The Paranormal Database

Lady in Red

Location: Upper Halling - Black Boy public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: While the normal pub poltergeist activities also apply here (visitors have been poked and electrical appliances have been unplugged), there have also been sightings of a woman in red drifting silently near the staircase and of a child in the upper part of the building.

Little Drummer Boy

Location: Upper Halling - Wooded area in the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: July & August 2004 (dusk)
Further Comments: Local children have reported hearing drumming in an area which is believed to be haunted by a young drummer who died there.

Shouting

Location: West Malling - Old police station (former Victorian building)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2004
Further Comments: When this large Victorian building was in the process of being decommissioned, a single police officer would be based there during the night shift. One officer working late heard a male voice shouting and furniture being moved and thrown around upstairs. The officer followed the sounds, and upon reaching a room where the noise seemed to be coming from, flung the door open. The shouting suddenly ceased, and the room was found completely devoid of life. Mentioning the event a few days later to a colleague, the officer was told he was not the first to have an experience at the site.

Kitted Out Airman

Location: West Malling - Old World War 2 Airfield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: The haunt of a Second World War airman, this figure may also be to blame for throwing bricks at passing vehicles.

Two Thirds of a Man

Location: West Malling - Police House, West Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June or July 2006
Further Comments: A police officer spotted the bottom two thirds of a figure on the staircase of this building. The figure wore soft leather boots, a long black cape and a silver doublet with a sword hanging from it. The figure disappeared up the stairs. The officer gave chase, but no one could be found - the only way out was back past the officer.

Jack Diamond

Location: West Peckham - Diamond's Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Friday 13, 06.30h (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Jack Diamond was a highwayman - his ghost, and maybe those of others, have been seen here on the unluckiest dates in the calendar.

Fair Rosamund, painted by Edward Burne-Jones.

Rosamund Clifford

Location: Westenhanger - Westenhanger Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Midnight, although last sighting unknown
Further Comments: The mistress of King Henry II, known as 'one of the great beauties of the 12th Century', returned after death and would occasionally walk along the top of the castle wall.

Winston

Location: Westerham - Chartwell
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen and spoken to by his son Randolph, Sir Winston Churchill's ghost sat in a leather armchair in the studio in the garden.

Slamming Doors

Location: Westerham - Rooks Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 1970, onwards
Further Comments: This spirit was often heard walking down the corridor, and opening and closing doors. Pets often watched an invisible presence walk through the living room.

Dog

Location: Westerham - Rystead House (aka Manor House)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1950s
Further Comments: One former owner of the property claimed to have seen a phantom dog run up the staircase and disappear into a room that was known as the 'ghost room'. The room had the reputation of being haunted by a resident who took his own life after some romantic related rejection.

Footsteps

Location: Whitstable - Deco 5 wine bar, Oxford Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: March 2009
Further Comments: Builders working on the building heard footsteps crossing an upper story floor which had just been removed. Doors have also been heard to bang shut unaided by human hand, and an electrician left the site after his lamp was thrown through the air.

The town of Whitstable, Kent.

Satan Takes a Town

Location: Whitstable - General area
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Whitstable was founded after the Devil tried to steal the buildings of Canterbury - he was caught, and dropped the stolen houses eight miles away, where they stayed.

Organ Music

Location: Whitstable - George Fitt Social Club, Tankerton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1954
Further Comments: Members of the George Fitt Social Club heard organ music fill the room and initially thought it to have come from the nearby former cinema, until they investigated and found the site empty.

Little Creature with Glowing Eyes

Location: Wichling - Wooded area and the church
Type: Other
Date / Time: 2003
Further Comments: A group of four people in the church yard at night reported seeing a small entity with glowing red eyes run by them. They quickly left after hearing a strange whistling and watching a fast moving cloud cover the area. There are other stories which involve small figures seen standing by the edge of the woods.

Dueller or Lover

Location: Willesborough - Boy's Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Woman unknown, others 1970s
Further Comments: After discovering his wife had been seduced by an Irishman, an officer duelled and killed her lover. Several years later, the wife discovered the body, and realised the Irishman was in fact a woman. The spirit of a woman now walks the area, though none can say for sure which woman it is. Footsteps would also be heard walking through sealed doorways, locked doors would be found open, and a poltergeist lifted a radio off a shelf in front of one witness before smashing it on the floor.

Padding Dog

Location: Willesborough - The Moat manor house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This invisible hound has been heard walking around the building. It is said to leave a tranquil air in its wake.

Blue Woman

Location: Wingham - Private house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 30 August 2010, around 15:00h
Further Comments: A woman spotted the apparition of a lady wearing blue clothing move through the driveway and approach the back door. The woman opened the door, but the lady had vanished. Another occupier of the property had also seen the same figure but had dismissed the sighting as a 'trick of the eye'.

Suicide

Location: Wingham - The Red Lion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost which once haunted this building has not been seen for many years - it was thought to be the phantom of a man who committed suicide, who looked like any other person until he vanished suddenly.

Fish Fall

Location: Wrotham - A field in Cranstead (exact area not known)
Type: Other
Date / Time: April 1666
Further Comments: Spread across a two-acre field, fish were found that were said to have rained down from the sky during a thunderstorm. Around thirty-six litres of fish were collected, each creature the size of a little finger.

Door Opener

Location: Wrotham - Wrotham House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1880
Further Comments: The spirit here would patrol the building, opening any door that was closed before 1am. Two overnight guests who stayed awake to see the entity responsible for this behaviour were not disappointed - they watched a grey man open their guest room door at midnight, enter the bedroom and gaze out of the window before laughing hysterically.

Red Car

Location: Wye - Car park opposite Devil's Kneading Trough
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 06 July 2007
Further Comments: A witness watched a red car enter and park up just before the vehicle was lost from sight as a fog bank briefly thickened. As the fog cleared, the car had gone - the witness had not heard an engine nor the wheels crunch on the loose stony surface of the park.

A Man of Wealth & Taste

Location: Wye - Devil's Kneading Trough
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A legend says that if you walk around the Devil's Kneading Trough seven times then drink the water from the natural spring, you will see the Old Nick.

Chain

Location: Wye - Olantigh Mount
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: 1890s
Further Comments: The chains heard rattling somewhere underground in this area were said to belong to the devil. One story said an underground tunnel existed in the area.

Hooves

Location: Wye - Olantigh Mount, and area near Olantigh Towers (country house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1890s, and June - September 1931, between 21:00h-22:30
Further Comments: Working in the area of Olantigh Mount in the 1890s, a group of women heard a horse galloping towards them. The women all jumped to one side, expecting to be run down, but no horse could be seen. In 1931, two separate witnesses on different dates heard a horse approach before the sound suddenly ceased when near, once again with no creature visible. One witness claimed the phenomenon occurred three times during their journey, with a few minutes separating each event.

Voices

Location: Wye - Wall outside Olantigh Towers (country house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1916
Further Comments: A gamekeeper at the house would hear clear and distinct talking along the wall but could never see anyone. Laughter would be heard quickly moving along the top of the wall and ceasing at the end.