Examining folkloric, paranormal & cryptozoological locations in the UK and beyond
Location: Hadlow (Kent) - Parker's Green (private house), Cuckoo Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This young boy was killed in a blaze that once engulfed parts of the building - he is now seen running from the site.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-10-28
Last updated: 2002-10-28
ID: #2905
Location: Halling (Kent) - Quarry in the area
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A few weeks after a driver lost his life in the quarry, another lorry driver working late encountered something that terrified him to such a degree that he refused to work at the site again.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2024-10-12
Last updated: 2024-10-12
ID: #15660
Location: Harreitsham (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-06-17
Last updated: 2002-06-17
ID: #1298
Location: Harrietsham (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2009-12-30
Last updated: 2009-12-30
ID: #9763
Location: Hartley (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-09-24
Last updated: 2002-09-24
ID: #2467
Location: Hawkhurst (Kent) - 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.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2013-06-16
Last updated: 2013-06-16
ID: #11359
Location: Hawkinge (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Historical Record, User Submission
First added: 2002-06-19
Last updated: 2002-06-19
ID: #1313
Location: Herne Bay (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-07-16
Last updated: 2008-07-16
ID: #8664
Off the coast of Herne Bay, Kent.
Location: Herne Bay (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-09-16
Last updated: 2004-09-16
ID: #5442
Location: Herne Bay (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2008-07-16
Last updated: 2008-07-16
ID: #8663
Location: Herne Bay (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2012-03-18
Last updated: 2012-03-18
ID: #10767
Location: Herne Bay (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-12-08
Last updated: 2024-12-08
ID: #15726
Location: Herne Bay (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2011-11-27
Last updated: 2011-11-27
ID: #10644
Location: Herne Bay (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2012-10-20
Last updated: 2012-10-20
ID: #11138
Location: Herne Bay (Kent) - 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.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2012-10-14
Last updated: 2012-10-14
ID: #11131
Location: Herne Common (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-06-17
Last updated: 2002-06-17
ID: #1299
Location: Hever (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-06-16
Last updated: 2002-06-16
ID: #1266
Location: Higham (Kent) - 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.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2013-02-03
Last updated: 2013-02-03
ID: #11267
Location: Higham (Kent) - Former railway line between Higham and Wykin
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A woman who died on the railway track in 1885 while looking for her lost dog could be heard whistling and calling for the hound for years after the accident. The sounds continued after the line closed and the track dismantled.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2026-02-21
Last updated: 2026-02-21
ID: #16357
Location: Higham (Kent) - Gads Hill Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
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. One 1940s newspaper claimed Charles Dickens haunted his former home.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2021-09-30
Last updated: 2026-07-13
ID: #14285
Location: Higham (Kent) - Great Hermitage (manor, destroyed 1938)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom monk dressed in black is accompanied by the sound of a horn which fills the area. The site was also said to be haunted by an eighteenth-century woman, a handcuffed man on horseback, and a black woman with a cutlass protruding from her chest.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2026-07-13
Last updated: 2026-07-13
ID: #16688
Location: Hoath (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2019-12-04
Last updated: 2019-12-04
ID: #13432
Location: Hollingbourne (Kent) - 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, holding her head under one arm..
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-06-02
Last updated: 2026-07-20
ID: #1063
Location: Hollingbourne (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-06-16
Last updated: 2002-06-16
ID: #1250
Location: Hook Green (Kent) - 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.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-07-23
Last updated: 2002-07-23
ID: #1958