The Paranormal Database

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Location: Birkenhead - 1960s office block on the former Cammell Laird shipyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A paranormal investigation group was called into this building after staff reported certain areas as always being cold, and fleeting shapes could be spotted out of the corner of one's eyes.

Maid

Location: Birkenhead - Area of former Birkenhead Hall (no longer standing), Pouton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pretty maid was murdered by her jealous mistress, who was convinced the maid was having an affair with the master of the hall. It was not the case, and the little maid now haunts the former grounds. The phantom has taken to being mistaken for a hitchhiker along the nearby road.

Face at the Windows

Location: Birkenhead - Car park on the corner of Argyle Street and Canning Street opposite the Cheshire Lines building
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: This phantom is said to peer into windows of stationary vehicles in this car park. On the site once stood a factory, reputedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who hanged herself there.

Little Old Lady

Location: Birkenhead - Former Cammell Laird site
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: Lights turn themselves on and off, doors open and close, and a handful of staff have reported seeing a strange old lady walking around the site. Men in boiler suits have been watched walking past windows only to vanish shortly after.

Woman

Location: Birkenhead - Private residence close to the A552
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre 2017
Further Comments: Prior to renovation, a ghostly woman would be seen in the house.

Edwardian Woman

Location: Birkenhead - Private residence near Borough Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2008 - 2012
Further Comments: A witness reported repeatedly seeing a woman wearing Edwardian clothing in their home, although the encounters were not fearful.

Edwardians

Location: Birkenhead - Private residence off A552
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2008-2014
Further Comments: Dressed in Edwardian attire, a man and woman were seen in one top floor bedroom. Both seemed to be gentle with no hint of malice, and interacted with children in the house. Other people in Edwardian clothing would be seen out of the corner of the eye on the top floor.

Older Lady

Location: Birkenhead - Woodchurch Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1905
Further Comments: Dressed in black and wearing a bonnet, an older lady would be briefly seen along this road before suddenly vanishing. A newspaper reported cyclists had to break sharply to avoid hitting her. Other witnesses spotted a small ball of fire which quickly disappeared.

John Bibby

Location: Bootle - Peel Road / Bibby's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Seen once a year, Bibby rides his coach with his decapitated head in his lap.

Grey Lady

Location: Ince Blundell - A565 through Ince Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, but said to be at midnight on an unstated date
Further Comments: This phantom woman will manifest close to a round house, in front of oncoming traffic and causing vehicles to crash. It is unclear whether the ghost is a continuation of the haunting along Park Wall Road.

Grey Lady

Location: Ince Blundell - White cross along Park Wall Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Possibly also known as the Pink Lady, this woman had an affair with a local landowner and took her own life when she fell pregnant.

Giant

Location: Knowsley - Unnamed village near Knowsley?
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: July 1925
Further Comments: A figure standing eight feet tall with a black beard and a scowling face would appear at night and declare, 'I am the ghost of the giant of Hale!' before disappearing.

A nineteenth century illustration of Spring Heeled Jack.

Spring Healed Jack

Location: Liverpool - Everton area
Type: Other
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: This area was one from which this enigmatic creature/entity was reported.

Murdered Woman

Location: Liverpool - Former hotel along Sir Thomas Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s and 2001
Further Comments: A voice in an empty toilet was heard issuing warnings of future events, while a figure was seen passing a door and climbing the stairs when the three people in the building were accounted for. A local legend says that a woman was murdered on the staircase close to the toilets.

Footsteps

Location: Liverpool - Former police and fire station, Lark Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012
Further Comments: Footsteps have been reported on the rear staircase and a heavy door opens and closes unaided, according to the Night Vision Investigations team.

Older Woman

Location: Liverpool - Former post office (currently a computer centre)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2010
Further Comments: A woman in a checked red coat walked by two witnesses who were standing by a telephone box. The woman passed within thirty centimetres of the pair and proceeded to walk through the locked door to the post office.

Flying Glasses

Location: Liverpool - Head of Steam public house, Lime Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: Glasses are said to be thrown from shelves and people feel something following them upstairs.

Baby Bouncer

Location: Liverpool - House owned by Liverpool Housing Trust, Madryn Street, Toxteth
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Late 1992
Further Comments: A family living here with a poltergeist reported that the entity picked up their young son and threw him from his cot. The entity would also move the washing machine around the kitchen, hide money, and smash ashtrays.

Purple Faced Girl

Location: Liverpool - Huyton, streets in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: One local myth says certain streets were home to a blue/purple faced young girl who would follow families with children.

Lady in Blue

Location: Liverpool - Jessie Appleton's public house (aka The Dingle) (no longer operating), Park Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1994
Further Comments: Vicky Lee appeared in the press claiming her pub was haunted, having experienced footsteps in locked areas and unexplained breezes across the neck. Vicky's son encountered an older woman wearing a blue dress who vanished from a room.

Monk

Location: Liverpool - Knowsley Hall and Riding Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A phantom monk is said to haunt the area around the hall and the hill. A local legend says a secret tunnel ran from the monastery that once stood on the hill, and that the path the ghostly monk takes indicates the route of the passage.

Swinging Swain

Location: Liverpool - Lea Hall (or possibly Lee Hall) (no longer standing), Gateacre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Windy nights
Further Comments: A local villager who tried his luck with the squire's daughter found himself lynched from a tree close to the hall. On windy nights, the body could be heard swinging. A murder in the hall itself could be repeatedly heard, the moans of a woman and the laughter of her homicidal husband. A journalist who visited the hall between the world wars looking for ghosts to write about found himself frozen to the spot, surrounded by complete silence; he managed to escape and flee after hearing a clock striking in the distance.

Floating Torso

Location: Liverpool - Lime Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Sightings of the ghost of Lime Street are said to go back hundreds or years. One of the more recent witnesses described the entity as being quite tall, though the legs could not be seen, with the mouth silently moving. An unnamed hotel (that later became offices) along the road is also haunted by the figure of a tall woman.

Thomas Campbell Black

Location: Liverpool - Liverpool Airport, formerly known as Speke
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Black died in an accident on the runway of the airfield in 1936 - his shadowy form has been seen walking around the area where the old hangars stood.

Hitchhiker

Location: Liverpool - Liverpool to Birkenhead tunnel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Killed in the middle of the twentieth century in the tunnel under the Mersey, this phantom hitchhiker is still occasionally seen.