The Paranormal Database

Pyewacket

Location: Maidstone - Maidstone Museum
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: Staff at the museum's cafe reported hearing banking and the name 'Pyewacket' coming from under the floorboards. One witness in the museum reported a door, propped open with a heavy metal weight, closed itself.

Red Eyed Monk

Location: Maidstone - Mote Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1943
Further Comments: A Canadian soldier barracked a couple of hundred metres from the ruined abbey during the Second World War awoke to see a short monk dressed in grey in his hut. The soldier could make out a blurred face with red eyes under the hood and felt that the entity intended no harm. The phantom walked through a closed door a short time later.

Smelly Drains

Location: Maidstone - Parkwood estate
Type: Other
Date / Time: Ongoing
Further Comments: Locals have reported much paranormal activity occurring on this estate, and when a local person dies the event is marked by a nasty smell coming from the drainage systems.

The Servant (Likely) Did It

Location: Maidstone - Private house along Ashford Road
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1859
Further Comments: A supernatural agency was feared after the bells started ringing and doors began banging. Things appeared to calm down after the lone house servant was accused and sent away.

The Caretaker

Location: Maidstone - Royal Star Hotel (now replaced by the Royal Star Arcade shopping centre)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1970s
Further Comments: Two family members encountered a man wearing a flat cap and overalls. One spotted the caretaker standing by a family friend, and later when asking the about the man, the friend said that they had been alone at the time.

Rebecca Alexander

Location: Maidstone - The Museum of Kent Life
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rebecca is thought to be a farmer's wife who died in 1912 in an accident involving a cart. Her presence is said to be non-threatening, and she spends her time looking for her newborn baby, who survived the accident.

Man with Missing Heart

Location: Maidstone - Vinters Valley, path alongside reserve and woodland
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1 October 2003, 11.45pm
Further Comments: Walking home along a dark woodland path, near the Vinters Valley nature reserve, this witness observed the upper torso of a man in clothing that could have dated from the early nineteenth century, with long tied back blonde hair. There were no visible features, but the witness said that the ghost 'moved in a grotesque puppet way'. Other than having no visible legs, the witness also observed the entity had a large black hole where his heart should have been. The entity crossed the path from left to right, vanishing into a fence.

Calling for a Cat

Location: Maidstone - White Rabbit public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2006
Further Comments: A phantom little girl has been seen in Room Eight and may be the source of the disembodied voice heard calling out for her cat. The door to Room Eight will bang open and closed, while in the bar lights will turn themselves on and chalkboards will move unaided.

Monk

Location: Maidstone - Wooded area off Sittingbourne Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Summer, mid 1970s
Further Comments: Two witnesses out exploring the area watched a monk-like figure in a brown habit cross the field and appear to sink into the ground. The witnesses walked over to the area and found a set of steps which led down to a bricked up archway.

Former Pilot

Location: Manston - RAF Manston
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 1970 (or 1971)
Further Comments: A MoD fireman was on kitchen duty in the early hours of the morning when he spotted a semi-translucent figure wearing a flying helmet, Irvin jacket and Mae West. The witness quickly left the area and was later told that others had seen the entity. It was generally thought the ghost to be a pilot who crashed into a snow drift during the Second World War.

Gilbert

Location: Marden - Road to Hawkhurst
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Gilbert, an eighteenth century highwayman who tried to rob a coach, was stabbed to death by one of the occupants after she recognised him as having killed her brother. The killing drove the woman mad. The scene was said to silently re-enact every Christmas Eve.

Woman

Location: Margate - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hotel was hit by German bombs during the Second World War; the phantom woman observed here is thought to have been killed during the attack.

Robed Figure

Location: Margate - Junction of A253 & A266 (some reports say A256)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A gibbet once stood on the junction, and it is thought that the ghostly figure and a phantom light are somehow related to the structure. There are reports that indicate the accident rate in the area is much higher than the national average.

Pale Woman

Location: Margate - Northern Belle public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom woman in this public house is said to be deathly pale and wears a shroud.

Bra Remover

Location: Margate - Pillow Talk sex shop
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2002
Further Comments: A playful spirit here has been blamed for moving stock around overnight. The ghost is rumoured to be a girl who once worked in a brothel on this site.

Cold Shower

Location: Margate - Private residence in Trinity Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: A workman reported that the building he spent several years renovating was haunted by an unseen entity. He experienced a feeling as if 'walking into a cold shower' while in the basement, while a plumber on site left and refused to say why, even refusing to take payment for the work he had already completed.

Old postcard of Margate, Kent.

Sea Horse

Location: Margate - Sea near the Lido Baths
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1950
Further Comments: A pair of swimmers watched as a 60cm neck rose from the water close to their location - they reported the serpent had horse like ears.

Sarah Thorne

Location: Margate - Theatre Royal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1955 and 1972
Further Comments: Sarah was responsible for creating the best company ever seen here - her proud spirit once walked down the aisles and onto the stage. Another ghost, that of an actor who committed suicide, is held responsible for creating strange lights that float around. It is unclear which entity created the disembodied voice that spoke to an actor in an otherwise empty dressing room. In 1972 a workman was reported to have been 'petrified' after spotting a ghost, although who or what he encountered is not known.

Two figures

Location: Matfield - Maidstone Road
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 11 December 2009, 06:35h
Further Comments: Two tall figures darted out in front of a car driving along this road in the early hours of the morning. The driver braked hard to avoid them, and they seemed to vanish.

Suicide

Location: Meopham - Cricketer's Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom lady who haunts this inn is said to have committed suicide discovering her husband had returned from fighting in France with a French mistress.

Servant

Location: Meopham - Dean Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A young servant girl is said to haunt the manor house here, the BBC trying to record it in an early broadcast.

Headless Man

Location: Meopham - Route between public house and church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Walking the route, this ghostly figure has been observed with no head.

Girl in Orange

Location: Meopham - Steel Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A French girl who fell head over heels in love with a soldier was rejected by him and hanged herself - it is she who now haunts this road, dressed in a rustling orange silk dress.

Grey Lady

Location: Minster - Cleve Court
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to only appear to children, this woman in life was said to love young people; her disapproving husband forbade her to have any offspring and kept her locked up in a small room. Adults can only hear her walking around. Another story says the ghostly woman could be seen descending a staircase and walking through a double door; a pet spaniel first growled at the figure before running towards it in a more friendly manner.

Monk

Location: Minster - Old Oake Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This strange looking figure of a monk always appears as if silhouetted behind an intense light. He is always heard before manifesting, shuffling feet marking his appearance.