Horseman
Location: Sixpenny Handley (Dorset) - Bottlebush (or Bottlebrush) Down
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1924, onwards and previous
Further Comments: This figure on horseback is supposed to date from the late Bronze Age, which probably makes him the UK's oldest ghost. When a nearby barrow was excavated, it revealed the bones of a man and horse. The area is also said to be home to fairies.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-05-14
Last updated: 2002-05-14
ID: #951
Headless on Headless
Location: Skipsea (East Riding of Yorkshire) - Roads around town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The headless highwayman seen around this area rides a headless horse. A road on a hill south of the town is haunted by a woman (who may also be headless) wearing black, who quickly vanishes just before reaching a hill.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-10-13
Last updated: 2002-10-13
ID: #2611
Clifford's Coach
Location: Skipton (North Yorkshire) - High Street
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Midnight, prior to a death in the family (recurring)
Further Comments: The appearance of Lady Ann Clifford in her horse drawn coach was said to herald the death of the owner of the local castle.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-01-11
Last updated: 2003-01-11
ID: #3550
Young Girl on Horseback
Location: Slapton (Buckinghamshire) - Road from Slaptonbury Mill (no longer standing) to farm on other side of the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1980
Further Comments: Legend says that the girl and her horse were both drowned when the mill stream flooded; the sound of the horse's hooves can still be heard. One driver reported seeing a well-dressed person upon a white horse as they travelled between Ivinghoe Aston and Slapton. They feared that they had hit the horse, so stopped, only to find no one there.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2008-01-08
Last updated: 2008-01-08
ID: #8147
White Horse
Location: Slindon (Sussex) - Area around village and Fontwell Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Often seen early in the morning, this riderless phantom steed moves towards witnesses and dissolves away seconds before reaching them. The entity may be related to the ghostly carriage pulled by a team of horses which was said to pass through the village along the lane close to the old butcher's shop.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-07-21
Last updated: 2002-07-21
ID: #1916
One Man and his Dog
Location: Souter Fell (Cumbria) - Exact place unknown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1745
Further Comments: Two men witnessed a man with a hound, pursuing several horses along a steep rocky ridge. Man and beasts suddenly vanished - the witnesses were at first concerned that they had all fallen over the edge of a cliff, though were unable to find any bodies.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2006-07-21
Last updated: 2006-07-21
ID: #6893
Army Marching On
Location: Souter Fell (Cumbria) - Side of Mountain visible from Wilton Hall
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: 23 June 1744 (recurring?)
Further Comments: Over two dozen witnesses saw a mass of troops ascending the mountain on horseback, though there were no real soldiers in the area. The ghostly army had been seen twice before, always on the same date.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-09-23
Last updated: 2002-09-23
ID: #2450
Horses
Location: Southerfield (Cumbria) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Ghostly horses and their riders are reported to haunt this region.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2007-10-13
Last updated: 2007-10-13
ID: #8017
Judge Peck
Location: Spixworth (Norfolk) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Perhaps connected to the Spixworth Manor ghost, a local tale warns of the phantom Judge Peck who travels the area in a coach.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-08-07
Last updated: 2007-08-07
ID: #7717
Horse Drawn Hearse
Location: Spixworth (Norfolk) - Spixworth Manor (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1940s
Further Comments: Several spooky manifestations were claimed by the manor house, including a spectral hearse driven up the driveway, a piano which played itself, a man who resembled a night watchman carrying a lantern, and a ghostly woman holding a candle.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2004-11-14
Last updated: 2004-11-14
ID: #5587
Sobbing
Location: St Albans (Hertfordshire) - Wicked Lady public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sound of a lady's gentle sobs has been heard diffusing through the fabric of the pub. The common outside the pub is home to a highway woman on horseback, after whom the building is named.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-11-12
Last updated: 2002-11-12
ID: #3135
Coach
Location: St Andrews Bay (Fife) - West Sands Road, and general area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy weather
Further Comments: This spectral coach and four is seen passing through the area, vanishing in a puff of blue smoke and leaving only the reek of sulphur.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2003-04-20
Last updated: 2003-04-20
ID: #4169
Galloping
Location: St Just (Cornwall) - Road between St Just & Tregeseal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy weather
Further Comments: The sounds of horses pulling a carriage have been reported coming from this stretch of road during stormy nights.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2003-01-02
Last updated: 2003-01-02
ID: #3370
Three Horsemen
Location: St Peter Port (Guernsey) - Colborne Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1900
Further Comments: Three figures riding white horses were said to gallop loudly down the hill.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2014-06-07
Last updated: 2014-06-07
ID: #11567
Lady Matthias
Location: Stackpole Elidor (Dyfed) - Stackpole Court (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A headless coachman driving headless horses pulling a headless lady in a coach would travel around the former court building. The woman in the coach, identified as Lady Matthias, was exorcised many years prior to the demolition of the building.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2008-01-08
Last updated: 2008-01-08
ID: #8137
Bloody Horseman
Location: Staindrop (Durham) - A688 between town and Raby Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom rider on a white horse has his face covered in blood. The entities are said to slowly descend into the ground.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2004-12-02
Last updated: 2004-12-02
ID: #5694
The Baron on Horseback
Location: Stainton (Cumbria) - Baron's Hill (local name?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Winter nights (recurring), but last seen nineteenth century?
Further Comments: A baron who took over the land on which a monastery stood had the building dismantled and the stones used to construct his manor house. The baron was cursed by a monk; he fell from a horse, breaking his neck, before the house was finished. The man's ghost still rides around the neighbourhood.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2007-10-13
Last updated: 2007-10-13
ID: #8027
Turpin
Location: Stilton (Cambridgeshire) - Bell Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: It was once believed that the ghost of Dick Turpin passed by this inn on Wednesday nights - the thud of horse's hooves could be heard, and some people reported seeing a man on horseback just outside of the building.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2005-08-02
Last updated: 2005-08-02
ID: #6468
Scarlet Rider
Location: Stockport (Greater Manchester) - Bramall (also known as Bramhall) Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 December (recurring)
Further Comments: This figure on horseback, dressed in an unmistakable red, appears once a year - in 1630 he is said to have taken the life of the owner of the hall.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-03-05
Last updated: 2003-03-05
ID: #3956
Wild Hunt
Location: Stogumber (Somerset) - Main street through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960
Further Comments: Hounds, horses and hunters all pass through the village while chasing the souls of the damned. It is not known for sure whether the hunt last passed through this way in 1960 as no one dared peek out from their windows.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2003-02-13
Last updated: 2003-02-13
ID: #3825
Coach
Location: Stoke Abbott (Dorset) - Between Stoke Abbott and Beaminster
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Driving a phantom coach over road and field, an angry ghost of a former squire is doomed to relive his journey over and over.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2008-08-10
Last updated: 2008-08-10
ID: #8737
Horseman
Location: Stokesley (North Yorkshire) - Broughton Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A horseman with his caparisoned horse was said to travel over this bridge, the sound of his jangling armour causing unease to anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2019-10-30
Last updated: 2019-10-30
ID: #13378
Horseman
Location: Stow on the Wold (Gloucestershire) - A429 Fosse Way, heading towards Warwick
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September or October 2006, early evening
Further Comments: A driver reported glancing at her rear view mirror and seeing a horseman wearing a long black cape leap out into the road. The horseman was so close, the driver thought the rider would hit the car, but he vanished.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2009-09-12
Last updated: 2009-09-12
ID: #9670
Outline of Coach
Location: Stroud (Gloucestershire) - Road running alongside Rodborough Common, and apartments built near Rodborough Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s, September 2013
Further Comments: A couple out walking in the 1970s watched in amazement as the ghostly outline of a horseless coach passed them. In 2013, a group of friends watched as an old fashioned car silently moved by. No driver could be seen and as they tried to follow, it vanished. Other witnesses have seen the phantom, and others have reported headless horsemen or of hearing galloping.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2002-06-07
Last updated: 2002-06-07
ID: #1107
Coach & Horses
Location: Sturminster Newton (Dorset) - Stock Gaylard House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend says a phantom coach haunts this area.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2009-06-28
Last updated: 2009-06-28
ID: #9548
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