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Soldier

Location: St Peter Port (Guernsey) - Elizabeth College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local legend says this college is home to a phantom Nazi soldier and, perhaps more tongue in cheek, to a student accidently locked in the library over the summer holidays who starved to death.

Schoolmaster John Cook

Location: Steeple Bumpstead (Essex) - Steeple Bumpstead school
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1832
Further Comments: A pupil watched his recently deceased schoolmaster pass through the closed school gates.

Figure in Hat

Location: Stockport (Greater Manchester) - Stockport Grammar School, Victorian convent house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1964 and onwards
Further Comments: A group photograph taken at the school in 1964 shows a figure in a hat standing at the rear of the group, at an angle otherwise impossible to be caught on film. Witnesses say that the convent house is haunted by footsteps coming from empty parts of the building.

Jack?

Location: Stoneleigh (Surrey) - Road by Nescot College on the Ewell bypass
Type: Other
Date / Time: 14 February 2012
Further Comments: A taxi driver and his three passengers watched a dark figure with no features dart across the road in front of them before leaping four and a half metres into the air to clear an embankment. The passengers compared the entity to Spring Healed Jack.

Young Girl

Location: Sutton in Ashfield (Nottinghamshire) - Forest Glade (former school, now industrial units)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1985
Further Comments: Owners of a textile unit reported encountering a young girl wearing Wellington boots. One member of staff who spotted the ghost reported that the entity said, 'I do not want to go', before vanishing.

Matron

Location: SW1 (Greater London) - Grey Coat School (Hospital)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Stories are still told today about the murdered nurse, and how her ghost walks various parts of the building, scaring the young students.

Keighley Mill Girl

Location: SW7 (Greater London) - British College of Psychic Science (closed 1947), 15 Queen's Gate
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Mid 1925
Further Comments: The so-called 'Keighley Mill Girl' (see Keighley, Yorkshire) stayed here as part of her poltergeist removal treatment. Initially the poltergeist stayed active, moving tables and chairs and breaking dishes in the presence of the woman, but over several weeks the activity slowed and eventually ceased.


Harry Price, from a contemporary newspaper.

Douglas Drew

Location: SW7 (Greater London) - National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 16 Queensberry Place (now College of Psychic Studies)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: February 1928 (Drew), 1926 (Zugun)
Further Comments: Harry Price brought Drew, an eight year old child who apparently had an attached poltergeist which would move chairs, to the centre in an attempt to use the power to induct an electrical current that would shatter glass jars. The test failed. Eleonore Zugun was also tested on the site a year prior; she created apports and demonstrated stigmata-like injuries.

Henry Newman

Location: Torquay (Devon) - Montpellier House (former school)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1885 onwards
Further Comments: At the funeral of Newman, the church organ played itself; since then, his shade has been reported in the vicarage.

Old Landowner

Location: Uckfield (Sussex) - Uckfield Community Technology College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 2001
Further Comments: A local legend says that an old woman hanged herself after she discovered that her home and land would be redeveloped to make way for a new hospital and housing estate. Her ghost was reported to haunt the hospital and has lingered on since the building was converted into a school.

Lady Barrington

Location: W1G (Greater London) - Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Manifesting as a grey lady, the college's ghost is named as Lady Barrington who fell on the main staircase and died of her injuries.

Sarah

Location: W2 (Greater London) - Sarah Siddons School, North Wharf Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The namesake of the building is still around after her death in the 1830s - Sarah has been seen wearing a blue dress and a small hat.

Mr McGraw

Location: Wallasey (Cheshire) - Oldershaw Grammar School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: Dressed in his headmaster's gown, this figure has been both seen and heard on different occasions - when seen by a cleaner, she convinced the caretaker to arm himself with a pistol and search the area!

Scarred Figure

Location: Ware (Hertfordshire) - Presdlaes School woods
Type: Other
Date / Time: Seen 2003?
Further Comments: A locally told story is that of a hooded character wearing a black cape that runs around this wooded area. The ghost's skin is covered with scar marks, and its bright yellow-green eyes have black slit pupils. The entity chases after anyone it meets.

Sobbing

Location: Warwick (Warwickshire) - Gibbet Hill - University of Warwick Halls of Residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The sounds of someone crying hysterically could occasionally be heard in this modern building. One report claimed that the newer halls of residence were built upon a demolished building which housed the bodies of those executed on the hill.

Slow Moving Light

Location: Warwick (Warwickshire) - Warwick University, JM3 Building, central corridor, top floor
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1994
Further Comments: A slow moving and completely silent ball of bright light was seen by a couple of witnesses as it floated across one room, through a wall and into the next room.

Emma Louise

Location: WC1 (Greater London) - Arthur Tattersall House, 119 Gower Street, University College London Halls of Residence
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: An urban myth, it is said that Emma Louise was murdered long ago in tunnels around this building, and that if you say her name three times, her presence makes itself known.

Jeremy Bentham with Dapple

Location: WC1 (Greater London) - University College
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Bentham named his walking cane Dapple, and it never left his side during life. Much the same can be said post-mortem; the man and his stick can be heard or seen walking down the corridors of knowledge after dark.

Marcus Beck

Location: WC1 (Greater London) - University College Hospital
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Before being stolen in January 2001, the portrait of Beck was considered cursed. People who fell asleep under the painting quickly became ill, and in some cases died. It was also said that if the shutters were not closed on the painting at night, a patient would unexpectedly die.

Lizzie Church

Location: WC1 (Greater London) - University College Hospital, Gower Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Lizzie accidentally killed her lover with a morphine overdose when he was admitted as a patient. Years later, her ghost would appear prior to morphine injections as a reminder to be careful. Two buildings along Gower Street itself reported the ghost of a man with a heavily bandaged head.

Human Fireball

Location: Widnes (Cheshire) - Halton College
Type: SHC
Date / Time: 1985
Further Comments: A girl walking down the stairs with a group of friends suddenly burst into flame. They quickly beat the flames out, but she later died of her injuries.


Old postcard showing Worcester Cathedral.

Bear

Location: Worcester (Hereford & Worcester) - Worcester Cathedral and College Green
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Ever since the Civil War there have been reports of a phantom bear that rises as if to attack. One guard is said to have taken a shot at the creature, which of course had no effect.


Number 5 College Street, York.

Crying Girl

Location: York (Yorkshire) - 5 College Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: During one of the outbreaks of plague in the city, a married couple contracted the disease and died. Their only child, a young daughter, remained uninfected. She shouted to passersby for help, but no one would believe that she was clear of the disease; the doorway was bricked up to prevent the plague from spreading, with the young girl and her dead parents still inside. The girl's crying could be heard for days, until the house grew quiet - the girl had eventually starved to death. Now she can be seen looking from the window, and the cries of a young girl heard emerging from the building, even though it is empty.

Coinage

Location: York (Yorkshire) - Dance school attached to St Mary's Church, Bishop Hill Junior
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sounds of coins being poured onto a table and into a metal box have been reported coming from this building.

Young Person

Location: York (Yorkshire) - Milthorpe School
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 March 2003
Further Comments: At least one student at the school has heard soft whisperings and seen a shadowy young person move quickly away from them.

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