Examining folkloric, paranormal & cryptozoological locations in the UK and beyond
Location: Trawsfynydd (Gwynedd) - Road through the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 30 December 1979
Further Comments: A phantom coach pulled by ghostly horses was spotted as it passed through the village.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-04-07
Last updated: 2007-04-07
ID: #7232
Location: Tredegar (Powys) - Troedrhiwgwair mountain
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A newspaper article from 1956 suggested that the phantom house which would trot across the mountain was only the sound of distant (real) horses that drifted in on the wind.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-12-20
Last updated: 2024-12-20
ID: #15742
Location: Tremadog (Gwynedd) - Bypass close to the Tremadog roundabout
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 20 July 2012, around 17:00h
Further Comments: A group of four or six horsemen wearing brown leather were seen charging across this bypass.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2012-07-29
Last updated: 2012-07-29
ID: #11059
Location: Trent (Dorset) - Trent Barrow, pool
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy weather
Further Comments: The pool was once the scene of a tragedy when a horse drawn carriage crashed into it, drowning all on board. This mishap can still occasionally be heard. The pool was once believed to be so deep that it could never be measured.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-07-16
Last updated: 2002-07-16
ID: #1779
Location: Truro (Cornwall) - Road between Truro and Mevagissey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This large red coach, drawn by four horses, charged at a motorist driving the opposite way down the narrow road - the apparition vanished just before impact.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2003-03-16
Last updated: 2003-03-16
ID: #4006
Location: Tunstead (Derbyshire) - Manifold Valley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nights of the full moon (recurring)
Further Comments: A beautiful white horse carrying a headless rider gallops across the valley when the night sky is right. The phantom is either a peddler or a soldier, depending on the legend.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2007-04-27
Last updated: 2007-04-27
ID: #7324
Location: Twechar (Dumbartonshire) - Antonine Wall - Bar Hill Fort
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: While picnicking with her daughter, this witness heard a stampede of horses close by, but no animals could be seen.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2016-03-12
Last updated: 2016-03-12
ID: #12052
Location: Tynron (Dumfries and Galloway) - Tynron castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area around the castle is haunted by a decapitated horseman. The ghost is thought to be a man who tried to marry a girl residing at the castle, but her brothers chased him away. During the pursuit, the young man fell from his horse and lost his head.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-08-22
Last updated: 2004-08-22
ID: #5392
The Uffington White Horse.
Location: Uffington (Oxfordshire) - Hills of town
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 1920s, recurring every 100 years
Further Comments: The famous white horse seen on the hill from the village is reported to leave once a year (or every 100 years, depending on the storyteller) to have its feet shod at the nearby Wayland's Smithy. Another local legend states that the horse is not really a horse, but the dragon slain by St George on that very hill.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-08-10
Last updated: 2002-08-10
ID: #2110
Location: Upavon (Wiltshire) - Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Heard but not seen, a phantom coach occasionally crosses the bridge.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2009-06-07
Last updated: 2009-06-07
ID: #9434
Location: Uplyme (Devon) - Whitty Hill area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: This black and red coach is still drawn along the roads, pulled by four phantom horses.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2003-12-28
Last updated: 2003-12-28
ID: #4963
Location: Ventnor (Isle of Wight) - Old Park Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre 1921
Further Comments: One local reported witnessing a phantom horse pass by, closely followed by the sounds of footsteps in pursuit of the creature. During the 1920s, two skeletons were discovered close to the site of the haunting.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-07-15
Last updated: 2024-07-15
ID: #15501
Location: W2 (Greater London) - Bayswater Road, area near Hyde Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Coach unknown, woman possibly early twentieth century
Further Comments: A nineteenth century coach and horses are said to still run along this stretch of road. Another ghost reported was a shadowy woman in shabby clothing with a face which resembled death incarnate.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2003-12-21
Last updated: 2003-12-21
ID: #4770
An old postcard of Wadebridge.
Location: Wadebridge (Cornwall) - Trewornan Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Once per year, on a night of a full moon (recurring)
Further Comments: Moving at breakneck speed while pulling a coach, a phantom team of horses race across the bridge before vanishing on the other side.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-08-02
Last updated: 2005-08-02
ID: #6459
Location: Wakefield (West Yorkshire) - Denby Dale Road bridge, and river below
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: Walking her dog across the bridge, Amanda West was frozen with fear when the sound of horses passed her - with no horses to be seen. Without warning, she then heard a loud splash. Looking into the river below, the water was calm, but the sound of panicking horses could now be heard coming from below. She later found out that the original bridge had collapsed in 1836 and a team of horses pulling a cart had drowned.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2007-02-20
Last updated: 2007-02-20
ID: #7106
Walberswick Common, Suffolk.
Location: Walberswick (Suffolk) - Walberswick Common
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Daytime
Further Comments: Said to be heard only during the day, phantom horses gallop across the common. In addition, reports of a phantom man have been frequent since the 1940s, appearing both on the common and in the church ruins, while the Black Shuck is also said to occasionally make an appearance.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2000-08-17
Last updated: 2026-02-01
ID: #414
Walton Hall, from Country Seats by Francis Orpen Morris.
Location: Walton (Warwickshire) - Walton Hall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 09 October, every five years (recurring)
Further Comments: This pale riderless horse gallops over the gardens, twice a decade. The hotel itself is haunted by a young man, who some speculate to be the former rider of the horse.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-06-20
Last updated: 2002-06-20
ID: #1359
Location: Wangford - SW of Thetford (Suffolk) - Raydon Hall, Quay Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A coach pulled by a headless horse runs down Quay Lane on dark nights, believed to be driven by a former owner of Raydon Hall.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2001-09-06
Last updated: 2001-09-06
ID: #590
Location: Wargrave (Berkshire) - Pathway known as Hyghams
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The threat of spotting a phantom woman on horseback ensured locals would not use this route after dark.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2024-12-22
Last updated: 2024-12-22
ID: #15750
Location: Warmington (Warwickshire) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 24 December and 31 December (recurring)
Further Comments: A phantom horseman, perhaps connected to the nearby battle site of Edge Hill, visits this area twice a year. One local man claimed to have seen a lantern being swung along a road, although no one held it.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2024-07-16
Last updated: 2024-08-04
ID: #15517
Location: Washington (Sussex) - Chanctonbury Ring
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Several ghosts have been reported here, including Caesar (and an accompanying army). Other people have reported an elderly man with a long white beard who moves between the trees, and the pounding hooves of invisible horses. Phantom druids (or the Devil himself, depending on the source) appear if you run around the fort seven times at midnight.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-07-17
Last updated: 2002-07-17
ID: #1806
Location: Waterford (County Waterford) - By the old infirmary, towards John's Park / Polberry Cross Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December 2016, around 03:00h
Further Comments: A witness walking home in the early hours of the morning was pushed two metres by an unseen force. No one else could be seen. The witness said the sensation resembled a push from a horse and counted it as one of their worst experiences.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2025-01-04
Last updated: 2025-01-04
ID: #15775
Location: Welwyn (Hertfordshire) - White Horse Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The headless horse which runs along this road was said to have been a casualty during the civil war.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2020-06-01
Last updated: 2020-06-01
ID: #13819
Location: Wendover (Buckinghamshire) - Steep road off the M40, though Wendover Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: Recorded by the local press, a man reported that his wife had seen a horse pass in front of the car in which she was travelling, and upon the creature was the bottom half of a rider - the figure was not visible above legs. The driver of the car did not spot anything.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2019-03-18
Last updated: 2019-03-18
ID: #13113
The phantom horseman never reaches journey's end.
Location: West Auckland (Durham) - Route between town and Hamsterley Forest
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen galloping at the speed of an arrow, this horseman vanishes once he enters the dense woodland.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-10-25
Last updated: 2002-10-25
ID: #2821