Road Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana
Coach
Location: West Kennett (Wiltshire) - Road, exact area unknown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Pulled by a team of four horses, a spectral coach haunts the area.
First added: 2009-06-07 | Last updated: 2009-06-07 | ID #9430
Headless Driver
Location: West Lulworth (Dorset) - Lane along Coach Lane Gates (gates may no longer stand)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly coach pulled by horses and driven by a headless coachman reportedly travels along this lane. The coachman was said to have been decapitated during a highway robbery.
First added: 2007-04-15 | Last updated: 2007-04-15 | ID #7302
Cloaked Figure
Location: West Mersea (Essex) - Between the Fox and turning for Waldegraves
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1990 and 2004
Further Comments: Driven in a car by a friend, a passenger reported seeing a white, cloaked figure cross the road ahead of him. Halfway across the road, the figure looked backwards, but continued to move forwards until vanishing into a roadside hedge. Around fourteen years later, the original witness was once again a passenger in a car, this time driven by his wife. She braked hard on the same stretch of road, as she spotted something white cross ahead of her.
First added: 2008-09-24 | Last updated: 2008-09-24 | ID #8963
Cry
Location: West Vale (West Yorkshire) - Crossroads
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 14 June 2012, 03:00h
Further Comments: While out for a night walk, a witness heard a child's cry near the crossroads. The sound became louder as the witness approached, but they were unable to find the source of the noise.
First added: 2012-07-08 | Last updated: 2012-07-08 | ID #10980
Glowing Ball
Location: West Witton (North Yorkshire) - A684 between town and Swinithwaite
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This dazzling ball of light hovers on the road only to vanish when cars and other vehicles move too close.
First added: 2004-12-02 | Last updated: 2004-12-02 | ID #5693
Headless Horseman
Location: Westcott (Surrey) - Road between Westcott and Dorking
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2007, approximately 02:30h
Further Comments: A headless horseman is reported to haunt Westcott. In 2007, one man walking between Westcott and Dorking was followed by something unseen which pushed its way through thick bushes and made a trotting sound.
First added: 2012-10-21 | Last updated: 2012-10-21 | ID #11154
Tall Gaunt Figure
Location: Westhoughton (Greater Manchester) - A6
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Date unknown, 19:00h
Further Comments: Two occupants of a car slowed down after spotting a tall gaunt figure start to cross the road ahead of them. The figure stopped on a small traffic island but had vanished as the car reached the spot. The occupants of the car did not mention their sighting to anyone, but twelve months later a friend said that they had seen the same figure. One of the witnesses returned to the area to investigate further; locals shared the store of a phantom highwayman in the area.
First added: 2022-11-26 | Last updated: 2022-11-26 | ID #14700
Young Woman
Location: Weston (Hertfordshire) - Road near Lannock Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 1972, around 23:30h
Further Comments: The phantom figure of a woman in white was seen by a husband and wife as they drove out of Weston. It is thought that the phantom is a girl who drowned on her wedding day.
First added: 2009-12-29 | Last updated: 2009-12-29 | ID #9749
Many Accidents
Location: Weston-super-Mare (Somerset) - Kewstoke Toll Road
Type: Other
Date / Time: No exact date
Further Comments: Though only a mile long, there have been a high number of accidents along this coast road, leading some to speculate that a paranormal source may be at work.
First added: 2007-09-18 | Last updated: 2007-09-18 | ID #7957
Coach and Four
Location: Weybourne (Norfolk) - Road through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It was once said that a ghostly coach pulled by four horses and driven by a headless figure would pass through the village and vanish into the church wall.
First added: 2015-01-18 | Last updated: 2015-01-18 | ID #11719
Racing Driver
Location: Weybridge (Surrey) - Brooklands Race Track
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure, complete with leather coat and racing cap and goggles, has been seen pacing the track. A semi-transparent car has also been observed racing around the circle.
First added: 2002-08-20 | Last updated: 2002-08-20 | ID #2220
Four Sisters
Location: Wherstead (Suffolk) - Four Sisters (A14/A137 junction)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s?
Further Comments: Local folklore claims that four sisters committed suicide here and have remained ever since.
First added: 2024-11-16 | Last updated: 2024-11-16 | ID #15703
Coach
Location: Whetham (Wiltshire) - Road heading towards Calne
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly coach is pulled by a team of six grey horses.
First added: 2009-06-07 | Last updated: 2009-06-07 | ID #9431
Black Bird
Location: Whirlow (South Yorkshire) - Lane near Whirlow Hall (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A member of the family which owned Whirlow Hall was said to haunt the lane, taking the form of a black bird with a white tail (or wings). It was capable of paralysing people; in one instance the entity froze the rider of a mule in the air as his mount continued walking along oblivious to its master's predicament.
First added: 2021-05-25 | Last updated: 2021-05-25 | ID #14202
Seaman
Location: Whiston (Lancashire) - Delph Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost along this road slipped and fell into a quarry whilst returning to his ship - the fall killed him, and now he continually repeats his journey.
First added: 2003-08-30 | Last updated: 2003-08-30 | ID #4536
Nurse
Location: Whitacre Heath (Warwickshire) - Halloughton Grange Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s and January 2010, around 20:45h
Further Comments: During the 1930s a cyclist heading towards Kingsbury along this road swerved to avoid a nurse as she stepped out in front of him - he failed and passed straight through her. The encounter left him shaken, and when the cyclist finally spoke of the incident, he discovered a nurse had been killed in an accident on the spot several years previous. In 2010 a transparent figure in a cape, seen standing by the roadside where the road forks, once again left witnesses shaken.
First added: 2011-03-21 | Last updated: 2011-03-21 | ID #10188
Horse?
Location: Whitby (North Yorkshire) - Esk Terrace
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 02 September 2011, 00:20h
Further Comments: While staying in a house along this road, a witness heard a horse walking outside on the gravel - when they looked from the window, nothing could be seen.
First added: 2011-09-17 | Last updated: 2011-09-17 | ID #10570
Long Legs
Location: Whitby (North Yorkshire) - Unidentified road towards a campsite
Type: Other
Date / Time: 05 August 2013
Further Comments: Driving back to a campsite, the passenger of a vehicle spotted a pair of extremely long white male legs, to just above the thigh, quickly bound across the road. The stride was too long and too fast to be human. Despite the passenger crying out 'what's that?', the driver did not see anything.
First added: 2013-09-22 | Last updated: 2013-09-22 | ID #11418
Old Lady in Black
Location: Whitehills (Aberdeenshire) - Red Well Road
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1 January 1990
Further Comments: A sixteen year old boy was terrified by the ghost of an old woman who walked straight through him. As he ran back home, the spirit kept pace with him, and passed through him a second time. Soon after reaching home and going to bed, the teenager woke up choking, only to see a black cloud drift out of his bedroom window.
First added: 2004-08-13 | Last updated: 2004-08-13 | ID #5305
White Ball
Location: Whitley (Cheshire) - A49
Type: Other
Date / Time: October 2022, 21:00h
Further Comments: A white ball of light bounced across the bonnet of a car before entering the vehicle. The driver experienced distorted vision and headaches for a few days following the incident.
First added: 2022-11-05 | Last updated: 2022-11-05 | ID #14693
Victorian Road Crossers
Location: Whittlesford (Cambridgeshire) - Whittlesford Road to Cambridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 1980s, 04 January 2005
Further Comments: In 2005, a driver reported three male figures dressed in Victorian clothing who walked across the road in front of his car. The vehicle went straight through them, leaving the witness cold, sick, and very shaken. A few years prior to this, a man was thrown from his horse after he briefly spotted three Victorian men on the road. After the rider picked himself up, the men had vanished, although the horse refused to walk in the direction they were heading.
First added: 2005-01-07 | Last updated: 2005-01-07 | ID #5752
Vanishing Dog Walker
Location: Wicken (Cambridgeshire) - Wicken Road, between Wicken and Deanshanger
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 2016
Further Comments: A driver passing along this road with high banks slowed as he approached a person walking their dog. The driver checked the mirror as they braked, and upon looking ahead again, the figure had vanished, although there were no side roads or paths.
First added: 2016-08-27 | Last updated: 2016-08-27 | ID #12249
Young Girl Thumbing Lift
Location: Wickford (Essex) - Roundabout on Southend Bypass
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Probably local urban mythology, the ghost of a girl who died in a motorcycle accident is reported to thumb a lift here, wanting to go to Southend - her destination before dying.
First added: 2000-08-17 | Last updated: 2000-08-17 | ID #463
Coach and Horses
Location: Wickford (Essex) - Runwell Hall (now the Thomas Kemble Toby Restaurant)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 December (Reoccurring)
Further Comments: After a spectral horse and carriage stops at the top of the driveway, a woman climbs out and walks to the hall's door to be met by a long dead butler. A similar story says that Anne Boleyn travels in a coach along the roads surrounding the Hall around the same time of year.
First added: 2001-09-07 | Last updated: 2026-09-05 | ID #618
Horse
Location: Wickham (Hampshire) - Road heading towards Droxford
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2017
Further Comments: A driver spotted a white horse crossing the road ahead and commented to her passenger, who said she could not see anything. As the driver reached the spot the horse crossed, she realised there was nowhere the horse could have gone.
First added: 2018-04-14 | Last updated: 2018-04-14 | ID #12815
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