The Paranormal Database

Talking Man

Location: Dudley - Private residence, Holly Hall estate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 2010s
Further Comments: Thought by the occupants to be a former resident, the sounds of an older man talking and doors opening have been heard. Cold spots and strange smells have also been encountered.

Footsteps

Location: Dudley - Road alongside Woodside Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2015
Further Comments: A woman and her son walking along this road could hear shuffling footsteps behind them, although when they turned around, nothing could be seen. The sounds, and the feeling of being followed, lasted until the pair turned off the road.

Banging

Location: Dudley - Spare Room Cafe (was the Crown Hotel), corner of Wolverhampton Street and Priory Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth / early twenty-first century
Further Comments: An icy cold chill and mysterious bangs and crashes from empty rooms are all blamed on an unknown entity which has found home in the cafe. A fish and chip shop based in the building also reported strange events and a string of bad luck.

Beggar

Location: Dudley - Starving Rascal public house, Amblecote
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The pub is reputedly haunted by an early twentieth century beggar who froze to death in the doorway after being turned away by a former landlord.

Murdered Servant

Location: Dudley - Station Hotel, Trindle Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Room 217 (or 214, depending on the source), and the rooms nearby, are reportedly haunted by a maid murdered in the building. Furniture has been heard moving around the empty room.

Coat Hanger Throwing

Location: Enville - Golf Club
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: February 1979
Further Comments: Mediums were called in to investigate after a coat hanger struck one person at the club and a chair moved across the floor as if someone had stood up. Lights also reportedly turned on and off unaided, and an older room had a 'creepy' feel.

Nightmare, by Jean-Pierre Simon.

Devil with his Pack

Location: Halesowen - Between town and Lickey Hills
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: When boars lived wild, the Devil would periodically come out hunting with his hell hounds. They patrolled this area, inducing nightmares in any witness careless enough to watch them.

Large Black Dog

Location: Halesowen - High Street area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: August (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A local legend says that the area where the Saxon church once stood is home to a large black dog which glides around. Its howls are prevalent throughout August.

Victorian Girl

Location: Halesowen - Oldnall Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A young Victorian girl, said to be aged around five, has been blamed for several accidents and near misses along this road.

Sad Victorian

Location: Handsworth - Private residence
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1953
Further Comments: A team of ghost hunters were summoned to investigate this home after strange events scared the Parr family. Cigarettes would lift and hover over ashtrays, and cushions threw themselves to the floor. One resident also observed an apparition of a sad Victorian woman and a young man.

Polly

Location: Himley - Crooked House public house (destroyed by fire August 2023)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A serving girl named Polly supposedly haunted this building.

Galloping

Location: Kingswinford - Holbeche House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1919
Further Comments: Two people on the driveway of this property heard galloping horses approaching - they moved to one side to let the horses pass but could see nothing.

Assault

Location: Lower Gornal - St James' Church
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1881
Further Comments: Ghostly voices had been heard in the churchyard and the local vicar was assaulted by an unknown force. An exorcism finally disposed of the entities.

Pale Man Walking

Location: Lower Gornal - Straits Road, junction of Cotwall End Road
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Winter 1994, 07.30h
Further Comments: A postal worker was surprised to see a seventeen or eighteen year old man only wearing jeans and an orange t-shirt one early cold, frosty morning. The man carried a small bag, and his skin was incredibly pale. The figure walked past the postal worker, looking right at her but did not speak. The worker was amazed that anyone could have such pale skin and turned to take a second look, only to find that he had disappeared.

Domed Object

Location: Meriden - Footpath in area, exact location not known
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1940
Further Comments: While out walking, Cathie Connelly encountered an illuminated domed object surrounded by tall men wearing one-piece overalls. The men had strangely tall foreheads, and one man who cleaned his hands using a duster smiled at the witness. As Connelly left the area, she turned back and realised they had gone.

Night Coach

Location: Meriden - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom coach was said to be driven around this neighbourhood.

Chimney Cat

Location: Old Hill - Private residence along Lansbury Road
Type: Other
Date / Time: May 1999
Further Comments: A family fled their home after hearing loud bangs and scratching sounds throughout the night. An uncle who stayed after the family left realised the noises were coming from the chimney and, together with a gas engineer, freed a trapped cat that fled the scene.

Bearded Man

Location: Oldbury - Blue Ball public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure, complete with an old beaten up hat, has been seen walking through a wall in the bar area.

Moving Items

Location: Quarry Bank - Private residence
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1993/94
Further Comments: A ghost hunter said he had been called to visit a property in this village after items moved from room to room, and pictures were removed from walls.

Black haired Woman

Location: Romsley - Bromsgrove Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02 May 2010
Further Comments: The local press carried a story that Parasearch were investigating this road after receiving a report of a phantom black haired woman in a cream coloured cloak who stood on the roadside holding a staff.

Alien Fairy

Location: Rowley Regis - Bluestone Walk
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 4 January 1979
Further Comments: Three figures, all less than four-foot tall with tissue paper wings, drifted into a house in the town and interrogated a housewife for an hour. She said they looked like fairies, though they had laser beams on top of their heads and left via an eight foot long UFO.

Elaine

Location: Rowley Regis - Haden Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth century onwards
Further Comments: Elaine (or Eleanor) and a monk were walled up alive in a secret tunnel which ran between the hall and Hales Abbey after their secret affair was discovered. She is said to now appear near the hall searching for her long dead lover, her hands clasped in regret. Another ghost which haunts the site has been named as Annie Eliza, the last Haden.

Sarah Hughes

Location: Sedgley - Beacon Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Former landlady Sarah may still keep an eye on her former pub; one witness observed a female form walking through a wall, while sounds of movement can be detected emerging from empty rooms. A man in old fashioned clothing has also been observed on the site.

Lady and Sons

Location: Sedgley - Turls Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Folklore places a veiled lady with her two adult sons in this area. The woman's children are said to have taken their own lives nearby in separate incidents.

Royalist

Location: Sedgley - White Lion Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The inn appeared in the local press in 2023 when placed on the market, with one of the unique selling points being two ghosts (a Royalist soldier, and a former landlady).