The Paranormal Database

An old postcard of Sandhurst Royal Military Academy.

Middle Aged Woman

Location: Sandhurst - Camberley Royal Military Academy
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 2010
Further Comments: Wearing either Victorian or Edwardian clothing, this phantom woman was spotted in an office. She vanished around a corner which led to a locked door.

Smoker

Location: Send - Boughton Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom old man walks the upper parts of the building while smoking a pipe. It is more likely that the smell of smoke will be perceived than the apparition.

Headless Monk

Location: Shepperton - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: In life, this monk eloped to the village and began living with a local lass. His brothers were less than happy with the breaking of vows, so tracked him down and decapitated him. The headless ghost is said to run through the village, trying to escape ecclesiastic law.

Downed Vickers

Location: Shepperton on Thames - Field near Ferry Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1932
Further Comments: In 1929 an old Vickers aircraft crashed in this field, killing its two crew members. The crash was heard several times over the next few years by locals and was even reportedly seen, glowing blue in the pale moonlight.

Christine

Location: Shere - Parish Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Christine, an anchorite at the church, tried to escape with a stranger she had fallen in love with. The villagers had other plans and captured Christine, forcing her to stay. Her ghost supposedly remained on the site.

Emma's ghost.

Emma

Location: Shere - Silent Pool
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Bathing naked at the pool, Emma swam further out when she saw that Prince (or King) John was approaching. Alas, she could not tread water and drowned. She sometimes returns to the area.

Jack?

Location: Stoneleigh - Road by Nescot College on the Ewell bypass
Type: Other
Date / Time: 14 February 2012
Further Comments: A taxi driver and his three passengers watched a dark figure with no features dart across the road in front of them before leaping four and a half metres into the air to clear an embankment. The passengers compared the entity to Spring Heeled Jack.

White Figure

Location: Sunbury on Thames - Castle Restaurant
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A small figure in white has been witnessed moving between the kitchen and living room of this building.

Figure in the Chair

Location: Sunbury on Thames - Rossall House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: Home to Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles, electrometallurgist and inventor, Rossall House was said to be haunted by a ghost that was seen by Sherard's wife. The scientist once took a photograph of a chair that revealed a ghostly looking man sitting upon it, covered in a blanket and wearing a wig.

Plotter

Location: Tatsfield - Road through village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 05 November (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A horseman who rides through the village on this date was considered to be a member of the Gunpowder Plot escaping from London.

Lady in White

Location: Thames Ditton - Home of Compassion church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Appearing quite real and substantial, the room that this sad shade haunts remained locked up for many years. She could be one of the nuns who once worked in the building.

A pale donkey.

Beaten Donkey

Location: Tilford - Donkey Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area around the inn is haunted by a donkey that was beaten to death by its owner.

Scratching Post

Location: Wallis Wood - Footpath at edge of wood near Oakfields estate
Type: ABC
Date / Time: Late 1980s or early 1990s
Further Comments: A mother and her two children returning from a visit to the mobile library spotted a 1.5 metre long black cat sitting on the path ahead of them. After watching the creature for a minute or two and realising that the cat was not going to move, the family went back the way they came. A year later when in the area, the family found the base of a tree was covered in scratches, as if the large cat had used it as a scratching post.

George Perfect Harding's engraving of Bradshaw.

John Bradshaw

Location: Walton on Thames - Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This shade of the man who signed Charles I death warrant sometimes appears in this old house.

Whispering

Location: Walton on Thames - The Clock Tower, Bridge Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Whispering, strange footsteps and stationery cupboard doors which rattle unaided by human hand are just a few incidents reported on Jenrick's company blog.

Cheetah

Location: Walton-on-the-Hill - Road running by Walton Heath
Type: ABC
Date / Time: May 1983
Further Comments: A motorist watched a cheetah run in front of his car as he drove through the area.

Tall Man

Location: Warlingham - Farleigh Road, near the common
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: September 2009
Further Comments: The figure of a tall man was observed crossing the road. The man did not look solid, and vanished walking into a thick hedge.

Warning of Great Events

Location: Warlingham - Spring (exact location not known)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Seventeenth century?
Further Comments: The spring is said to rise before any events which occur which result in great change, although the last rise may have occurred during the Revolution of 1688.

Big cat from a medieval bestiary.

Cardinal

Location: Waverley - Waverley Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Ghost unknown, cat sighting 27 October 1825
Further Comments: Appearing in the dining hall, this former Cardinal was reportedly seen many times drifting around. It is believed that he could stand guard over a hoard of hidden treasure. The writer William Cobbett reported seeing a large grey cat while visiting the abbey, possibly an early Alien Big Cat encounter.

A ghost walking through a wall.

Woman Dressed in Satin

Location: West Clandon - Clandon House, Clandon Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Last seen 1896?
Further Comments: This ghostly lady, named by one source as Elizabeth Knight, wears a cream coloured satin dress and carries a knife while walking the land surrounding the building. She is said to have once walked through the front wall of the house, appearing in every room before materialising through the back wall. A male ghost also haunts the area, recognised by his overgrown facial hair, as does another female spirit, this time dressed in black.

Dragon Slayer

Location: West Clandon - Exact location unknown, but woodcarving in local church
Type: Dragon
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A dragon which gave the locals a hard time was killed by an ex-soldier and his dog - the dog leapt onto the creature's face, while the man decapitated the wyrm.

Headless Horseman

Location: Westcott - 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.

Racing Driver

Location: Weybridge - 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.

Female in Grey Crinoline Dress

Location: Weybridge - Oatlands Park Hotel, restaurant and room 1313
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Not known
Further Comments: The ghost is thought to be a maid who jumped from the window of room 1313 and killed herself, after a fight with her boyfriend.

Biplane

Location: Weybridge - Skies over the town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: During thunderstorms
Further Comments: The plane was blown out of the sky during a storm in the mid-1930s; when the weather conditions are bad, the aircraft can be heard struggling in the wind.