The Paranormal Database

Governess

Location: Sheffield (South Yorkshire) - Mosborough Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Now returning to the hall in the form of a white lady, the governess had her throat slit by the hall's Squire after she threatened to tell his wife of their affair. The sounds of their final argument can also be heard drifting around the hall at night. A man staying here also reported a phantom hound which awoke him at night.

White Lady

Location: Shepton Mallet (Somerset) - HMP Shepton Mallet (former prison)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century (White Lady), Circa 2008 (American Serviceman)
Further Comments: Believed by staff at the prison to be the ghost of a woman executed there during the seventeenth century, this female presence was blamed for every cold spot and freak gust of wind within the building. More recently, staff have reported the ghost of an American serviceman, thought to be related to the period when the site was used by the US military.

White Lady

Location: Shinnel (aka Shinnell) Water (Dumfries and Galloway) - Paul's Pool
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1890
Further Comments: A white lady was said to haunt this little waterfall along the river, hovering while bathed in moonlight.

White Woman

Location: Shipton Gorge (Dorset) - Private residence along Dorchester Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A headless woman in a white gown was said to haunt this location.

Nun

Location: Skryne (County Meath) - Skryne Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly nun was once watched as she slowly dissolved into nothingness. She has also been heard walking in empty parts of the building, though the footsteps could belong to a white woman (thought to be a murdered maid) who also haunts the castle.

Slim Woman

Location: Slade (County Wexford) - Loftus Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom woman in white died of the traditional broken heart after her father drove away her one true love. The entity has been reported exorcised. Another story attached to the site says that the Devil arrived one night to join a game of cards. Old Nick fled after one gambler spotted a cloven foot under the table.

White Lady

Location: Spalding (Lincolnshire) - Ayscoughfee Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 2006
Further Comments: After a long period of absence, this phantom woman was spotted by a member of the public in 2006. Staff who work at the building report feeling a strange presence in some of the rooms in this hall.

White Lady

Location: St Andrews (Fife) - Abbey road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, likely pre twentieth century
Further Comments: Folklore said a phantom white woman haunted this road.

White Woman

Location: St Andrews (Fife) - Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pale, lost shade could belong to one of the mummified bodies that were removed from a nearby tower in the mid-nineteenth century. A monk has been seen on the staircase, offering to help anyone struggling to ascend the tower.

Lady de Clare

Location: St Athan (South Glamorgan) - Area around site of West Orchard castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rumoured to have been buried alive by her cruel husband who (incorrectly) believed she was having an affair, this white lady was once said to walk the castle and the surrounding area.

White Woman

Location: St Ouen (Jersey) - Rue a la Pendue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1900
Further Comments: La blianche femme, or white woman, is reputed to haunt this road. She gave chase to a local man in 1900, who had to take shelter in a house close by.

Sarah Harrington

Location: Staveley (Derbyshire) - The Hagge (aka Hagg) (former mansion, now a farmhouse)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Harrington was a former Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta and is thought to be the phantom woman in white who haunts this building. A mighty oak which stood in the garden was thought to scream and bled when cut; unfortunately, the tree blew down during a gale in 1883.

The haunted manor house no longer stands.

Lady in White

Location: Stirling (Stirling) - Rownam Avenue, and area of former manor house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century
Further Comments: The wife of a former owner of the local manor house, this white woman drifted down the road after dusk for many years after her death. Sometimes the stories colour her green, like so many other ghostly women in this part of the world.

Nun

Location: Stratton St Margaret (Wiltshire) - Church and general area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in white, the ghostly nun is said to haunt not only the church, but the entire village.

Steam Engine

Location: Stroud (Gloucestershire) - Woodchester Mansion, near the town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001, and 14 December 2019
Further Comments: A film crew spending a night in the building in 2001 reported loud disembodied banging that climaxed as if the sounds of a stream train charged through the house. The house is also reported to be haunted by a white lady, and the park surrounding the building is home to a Roman soldier, a figure resembling a monk, two American servicemen in Second World War uniforms, a headless horse and a dwarf which somersaults along the driveway. In 2019, a witness watched a horse and carriage driven by a man wearing a tall Victorian hat pass through a locked gate.

Pathway at Studland, Dorset.

Woman in White Coat

Location: Studland (Dorset) - Pathway from Studland beach to road near The Banks Arms pub
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 12 August 2004, and August 2008
Further Comments: A woman wearing a white coat and white trousers, with hair down to her shoulders, walked past a group of four friends, telling them, 'I have just been for a swim' before disappearing from view. Four years later, one of the group spoke to a couple who had experienced the exact same encounter in the same area.

White Lady

Location: Sutton Coldfield (West Midlands) - Westwood Coppice (west side of Sutton Park)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Reputedly every night (story dates from nineteenth century)
Further Comments: A woman who was betrayed by her lover drowned herself in a nearby pond (that no longer exists). Her ghost, dressed in white, wrings her hands as it drifts through the trees.

White Lady

Location: SW14 (Greater London) - Old Ranelagh and Lower Richmond Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Sobbing for the loss of her lover, this white figure is seen moving across the grounds of Ranelagh and disappearing when she reaches the road.

Sarah

Location: SW4 (Greater London) - Plough public house, Clapham Common
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Dressed in white, Sarah has been seen standing in the pub's bedrooms, her raven hair running over her shoulders. The ghost may be linked to the discovery of a secret, bricked up room in 1970.

White Lady

Location: Swansea Bay (West Glamorgan) - Oystermouth Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The castle grounds are haunted by this crying white lady with a bloody back. Another story has the site haunted by a white horse.

Tamworth Castle (public domain).

Black Lady of Tamworth

Location: Tamworth (Staffordshire) - Tamworth Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to be the ghost of St Editha, this phantom nun has a room named after her within the building - she once appeared here and bullied a greedy landlord into returning stolen church lands. Another female, a white lady, also haunts the castle grounds.

White Lady

Location: Tangham (Suffolk) - Forest
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Further Comments: A man driving a horse and cart through the woods was startled by the appearance of a white lady on the seat next to him - she vanished as he drove past the last tree of the forest. This story could be an early version of the phantom hitchhiker tales.

Blue & White Ladies

Location: Tanworth (Staffordshire) - Tanworth Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The blue lady took her own life after watching her lover die during a jousting contest outside the castle - she now patrols the battlements. The white lady is thought to be a nun from a priory which once stood nearby.

Tattershall Castle (public domain)

Patrolling Woman

Location: Tattershall (Lincolnshire) - Tattershall Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A white woman has been spotted moving around the battlements at night.

Hitchhiker

Location: Taunton (Somerset) - A38 road near the town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970, 2016
Further Comments: This man dressed in a long grey coat stands by the roadside, and if an oncoming car does not stop to offer him a ride, he throws himself in front of the vehicle. Either way, he vanishes without trace, normally leaving the witness scared and confused. A white female version of the man has also been reported in the same area.