The Paranormal Database

Carpenter

Location: Royal Tunbridge Wells (Kent) - Chalet Arosa restaurant (currently Springs)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980
Further Comments: Twice, a figure wearing a carpenter's apron has been observed on the site. During the second sighting, the figure vanished into a wall.

Strange Man

Location: Scarisbrick (Lancashire) - A570, between Morris Dancers pub and Blue Elephant (now Nellie Indian) Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02 February 2023, approx 20:00h, and Autumn 2004
Further Comments: While walking towards the marina, a witness spotted a man wearing a long woollen coat with a hat, longish hair, and a strange looking face. The witness turned away for a few seconds, during which time the man vanished. The figure may have been seen by another witness, who reported seeing a very similar figure along the same road in 2004.

Crypt Dweller

Location: SE9 (Greater London) - MacDonald's restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Built on the site of an old United reformed church, this fast food establishment is said to have a haunted basement which was once a crypt. Some staff have reported encountering an entity, though what it is has not been disclosed.

Knocking

Location: South Shields (Tyne and Wear) - Barr Porter / Thai Udon Kitchen (restaurant), Dean Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2020s
Further Comments: Warned by a former owner that the place was haunted, Alex Barr and Lee Porter opened their new restaurant and soon heard strange knocking coming from the upper part of the building. A visiting psychic claimed the site was home to three entities - Margaret, a young boy named James, and a monk. A photograph taken in a venue room purports to show a ghostly figure.

White Figure

Location: Sunbury on Thames (Surrey) - Castle Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A small figure in white has been witnessed moving between the kitchen and living room of this building.

Former Stationmaster

Location: Torrington (Devon) - Puffing Billy restaurant and B&B (former station)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2016
Further Comments: Both a former stationmaster and his wife are said to haunt this old station, which (at time of writing) is a guest house and restaurant. The female ghost is said to have been heard walking around, moving towards the room where her children once slept.

Actor or Highwayman?

Location: W1 (Greater London) - Sheppeys Restaurant, Shepherd Market
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This tall, dark stranger has often been observed standing in the shadows, his face obscured to make identification impossible, though it is speculated he is either a highwayman or a thespian.

Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.

Oliver Cromwell

Location: Walton le Dale (Lancashire) - Pinocchio's Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 2003
Further Comments: Cromwell's shade is reported to haunt this property and may have appeared in a photograph taken in the restaurant in 2003.

Tudor Man

Location: Watford (Hertfordshire) - Copperfields restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1970s-1980
Further Comments: A local newspaper carried this story after the restaurant owner reported encountering a grey misty old man in Tudor clothing over a period of four years. The ghost would only be encountered in the older part of the building.

Parson Ford

Location: WC2 (Greater London) - The Hummums, Covent Garden (was next door to the New Hummums which is now Tuttons Restaurant)
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: A manservant at these former Turkish baths reported seeing a man he knew on the cellar stairs - it later transpired that the figure had died several days previously.

Henry and Elizabeth

Location: Westward Ho! (Devon) - Pier House Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2023
Further Comments: The restaurant and its resident ghosts appeared in the national press after a fire broke out in the basement, destroying wo tumble dryers and a washing machine. Two days prior to the fire, the ghosts of Henry and Elizabeth had featured in the television programme 'Help! My House is Haunted'.

Female in Grey Crinoline Dress

Location: Weybridge (Surrey) - Oatlands Park Hotel, restaurant and room 1313
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Not known
Further Comments: The ghost is thought to be a maid who jumped from the window of room 1313 and killed herself, after a fight with her boyfriend.

Floating Food

Location: Wolverhampton (West Midlands) - Lotus House (Chinese restaurant)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 02 February 1978
Further Comments: The Shropshire Star reported a poltergeist to be responsible for customers' alarm when utensils, food and a torch were seen to float in mid-air.

Lady

Location: York (North Yorkshire) - Drake's Fish and Chip Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: April 2021
Further Comments: A phantom woman was reported to haunt the third floor of this building. The local press reported that the ghost was consulted when redevelopment work was carried out on the site in 2021.

Tutor restaurant, York.

Disabled Teenager

Location: York (North Yorkshire) - Tutor restaurant, Goodramgate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The upper part of this building is haunted by a seventeen year old disabled teenager who hanged himself many years ago. One witness reported seeing swinging light bulbs and feeling an invisible presence which tried to push them down the stairs.