The Paranormal Database

Mad Canon

Location: Hickling - Hickling Priory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a monk is said to walk the ruined priory and the marshes situated to the northeast. One story says that he was a canon who was driven insane whilst trying to balance the priory books.

Ffolkes Arms, Hillington.

Nanny

Location: Hillington - Ffolkes Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pub is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a young nanny who leapt to her death from one of the attic bedrooms during the late nineteenth century.

White Lady

Location: Hockwold cum Wilton - Hockwold Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The gates to this hall are reportedly haunted by a white lady who has unnerved several drivers through the village.

Lady Mary

Location: Holkham - Holkham Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century?
Further Comments: Lady Anne Glenconner told a local newspaper that Lady Mary haunted the site and would make Glenconner's sister cry. The phantom lady would also open locked doors and be heard moving around in the cellar and the attic.

Priest with his Throat Cut

Location: Holme Hale - Bury's Hall, Green Room & grounds
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Murdered by Cromwell's soldiers, a priest is said to walk the grounds, his throat slit. A girl has also been reported in the area.

Priest with Young Girl

Location: Holme Hale - Hall's Green Room
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Easter (Reoccurring)
Further Comments: Once frequently seen in and around the Green Room, a priest and a girl are supposed to haunt the building. The priest is believed to have been killed on Good Friday by Cromwellian soldiers; hence the sightings tend to occur around the Easter period.

Sounds of Fighting

Location: Holme Hale - High Street, near the public house
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A couple of witnesses reported hearing horses and fighting which moved through the village street and over a field in the early hours of the morning.

Frail Shadowy Form of a Girl

Location: Horning - Ferry Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1500s onwards, seen once every 20 years?
Further Comments: Raped and murdered by a group of monks, the twenty five year old girl in the green dress has been observed gliding through the bar of the inn, disappearing into the river outside. She has also been seen along the riverbank close to the abbey.

An old postcard of Horning village in Norfolk.

Morphing Village

Location: Horning - General area
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 21 July, every five years (next in 2021) (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Once every five years the village is said to revert to how it looked several hundred years ago.

Children's Paradise

Location: Horsey - Horsey Mere
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 13 June, around midnight (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Said to be the burial place of maybe thousands of children from the days of the Romans, they are said to return once a year to play for a couple of hours.

Highwayman

Location: Horsford - Holt Road, north of village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June / July over several years in 2000s
Further Comments: A phantom highwayman with his cloak thrown over one shoulder is reputed to haunt this road. The figure disappears as any witness approaches.

Church Cat

Location: Horsham St Faith - Church
Type: ABC
Date / Time: April 1996
Further Comments: A large cat was observed by the church, standing around 25 meters from the witness.

Coach

Location: Horstead - Meyton 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 (or twelve) bridges that he passes over on the night of his daughter Anne's execution.

The 19:45 to King's Lynn

Location: Hunstanton - Disused rail track between Hunstanton and King's Lynn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This train crashed in August 1863, killing six people. Even though the line was removed from service during the 1960s, people still reported a phantom locomotive travelling along for several years after.

Golden Lion Hotel, Hunstanton, Norfolk.

Young Girl with Ringlets

Location: Hunstanton - Golden Lion Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 29 July 2005
Further Comments: A female guest at the hotel claimed to have woken up during the night to see a young girl with soft ringlets, wearing a blue and white dress in an 'old fashion style'. She appeared at the end of the witness's bed before skipping over to a wardrobe in the corner of the room.

Walking Stone Knights

Location: Ingham - Trinitarian Priory
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 01 August or 02 August (reoccurring) - stone knights, dancing monks unknown
Further Comments: Chas Sampson wrote that the two stone knights in the church are said to wake once a year and go for a walk to the water's edge. Here they fight an Asian soldier in uniform, before walking back. Other stories claim that phantom dancing monks can occasionally be seen in the area.

Rector of Ingoldisthorpe?

Location: Ingoldisthorpe - The Drift
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1961, & 01 July 2013 11:30h
Further Comments: A young male witnessed a floating glowing lantern down the bottom of The Drift while walking a dog. The dog stopped dead in his tracks and refused to go any further. The witness's family found a document online which claimed the exact same thing was last seen there in 1961, and it is believed to be the apparition of the Victorian Rector of Ingoldisthorpe who suspected his wife of not being honourable.

King Street, King's Lynn.

Man in Three Cornered Hat

Location: King's Lynn - 9 King Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s onwards
Further Comments: This eighteenth century gentleman has been observed by several different witnesses in the building. In its latter days as a museum, one visitor spotted the ghostly gentleman walking around with his hands behind his back.

Quite a Few

Location: King's Lynn - True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: This building is said to be haunted by a few dozen ghosts, although no sightings appear to predate the year 2000. The building's ghosts featured in several news publications in September 2021 after a ghost hunter's motion-activated music box was left on the site, causing museum staff some concern.

Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn.

King's Lynn's Heart

Location: King's Lynn - Tuesday Market Place, house No's 15/16
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Legend unknown, but heart still visible
Further Comments: Several legends explain why this heart is here, though all revolve around the same theme; the market square was once a place of execution, and the heart exploded out from the chest of the unfortunate female victims, embedding into the wall. Number 15 is also home to a poltergeist who throws things to the floor.

White Hart pub, King's Lynn.

Lost Monk

Location: King's Lynn - White Hart public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom which haunts this pub is thought by most to be a monk from the church across the road - the church and public house were once connected by a now bricked up tunnel.

The A148.

Three Tolls

Location: King's Lynn - A148
Type: Other
Date / Time: 02 March 2024, 23:58h
Further Comments: Driving late home from King's Lynn, a witness heard the distinctive sound of a huge bell toll three times. Not being able to see anything nearby that would be chiming so late, the witness interpreted the tolls as a warning and took additional care driving home.

Woman in Black

Location: King's Lynn - Bank House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century?
Further Comments: While several staff have reported feeling as if someone is watching them, only one person has reported seeing the phantom woman wearing a long black dress.

Taps

Location: King's Lynn - Clifton House
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Tradition says this building was home to a tapping entity, but no reports can be found post-1950s.

Devil's Alley, King's Lynn.

Satan's Hoof Print

Location: King's Lynn - Devil's Alley
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: No longer present
Further Comments: A single footprint belonging to Old Nick was said to be visible down this aging alleyway, although the route has now been resurfaced.