A Cyclist Pulls Out
Location: A12 (Suffolk) - Junction between Jay Lane and Rackham's Corner
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1988, late afternoon during winter, again in August 2001
Further Comments: Driving back to Great Yarmouth, a driver and his wife watched as a cyclist pulled out in front of their car, while travelling at 70 mph. They hit him, but felt no bump, and could find no trace that the cyclist had ever existed. A phantom jaywalker has also been seen in this area, described as having a weird and horrible leer.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2000-08-17
Last updated: 2000-08-17
ID: #788
Phantom Coach
Location: Acton (Suffolk) - Acton Park, The 'Nursery Corner'
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown date, but appears at midnight
Further Comments: Midnight, at an unspecified date, and the park gates are said to burst open, letting in a ghostly carriage pulled by four horses which race to the area known as the Nursery Corner. Local legend states it is here that once a vicious battle took place between Romans and Britons.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2001-06-07
Last updated: 2001-06-07
ID: #165
Stalking Footsteps
Location: Acton (Suffolk) - Private house along Barrow Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1982
Further Comments: A couple living in the house fled after phantom footsteps started to follow the wife around when she was alone in the house. Doors would also open themselves or jam when the human occupiers tried to open them.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-12-27
Last updated: 2004-12-27
ID: #5725
Iron Chest
Location: Acton (Suffolk) - Wimbell Pond
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Protecting their hidden hoard of money, if anyone comes too close to discovering this secret stash a white figure appears and cries out 'That's mine!'.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-27
Last updated: 2002-10-27
ID: #2869
Akenham church.
Summoned Entity
Location: Akenham (Suffolk) - Church
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local myth states that walking around the church thirteen times anticlockwise will summon the Devil.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2007-05-07
Last updated: 2025-06-29
ID: #7403
A track in Akenham.
Cat Attack
Location: Akenham (Suffolk) - Farm Track
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 18 February 2012, 09:50
Further Comments: Police reported that a man had called them saying that a large cat had attacked a deer. The deer had been found with marks around the throat area.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2012-02-18
Last updated: 2012-02-18
ID: #10706
Off the coast of Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Bells
Location: Aldeburgh (Suffolk) - Coast
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Circa nineteenth century
Further Comments: Much of Aldeburgh has been taken by the sea, leading to the belief that the bells from sunken churches could sometimes be heard under the waves.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2015-08-10
Last updated: 2015-08-10
ID: #11893
Airborne Battle
Location: Aldeburgh (Suffolk) - Skies over Aldeburgh
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 04 August 1642, 17:00h - 18:00h
Further Comments: A large phantom battle occurred in the skies over Aldeburgh; gunfire was heard and a large stone fell from the sky. What happened to this piece of rock is unclear.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2001-09-08
Last updated: 2001-09-08
ID: #385
The sky above Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Round Platform with Handrail around Edge
Location: Aldeburgh (Suffolk) - Somewhere over the town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1916
Further Comments: A female witness watched for 5 minutes as this disk carrying a dozen men dressed like sailors flew overhead, at a height of about 30 feet.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2000-08-17
Last updated: 2000-08-17
ID: #701
Tunnel Dwellers
Location: Alderton (Suffolk) - Alderton Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The hall had a secret passage running to St Andrew's Church, used by priests or smugglers (or both), which locals considered haunted. Another story says Second World War airmen who used the hall were disturbed by ghostly noises emerging from the tunnel. A Bishop apparently exorcised the ghost.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2026-02-15
Last updated: 2026-02-15
ID: #16347
Tunnel
Location: Aldringham (Suffolk) - Parrot & Punchbowl public house
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local folklore says a secret tunnel leads from the pub to the nearby church.
Source:
Needs Review, User Submission
First added: 2026-02-15
Last updated: 2026-02-15
ID: #16348
Man with his Dog
Location: Ampton (Suffolk) - Callow Hill Lane
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: A young boy reported that he walked alongside a man and a dog, which both disappeared once they reached this lane.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-08-07
Last updated: 2002-08-07
ID: #2057
Seven Barons
Location: Ampton (Suffolk) - Seven Hills (burial barrows, three remain)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A folktale says the burial mounds contain the bodies of Barons (or soldiers) killed in the 1173 Battle of Fornham. It is worth noting the barrows are from a much earlier period.
Source:
Needs Review
First added: 2026-02-15
Last updated: 2026-02-15
ID: #16349
One Legged Priest
Location: Ashill (Suffolk) - House in village; exact location not known
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1974
Further Comments: Reputedly haunted by a priest with only one leg, this house received media attention when police responded to an activated burglar alarm; they arrived on the scene only to discover a set of one-legged footprints that disappeared into a wall.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2002-07-09
Last updated: 2002-07-09
ID: #1676
ABC
Location: Assington (Suffolk) - Assington, near Sudbury
Type: ABC
Date / Time: Early 1996
Further Comments: One of many big cat sightings reported in Suffolk during 1996.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2000-08-17
Last updated: 2000-08-17
ID: #265
Grey Ladies
Location: Assington (Suffolk) - Exact locations not known
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A 1978 article in the Suffolk and Essex Free Press said two houses in the village were home to grey ladies, and another was home to a Cromwellian soldier's phantom footsteps.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2026-04-06
Last updated: 2026-04-06
ID: #16521
White Figure
Location: Badwell Ash (Suffolk) - Holland's Hill (aka Ashfield Hill)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Not much is known about the white phantom which apparently haunts the area.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2025-11-22
Last updated: 2025-11-22
ID: #16165
Lantern
Location: Badwell Ash (Suffolk) - Lane near Ladybrick barn (likely Ladywood Lane aka Ladywell Lane)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: A ghostly lantern which slowly moved down the lane towards parked cars was eventually declared to be nothing more than an optical illusion created by nearby houses. Another story states the lane is haunted by a phantom soldier.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2011-04-25
Last updated: 2025-11-22
ID: #10267
Nan Silvers
Location: Badwell Ash (Suffolk) - Nan Silvers pond, Shackerland Hall farm
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nights of the full moon (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Poor jilted Nan drowned herself in the pond which has taken her name, and her ghost can be seen in the water when the moon is full.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2025-11-09
Last updated: 2025-11-09
ID: #16163
Headless Driver
Location: Badwell Ash (Suffolk) - Old Vicarage Drive
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s?
Further Comments: A girl returning from a youth club watched a white horse and coach emerge from the driveway, the driver carrying his head under his arm.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2025-11-22
Last updated: 2025-11-22
ID: #16166
Mrs Etteridge
Location: Badwell Ash (Suffolk) - Richer Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1920s
Further Comments: A former farmer's wife, a boy watched the ghost of Mrs Etteridge as she passed through a hedge, crossed the road, and walked through another hedge, this one leading to the old cemetery.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2025-11-22
Last updated: 2025-11-22
ID: #16164
Coach and Horses
Location: Badwell Ash (Suffolk) - Road between village and Walsham Le Willows
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The coach and horses which appear once a year are considered unlucky, with any witness to the sight supposed to die within the year.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2025-11-08
Last updated: 2025-11-08
ID: #16156
Shadows
Location: Badwell Ash (Suffolk) - White Horse public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2020s?
Further Comments: Shadows resembling those of people have been spotted, as well as the more traditional pub poltergeist occurrences.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2025-11-22
Last updated: 2025-11-22
ID: #16169
Lady in Red
Location: Bardwell (Suffolk) - Bardwell Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This building is reputed to house a ghostly woman in red. A phantom dog haunts the surrounding area.
Source:
Published Media, User Submission
First added: 2026-02-07
Last updated: 2026-02-07
ID: #16322
Rough Coated Dog with Large Yellow Eyes
Location: Barham (Suffolk) - Along the main Norwich Road, Barham Church Lane, just past Barham Hall gates.
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1910s?
Further Comments: The dog harassed a couple of men walking back from work - one of them reported trying to hit the creature with a stick, but the piece of wood passed straight through the dog's body. Another version of the story states the dog disappears into a solid wall.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2001-09-06
Last updated: 2001-09-06
ID: #587
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