Lucky Nun
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: If seen, this phantom nun is said to signify a long and lucky life. While working as a porter at the rail station, a young Bob Hoskins saw her... and look what has happened to his career since!
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-06-25
Last updated: 2002-06-25
ID: #1473
General area of The Strand, London.
Baroness Bunett-Coutts
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - General area of The Strand
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: This ghostly old lady has been seen walking along the roads in The Strand, dressed in Edwardian clothing.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-08-21
Last updated: 2002-08-21
ID: #2250
Whistling
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Halfway 2 Heaven public house (was the Golden Cross), Duncannon Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2013
Further Comments: Whistling and other noises have been reported in this 300 year old pub after it has closed.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2013-03-31
Last updated: 2013-03-31
ID: #11308
Egyptian Princess
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Holborn tube station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, late twentieth century?
Further Comments: An Egyptian Princess was said to haunt the British Museum underground station, but when it closed in 1933, her ghostly screams could still be heard emerging from the tunnels at Holborn.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2019-11-02
Last updated: 2019-11-02
ID: #13389
Short Pipe Smoker
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Howard Hotel, Temple Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 06 November 2004, 05:30h
Further Comments: A witness awoke to find a man standing at the end of the bed, looking towards the window. The entity was old with a short stature, with long curly hair and what looked like a long stem pipe in his mouth. After a few seconds the ghost disappeared, like dust motes.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2004-11-13
Last updated: 2004-11-13
ID: #5536
James Street, London.
Mohun
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - James Street
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1647
Further Comments: Attacked and murdered on the way to fight a duel in the countryside, Mr Mohun was seen at the time of his death by a close female friend; his solid looking form walked into her room and then left via the same door, which was locked.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-06-27
Last updated: 2002-06-27
ID: #1511
Lord Mohun
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - James' Street
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 1642
Further Comments: Lord Mohun appeared to a lady walking along this street at the moment he was killed in a duel at Chelsea Fields.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2015-11-17
Last updated: 2015-11-17
ID: #11987
Jenny's Murder
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Jenny's Hole, Adelphi
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Jenny was a prostitute, murdered in 1875 in this area. Her murder can now be heard; screams echo around the area, the sounds of struggle before the air falls deadly silent. Occasionally, a rag covered body is also said to materialise.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-08-22
Last updated: 2002-08-22
ID: #2255
Bag Mover
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Lamb and Flag public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Circa 1980
Further Comments: This pub poltergeist was blamed for moving client's belongings around the establishment and violently swinging a hanging flower basket.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-12-20
Last updated: 2003-12-20
ID: #4765
Non Smoker
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Lemon Tree public house, Bedfordbury
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Broken ashtrays and glasses are often said to be caused by this pub poltergeist.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-12-20
Last updated: 2003-12-20
ID: #4767
Lyceum Theatre, London.
Severed Head in Lap
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Lyceum Theatre
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1880s
Further Comments: A married couple in a box looked down into the stalls and could see, much to their horror, a woman with a severed head resting in her lap. They later recognised the head in a painting of a family which once lived on the site of the theatre. The ghosts of Ellen Terry and William Terriss are also said to haunt the theatre.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-08-14
Last updated: 2002-08-14
ID: #2177
Usherette
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1972
Further Comments: This figure, seen walking along the aisles of the theatre, was killed by a bomb dropped by a zeppelin in the First World War.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-08-25
Last updated: 2003-08-25
ID: #4498
Manager in Brown Suit
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Metropolitan Music Hall, Edgware Road (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Killed in the trenches during the First World War, the manager came back to his beloved theatre, and watched the first performances of new shows to ensure they were up to scratch.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-08-21
Last updated: 2002-08-21
ID: #2249
The National Gallery, London.
Figure Walking
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - National Gallery, gallery 16
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 September 1999
Further Comments: Picked up by CCTV cameras, a dark figure has been observed walking around the gallery at night. Gallery 42 is also said to be haunted; it is believed that a plague pit exists underneath.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-06-13
Last updated: 2002-06-13
ID: #1193
Anna Pavlova
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The debate as to whether the ghostly ballerina to be found here is really Pavlova is still in motion. The building's other entity, Ivor Novello, died in 1951 but still watches performances from the back of the dress circle. Two seats are left unfilled during performances for the ghosts, although during the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child run, the seats were sold as normal.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-09-13
Last updated: 2003-09-13
ID: #4581
Fading Lady
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Peacock Theatre (was Royalty Theatre), Dean Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Lady circa 1934, Dolphin from 1980s onwards?
Further Comments: A woman clothed in an outfit dating from the Queen Anne period is reported to descend the staircase here, slowly fading before she reaches the bottom. A short scream is said to signify her complete disappearance. The female ghost has not recently manifested and appears to have been replaced by the sound of a phantom dolphin which, during life, was kept in a small tank under the stage in the 1930s.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-05
Last updated: 2002-10-05
ID: #2549
Cleaner
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s onwards
Further Comments: The ghost which is said to haunt this cinema is said to clear dirty areas and tweak the volume on films.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2020-05-21
Last updated: 2020-05-21
ID: #13792
Young Girl
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Savoy Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom girl is reputed to haunt the fifth floor of the hotel. The same entity is also connected to a mysterious lift which does not really exist.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2017-05-13
Last updated: 2017-05-13
ID: #12478
Somerset House, London.
Horatio Nelson
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Somerset House, Strand
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Spring (Nelson) (reoccurring), 1972 (woman)
Further Comments: The ghostly figure of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson was said to manifest at Somerset House during Spring months. The entity would stride with purpose across the courtyard, heading towards his former office, but always vanished soon after being spotted. A wispy female ghost has also been spotted on site, drifting along a corridor.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-08-23
Last updated: 2002-08-23
ID: #2260
Running Man
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Staircase leading to a flat along Shaftesbury Avenue
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Possibly early twentieth century
Further Comments: While accompanying a woman he recently met back to her flat, a young man was stunned when a gentleman ran past him in the opposite direction, with a look of horror on his face. The young man turned to see where the man was going, but he had vanished with no obvious place that he could have gone. The young man was shocked and headed home, leaving the woman on the staircase. The young man later found out the flat had a bad reputation and men would be lured there and robbed.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2020-04-21
Last updated: 2020-04-21
ID: #13678
Duel
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Temple (exact location not given)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A certain room in Temple was haunted after a duel left one man dead, the manifestation a repeat of the fight.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2020-02-19
Last updated: 2020-02-19
ID: #13573
Parson Ford
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - The Hummums, Covent Garden (was next door to the New Hummums which is now Tuttons Restaurant)
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: A manservant at these former Turkish baths reported seeing a man he knew on the cellar stairs - it later transpired that the figure had died several days previously.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-11-14
Last updated: 2002-11-14
ID: #3207
Unknown Woman
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Vaudeville Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Box office staff regularly smell a heavy herb-like perfume around them and backstage staff report noises and presences. A workman reported briefly seeing the feet of a woman and the bottom of a cloak pass him by (the rest of the person was obscured) after the building was closed for the night.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-03-10
Last updated: 2005-03-10
ID: #5929
Waterloo Bridge, London.
Headless Man
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Waterloo Bridge, Embankment
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The discovery of human remains near the bridge in the mid-twentieth century resulted in a ghostly apparition appearing for a few weeks after the incident. Earlier in the twentieth century, a criminal spotted a well-dressed young man on the bridge. As the criminal tried to grab the man, the young potential victim vanished.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-08-23
Last updated: 2002-08-23
ID: #2258
Oliver Cromwell
Location: WC2 (Greater London) - Wig and Pen Club, The Strand
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Cromwell is said to return to the bar in search of his head, which was once displayed on a spike nearby. Another ghost, that of a lawyer who committed suicide in the 1800's, has also been spotted in the building.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-08-07
Last updated: 2002-08-07
ID: #2042
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