The Paranormal Database

Rocking Clock

Location: Cookham - Eldon Hall, a part of Moor Hall
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1945
Further Comments: Bob Monkhouse, the UK entertainer, worked here during the Second World War as an animator. He shared a house with several people. Monkhouse said that one morning, at a few minutes to two, the entire household woke to deathly silence. Just after a grandfather clock struck two, the large timepiece began violently rocking and was pushed over by an unseen force.

White Stag

Location: Cookham - Maidenhead Rd, off Whyteladyes Lane
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: March, Mid 1990s
Further Comments: While driving under the railway bridge, a couple braked hard as a white stag ran in front of their car. Believing they had hit the animal, the two people jumped out of the car but saw the stag running away along the road. A woman, a short distance away past whom the stag would have run, did not see anything.

Nun

Location: Cookham - Whiteladyes Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The lane is said to have taken its name from a local legend of a phantom nun who haunts the area.

Vicar

Location: Cookham Dean - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1979
Further Comments: A dark shadow that generated a 'being watched' feeling in the church was named as a former vicar.

Man in Antlers

Location: Cookham Dean - Common
Type: Manifestation of the Living
Date / Time: Summer, 1920s
Further Comments: A woman walking her two dogs spotted a man wearing a pair of antlers emerging from undergrowth. Her hounds were afraid of the figure, but she followed the figure, and watched as his vanished into an oak tree.

Figures

Location: Crowthorne - Crowthorne Station
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local story says that the bodies of fallen Second World War soldiers would be temporarily stored at the station during their transport home. Phantom figures are occasionally seen on the platform, and mild poltergeist activity reported around the area.

Something on the Track

Location: Crowthorne - Railway line between Crowthorne and Wokingham
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several train drivers have reportedly hit something on the track while travelling at speed. Expecting to find pieces of body, when investigated, there is nothing there...

Creature from Curridge

Location: Curridge - Passageway behind the Women's Institute Hall
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: October 2012
Further Comments: A sixty centimetre tall, long necked creature was seen by Don Prater as he walked his dog. He described the creature as being dark or grey in colour, having a head like a deer, a neck similar to a swan and a bushy tail. The picture he sketched of the creature resembled an alpaca, although all local alpacas were accounted for.

A ghostly woman in white.

Dazzling Woman

Location: Darchet - Old Monastery between Darchet and Old Windsor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1923
Further Comments: A woman bathed in dazzling white was seen close to these ruins. A myth says that a golden carriage is buried somewhere nearby.

Partying

Location: Datchet - High Street and area around old Datchet Bridge (demolished 1848)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s, 2014
Further Comments: A story states that a coach containing many partygoers and pulled by horses came off the old bridge and ell into the river during the early nineteenth century. All the partygoers drowned. The ghostly coach may have been seen twice during the 1960s, while in 2014, three people on a boat heard galloping and partying which ended suddenly with screams and splashing. The witnesses investigated the area but were unable to find anything.

Couple

Location: Datchet - Monastery (destroyed 1920s, only a wall currently remains)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1930
Further Comments: A pair of ghosts, one a woman in bright white clothing, the other a tall man dressed in black, were said to sing in the monastery garden before vanishing through a wall.

Frozen Handprint

Location: Datchet - Royal Stag public house
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Last seen February 2000?
Further Comments: Belonging to a small child who froze to death outside the pub, a handprint appears on the outside of a window when it becomes covered in ice. A tour guide reported seeing the hand along with fifty three other people.

Footsteps

Location: Earley - Wooden Hill House (former grammar school)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: Writing in the Bracknell Times, one journalist claimed his former school to be haunted by footsteps that could be heard on the staircase, although also declared any ghost likely to have been imagined by overactive imaginations.

Powlett Wright

Location: Englefield - Englefield House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Powlett, a former owner of the house, was said to haunt the building and a tunnel, which is now bricked up.

Grey Lady

Location: Eton - Cockpit Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A petite lady in grey was said to haunt this building.

An old postcard of Eton College.

Jane Shore

Location: Eton - Eton College - Lupton's Tower and the Cloisters
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Shore, who manifests as a grey lady, is said to haunt the tower where she died in 1526.

Mrs Hester

Location: Eton - Private residence, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: Hester would be heard to walk around her old bedroom and down the staircase, where her rustling skirt could also be detected. The ghost would also bang doors closed, though her old bedroom door would always open itself.

Man in Brown

Location: Eton - Private residence, High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This home was shared with a little elderly man dressed in brown. He is thought to be a former doctor and has been described as non-threatening.

Overwhelming Fear

Location: Eton - Road leading to Windsor
Type: Other
Date / Time: December 2002, around 19:30h
Further Comments: While travelling from Eton to Windsor, a delivery driver turned down a dark trafficless road and was overwhelmed by fear, which slowly became absolute terror. The feeling receded when the driver reached a roundabout and was able to turn off.

Suicide

Location: Eton - Thomas's Hairdressers
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a young man who committed suicide is said to haunt part of this hairdressers.

Modern Figure

Location: Eton - Three Tuns Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: As well as the unsurprising poltergeist experiences, one member of the cleaning staff encountered a normal looking man in modern clothing in at bar - he faded away shortly after being spotted.

A ghostly policeman returns.

Policeman

Location: Eton - Waterworks, Tangier Island
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Second World War
Further Comments: The local policeman would stop and share a cup of tea with the night watchman every night. However, for two consecutive nights, the watchman heard the policeman arrive on his bike and walk towards the office, but the officer did not actually appear. The watchman mentioned this to a co-worker the following day, who informed him the policeman had died a couple of nights previous.

Hamilton Pye

Location: Faringdon - All Saint's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: Pye lost his head in a naval battle before being buried here - his shade has been seen both in the church and churchyard cradling the missing object. Another version of the tale claims the headless entity is one of the Unton family who lost his head during the Civil War.

Wind and Shadows

Location: Faringdon - Oriel Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1964
Further Comments: This entity apparently made itself visible to a group of twenty or so witnesses while out on a vigil. The presence was exorcised, as the matriarch of the family living there was afraid of having a breakdown.

Window Tapper

Location: Faringdon - Unnamed cottage
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1963
Further Comments: Even though the family at this site left to escape the strange tapping and howling which haunted them, the sounds followed them to their new abode - they moved back and asked the local vicar to perform an exorcism. After the rite was carried out, the sounds ceased.