The Paranormal Database

Female Form

Location: W3 - Former house (became the Acton Gazette newspaper offices)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1863
Further Comments: A female phantom focused its attention on the matriarch of the household, manifesting by the bedside and standing in another room. Footsteps would also be heard on the staircase and the sounds of breaking crockery emerged from the kitchen, although nothing could be found broken. The family eventually moved away.

Procession of Monks

Location: W3 - St Dunstan's Church, East Acton
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: Walking down the centre of the church, these holy men are said to be golden brown in colour, while the 'leader' appears in a purple hood. Another phantom has been seen, this time an old woman wearing a Second World War gas mask, leaving the church and heading off down Lower Thames Street.

Pig Faced Lady

Location: W3 - Unknown house in Blackfriars (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: This entity, thought to be a seventeenth century woman exploited for her facial deformity, once haunted the house she resided in London. It is likely that this property is the same as the one referred to in the Markham Square entry.

Striding Grey Man

Location: W4 - Acton Green common, near Turnham Green tube station
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 12 February 2004, 06.45h
Further Comments: This semi-transparent entity was observed walking parallel to the railway line, wearing a knee length cape. The dark grey figure vanished when the witness momentarily looked away.

Eleanor of Castille

Location: W4 - Blackfriar's Priory, Queen Victoria Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ruined building houses this former Queen's heart, and it is she who is said to now walk the area.

Bacon

Location: W4 - Chiswick House, off Burlington Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The smell of frying bacon haunts the north wing, where the kitchens once stood in the nineteenth century. Lady Burlington is reported to haunt her former bedroom, appearing as a reflection in a mirror on the wall.

Mrs Abercrombie Walking

Location: W4 - Chiswick Police Station, Chiswick High Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The site of a grisly murder in 1792, when Mrs Abercrombie's son-in-law hit her several times with a large axe. The woman is now said to haunt the building; when not heard pacing around, she materialises in the upper regions.

Dissipating Mist

Location: W4 - Former Chiswick Warehouse, now apartments (Heathfield Terrace)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth Century
Further Comments: A misty, indistinct apparition reportedly haunted the upper areas of the warehouse, quickly disappearing if anyone came too near.

White Figure

Location: W4 - Hammersmith Churchyard and Black Lion Lane area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1804
Further Comments: This ghost was blamed for the death of a local woman, who collapsed and died a few hours after witnessing the entity. A hunt for the spook resulted in another local man being shot by mistake (he was wearing white clothing), and the ghost sightings trailed off soon after.

Man in Wide Brimmed Hat

Location: W4 - Old Burlington, Church Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Once a public house, this building is reportedly haunted by a man wearing a black cloak and wide brimmed hat, nicknamed Percy.

Three Men

Location: W4 - Old Pack Horse, 434 Chiswick High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000
Further Comments: Four staff in total reported seeing three phantom men in a certain room of the pub - a young boy, and man in his twenties, and an older man. The man in his twenties would also be heard whistling. A former landlord also reported seeing a horse in the cellar.

Flying Money

Location: W4 - Private house, Esmond Road, Cheswick
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: July 1956
Further Comments: Joe Pearcey noticed that pennies would fall close to his son David at random intervals, while other small objects would be thrown through the air. Joe had recently purchased four bicycles, and, believing the bikes had something to do with the visiting poltergeist, vowed to sell them. It is unclear whether he did, but the events stopped after a priest held a service and David sent away to live with relatives.

Juggling

Location: W4 - Private residence near Chiswick Station
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2003
Further Comments: The occupant and their child watched as two billiard balls lifted from a table and were juggled by unseen hands. The balls moved in the air for several seconds before falling quietly back on to the table. Moments later, a photograph moved within its frame. After the occupant politely asked the spirit to leave, activity ceased.

Woman in White

Location: W4 - Private residence, Blenheim Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1976
Further Comments: A woman in a white nightdress vanished when a child asked 'mummy?'.

Medieval Knight

Location: W4 - Private residence, Turnham Green
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1954
Further Comments: A composer and their daughter were said to have lived in a house haunted by a medieval knight.

Cromwell's Daughters

Location: W4 - St Nicholas's Churchyard, Church Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Walking in the churchyard at the crack of dawn, Mary and Frances head towards their unmarked graves and vanish.

Woman in Black

Location: W4 - Tabard Inn, Bath Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen sitting alone at a table in the public house, this old woman appeared to be whistling a tune, though no sound could be heard.

Sulphur and Footfalls

Location: W5 - 16 Montpelier Road, Ealing (original house no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This house had a history that included twenty suicides and a murder. Even after being razed to the ground, strange smells and ghostly footsteps were reported in the area.

Lady Boston

Location: W5 - Boston House, & Burlington Lane, Brentford
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: Murdered by her Viscount Boston after he discovered her affair with Lord Fairfax, Lady Boston's body was thrown into the Thames by her husband. He later removed it and buried the remains in a corner of the garden - it is this spot that her ghost has been seen, pointing to the ground.

An old stone carving showing a pair of griffins.

The Brentford Griffins

Location: W5 - Brentwood Eyot and general area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A griffin given by King Charles II to Nell Gwynn made its home on the Brentwood Eyot, joined by another one many years later which was brought to the region by Sir Joseph Banks. The pair of mythological creatures are said by some to remain in the area.

Rebecca

Location: W5 - Maudsley Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: When the Hospital of the Star of Bethlehem moved and merged with Maudsley hospital in the 1920s, the ghost of Rebecca is said to have come along as well, still looking for her missing coin. A witness reported seeing a man in a brown coat vanish along a corridor where there was no possible exists.

Hanged Airman

Location: W5 - Photographer's studio, exact location unknown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: This building was home to a ghost that could be heard walking about and mumbling to itself. It was thought the airman was executed in the 1940s for killing a child.

Man and Dog and Boy

Location: W5 - Private house along Montpelier Road, Peckham
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001-2002
Further Comments: The ghost of a contemporary man, a dog and a Victorian boy reportedly haunt this building, with poltergeist like effects also being documented - these included electrical equipment being turned on and off, door handles moving, and unaccountable footsteps and banging.

Burning Triangle

Location: W5 - Uxbridge Road, Ealing
Type: UFO
Date / Time: July 2006
Further Comments: Five office workers watched a triangular object with burning corners move across the sky from north to south. They only watched the ufo for a few seconds before it faded into the distance, moving at high speed.

Barbara Palmer, nee Villiers, painted by John Greenhill.

Barbara Villiers

Location: W5 - Walpole House, Chiswick Mall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy, moonlit nights
Further Comments: Barbara, mistress to King Charles II, was once a beautiful young lady, until she contracted a disease that swelled her body to a huge size - her bitter, misty shade walks the house, acting threateningly towards any who see her.