The Paranormal Database

Stomping Boot

Location: Harreitsham - Ringlestone Tavern
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Varies: Summer & Winter (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The sounds of someone stomping on the cellar steps have been heard, stopping just prior to reaching the top.

Stretcher

Location: Harrietsham - Railway ticket office
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Post-Second World War
Further Comments: Removing the wartime stretcher from the wall is said to result in unseen hands vandalising the office.

Tall Man glowing Blue

Location: Hartley - A229, heading towards Maidstone
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 26 June 1999
Further Comments: This ghostly man with blonde hair and a blue tint stood in the road; an incoming vehicle had to violently swerve to avoid the figure. When the driver realised the man had vanished, he quickly drove off. There has also been a report of a phantom woman with long blonde hair along the A229, said to have been a bride killed one day prior to her wedding day.

Elderly Man

Location: Hawkhurst - Wish Stream
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 19 May 2013
Further Comments: Walking a short distance behind an older man with long white hair, this witness briefly looked down, during which time the old man vanished. Barbed wire fencing on either side of the path suggested the figure had not turned off.

Engine

Location: Hawkinge - Skies over the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Sounding like it belongs to a Second World War aircraft, the engine has been heard in the skies, but nothing ever seen. One witness claimed it sounded like a doodlebug - a Second World War German rocket.

Sitting Woman

Location: Herne Bay - Bun Penny public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom lady reputedly sits on a staircase in the building, though she does like to walk around the building and the garden.

Off the coast of Herne Bay, Kent.

Monster Pursuit

Location: Herne Bay - Coast
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Summer 1935
Further Comments: Crowds of holiday makers watched several boats chase a sea serpent across the bay. The creature was said to be brown and yellow in colour, and about twenty feet (six metres) long. It managed to evade and escape the pursuers.

Alfred Potter

Location: Herne Bay - Divers Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2006
Further Comments: The Ghost Search UK team reported four entities located here; Alfred Potter (a former banker), a short Victorian woman, and two children.

Shuffling Figure

Location: Herne Bay - Pier
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012
Further Comments: A shuffling figure is said to haunt the part of the pier which has been cut off from the main section after a storm in 1979. In 2012 a video was released on YouTube purporting to show this entity, although it is more likely that the figure is a real person who used a boat to land on the isolated section.

Men Talking

Location: Herne Bay - Private cottage, near Bullockstone Road (area redeveloped, may no longer stand)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa February 1968
Further Comments: This haunting restricted itself to the sounds of men talking, with the occasional burst of song. The occupant reported the voices could be heard day or night and sounded to be in high spirits.

Bedroom Entity

Location: Herne Bay - Private residence at Margaret Court
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: November 2011
Further Comments: This is Kent website reported that a retired nursing home assistant was being haunted by an entity which groped her at night and would shake the mattress. The Herne Bay Times arranged a visit from a couple of ghost hunters to banish the spirit.

Jesus

Location: Herne Bay - Private residence, Greenhill Gardens
Type: Other
Date / Time: October 2012
Further Comments: Reported in the local press, after Kenny Iddenden moved his fridge he found an image of Jesus on the wall, formed out of mould. After photographing the find, he wiped it away.

Misty Figure

Location: Herne Bay - Thornden Wood Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1986
Further Comments: A motorcyclist riding along the road experienced their lights failing, quickly followed by the engine cutting out and the breaks of their bike jamming. The rider managed to keep her balance, and then watched as a misty human shape crossed the road. The figure moved from left to right and was followed by the sound of large dogs. As the sound of the dogs faded, the motorcyclist started to push the bike and managed a bump start.

Woman with Burnt Hands

Location: Herne Common - Fox and Hounds public house, Canterbury Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This horrid looking woman has had the skin burnt off her face and hands. She is accompanied by the smell of dead burning flowers, and a drop in temperature.

Anne Boleyn

Location: Hever - Bridge over the Eden
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Boleyn's spirit crosses the bridge once a year. The area is also haunted by a farmer, robbed and murdered nearby.

Pilot?

Location: Higham - Canal Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Several times in 2010s, between 19:00h - 20:00h
Further Comments: Several dog walkers had seen a man dressed in black with a white stripe on his outfit along this road, his silence when spoken to a topic of discussion between the pet owners. One dog owner then reported that the man had disappeared in front of their eyes and refused to walk his dog in the same area. One person researched the area and found that a German aircraft had crashed here, speculating that the man in black was a pilot.

Goat

Location: Higham - Gads Hill Place
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: During a book lecture, Alfred Tennyson Dickens claimed that servants at his home had threatened to leave after being scared by a ghost. Dickens and his sons investigated and discovered a strange sounding white shape, which transpired to be an aging goat.

Shadows

Location: Hoath - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2014
Further Comments: Kent Arboreal reported working on a site which was plagued by bangs, knocks, and darting shadows. Another supplier refused to be on the site alone. On one occasion, after a loud bang occurred when workers and the owner were present, the owner asked witnesses not to say anything.

Little Man

Location: Hollingbourne - Eyhorne Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Poltergeist circa 1970, others unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a small man has been seen, while disembodied footsteps have been heard in the grounds, and in the bedroom invisible clothing has been heard moving. Poltergeist activity was encountered around 1970, when the family reported that something would lift items from surfaces and drop them to the floor. It may be in this building that the ghost of Catherine Howard has also been seen.

Galloping

Location: Hollingbourne - Hollingbourne House, north of village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Heard only at night (and it is said seen only during the day) a ghostly horseman haunts the north part of the village, near where he failed to jump a gate, breaking his neck in the process.

Jet Black Car

Location: Hook Green - Road from village leading to Bell's Yew Green
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This dark limousine has been watched moving silently down the road, disappearing if another car comes too close.

Robert the Wizard

Location: Hothfield - Estate near Hothfield Common
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: A highwayman of local fame and folklore, the headless ghost of Robert appeared to a local woman who had recently moved to her new home.

Landlady

Location: Hythe - Bell Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The inn is reputedly home to a grey lady, who was a former landlady who died in childbirth, and two revenue men whose bodies were hidden within the building.

Catherine Scothers

Location: Hythe - King's Head Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Scothers was named as the phantom who would open locked doors around the site.

Dame Dorothy Selby

Location: Ightham - Ightham Mote
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While the legends say this lady was killed by (or on the orders of) Guy Fawkes for warning the authorities about the Gunpowder Plot, it is quite unlikely to be the case. However, even if not the Dame, a spirit does walk the building, and is held accountable for the mysterious cold spots.