', Nick and Sally Dyke discovered the cat in the churchyard - it knocked Nick over and took a swipe at Sally before running off. She was left with three ten centimetre long claw marks down one side.