The Paranormal Database

Murderer and/or Victim

Location: Great Yarmouth - House along Glasshouse Row (area no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 1894
Further Comments: A house in this area was said to be so haunted that every new tenant would soon move out. The site of a murder, no one knew for sure whether it was the murderer or the victim (or both) which refused to leave the site. A young girl on the site spotted a lamb in the upper part of the building; when she reached out to touch it, a force picked her up and threw her down a staircase. No track of the lamb could be found.

Suicidal Architect

Location: Great Yarmouth - Nelson's Pillar, Admiralty Road
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 1819?
Further Comments: A local myth says that the architect behind the construction of this statue of Britannia killed himself after realising that it had been built facing the wrong way.

Spinning Disc

Location: Great Yarmouth - Off coast
Type: UFO
Date / Time: September 1954
Further Comments: A pleasure beach employee watched a stationary blue-grey spinning object in the sky that changed from cigar shape to disc. After five minutes the object suddenly disappeared, reappearing briefly over the sea before disappearing for good.

Victorian Man

Location: Great Yarmouth - Private residence, York Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1999-2002
Further Comments: A family shared their house with a man in a cap with Victorian clothing who would open cupboard doors and move objects. He continued to remain after a blessing, and in the end his antics did not really bother the family involved.

Small Child

Location: Great Yarmouth - Queen Anne's Road area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 2009
Further Comments: According to the Great Yarmouth Mercury, residents along this row of terrace homes have spotted a small child along their landings and heard sounds of small feet walking around.

Seashore Camp, Great Yarmouth.

Prodding Ghost

Location: Great Yarmouth - Seashore Camp
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June 1971 (prodding), July 1977 (whispers)
Further Comments: A family were driven out of caravan B77 in the 1970s by a phantom that kept them awake at night by constantly prodding various members. A few years later, another family awoke one night to the sound of loud whispering in two foreign voices from under their caravan. One family member looked under the caravan with a torch but could see nothing.

Black Hound

Location: Great Yarmouth - Southtown Road
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This stretch of road is said to be home to Old Scarf, a black dog that haunts the area.

St Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth.

Intermittent Rapping

Location: Great Yarmouth - St Nicholas Church
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After the incomplete burial of an Egyptian Princess, mysterious rapping started to occur at the church, the vicarage, and a few more surrounding buildings. The rapping ceased when the princess's burial rite was completed. Another local legend says if you circumambulate the church three times and shout 'Bloody Queen Mary', the face of Mary Tudor appears through a window.

Running Dog

Location: Great Yarmouth - Suffield Road, near the police station
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 2006
Further Comments: An animal resembling a dog with long legs was seen running along the path, vanishing within seconds of being spotted. The same entity was also observed along the High Street by the same witness, though years previous.

No Ghosts Here

Location: Great Yarmouth - Sweet Dreams sweet shop, Regent Road
Type: Other
Date / Time: 2017
Further Comments: This shop was on the local ghost walk route and had a reputation for being haunted. The current owner denied his shop had any paranormal activity and placed a poster in the window announcing that Jesus was the only spirit in the building.

Golden Calf

Location: Gresham - Between Gresham Castle (no longer standing) and Beeson Abbey
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A secret passage was said to run between these two structures, and within was hidden a calf sculptured from gold.

Babes in the Woods chapbook image.

Wailing Cries of Two Lost Children

Location: Griston - Wayland Woods, near Griston
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Having 'inherited' two of his brother's children, an uncaring uncle lured the youngsters into the forest and left them there to die. The children can still be heard on moonless nights, crying for help. This is possibly the source of the classic 'Babes in the Woods' story.

Gunton Park, from Country Seats by Francis Orpen Morris.

White Lady

Location: Gunton - Gunton Park and House (partly destroyed by fire in 1882)
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to death in Suffield family
Further Comments: A ghostly pale woman would be heard screaming when a death was imminent in the family. The ghost has also been spotted running across the grounds.

Blue Victorian

Location: Gunton - Hubbards Loke
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 1994
Further Comments: While taking a shortcut through Hubbards Loke, a witness spotted a pale blue figure in a Victorian dress. The figure was carrying a basket in its right hand and walked about a foot off the ground. When the figure reached the spot where the old Yarmouth/Lowestoft railway line crosses the area the figure vanished.

Smuggler Carrying Headless, Limbless Torso

Location: Happisburgh - Happisburgh coastline
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: For hundreds of years, smugglers were renowned for inventing ghost stories to deter people from intruding on their operations. The stories have stuck, and it is still rumoured that a smuggler's ghost crosses the area, carrying remains of a body (although according to one newspaper published in 1974. the haunting ceased after the discovery of a body buried on the beach).

Red Woman

Location: Hardley - Small block of stone at the crossing of three roads and a dirt path
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Certain nights of the year at midnight, though exact dates uncertain
Further Comments: On a few select nights of the year, a ghostly woman in red materialises and sits on this small stone.

Muffled Organ Music

Location: Hassingham - St Mary's Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A family out for an early morning drive stopped by the church and listened to the music coming from it for several minutes before deciding to enter. As they pushed open the front door, the music stopped, and they could find no one inside.

Sir Thomas

Location: Hautbois - Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 19 May (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A ghostly coach and four passes over this bridge once a year. It is said to be driven by a headless Sir Thomas Boleyn and is one of eleven bridges that he passes over on the night of his daughter Anne's execution.

Dissolving Figure

Location: Heacham - Private residence, Lynn Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June - October 1971
Further Comments: One of the occupants documented their experiences in a diary and recorded several months of rapping, moving furniture, sudden temperature changes, the sounds of footsteps, and a sighting of a shadowy figure that dissolved away.

Flashing Lights

Location: Hemblington - Field in the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1997
Further Comments: Five people out metal detecting all watched the sky light up with flashing red, blue, purple and green lights which illuminated the field which they stood on. The lights stopped suddenly.

Snarling unlike any Dog

Location: Hemby - Lane leading to a Caravan Park, behind a fence in the garden of a house
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Summer 1996, around midnight
Further Comments: When walking back from the arcades, a couple and their nineteen year old daughter witnessed a large dog with glowing red eyes, growling 'unlike any dog... ever heard before'. The family reported a run of bad luck ever since.

Hyter Sprite

Location: Hempnall - Area around Hempnall and Topcroft
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to resemble little people, this area was another home to the fairies known as Hyter Sprites.

Vanishing Dog

Location: Hempnall - Market Hole (road)
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Twentieth century?
Further Comments: The dog in question ran in front of a cyclist - the man braced for impact, only to see it vanish. A quick search revealed no sign of the creature.

Faines

Location: Hethersett - Mill Road and Gravel Pit Lane
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Faines were creatures that stood as tall as a calf, with large eyes. One account has the entity possessing the ability to blow anyone nearby away with a large gust of wind.

Woman's Singing

Location: Hickling - Hickling Broad, south of village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 01 June (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Once a year a gentle female voice can be heard singing. This could be the Woman in White, seen punting from one side of the Broad to another, heading towards a mill. Another ghost is associated with the broad; a drummer is said to be a Napoleonic soldier who drowned while skating across the ice, en route for a secret rendezvous with his girlfriend, can sometimes be heard.