The Paranormal Database

Silent Woman

Location: Other London - Railway line between London & Carlisle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: Dressed in black and wearing a veil, this figure has been seen sitting quietly and disappearing without warning. She is believed to be a bride whose new husband had stuck his head out of a window and was decapitated. Found holding his body once they reached London, totally insane, her spirit has been making the journey since.

Underground London.

London Subterraneans

Location: Other London - No fixed location
Type: Other
Date / Time: Current
Further Comments: This legend, which seemingly 'does the rounds' every few years, states that a group of Londoners began to live underground in the late nineteenth century, and now they have mutated. These subterraneans live off the junk food we discard in the underground tube stations and the odd commuter if they are discovered alone on the train.

The sky over the City of London.

Darkness

Location: Other London - Skies over the city
Type: Other
Date / Time: 19 August 1763
Further Comments: London was briefly covered by a darkness during the day, blacker than an eclipse.

Sky above London.

Fiery Sword

Location: Other London - Skies over the city
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1832
Further Comments: The start of the great Cholera Epidemic in 1832 was accompanied by a vision witnessed by thousands, of a burning fiercely sword hanging over the city.

Footsteps

Location: Outer London: Acton - King's Head public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: December 1966
Further Comments: Father Finear Buckley from the nearby church blessed the pub after the landlady reported ghostly footsteps and a door which opened unaided.

Edward Benson

Location: Outer London: Addington - Addington Palace
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This former Archbishop still drifts around the building where he listens to the church music. It is said he is only seen by choirboys.

German Pilot

Location: Outer London: Addington - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dying after his aircraft crashed nearby, this the Second World War pilot is still occasionally seen walking around this former village.

Digger Harry

Location: Outer London: Addington - Wooded area near Courtwood Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1932
Further Comments: Harry was so upset when his wife died that he buried her close to his cottage without telling anyone. The authorities, believing Harry had killed her, locked him up for several months before releasing him because of his age. During his incarceration, Harry forgot where his wife was buried, and spent the remainder of his days trying to find her. His tragic phantom was said to continue to roam the area carrying a shovel.

Maidservant

Location: Outer London: Barnet - Red Lion Public House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This woman died after falling down the stairs - her shade remains earthbound.

Capybara

Location: Outer London: Barnet - Darlands Lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 20 September 2009
Further Comments: Normally found in South America, a capybara was spotted by actor David Dayan Fisher and his nephew and niece while walking through this area.

Johnson

Location: Outer London: Barnet - Road between Barnet and Enfield Chase
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A man by the name of Johnson was said to have been murdered along this road, and the spot where the crime occurred was thought to be haunted for many years after the event. The same road was also said to be haunted by another man, a Mr Danby, who on at least one occasion, caused a horse pulling a carriage with two occupants to bolt. The ghost continued to run alongside the panicked horse until stopping by a gate - it was only then that the horse calmed.

An old illustration of Dick Turpin on horseback.

Turpin

Location: Outer London: Barnet - Finchley Common (no longer exists, now suburbs)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The common was said to be one of the homes to the ghostly form of Dick Turpin.

Distressed Girl

Location: Outer London: Barnet - Field just south of A1081 junction with Trotters Bottom
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s/1970s
Further Comments: Over a period of around twenty years, calls would arrive at Barnet Police Station from witnesses who claimed to have seen scantily dressed girl in distress standing in a field. The reports would be made early in the morning, and the police were never able to find anyone when they attended the scene, leading them believing the girl to be a ghost.

Lady Constance

Location: Outer London: Bexley - Hall Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Constance unknown, Edward in October 1931, poltergeist 1950
Further Comments: One of several ghosts reported here, Lady Constance killed herself after watching her husband die when a stag gored him. Her pale white shade now frequents the grounds. Lady Limerick reported seeing the ghostly Edward, the Black Prince during the First World War, and he popped up again in 1931. The spirit of a servant haunts the loft, while a poltergeist outbreak in 1950 resulted in furniture being tossed around.

Beast of Bexley

Location: Outer London: Bexley - Bexleyheath Golf Club
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 22:30h on 12 July 2005, and February 2006
Further Comments: A teenager reported seeing a giant black cat trotting across the grass here - police were called but could find nothing. The creature was photographed by a woman from the bottom of her garden in Feb 2006.

Airmen

Location: Outer London: Bexley - A2 London-bound between Heath turn-off and Black Prince turn-off
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s, and 2008
Further Comments: Several witnesses were said to have seen a couple of airmen standing on the hard shoulder of the A2. One wore a leather flying helmet while the other appeared to have a medal or piece of metal near his throat. A local tale says that a Heinkel bomber crashed nearby, killing the crew who could not bail out in time, and it has been speculated that the figures belong to this aircraft.

Bright Woman

Location: Outer London: Bexley - Foots Cray Meadows
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This bright white female form is reported to walk the meadows scattering flowers for her husband who died during wartime. She is said to have killed herself soon after hearing the news in the same area.

White Woman

Location: Outer London: Brentford - Banks of the Grand Union Canal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1935
Further Comments: A torso of a female murder victim was discovered here, with her legs found in a train carriage at Waterloo. Her ghost remained in the area for a while, manifesting as a tall woman wearing a white dress.

Playful Child

Location: Outer London: Brentford - Clitheroe Lock, Grand Union Canal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A young boy with a connection to Boston Manor was said to have drowned here during the 1820s. Always 'felt' but never seen, the entity is said to be playful and can assist (or hinder, depending on his mood) with the lock gates as boats pass through.

Severed Arm

Location: Outer London: Bromley - Downe Court Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several shades reside here, though the scariest is the ghostly severed arm that once appeared, placing itself by the side of a woman while she was in bed. A young girl dripping wet (she drowned in a lake) haunts the butler's room, and finally, many people have reported feeling unnaturally terrified while standing at the top of the staircase where once a man hanged himself.

Unknown Male

Location: Outer London: Bromley - Viola, Crescent Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The spectral image of a man was seen several times in a bedroom in his house.

Walking Woman

Location: Outer London: Bromley - Bromley North Line
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s?
Further Comments: This small stretch of line is reputedly haunted by a woman struck by a train.

Murdered Girl

Location: Outer London: Bromley - Chislehurst Caves
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1961
Further Comments: Many ghosts are said to haunt the caves, including a woman drowned in a pool who was seen in 1961 - the witness knocked himself out on the cave roof while trying to escape the apparition. Other 'people' have been seen within, and the sounds of children and sometimes horses are reported. One myth says that a priest who spent the night at the site was found dead, the cause of death - fright!

Charlotte

Location: Outer London: Bromley - Queensway Village Bakery (aka Plaxtol Village Bakery), Petts Wood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2013
Further Comments: This bakery hit the headlines after it was reported to be haunted by an entity named Charlotte. She was said to be harmless, although she was blamed for throwing baking trays and bread, flicking lights on and spelling the first three letters of her name in spilt caster sugar.

Michael Jackson

Location: Outer London: Bromley - Churchill Theatre
Type: Other
Date / Time: 10 May 2014
Further Comments: Several news outlets reported on the photograph of 'Michael Jackson' manifesting near an impersonator which was snapped by a fourteen year old boy, although the entity is more likely to be lens flare.