The Paranormal Database

Blame the Skeletons

Location: Godalming - Church Street, Mint Street and Station Road areas, including Priory Orchard (demolished)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2014 and prior years
Further Comments: Almost four hundred skeletons were discovered buried in the area during archaeological work. In the local press, the Rev Canon Mervyn Roberts said that they had received many reports of paranormal activities in properties in the roads above. The former occupant of Priory Orchard, the demolition of which triggered the dig, had also claimed the property as haunted.

Luminous Faced Figure

Location: Godalming - Exact area not known
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa December 1894
Further Comments: A figure with a luminous face and white clothing took to frightening people travelling late at night. Who or what the figure was is unknown, but the South Wales Daily News implied it was a practical joker who should be caught and punished.

Boots Hitting the Ground

Location: Godalming - King's Arms Royal Hotel, Guy Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The sound of boots and clothing being removed in a bedroom in the early hours of the morning suggests this spirit is ready to sleep.

Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, by Allan Ramsay.

The Young Pretender

Location: Godalming - Westbrook Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in a cloak, the shady figure of Charles Edward Stuart is only seen by moonlight in a particular bedroom.

Moustached Man

Location: Godstone - A22 heading northbound
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 23 December 1967, around 00:30h
Further Comments: Travelling along the road one witness had to brake hard as a man ran out in front of his vehicle. The man was described was around six foot tall, thin faced with a moustache, and wearing a light coloured trench coat. The driver thought he would hit the figure, but when the vehicle stopped, the figure was nowhere to be seen.

Girl

Location: Gomshall - Compasses Inn and River Tillingbourne
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghostly girl who haunts the pub's garden is said to have drowned in the nearby river while escaping a fire in the pub. The entity skips through the garden and across the river, occasionally popping into the pub to play with the taps.

Shaggy Brown Creature

Location: Great Bookham - Between Polesden Lane and Admiral Walk (before the crossroads with Crabtree Lane)
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 03 August 2010
Further Comments: While walking her dog with her father, this witness observed a large dog-shaped figure in the middle of the track about 20 metres away. It was around a metre high, very shaggy looking and had brown fur. It was also 'blurry'. The entity vanished as the witness approached, although dematerialised as the witness walked away.

Slow Footsteps

Location: Guildford - 122 High Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Echoing footsteps, slowly traversing the first floor, can be heard by people on the ground, though no one can be found when the area is searched.

Triangular Craft

Location: Guildford - A3, Guildford Flyover
Type: UFO
Date / Time: October 2006, around 20:00h
Further Comments: Two police officers spotted a bright white light in the distance while driving along the A3. As they drove under the light at the flyover, they could make out three white lights on a black triangle shape with a dim pulsating red light in the centre. Other drivers had pulled over and watched the shape. Eight more lights were spotted drifting over Guildford.

Officer

Location: Guildford - Angel Hotel, High Street
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: January 1970
Further Comments: The spirit of a nineteenth century military man was seen looking back at two witnesses as they gazed into a mirror in room 1. Actor Sir Roger Moore claimed to have watched a misty figure moving towards him as he sat in bed. When Moore change position, the figure vanished.

Victorian Woman

Location: Guildford - Guildford Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Walking around the grounds of the castle, this Victorian woman may not realise she is dead. Other ghostly figures have been seen around the castle.

White Figure

Location: Guildford - Heading towards town on Crocknorth Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 14 January 2018, 02:10h
Further Comments: Three out of four occupants of a vehicle watched a white figure cross the road ahead, the driver hitting the brakes believing someone had cross the road. As the occupants looked back, no one could be seen.

Woman in Brown

Location: Guildford - Loseley House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This spook has been seen on or near the staircase of the old house, often staring with wide black eyes. Despite this, many have said they felt unthreatened by her.

Christopher Slaughterford

Location: Guildford - Sandpits between town and Polesden
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth century?
Further Comments: Chris was hanged in 1709 for murdering his girlfriend, though he swore he did not commit the crime. His ghost was reported a few years later, rope dangling from his neck, burning torch in hand, screaming 'Vengeance!'.

Smashed Furniture

Location: Guildford - Sutton Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The sounds of furniture being smashed can be heard here, though investigations can never find anything broken. Glimpses of a woman in white have been reported by staff, though she quickly vanishes.

Quaker's Daughter

Location: Guildford - Sydenham Road
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1969
Further Comments: A car park was built on the site of a house where this young woman died; she was seen briefly by workmen before fading away.

An old postcard of Guildford in Surrey.

Three Women

Location: Guildford - Town centre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Killed for the crime of witchcraft, these three shades now drift around the town centre looking for revenge.

Grey Girl

Location: Guildford - Unnamed multi-storey car park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s?
Further Comments: A tall girl with grey eyes and long grey clothing is said to haunt a car park in the town.

Lady in Grey

Location: Hampton - Penn Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This female shade is said to make itself apparent to children and young people.

An old postcard of Hampton Court Palace.

Henry's Wives

Location: Hampton Court - Hampton Court Palace
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Varies: 12 October (reoccurring), 4 November (reoccurring), and other (see text)
Further Comments: Jane Seymour returns every 12 October (the date she gave birth to her son), while Anne Boleyn, dressed in blue, is said to walk the passageways of the palace. A silently screaming Catherine Howard has been watched moving towards the chapel (on 4 November), where she begged Henry VIII to save her life. Howard's disembodied hand was spotted and sketched by an artist working in the Guard Watching Chamber in 1900. A photograph taken in December 2003 showing a 'ghostly' hooded figure opening a fire escape has been dismissed as a hoax. In 1989 a figure spotted wearing a Victorian nightshirt vanished in front of a witness. Finally, an Edwardian story says the clock stops unaided whenever someone dies in the palace.

Ghost or Coat?

Location: Hampton Court - Kings Arms Hotel (public house)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: December 2014
Further Comments: A photograph carried in the tabloids showed what could have been a rather tall phantom, or a coat hanging on the wall, in this public house. The building is also said to be haunted by a mother and child, who both committed suicide on the site.

White Lady

Location: Hampton Court - Landing Stage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 21 June or 24 June (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Seen by local fishermen (even though they cannot remember the exact date they witnessed the phenomenon), the white lady's history is unknown.

Sir Christopher Wren

Location: Hampton Court - The Old Court House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 26 February (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Dying in the front room of this building, Wren's footsteps can be heard on the anniversary of his death, pacing up and down the staircase.

Anne of Cleves

Location: Haslemere - Lythe Hill Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The fourth wife of Henry VIII was said to walk through bricked up doorways in the building to which she became banished. In the mid 2000s, the hotel charged a premium to stay in a haunted room, to cover additional insurance and ghost hunting equipment hire.

Elderly Lady

Location: Hersham - Seven Hills Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 1966
Further Comments: In 19966 a cyclist reported passing through a grey-looking old lady who stepped out into the road in front of him. The ghost normally takes the form of white mist which crosses the road where it bends on the hill.