The Paranormal Database

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Location: Swansea - Neighbourhood of York Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa November 1895
Further Comments: A ghost pointed at a certain spot in this neighbourhood where human remains were later found.

Crocodile

Location: Swansea - Pluck Lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 27 April 2008, and July 2015
Further Comments: In 2008, a witness reported seeing a one metre long crocodile in this body of water. The location was checked by a member of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Gwilym Games. Seven years later, video footage caught a bird being attacked by something in the water, with various people claiming the creature more likely to be a terrapin or a pike rather than a croc.

Olga

Location: Swansea - Psychiatric hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Olga suffered from paranoid schizophrenia who managed to kill herself while at the hospital. She has since made several appearances; a small woman with large green eyes and long ginger hair, she often sings and interacts with witnesses, who do not realise she is a ghost until later.

Welsh Polt

Location: Swansea - Rhondda Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: December 1965
Further Comments: The police were called to investigate this poltergeist, which turned furnishings over and drove the Howells family to leave the property. Marcia, the matriarch of the family, described the experience on a local news channel, saying that her son could have been killed when the entity overturned his cot.

White Lady

Location: Swansea Bay - Oystermouth Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The castle grounds are haunted by this crying phantom with a bloody back.

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Entrance to Fairyland

Location: Vale of Neath - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Possible twelfth century
Further Comments: Elidurus visited fairyland via an entrance located somewhere in the Vale. In the other land, horses and greyhounds were the same as our world, only much smaller, the sky always cloudy, and the fairies consumed only milk. Elidurus returned several times, but after trying to steal some gold for his mother, discovered that the doorway to fairyland had been once again hidden.