The Paranormal Database

Watch Your Glass

Location: Bala (Gwynedd) - White Lion Royal Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: An entity in the bar is said to knock over unwatched glasses. One story says that at some point in the murky past, a fire at the hotel killed a couple of people who now haunt their former room.

Lady in Grey

Location: Ballater (Aberdeenshire) - Pannanich Wells Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Drifting around the hotel, the grey figure in a sweeping skirt is thought to be mostly harmless.

Lady Isobel Shaw

Location: Ballygally (County Antrim) - Ballygally Castle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Lady Isobel jumped to her death from an upper window to escape a slow lingering death administrated by her husband. She now knocks on various doors before running away. Madame Nixon is named as another ghost to be found here and can be recognised by the rustling of her dress.

Carrie

Location: Ballymena (County Antrim) - Tullyglass Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Carrie is believed to have died in the tower around two hundred years ago when the Tullyglass was a mansion house.

Horace

Location: Bampton (Oxfordshire) - Talbot Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid-to-late-twentieth century
Further Comments: A former member of staff, Horace still turns up on occasion to keep an eye on the newer employees.

Grey Lady

Location: Barnby Moor (Nottinghamshire) - Ye Olde Bell Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: Seen in the ballroom, staircase and along corridors, this grey wraith is said to resemble a woman. A ghostly man, mistaken for being real, has been seen entering one of the rooms, though he can never be found, while some guests have reported mild poltergeist activity.

Walking Woman

Location: Basingstoke (Hampshire) - Red Lion Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1989 - 1995
Further Comments: Former manager Robert Rutherford claimed that he had encountered a ghostly woman wearing a ruffled dress multiple times while working at the hotel. Cleaning staff would also encounter the figure sitting on beds.

Francis Hotel, Bath.

Housekeeper

Location: Bath (Somerset) - Francis Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Maid unknown, other experiences 03/04 January 2013
Further Comments: As the guide on the Bath tour bus will tell you, this hotel is haunted by a former housekeeper who, in a state of depression, hanged herself. Two guests at the hotel in 2013 spent a restless night after scratching and tapping from inside their room kept them awake, and a hot water bottle was swept off the table.

Misty Lady

Location: Bath (Somerset) - Grosvenor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The appearance of this female phantom is accompanied by a sharp drop in temperature. Footfalls are also reported.

Theatre Royal, Bath.

Grey Lady

Location: Bath (Somerset) - Theatre Royal & Garrick's Head Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December (butterfly) (reoccurring), Grey Lady last seen 1975
Further Comments: An actress killed herself in the hotel in the 1880s after discovering her husband had murdered her secret lover. The actress's last performance at the theatre occurred a few hours before her death, a role which required her to wear a grey feather dress - the same clothing her ghost still wears as it patrols the theatre and hotel. Her phantom may have last been seen in 1975. A dainty butterfly is also reported to haunt the theatre, manifesting briefly once a year on Christmas Day.

Grey Lady

Location: Bathgate (Lothian) - Former Bridgecastle Hotel (now converted into flats)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little is known about the grey phantom woman who once haunted this hotel.

Woman and Child

Location: Bawtry (Yorkshire) - Crown Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: A manager at the hotel called in a ghost hunting group after a phantom woman was seen walking along the upper corridor, and a ghostly young child was reported sitting in the corner of the restaurant.

David Pritchard

Location: Beddgelert (Gwynedd) - Royal Goat Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A landlord of the hotel whose inventiveness made him quite wealthy in the late eighteenth century, David sometimes walks the corridors admiring the source of his income.

Walking

Location: Beighton (Yorkshire) - Cumberland Head Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sound of phantom footsteps moving across the bedroom at night was too much for one landlady, and she relocated to another part of the building.

Figure in Black

Location: Bellochantuy (Argyll and Bute) - Argyll hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2021, late 1990s
Further Comments: A guest awoke to the sounds of quiet laughter and rummaging. As the guest sat up, they spotted a black-clad figure who vanished when the light was switched on. The guest searched the room but no one was there. After they returned to bed, the guest watched several small balls of light flit around the room. Another visitor to the hotel during the late 1990s reported on a local forum that he had witnessed a dark figure walking around his room before vanishing. The nephew of former owners believed the site to be haunted.

Door Opener

Location: Belston (Devon) - Tors Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Late Twentieth century
Further Comments: This polt is blamed for slamming doors in the upper part of the building.

Whispering Shadow

Location: Betws y Coed (Clwyd) - Royal Oak Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2012
Further Comments: A shadow has been seen moving and a voice heard whispering 'where' or 'why'. A visiting medium observed a nun sitting outside one room.

Nun

Location: Bidford (Warwickshire) - Salford Hall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The nun was murdered in the hotel and has yet to check out.

Drunken Cavalier

Location: Billinge (Lancashire) - Stork Hotel (aka Stork Inn)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This drunken Cavalier was once seen in the men's toilets and can sometimes be heard moving around at night.

Woman with Long Blonde Hair

Location: Birchingham (Kent) - Court Mount Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 03:00h (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Said to be quite pleasant to watch, this beautiful wraith in her white dress disappears into a bedroom wall. The sounds of phantom footsteps have also been reported.

Moving Elevator

Location: Birkdale (Lancashire) - Palace Hotel (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 1969
Further Comments: The hotel, in particular the lift and the second floor, suffered from ghostly activity while demolition of the building was occurring; the lift often moved on its own accord (or failed to move when required), even though all power to the building had been cut. The ghost was named as the designer of the building, who leapt from the roof after he discovered the hotel had been built facing the wrong way.

Woman on the Stairs

Location: Blackpool (Lancashire) - Unknown hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: The sounds of heavy furniture being dragged across wooden floors has been reported here, even though all the floors are carpeted. Doors are heard to open and close themselves, and an apparition of a woman has been spotted on the staircase.

Female Spook

Location: Blackwood (Y Coed Duon) (Gwent) - Monkey Tree Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This female phantom is said to be most active in rooms 7, 8 and 9.

Miner

Location: Blaenau Ffestiniog (Gwynedd) - Queen's Hotel (currently known as Gwesty Ty Gorsaf)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A story based in this hotel says that a workman fled while refurbishing the building after he came face to face with a phantom miner.

Dorothy Foster

Location: Blanchland (Northumberland) - Lord Crewe Arms Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2002
Further Comments: Dorothy's brother escaped to France in 1715, and her ghost looks for someone who will take a message to him. The ghost of a monk dressed in white has been seen and heard moving things around in the Radcliffe Room.