The Paranormal Database

Patter of Doggy Footsteps

Location: Walsall - Private building along Lysways Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: A woman living here at the time reported twice hearing what sounded like a small dog following her down the staircase, late at night. On both occasions, when she turned around nothing could be seen.

Pneumatic Drill

Location: Walsall - Private house, Bloxwich Lane
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: February - March 1962
Further Comments: Bangs at the volume of a pneumatic drill would keep this family (and their neighbours) awake at night. Housing officers and police attended the scene, and although their opinions are not documented, a visiting metaphysicist declared a dead family member to be attempting communication.

Young Girl

Location: Walsall - Private house, Tennyson Road, Blakenall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1999
Further Comments: The ghost of a two year old girl drove a family from their home along this road - the father stayed in a caravan in the garden, while other members of the family moved away until the activity died down.

Hooded Figure

Location: Walsall - Private residence, Highgate Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1960s
Further Comments: A witness reported encountering a hooded figure which resided at this site. Their experience of the entity was not negative or hostile, although it did take a dislike to other occupants of the house.

Maybe Bill

Location: Walsall - Spring Cottage Public House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 1978
Further Comments: After several customers encountered the pub's ghost, landlord John O'Connell attempted spirit writing. John scribbled the name 'Bill', the year 1855, and sketched an 'act of violence'. It would later be discovered that the landlord of the pub in 1855 was William Meddlicott.

Ethel

Location: Walsall - Starting Gate public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: February 2003
Further Comments: This entity, named by locals as a former Black Country landlady, has been known to clean and tidy up after messy customers have left.

Bangs

Location: Walsall - Tattooist, George Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 02 July 2011
Further Comments: A worker in this shop reported loud bangs, as if someone were jumping up and down, emanating from an empty room. The door to the room also opened twice on its own accord.

Randy Spirit

Location: Walsall - Victoria House, Leamore
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid 1990s
Further Comments: The building was haunted by a male presence that entered two ladies' beds at night, placing icy hands over their bodies. A ghostly figure was also spotted in the building lift and would move furniture around in empty flats.

Serving Girl

Location: Walsall - White Hart Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Dressed in Victorian clothing, it is thought this girl was a maid who took her life in the building.

Ghostly Lover

Location: Wedley Castle - Shenley Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: March 1978
Further Comments: The News of the World covered the story of Jenny Price and the ghost that made love to her in a house down this street, for a period of three years.

A pack of Gabriel Hounds.

Gabriel Hounds

Location: Wednesbury - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Gabriel Hounds, demonic dogs that could fly, would often be heard in this region. Other witnesses thought they were geese.

Grey Lady

Location: Wednesbury - Ye Olde Leathern Bottle public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 30 January 2022
Further Comments: This pub is reputedly home to a phantom grey lady. It is not clear whether this is the same entity which tugged at a customer's clothing in 2022.

Shout

Location: West Bromwich - Bus Station, and different bus routes
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September-October 2017
Further Comments: A shout has been heard coming from the back of a bus when the rear seats are empty.

Old Lady Looking In

Location: West Bromwich - Manor House (currently a public house?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A small ghostly face has been observed looking into the building after the lights are put out - the same figure has also been observed inside. Another shade, a bearded man, also haunts the property, while guests have reported hearing strange whisperings and singing coming from empty rooms.

Prodding

Location: West Bromwich - Old Oak House Museum
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2012
Further Comments: This location, which doubles as a 'ghost hunting experience' by night, is claimed to feature entities which prod and push witnesses.

Zigzagging Lights

Location: West Bromwich - Sky over Hateley Heath
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 25 July 1997
Further Comments: This witness observed between ten and twenty slow moving lights zigzagging across the sky in formation. Each light was semi-transparent, yellow with a red centre and moved silently from the south east, heading towards Walsall.

Duncan

Location: West Bromwich - Victorian house along the high street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1939
Further Comments: The sound of a woman repeatedly calling out the name Duncan until her voice rose to screams haunted this property for a three month period. The sounds of someone walking around the house could also be heard once everyone had gone to bed. The family later found out that a murder had occurred on the site a few years prior to them moving in.

Pauline Kelly

Location: Willenhall - Rough Wood Chase Local Nature Reserve
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local stories tell of three phantoms said to haunt this area - a mad nun, a suicide, and a white woman. Although not much is known about the first two, the white woman is said to be Pauline Kelly, who vanished in the mid-nineteenth century along with her daughter. Her shade is supposed to appear if 'white lady, white lady, I'm the one who killed your baby' is spoken.

Singing

Location: Wolverhampton - Atlantis Nightclub, cellar
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A former cinema, this building is home to an entity that laughs, smashes glasses, and sings in the style of a club singer.

Puma

Location: Wolverhampton - Disused railway line
Type: ABC
Date / Time: Early 1980s
Further Comments: This large brown cat was blamed for attacking a dog being walked by a child. It was seen a few times walking along disused rail tracks in and around the Wolverhampton area.

Blue Mist

Location: Wolverhampton - Express & Star building
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010s?
Further Comments: A blue odourless mist was said to have filled an office. Some believe the building to be haunted by a small child who fell to their death in a lift shaft.

Stone Fall

Location: Wolverhampton - General area
Type: Other
Date / Time: June 1860 & May 1869
Further Comments: 'Many' small dark pebbles rained down on the city during a storm - they had to be shovelled away. The same event happened almost a decade later.

Working Girl

Location: Wolverhampton - Giffard Arms public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This pub is said to be home to three phantoms. A prostitute who committed suicide haunts the upper parts of the building, while a child and a former landlord are said to loiter in the bar area.

Percy Purdey

Location: Wolverhampton - Grand Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Purdey mid-to-late-twentieth century(?), poltergeist circa 1970
Further Comments: A former theatre manager and creature of habit, Purdey could be heard for years after his death mixing himself a drink in the bar after the start of every performance. It is not clear whether Purdey was also blamed for a poltergeist outbreak which turned on heating and created loud bangs.

Mama!

Location: Wolverhampton - Little Civic
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: The bar manager claimed to have heard the word 'Mama!' being called out while alone in the cellar. It was claimed that the cellar was home to three ghosts - a little girl, a young woman, and an angry man.