The Paranormal Database

George Lane runs along the site of the former priory.

Morphing Entity

Location: Leeds - Site of Leeds Priory (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Likely nineteenth century
Further Comments: The local council website says during daylight hours a retired policeman encountered an apparition on the site of the priory. The entity changed into four different figures before disappearing.

Mr & Mrs Children

Location: Leigh - Ramhurst Manor house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1850s
Further Comments: Believed to have now left the property, the ghosts of Mr and Mrs Children could be heard talking and walking about the building. A nineteenth century medium claimed they stood by the front door, waiting to be released. Another version of the haunting rationalised the sounds of running in the house to come from horses stamping in the stables, although attributing bats' squeaks to explain human cries was less convincing.

Pilgrim

Location: Lenham - Red Lion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The pub is thought to be home to the ghost of an elderly man who once rested here during a pilgrimage to Canterbury.

Appearing Ring

Location: Leysdown-on-Sea - Private residence
Type: Other
Date / Time: July 2020
Further Comments: A ring thought to have been thrown out several years previous was found in the middle of a floor of this property. The ring had a personalised message and had been a gift to an occupant from a life-long friend who had recently died.

Presence

Location: Littlestone - Private residence close to coast
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2007
Further Comments: Guests at this property reported an unwelcome feeling and the sensation of not being alone. They later found out a previous cleaner had quit because they were convinced the site was haunted.

Pins to See

Location: Loose - All Saints church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church is reputedly home to two ghosts that can only be seen after one has stuck a pin in a yew tree in the churchyard and quickly circumambulated the church thirteen times.

Battleship Conqueror

Location: Lower Upnor - Dockyard
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: 1923
Further Comments: Wandering around the Conqueror during her decommissioning and deconstruction, Donald Maxwell found himself in the remains of the wardroom. As Maxwell stood there, figures started to form around the room, and he recognised the Commander and other officers who were still alive and likely only a couple of miles away. Maxwell quickly left after the phantom sounds of battle flared up.

Lavender Lady

Location: Lullingstone - Lullingstone Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Named after the lavender scent her presence creates, this phantom lady was a member of the Hart family who took her own life after being caught fraternising with a member of staff. One story says the ghost was seen crying by the kitchen, while others speak of a rustling of her dress.

Women in Grey

Location: Lullingstone - St Botolph's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 08 April 1928
Further Comments: While in the church alone playing the organ, Nurse Hunt spotted two women standing in the aisle. The figures wore old fashioned long grey clothes and strange poke bonnets, and moved without making a sound.

Cat

Location: Lydd - George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978
Further Comments: People have reported being woken during the night when a small cat jumps on their bed, though they can find no trace of the creature when the light is turned on.

Young Man

Location: Lydd - Jury's Gap Road, the last bend before entering Lydd
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1998, 23:00h-00:00h
Further Comments: Travelling along Jury's Gap, the driver of a car spotted a man in his twenties in the road. He slammed on his brakes and the man in the road jumped to the side, landing in a ditch. The driver stopped to make sure the man was okay, but he was nowhere to be seen, and a search up and down the side of the road turned up nothing.

Six Saxons

Location: Lympne - Lympne Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Brutally murdered by Normans, six Saxon warriors now haunt the castle. Another version of the story says the deceased were priests, and just a single phantom remains. An eagle haunted one bedroom; one resident placed stuffed birds in the room, so the ghost had fellow avian company. It is also said that a ghostly Roman soldier has been heard ascending the battlements and has been seen falling from the building (a Roman watchtower once stood on the site).

Smallpox Victims

Location: Maidstone - Holy Trinity Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Three young girls, the daughters of a local vicar, died of smallpox on the same day and are believed to haunt the graveyard. They were last seen by a woman walking her dog in the area.

Not an Accident

Location: Maidstone - Hunton Hill
Type: Other
Date / Time: 20 September 1985, 23:30h
Further Comments: Lorry driver Peter Russell hit a woman who was lying in the road. A police officer and a doctor were already at the scene; they told him that he had not killed the woman, and that he should go home. When he later went to the police station, there was no record of the incident, and after a brief investigation the police declared that Peter was the victim of a hoax.

Charlotte

Location: Maidstone - Larkfield Priory Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: Charlotte was an eighteenth century serving girl who died after an abortion went sadly wrong. The ghost created so much havoc during the 1980s, the owner called on a medium to help calm her down. During this process it was discovered gallows once stood on the site, and that many unhappy spirits remained.

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.

Just Eerie

Location: Maidstone - Penenden Heath
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The heath has a ghastly history of public executions and has developed a reputation for being haunted, although no exact details can be found. In 2025, the leader of Maidstone borough council asked the Home Secretary to pardon several local women who were convicted of witchcraft and executed on the heath in 1652.

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.

Flood

Location: Maidstone - Ropemakers Arms (no longer operating)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1978-1979
Further Comments: Gas taps and lights would be switched on and off, and the cellar was flooded after a water tap was turned on; the landlord was adamant that no one could have accessed it.

Haughty Ann

Location: Maidstone - Royal Albion public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Ann died before finding her true love (or at least a suitable husband) and her ghost continues the search. A crying man identified as Martin Shotwood also haunts the pub. He ran away from his girlfriend after discovering she was pregnant; she drowned herself and Shotwood took his own life after realising the consequences of his action.

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, reputedly a former caretaker. One spotted the caretaker standing by a family friend, and later when asking them 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.