The Paranormal Database

Man in Leather Jacket

Location: Hemswell Cliff - Site of former RAF Hemswell
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2011, 23:55h
Further Comments: A dog walker reported encountering a man in a leather jacket twice in one night - the second encounter ended when the figure disappeared without trace. Previously, the witness and his wife had walked their dog through the area and felt someone walking alongside them, the dog periodically stopping to look around for no apparent reason.

Headless Jenny

Location: Hibaldstow - Jenny Stanny Well (current condition not known)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Jenny Stannywell drowned in the waters of this well and now wanders the area holding her head under her arm.

Card Players

Location: Holbeach - All Saint's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A small gambling party of men were caught by Satan playing cards in the churchyard. The four shades now glimpsed in the porch of the church remain a warning to any who dare do the same. The ghost of Sir Humphrey Littlebury also haunts the building.

Angry Nun

Location: Humberston - Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Built on the site of a nunnery, this house developed a reputation for being haunted by a nun killed for breaking her vows. Loud bangs would wake the family up at night, and a strange light would float along the ceiling in one of the bedrooms.

Woman in Black

Location: Isle of Axholme (aka Isle of Axholm) - Thornholmes Farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: This phantom, said to wear a black silken gown, had an unknown connection to a religious building that stood here before construction of the farm.

Man in Beige

Location: Keadby - Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Two people walking close to the bridge spotted a man standing upon it, although the figure vanished 'in the blink of an eye'. The witnesses described the man as six foot tall and wearing a beige raincoat and hat.

Hitching Airman

Location: Kelstern - Road leading to the former RAF Kelstern
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1983
Further Comments: The man dressed in an old RAF uniform tries to hitch a lift to the now ruined airbase. There are also reports of the sounds of an old aircraft in the skies and along the former runways.

Polt

Location: Kelvedon Hatch - Secret Nuclear Bunker
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2010s?
Further Comments: This former nuclear bunker is said to be home to a poltergeist. An unconvincing photograph taken in 2013 showed either a 'portal' or the reflection of flash off a window.

Shuck Home

Location: Kirton - Belle Hole Farm, and nearby stream
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1930s
Further Comments: A shuck is said to have set up home in a hole in the stream bank near this farmhouse. The farmer's wife reported seeing the creature enter the kitchen - she dared not move until the shuck left on its own accord.

Victorian Woman

Location: Kirton - Old King's Head
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This public house is reputed to be haunted by a Victorian woman, spotted at the top of the staircase. One version of the story says she may be responsible for pushing people as they descend.

Drowned Woman

Location: Kirton in Lindsey - Field known as Bob-garth
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghostly woman who drowned nearby was a resident at Moat House and would periodically appear in the area.

Screaming

Location: Kirton in Lindsey - Former RAF base
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Post-Second World War (screaming), pilot spotted 1990-1995
Further Comments: The phantom screams of pain are thought to date from an air raid which killed many French pilots. One of these men has also been observed lurking by an old hangar and may have been spotted during the early 1990s by two witnesses in the clubhouse.

Shaggy Foal

Location: Kirton in Lindsey - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Some point between 1842 - 1847
Further Comments: Someone (apparently) encountered a large, shaggy, donkey-like entity in this area.

Copeman

Location: Kirton in Lindsey - Road between Kirton and Grayingham
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: A man named Copeman murdered along the road may still haunt the area on horseback. Two men cycling back from Kirton spotted the ghostly horseman.

Always There

Location: Kirton in Lindsey - Unnamed grass field
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (!)
Further Comments: An old folk tale says that a field in this area is haunted and that the ghost is always visible.

Lady-faced Dog

Location: Knaith - Area around cottage, no longer standing
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A story here tells of a shuck that possessed the face of a woman, or sometimes a woman who had the face of a dog. The hound would emerge from the hills close to where the lady lived. The entity is thought to have once been a normal woman who underwent the transformation after being murdered.

Footsteps

Location: Laughton (8 miles south of Scunthorpe) - All Saint's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Mysterious footsteps, belonging to a small group of ghostly people, have been heard coming down the staircase in the church tower. A builder repairing the tower refused to work alone after twice encountering the footfalls.

Calf Sized Dog

Location: Leverton - Road between village and Wrangle
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Early twentieth century or December 2002
Further Comments: An early twentieth century witness reported seeing this creature several times over the years, always when cycling at night between the two villages. A more recent witness heard howling and spotted two red eyes - after the witness's uncle died a short time later, they believed what they had encountered had been a shuck.

Young Boy

Location: Lincoln - Coffee shop (exact location withheld)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2011
Further Comments: It was reported the presence of a young boy had been spotted close to the toilets in this coffee shop. One member of staff spotted a middle aged man in a grey suit upstairs in the cafe just as the shop was closing and empty of customers. When the member of staff went upstairs to speak to the man, he had vanished.

Young Man

Location: Lincoln - Cornhill Vaults public house (no longer open)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: A member of staff was left puzzled after seeing a young man with a collarless shirt walk up to the bar and vanish when she turned her back for a few seconds. The only other customer in the bar denied seeing any one else enter.

Dark Shadows

Location: Lincoln - Council house along Prial Avenue
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2004 - February 2010
Further Comments: Jade Callaby reported to local media that she had experienced poltergeist occurrences over a six year period, including dark shadows which appeared without source, electrical items which turned themselves on and off, and strange banging noises.

County Assembly Rooms, Lincoln.

Cavalier

Location: Lincoln - County Assembly Rooms, Bailgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A phantom Cavalier was spotted by a member of staff near the ballroom, before vanishing into the preverbal thin air. Other staff members are reportedly too afraid to venture down into the basement after hearing strange noises.

Edward King's House, Lincoln.

Guardian Angel?

Location: Lincoln - Edward King's House
Type: Other
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century
Further Comments: Two would-be robbers who had lured the bishop from his home in the late nineteenth century were deterred from committing the crime by a large figure they saw leave the house escorting the man of the cloth. When one of the criminals confessed his intention to the bishop many years later, the bishop was very surprised as he had been travelling by himself on that night.

Exchequergate House, Lincoln.

Evil Presence

Location: Lincoln - Exchequergate House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The cellar of this building, formally a tourist information centre, had such a repressive feeling that staff would never go down unaccompanied. Faces have been reported looking out of the windows, even after the building has been locked up for the night.

Steep Hill, Lincoln.

Open the Gates!

Location: Lincoln - Flat area at top of Steep Hill, outside castle gate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1992 (horseman), and sometime between 2009 and 2012 (breath)
Further Comments: A night worker returning home early in the morning was unnerved as a man riding a black horse charged by him. As the rider approached the locked castle gates, he screamed 'Open the gates! Open the gates!' before vanishing near the still closed entrance. Another witness reported feeling breathing on the back of the neck, hearing strange footsteps and seeing shadows.