The Paranormal Database

Silhouette

Location: Aberdeen (Aberdeenshire) - Old Fire Station, King Street (now student accommodation)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2006
Further Comments: A former student who stayed here recalled how a silhouetted figure walked towards him as he stood in the shower - the witness jumped out of the way, injuring his heal. A couple of months later someone told the student that the building had a haunted reputation. It is said that several fire fighters based at the site when operational encountered a figure in Victorian uniform, said to be a man who died while saving a child.

Matron

Location: Belfast (County Antrim) - Belvoir Park Hospital (closed 2006)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While an operating hospital, stories claimed a ghostly matron walked the wards, the sound of her dress heard rustling along the floor. Since closing, it is claimed security staff have been spooked by shadows and strange sounds.

Edwardian Gentleman

Location: Bexhill (Sussex) - Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The police station is said to be haunted by this figure, though his motives for returning here are unknown.

Inspector

Location: Billericay (Essex) - Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1976 onwards
Further Comments: The phantom Inspector was blamed for minor haunting occurrences, including a stapler which was thrown as an officer worked alone one night. The haunting ceased after a memorial was collated and displayed.

Strange Sounds

Location: Birmingham (West Midlands) - Police station, Canterbury Road (no longer operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Although some believed the strange sounds heard at the police station to have been created by an old heating system, reports were made in the press that some officers refused to work there at night.

Victorian

Location: Blackburn (Lancashire) - Old Infirmary
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown - 2000s?
Further Comments: Cleaning staff in this building are reported to occasionally see figures through doorways, although one member of staff came face to face with a Victorian man wearing a top hat.

White Woman with Mistletoe

Location: Bramshill (Hampshire) - Bramshill House (police college)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: Not just home to the ghostly bride (who suffered the fate of hiding in a chest from her husband while playing hide and seek, only to become stuck and suffocate) who wakes people up who spend the night there, but also to a grey lady who haunts the library and a green man who hovers by the lake - it is reported that he has no legs. Finally, a man in a flannel suit was observed walking through a wall by a security guard in the 1970s.

The Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

Sister Geer

Location: Brighton (Sussex) - Royal Sussex County Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: A member of staff who heard and felt someone invisible walk by was later told it was Sister Geer, a former nurse whose presence had been encountered by other staff on the ward.

Knight Templar

Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Fire Brigade Headquarters, Temple Back
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1975
Further Comments: This apparition appeared nine times during 1975. While one witness thought it looked like a man wearing waterproof clothing, others thought that the ghost's dress looked more medieval and speculated it may have been a Knight Templar, the organisation of which once owned lands around the city.

George

Location: Broughton (Lancashire) - Fire Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: George the ghost would lurk around the engine bay, opening and closing lockers.

Victorian Policeman

Location: Broughton Astley (Leicestershire) - Pavement outside Bulls Head pub
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 13 September 2011, 02:50h
Further Comments: This phantom figure dressed in a Victorian policeman's uniform was observed standing outside the Bulls Head public house by a man walking home in the early hours of the morning. The policeman emanated a presence so strong that the witness could feel it even though he crossed the road and deliberately avoided eye contact with the entity. Further along the road the witness turned to take another look at the phantom, but it had gone.

Former fire station, Bury St Edmunds.

Footsteps

Location: Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) - Fire station (no longer operational, currently a bank)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Disembodied footsteps were reported coming from empty parts of this fire station.

Police Officer

Location: Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) - Chesterton Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 21 August 2012, 14:30h
Further Comments: Taking a shortcut through a car park and past an office block, this witness looked up to see a police officer in 1940s uniform with a gasmask case slung over his arm. The officer was floating. The witness froze briefly in terror before taking haste.

Wat Perkins

Location: Cattistock (Dorset) - Chantmarle mansion, former police training college
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early nineteenth century
Further Comments: Once a year for several years, a phantom voice would cry out 'search for Wat Perkins!'. The voice stopped when a skeleton minus the head was discovered in a ditch and a local woman was arrested for murder.

Turning Key

Location: Chepstow (Gwent) - Welsh Burns Unit (hospital)
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: A nurse at this facility reported seeing a key turn in the lock of a glass door - no one could be seen on the other side.

Jack

Location: Chester (Cheshire) - Old Fire Station Restaurant, Northdate Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: Sporting a beard, this phantom fireman wearing a brass helmet was known only as Jack. A fireman who watched the figure sitting on a ladder was so shocked he rang the emergency bell to summon help. Even though the phantom had vanished by the time other people arrived on the scene, the witness quit his job soon after.

Opening Doors

Location: Chipping Campden (Gloucestershire) - Old Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007
Further Comments: Volunteers at the community radio station which moved into the building claimed the location was haunted. Doors opened unaided and strange noises were reported.

Elderly Woman

Location: Cookridge (Yorkshire) - Cookridge and Ada hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Summer 2003
Further Comments: A paramedic with a colleague pushing a stretcher approached a lift in the hospital. Just ahead of them, an elderly woman entered the lift and the doors closed. The paramedic dashed and hit the lift call button before the elevator could move and the doors reopened - the woman who had entered moments before was nowhere to be seen.

Monk

Location: Dalkeith (Lothian) - Dalkeith fire station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: A medium was called to banish a phantom monk blamed for creating strange voices, eerie screams and loud bangs at night. Reports of the phantom monk on the site of a former abbey date back to the eighteenth century.

Figure in Long White Coat

Location: Denton (Lancashire) - Old Denton Police Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1974-1978
Further Comments: Over this four year period, three different people at the police station encountered this spook. One officer spotted the ghostly white figure walk into a disused locker room which had no other exit, while three years later another PC spotted it in an office - when the PC entered, the figure vanished. Knowing he was alone in the station, the PC summoned a dog unit to catch the intruder, but they could not detect anything. The last sighting from by a cleaner who witnessed the entity looking through a door leading to the courthouse.

Joseph Moss

Location: Derby (Derbyshire) - Derby Fish Market
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: In 1859 PC Moss became the first police officer to be shot and murdered in Derby. His ghost haunted the police station, and when it was demolished and replaced by the fish market, Moss remained in the area.

Mrs Browne

Location: E1 (Greater London) - Stepney Magistrate's Court (now demolished)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1976
Further Comments: A former Matron at the court, Browne was blamed for throwing items around and knocking trays of food from people's hands.

Screaming Woman

Location: E11 (Greater London) - Former Wanstead police station (no longer operational)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This police station was said to be haunted by a woman who screamed as she descended the staircase.

Smoker

Location: E11 (Greater London) - Wansted Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Along one corridor, where a murder was committed many years ago, a spot exists which is said to cause people to run after dark, such is the fear it generates. The murder is said to have occurred over tobacco and a pipe.

Prisoner

Location: E12 (Greater London) - Ilford police station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: One of the cells at this station was said to be haunted by a prisoner who took his own life (although an officer who researched the haunting could find no evidence that the suicide occurred).