The Paranormal Database

Misty Woman

Location: Abbots Ann (Hampshire) - Poplar Farm Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure was once seen behind the bar and is blamed for slamming doors when no other cause is apparent. Another entity takes the form of a black dog which patrols both inside and outside the pub. The dog is thought to be protecting a secret passageway.

Bushy Bearded Man

Location: Abbots Bromley (Staffordshire) - Royal Oak Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This cloaked, bearded gentleman was seen lurking around the attic and one of the bathrooms. A few unearthly notes from a non-existent music box have been heard in the bar area.

Glasses

Location: Abbotsham (Devon) - Thatched Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: As well as the 'normal' sounds of disembodied footsteps, the other phantom sound often reported is the clinking of glasses from an empty room.

Friendly Character?

Location: Abergavenny (Gwent) - Skirrid Mountain Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While one report described one ghost here only as 'friendly', it may be in the minority. The inn is a former courthouse and claims to have had 182 people executed by noose within. One woman at the inn reportedly developed marks around her neck after feeling something akin to an invisible rope being wrapped around the skin. There has also been a report of a Cromwellian soldier on the site.

Tap Turning

Location: Aldermaston (Berkshire) - Butt Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The resident poltergeist here turns on the beer taps and closes doors with a bang.

Bad Poker Night

Location: Aldington (Kent) - The Walnut Tree Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Home to a gang of smugglers, a poker game they played while waiting for 'the signal' ended with one gang member slitting the throat of another - the ghostly footfalls that can now be heard are that of the murderer taking the body to the well to be disposed of.

Modern Looking Lady

Location: Alfriston (Sussex) - Smugglers Inn public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1994
Further Comments: Seen by the owner and her daughter, this ghostly lady seen at the base of the staircase near the bar was said to be wearing a modern gown.

Lady who Visits the Sick

Location: Allington (Dorset) - Boot Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The first floor of the pub is haunted by a former landlady who only makes her presence known to ill people. There are reportedly another two spooks in the bar area - a soldier dressed in fatigues, and a Victorian gentleman who died after a shotgun blew off most of his head in an accident.

Elizabeth Maronne

Location: Almondsbury (Somerset) - Bowl Inn and other areas in the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s?
Further Comments: Elizabeth was said to have been abused by her father and died young. Her phantom voice has been heard singing nursery rhymes or otherwise sobbing gently. The inn also claims two other female ghosts, though little is known about them.

Mrs Pattinson's Portrait

Location: Alston (Cumbria) - Angel Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2020s
Further Comments: Local press reported that spooky events would break out whenever the portrait of former landlady Mrs Pattinson was moved, including disembodied singing and small items thrown around.

Kirkstone Pass Inn, Ambleside, Cumbria.

Coach Fatality

Location: Ambleside (Cumbria) - Kirkstone Pass Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A young boy hit and killed by a coach and four has found it difficult to leave this mortal world. A woman, named by some as Ruth Ray, froze to death after being caught in a freak snowstorm. The child she carried in her arms survived, and Ruth now remains to warn others against venturing out during cold winter nights. Finally, a seventeenth century coachman lurks around the bar.

Farm Labourer

Location: Amesbury (Wiltshire) - New Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom farm labourer is reputed to periodically appear to have a drink. Once he has finished his beverage, he promptly vanishes.

James of the Glen

Location: Appin (Argyll and Bute) - Old Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2016
Further Comments: Landlord Jim Milligan blamed the ghost of James of the Glen for the mild haunting at this inn, which included footstep-like sounds, rattling of swords on the walls, and tipping chairs.

Children

Location: Ardentinny (Argyll and Bute) - Ardentinny Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One room is said to be haunted by ghostly children - people have awoken and believed the children have entered their room by mistake, only for the ghosts to vanish.

Lady in Brown

Location: Armathwaite (Cumbria) - Fox & Pheasant Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-2000s
Further Comments: A previous landlady and her friend observed a woman wearing old fashioned brown clothing walk through the closed front door. The ghost is said to be a woman who lost both her children outside the inn in a coach accident. A highwayman is also reputed to haunt the building.

Michael Morey

Location: Arreton (Isle of Wight) - Hare and Hounds Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The inn is haunted by a local woodcutter named Michael Morey. His spirit appears from time outside the inn wearing ragged leather leggings, a jerkin and carrying a huge axe. Michael was executed for killing his grandson and left to hang in a nearby gibbet.

Farmer

Location: Arreton (Isle of Wight) - White Lion Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An old farmer wearing a smock was seen in the back of the inn but vanished without warning. A typical performing pub poltergeist is also said to live here.

Fireplace Man

Location: Ashwater (Devon) - Manor Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This hot shade can be seen in the embers of a fireplace here.

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

Location: Askerswell (Dorset) - Spyway Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A woman who died of a scientifically implausible broken heart was said to haunt the inn.

Footsteps in the Attic

Location: Auchencairn (Dumfries and Galloway) - Old Smuggler's Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Phantom footsteps have been reported in the upper part of the building. As with other public houses, light switches have been known to turn themselves on and off and electrical equipment has activated with no human intervention. A shadowy figure was spotted in a bedroom.

Annie Fraser

Location: Aultsigh (Highland) - Aultsigh Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The entity heard moving around the building is named as a young woman murdered by a jealous suitor. He concealed the woman's body under the floorboards of the building.

Unknown

Location: Aveley (Essex) - Old Ship Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The Campaign for Real Ale website mentions this site is haunted, although the finer points are not stated.

Sight and Sound

Location: Backwell (Somerset) - New Inn (no longer open)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-2015
Further Comments: Patrons at this inn would report seeing apparitions, hearing noises and footsteps, and having objects moved around rooms by unseen hands.

Figure

Location: Ballybrittas (County Laois) - Fisherman's Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown (likely 2000s)
Further Comments: A ghostly figure is said to stand by the fireplace here, while other witnesses are reported to have spotted orbs (whether in photographs or real life is not clear).

Cavalier

Location: Banbury (Oxfordshire) - Reindeer Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Having vanished for many years now, it is reasonably certain this once gruesome entity has now gone forever.