The Paranormal Database

Former Director

Location: Chertsey - Private organisation in northern Chertsey (no longer present)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 2012
Further Comments: Following the death of a director notorious for working until 20:00h, office workers would hear his office door slam closed on the top floor, the lift ascend before descending to the ground floor, and the front door finally rattling.

Heavy Person

Location: Chertsey - The George public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This entity, normally blamed for moving furnishings around, was felt by a couple of overnight guests as it sat on the end of their bed.

Headless Monk

Location: Chertsey - Thorpe Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2011
Further Comments: A water ride at the park was moved after staff reported encountering a headless monk, amongst other paranormal phenomena. The foundations of the ride were said to have intruded on an ancient burial site. The park has been accused of holding a publicity stunt, having used another ghost story previously to promote its 'Saw' ride.

Faceless Rider

Location: Chilworth - Between Rices Corner and Percy Arms
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1960
Further Comments: While returning from work in the early hours of the morning, a cyclist became aware of another man on a bike a short distance behind him. The second rider finally caught up to the cyclist, who called out when he realised the man who had just overtaken him had no lights on. The figure on the second bike turned his head, and the witness realised the rider had no face, just a blurry area.

Fleeing Nick

Location: Churt - Devil's Jumps (three hills in the area)
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Hills still present
Further Comments: Local witch Mother Ludlam had her cauldron stolen by the Devil. As the Devil ran, every step he took created a great mound of earth.

Field Marshal Lord Ligonier

Location: Cobham - A3 near town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 27 November 1965
Further Comments: The musical group Peter Bs reported encountering a ghostly figure while driving along this stretch of road. They said the entity wore an army greatcoat, emanated a strange glow, and had hollow eye sockets. After conducting research, the band thought the figure could have been Field Marshal Lord Ligonier, buried at Cobham church.

Small Lad

Location: Cobham - Church Stile House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: A former owner of the property reported encountering the ghost of a young boy in the building.

Hermit

Location: Cobham - Cobham Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a hermit who once lived in the park is said to still walk around.

Blue Donkey

Location: Cobham - St Andrew's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century?
Further Comments: This strangely discoloured creature is reputed to haunt the churchyard.

Detail from The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, by Richard Dadd.

Uneasy Feeling

Location: Cobham Wood - Darnley Mausoleum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The mausoleum and the surrounding woodland were rumoured to be haunted, and although the exact details are not known, some experience an uneasy feeling when visiting. As a side note, there is an area nearby called Dadd's hole, where the artist Richard Dadd killed his father.

Gliding Woman

Location: Cranford - Cranford Park House (no longer standing (demolished 1946) - currently The Berkeley Arms)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1946
Further Comments: Two men with the intent of going out with the gamekeepers followed what they thought was a maid around the corridors of the building - until the figure disappeared at a dead end. The ghost of Sir Roger Aston, barber to James I, also wandered the site.

Maid

Location: Cranford - River Crane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A mother and son walking along the river spotted a maid wearing white perched upon a stone seat by the water's edge. On their return journey they noticed that the maid, perhaps unsurprisingly, had gone, but the stone seat had also vanished without trace.

Thomas More, Holbein sketch.

Sir Thomas More

Location: Cranleigh - Bayard's (or Baynards) Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Executed in 1535, Sir Thomas had his head hidden at Baynard Hall until the heat died down. Still not happy, he drifts without the object in the nearby park.

Passenger

Location: Cranleigh - Dunsfold Aerodrome
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2006
Further Comments: Workers on the 007 film Casino Royale reported seeing the ghost of a woman moving along the aisles of a 747 they used as a set. It is believed the phantom is of a female passenger who died from a heart attack at least thirty years previous.

William Mullins

Location: Dorking - 58 - 60 West Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Mullins took his wife and child across to the Americas on the Mayflower. He and his family died soon after their arrived in the new lands, and now Mullins has come home to stay.

Rider

Location: Dorking - Graveyard
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A decapitated rider on horseback follows a road that no longer exists - the figure crosses the gravestones and vanishes through a hedge.

A ghostly butler amongst the books.

Lady in Grey

Location: Dorking - Pippbrook House (currently Dorking Library)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a woman wearing a long grey dress is reputed to haunt the staircase, while a phantom butler has also been reported.

Whirlwind

Location: Dorking - Polesden Lacey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: The original house no longer stands, but the ghosts remain. Nun's Walk is said to be haunted by an apparition which resembles a whirlwind, while the bridge is haunted by a figure dressed in a brown robe and hood which conceals its face.

Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk.

Duke of Norfolk

Location: Dorking - White Horse Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ninth duke of Norfolk remains in the inn, apparently too drunk to depart this plain of existence.

Kiln Worker

Location: Earlswoof - Bull's Head public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local legend says this pub is haunted by a lime kiln worker who died during the seventeenth century.

Accident

Location: Effingham - A246
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 2015, between 03:00 - 03:30
Further Comments: A motorcyclist spotted a pair of red taillights on the road ahead. Despite changing speed several times, the lights stayed the exact distance away, until they veered off the road into trees. The motorcyclist heard a crash, and fearing an accident, pulled over and looked for the crashed vehicle. Nothing could be found.

Piano

Location: Effingham - The Lodge
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Pre 1964
Further Comments: This building had a piano stored in a locked room which would occasionally be heard to play. Bread would be rolled across the kitchen by unseen hands. Staff also claimed a white lady walked the stairs at night.

Little Man

Location: Egham - Hillside villa
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: The subject of three legal battles (between 1903 & 1907) debating whether the house was haunted, and ergo fit for human habitation, the house was alleged to contain the spirit of a child murderer - a little man whose footsteps could be heard at night.

Phone Call

Location: Egham - Private residence east of M25
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 05 May 2022
Further Comments: While a husband and wife were alone downstairs in this property, the husband's mobile phone that had been left upstairs placed a call to the wife's phone. When the husband went to grab his phone, he realised that his boots had moved from the stairs and had been placed on the bed, where he had previously been.

Thomas Holloway

Location: Egham - Royal Holloway University
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Founded by Thomas Holloway, the man himself is said to haunt the Founder's Building, though he manifests in the form of a black cat. Jane Holloway, Thomas's wife, is said to haunt the fourth floor of the same building.