The Paranormal Database

Lady Darlington

Location: Kirkby (Lancashire) - Melling Hall Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A former owner of the property, this woman could be perceived as unwilling to surrender her ownership. A spectral lap dog has also been seen on site, as has a small figure that is said to possess legs like a chicken.

Jenny

Location: Kirkcaldy (Fife) - Kinswood Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: Before becoming a hotel, this house was haunted by a white woman in a beautiful flowing dress. There were also reports of a phantom goose, which would peck at the young girl who lived there.

Edward Higgins

Location: Knutsford (Cheshire) - Royal George Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A former robber and burglar, Higgins was caught, killed, and now haunts the hotel where he made his base of operations. A phantom coach has been seen and heard moving over cobbles outside the building.

Mrs McNeil

Location: Lanark (Lanarkshire) - Applebank Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of this woman arrived at the hotel (formally an inn) at the same time a stone lintel was brought to the building from McNeil's former home. Bottles are said to have exploded, glasses have flown from the shelves, and people passing by the building late at night have heard banging noises from within.

Blue Lady

Location: Lanark (Lanarkshire) - Cartland Bridge Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This old woman has a veil covering her face. Another ghost, that of a young child, has also been seen.

Grey Abbott

Location: Lanark (Lanarkshire) - Clydesdale Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This religious figure can be found in the building's cellar; the public house was placed on the site of an old monastery.

Water or Ghost..?

Location: Lanark (Lanarkshire) - New Lanark Mill Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 2010
Further Comments: A blurred object which appeared on CCTV camera was touted as evidence of the building's ghost, although in all likelihood the distortion was a drop of water (or insect).

Under Housekeeper

Location: Lavenham (Suffolk) - Swan Hotel, Room 15
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1991
Further Comments: The ghost of this housekeeper, a suicide victim, was said to haunt Room 15 with such intensity that no staff would go near the room after nightfall. A secret tunnel connected the building to the priory, with another tunnel leading along the street.

Norrie Smith

Location: Lennoxtown (Lanarkshire) - Campsie View Hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: While this building has suffered from mild poltergeist activity (such as glasses being moved by an unseen hand), the perpetrator has been named as former owner Norrie.

Suicide

Location: Lewes (Sussex) - Shelley's Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s onwards
Further Comments: Room 26 is reputedly haunted by a suicide which occurred in the 1930s. There are unspecific reports of other phantoms being seen in the hotel.

White Hart Hotel, Lincoln.

Suicide

Location: Lincoln (Lincolnshire) - White Hart Hotel, Bailgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Several spooky phenomena have been reported here, including a floating ball of light, a girl in a mop cap, the sound of a gunshot, a faceless highwayman, and food that would jump off a plate in the restaurant. A young man who took his life in the building is blamed for most of the occurrences.

Highwayman Jacques

Location: Liphook (Hampshire) - Royal Anchor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This robber was shot by lawmen in room six, and his spirit is said to remain. It is also thought that he can be heard travelling along the roads in the village.

White Lady

Location: Little Haven (Dyfed) - Castle Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This spook is reportedly a woman whose body was found on the nearby beach. A long dead cat is also reported to play on the beds at night, while a man in 'modern' dress is said to slowly materialise from the feet up.

Mother & Child

Location: Littlecote (Wiltshire) - Littlecote House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A woman in pink has been seen walking the corridors, holding her newborn baby. The child was murdered by its father ('Wild' Will Darrell), seconds after birth, when he threw it into a nearby fireplace. The screaming that has also been reported belongs to the mother, horrified at Darrell's actions. Darrell's fate is documented elsewhere in this database. The building claims more than twenty ghosts in total, including Cromwellian troops and a woman in blue who walked through a rope.

George

Location: Liverpool (Merseyside) - Adelphi Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: George has been seen several times standing by beds on the fifth floor.

Murdered Woman

Location: Liverpool (Merseyside) - Former hotel along Sir Thomas Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s and 2001
Further Comments: A voice in an empty toilet was heard issuing warnings of future events, while a figure was seen passing a door and climbing the stairs when the three people in the building were accounted for. A local legend says that a woman was murdered on the staircase close to the toilets.

Cloudy Woman

Location: Liverpool (Merseyside) - The Grange Hotel, Aigburth (no longer operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: March 2002. October 2005
Further Comments: While staying at this hotel, one man twice spotted a cloudy shape in the form of a woman, although her features were hard to define. Both times the entity walked past the man and disappeared into a wall.

Woman with Auburn Hair

Location: Llandeilo (Dyfed) - King's Head Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: This figure, seen frequenting the bar, is believed to be the shade of a lady who fell from a window at the hotel during the 1830s. She more often takes the form of a yellow patch of mist.

Knocking

Location: Llanelli (Dyfed) - Halfway Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2013
Further Comments: A ghost tour event at the hotel featured in national newspapers after it was alleged that host psychic medium Chris Date had concealed a man in the loft to create knocking sounds to simulate spiritual contact. Chris Date denied knowing that the man was hidden there.

Flying Bowls

Location: Llanelli (Dyfed) - Thomas Arms restaurant and hotel
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: July 2014
Further Comments: Hotel owners Christine and David Evans claimed in the local press that they had experienced strange sounds and had bowls which had flown off surfaces. Websites carried footage of something moving around on CCTV, although looking more like something small and close to the lens rather than paranormal in origin.

Denzil Christie

Location: Llangoed (Gwynedd) - Llangoed Hall Hotel, kitchen area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This young man, reported in the kitchen and library areas of the hotel, was killed in a hunting accident during his stay here. Another story says that the ghost (or perhaps a second entity) is named Arginald, a lad who committed suicide during the 1940s.

Man wearing Apron

Location: Llangollen (Clwyd) - Hand Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: A former worker at the hotel reported seeing a man wearing a leather apron in the cellar. The figure was tapping on a barrel, and the witness thought him to be a real person, until told that he was the only person down there. The building is also reported to be haunted by a woman in grey and another figure that stands by the organ.

Dark Man

Location: Llanharan (Mid Glamorgan) - High Corner House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: This shadowy figure with black hair has been observed by the fireplace. He is blamed whenever items mysteriously vanish.

Light Flicker

Location: Llanrug (Gwynedd) - Seiont Manor Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to be friendly, the entity in this hotel limits itself to causing lights to flicker.

Strangler

Location: Loch Etive (Argyll and Bute) - Highland Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s
Further Comments: Two women sharing a room reported an entity that appeared and tried to strangle them.