The Paranormal Database

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.

Floating Food

Location: Wolverhampton - Lotus House (Chinese restaurant)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 02 February 1978
Further Comments: The Shropshire Star reported a poltergeist to be responsible for customers' alarm when utensils, food and a torch were seen to float in mid-air.

The Peel Street Monster

Location: Wolverhampton - Peel Street and Brickkiln Street
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Winter, 1933-1934
Further Comments: After several attacks on children by an unknown creature, one seventeen year old boy managed to kill the 'monster'. No one could identify the creature, larger than a rat with bulging eyes, although another unknown entity was found dead within 24 hours and was named as a coatimundi, a mammal from the raccoon family.

Door Opening

Location: Wolverhampton - Private residence, Clarence Road, Bilston
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: January - February 1969
Further Comments: A young married couple fled their home after six weeks of enduring poltergeist activity which included doors opening, footsteps, and banking from empty rooms. Neighbours reported hearing sounds when the couple were away.

Pusher

Location: Wolverhampton - Private residence, Kingsley Place, Bilston
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1981
Further Comments: A family moved away from their home after hundreds of restless nights over a six year period. On one occasion, the family's daughter was pushed down the stairs, while another family member had a matchbox snatched out of their hand.

Blue Woman

Location: Wolverhampton - St John's Vaults public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Thought to be the ghost of a woman who jumped to her death from the upper part of the building, this figure wearing a blue dress was seen drifting around the property. Ghostly footsteps in the building have also been attributed to her.

White Lady

Location: Wolverhampton - Stag's Head public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1972
Further Comments: Seen walking around the cellar, this phantom also enjoyed turning the beer pump taps off, sometimes up to twenty times a month. The entity disappeared after structural alterations were made to the building.