The Paranormal Database

Black Sally's Tree

Location: W1 - Hyde Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A tree in the park is rumoured to be haunted by Black Sally, murdered as she slept underneath the canopy. The tree no longer stands, though the rumours of ghosts continue. A clump of trees close to Lancaster Gate were also said to be haunted, this time by the groans and cries of a cancer-ridden man named Sammy. Finally, an elm tree was considered 'evil' and none of the local homeless population would spend a night close to it - the tree was said to whisper during the night, trying to convince anyone sleeping nearby to take their own lives.

Face

Location: W1 - Hyde Park Corner underground station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1978, early morning
Further Comments: Two members of staff were alarmed when they discovered an escalator working, though the electrical connection had been disabled. Walking into a room, one man reported hitting a spot so cold that his breath was visible, while the other worker collapsed in a state of shock. The latter claimed to have seen a strange face, and left the station before his shift ended, never to return.

Red Eyed Man

Location: W1 - John Snow public house, Broadwick Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This man with red eyes looks as if he is in terrible pain and sits alone in the furthest corner of the bar. Just outside the pub, a phantom water pump was seen several times, though it has vanished since a real one was installed.

Man Waiting

Location: W1 - Kingly Court, Beak Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in eighteenth century clothing, this figure walks around in a circle, whistling to himself (and badly, according to one account).

Footpads

Location: W1 - Lansdowne Passage (now called Lansdowne Row)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The shadowy figures reported here are those of criminals who made full use of the old passageways to escape from the law in the nineteenth century.

Woman on Staircase

Location: W1 - London Palladium, Argyll Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A red staircase and the surrounding passageways towards the back of the building are haunted by a rarely seen woman moving silently between them.

Woman in Lace

Location: W1 - Marylebone Station, switch room on Platform 1
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa May / June 2000, 02:00h
Further Comments: While trying to sleep, a maintenance fitter saw a young woman hovering in front of him. The figure had a lacy top, and her face was blurred. The man ran from the room, and met a cleaner, who asked if he had seen the ghost of the woman who appears there.

Assistant

Location: W1 - Maskelyne's Theatre of Mystery (St George's Theatre), demolished 1966
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre 1938
Further Comments: Magician Jasper Maskelyne claimed that a shadowy figure manifested in the wings, an area no one could have reached unseen, and helped a struggling magician on stage successfully finish their act.

Mary Janet Kelly

Location: W1 - Miller's Court, Dorset Street (street no longer present)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century
Further Comments: Mary's shade hung around the scene of her death for many months after Jack the Ripper attacked her; dressed in black, she would enter her house and gaze through the windows.

Major Henry Bradell

Location: W1 - Naval and Military Club, Piccadilly
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Killed in the Blitz, the Major is often seen smiling as he walks post-mortem through the club.

The Angel, William Blake.

Angels

Location: W1 - Peckham Rye
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1760s
Further Comments: The artist William Blake experienced visions during his time here, including a tree filled with angels and angels walking towards him along the road.

Red Haired Woman

Location: W1 - Piccadilly, outside Fortnum & Mason
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A journalist recalled the story of helping a wealthy socialite from a taxi in Piccadilly, only to discover a few hours later that the woman in question had died three days before the event.

Angry Figure

Location: W1 - Prince Edward theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001
Further Comments: An actor reported seeing an angry looking figure glaring at them from the wings.

Murder

Location: W1 - Private flat along Old Burlington Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A bedroom in a flat along here is reportedly so haunted that no one has ever spent two nights in the room.

Blue Light

Location: W1 - Private flat, Wigmore Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid 1910s
Further Comments: A flat was supposed to be haunted by a blue light which moved from room to room and by a man who stood motionless by a staircase.

Electricity Problems

Location: W1 - Private property along Brendon Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2002
Further Comments: This property was home to strange and erratic gas and power outages, an external door which would open by itself, and a low-toned voice which would talk in the kitchen.

Fleeting Vision

Location: W1 - Radio studio, Wogan House (was Western House)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2020s
Further Comments: Presenter Rylan Clark claimed his studio became home to an entity that could be felt by him and production staff, occasionally being glimpsed out of the corner of an eye.

Prisoners

Location: W1 - Rose and Crown public house, Old Park Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Once housed in the basement of this pub prior to hanging, the shades of those killed are still lurking here.

Dunraven Street, North Row, London.

Lily Langtry

Location: W1 - 19 Dunraven Street, North Row (formally 17 Norfolk Street, original house demolished)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Lily (aka Lillie) is not alone in this haunting - victims of hangings, Cavalier soldiers and a couple of headless men are also reported to have also been seen here.

Sarah Siddons

Location: W1 - 228 Baker Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The former home of the great eighteenth century actress, she is now seen as she passes through walls on the first floor.

George Frederic Handel's House, London.

Unknown Woman

Location: W1 - 25 Brook Street, George Frederic Handel's House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001
Further Comments: Manifesting in Handel's former home, this woman's presence was also marked by the smell of perfume. The building next door may also be haunted by the same ghost - Jimi Hendrix reportedly saw her there during the 1960s. An exorcism in July 2001 should have put an end to her activities.

Shapeless Horror

Location: W1 - 50 Berkeley Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: The ghost that once resided here has been blamed for two deaths in the house - one man was found dead of 'shock', the other jumped through an upstairs window to escape the 'thing' that chased him. Another story tells that the ghost was laid to rest when a ghost hunter fired a silver bullet at the spirit as it appeared and lunged at him.

Old Man

Location: W1 - 53 Berkeley Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Seen glazing out of the window, it is thought that this seventeenth century gentleman's daughter eloped, and he waits for her return.

Voices

Location: W1 - Absolute Radio, No.1 Golden Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s / 2000s
Further Comments: Reputedly built on a plague victim burial site, this station's basement studio is said to be haunted by children's voices.

George Payne

Location: W1 - Albemarle Street
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: Two friends returning from a heavy nights drinking spotted their old friend George walking towards them. They assumed that George was on leave, as he was in the army, but when the friends approached, they could see the soldier's face to be grey and dead. They stopped and let George continue walking away. A few weeks later the pair found out that George had died fighting in New Zealand.