Examining folkloric, paranormal & cryptozoological locations in the UK and beyond
Location: N3 (Greater London) - Finchley's Avenue House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2003
Further Comments: This figure, possibly that of a Victorian governess named Dora, was seen walking through a closed door twice by different witnesses.
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Needs Review
First added: 2003-12-21
Last updated: 2003-12-21
ID: #4789
Location: N3 (Greater London) - Nether Street, West Finchley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One police officer is said to have lost his mind after seeing this phantom woman and became obsessed with reading everything he could about local ghost stories.
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Published Media
First added: 2009-09-13
Last updated: 2009-09-13
ID: #9699
Location: N4 (Greater London) - Gloucester Drive, Finsbury Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa first half of 2000s
Further Comments: The disembodied sounds of children running up and down the road and outside people's houses has been heard, though often no one can be seen. One resident briefly spoke to the entities, which vanished after twenty seconds or so.
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Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2006-11-19
Last updated: 2006-11-19
ID: #7042
Location: N4 (Greater London) - Parkland Walk
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 1970s / 1980s
Further Comments: A local urban legend said that a part-goat part-man entity haunted this walk and local children dared each other to run down the path late at night. A sculpture of a spriggan can be now found along the walk, with some believing its placement was inspired by the legend.
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Published Media
First added: 2019-05-06
Last updated: 2019-05-06
ID: #13217
Location: N4 (Greater London) - Private residence in Brownswood Park area
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Circa 2014
Further Comments: Two residents at this property heard a child humming, the sound of which lasted most of the day.
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User Submission
First added: 2016-08-06
Last updated: 2026-05-02
ID: #12218
Location: N5 (Greater London) - Former Arsenal FC stadium (demolished 2006)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-2006
Further Comments: This stadium was said to be haunted by the non-threatening Herbert Chapman, former manager of Arsenal before dying in 1934.
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Published Media
First added: 2013-04-07
Last updated: 2013-04-07
ID: #11331
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Flask public house, Highgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This long dead woman is reported to haunt the main bar area, creating cold spots and gently stroking the back of patrons' necks.
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Published Media
First added: 2002-08-24
Last updated: 2002-08-24
ID: #2280
The new section of Highgate Cemetery, London.
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Highgate Cemetery (new section)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Reportedly running around the graves looking for her children (which she murdered), this figure has unmistakable snaking hair. Another ghost here is more enigmatic - covered in a robe, they can be observed from afar, but disappear when approached.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-05-25
Last updated: 2002-05-25
ID: #999
The old section of Highgate Cemetery, London.
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Highgate Cemetery (old section)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s / 1970s
Further Comments: This face is reported to stare from behind the bars of the main gate into this cemetery.
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Historical Record
First added: 2002-08-25
Last updated: 2002-08-25
ID: #2298
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Highgate Cemetery (old section)
Type: Vampire
Date / Time: 1960s / 1970s (vampire), 20 June 2012, 22:00h (undertaker)
Further Comments: A plethora of sightings of a red eyed creature that could turn to smoke resulted in the cemetery becoming a second home to all manner of researchers, reporters, and fame seekers. The sightings died down after legal action against one of the vampire hunters. More recently, North London Paranormal Investigators encountered a pale figure in a suit, resembling an undertaker, while touring the area.
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Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-05-25
Last updated: 2002-05-25
ID: #997
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Highgate High Level Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Started during the Second World War, the station was never finished, though locals sometimes reported the sound of a steam train along where the track was supposed to have been laid. One rational explanation put forward is that the sounds of the trains came from nearby stations which were active until the 1970.
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Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-08-24
Last updated: 2002-08-24
ID: #2279
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Lauderdale House, Highgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1997
Further Comments: Speaking to local media, Peter Gallagher claimed that the ghost of Nell Gwynn had intervened as he was being attacked by an evil spirit.
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Published Media
First added: 2015-03-30
Last updated: 2015-03-30
ID: #11782
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Pond Square, Highgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: The site where Francis Bacon put theory into practice with refrigeration in 1626; the featherless, panicking chicken that has been seen running around the area on cold winter nights is all that remains of that early experiment.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-08-17
Last updated: 2002-08-17
ID: #2208
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Private House along Archway House
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown - early twentieth century?
Further Comments: This presence would vigorously ring a set of disused servant bells located in the kitchen.
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Historical Record
First added: 2004-11-14
Last updated: 2004-11-14
ID: #5572
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Private residence close to old Highgate cemetery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1989
Further Comments: Shortly after the great storm of 1989 the owner of this property experienced sudden drops in temperature and the sensation of a room being full of Victorian society (including an evil presence). A blessing was performed on the site, although it may have had minimal effect and the owner moved away soon after.
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User Submission
First added: 2021-05-11
Last updated: 2021-05-11
ID: #14133
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Swain's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This tall gentleman was seen by several locals, the nearby church bells ringing as he walked and disappeared into the cemetery wall. It may be the same spirit that appeared cycling uphill along the same road.
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Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-05-25
Last updated: 2002-05-25
ID: #998
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Ye Olde Gatehouse public house, Highgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (Marnes), 2012 (Bacon)
Further Comments: Murdered many moons ago for her money, Mother Marnes now meanders around the building with her pet cat. A ghost hunting team claimed to have contacted Francis Bacon (philosopher, not painter) in the basement during an investigation.
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Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-08-16
Last updated: 2002-08-16
ID: #2198
Detail from one of Hudson's photographs, 1872.
Location: N7 (Greater London) - 117 Holloway Road
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Circa 1870s
Further Comments: This was the address of Frederick Hudson's studio, where Hudson claimed to photograph the recently deceased in spirit form. Though some of his images look questionable at best, many people were convinced that the spirits on film were of their loved ones.
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Published Media
First added: 2008-01-06
Last updated: 2026-09-06
ID: #8122
Location: N7 (Greater London) - 39 Hilldrop Crescent
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Seen on nearby wasteland, and in where his house once stood, the shade of this infamous murderer has found it hard to let go of his mortal homeland.
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Published Media
First added: 2003-12-24
Last updated: 2003-12-24
ID: #4797
Location: N7 (Greater London) - Euston Fire Station, Euston Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007
Further Comments: A ghostly white figure that was caught on someone's mobile phone camera was named as a former firefighter. Though the footage has been dismissed as nothing more than a trick of the light, some firefighters remain sure their station is haunted.
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Published Media
First added: 2007-05-28
Last updated: 2007-05-28
ID: #7479
Location: N7 (Greater London) - Telephone exchange, Barnsbury Grove
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: A chapel of the Sandemanian sect of which Michael Faraday was a member, the ghost of Faraday was said to haunt the building.
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Published Media
First added: 2009-09-13
Last updated: 2009-09-13
ID: #9690
Location: N8 (Greater London) - Ferrestone Road, Hornsey
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: February - April 1921
Further Comments: This spirit would remove pieces of coal from the bunker and make them explode in various parts of the house, creating much noise and mess. As normal, the poltergeist also threw around the family crockery. Two months after the start of the outbreak, the family's five year old daughter died, the death partly blamed on stress caused by the activity. The Vicar of St Gabriel placed an appeal for alternative housing to be provided for the family.
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Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2003-01-02
Last updated: 2023-05-26
ID: #3423
Location: N9 (Greater London) - Edmonton church
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The white phantom dog which lurked in this area was harmless unless provoked.
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Published Media
First added: 2009-09-13
Last updated: 2009-09-13
ID: #9698
Location: N9 (Greater London) - Private maisonette, Beachcroft Way
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: November 1977 - January 1978
Further Comments: A resident claimed that they had to hide the bath and sink plugs after the poltergeist tried to flood the flat. The same entity was said to have placed a tea towel on the cooker hob, setting the kitchen on fire; the fuse was removed to prevent it happening again. Occupants of other maisonettes in the area reported phantom Victorian figures and mysterious voices.
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Historical Record
First added: 2026-04-06
Last updated: 2026-04-06
ID: #16517
Location: N9 (Greater London) - Wire Hall (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Killed by a young bull, this farm hand was said to haunt the area. The hall was also reputedly haunted by the ghost of a murder victim; the room in which the crime was committed was considered uninhabitable because of the paranormal presence and was bricked up until the hall was demolished.
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Published Media
First added: 2009-09-13
Last updated: 2009-09-13
ID: #9697