The Paranormal Database

Fire

Location: Warminster - Cley Hill
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: Varies: 31 October & 02 November (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Several witnesses have reported seeing large burning fires on the hills, with figures dancing around them, talking and singing loudly in an unrecognised language. When investigated, there is never any evidence of the fire or figures. A legend says the hill was created by the Devil, who threw down a pile of dirt on the spot after being led to believe that it would take him several years to reach Devizes.

Monk

Location: Warminster - Private residence along St John's Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1970s
Further Comments: A phantom hooded figure was observed several times in a property along this road. It was speculated that he was connected to a nearby monastery, long since demolished.

The skies above Warminster, Wiltshire.

UFO Capital

Location: Warminster - Skies above town, normally near Cradle Hill
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1996
Further Comments: To celebrate the countless UFO sightings over the town, the Marquis of Bath and the local tourist board officially called the town the UFO Capital of Britain.

Young Lady

Location: Warminster - Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970-1990
Further Comments: This phantom female was more likely to be heard or her presence felt. A former worker at the theatre recalled hearing footsteps in empty parts of the building and smelling sweet perfume. The woman is thought to have died after being pushed from the top of a staircase when the building was a reading room in the eighteenth or nineteenth century.

Golden Chair

Location: West Chisenbury - Casterley Camp
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area is reputedly home to buried treasure in the form of a golden chair.

West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire.

White Dog

Location: West Kennet - Long Barrow
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 23 June (or Midsummer Eve), sunrise (reoccurring). Encounters in 1995 and 1996
Further Comments: Appearing to mark the start of the longest day of the year, this pale hound has been observed at sunrise. Some reports say the dog is accompanied by a ghostly druid. In 1995 a witness heard an almost unbearable high-pitched sound before observing a Neolithic man emerge from the barrow and walk away. The witness was terrified and fled. An experience in 1996 resulted in a witness feeling as if they had hit an invisible wall and something was trying to push them out, and they later read of someone four years earlier who had been grabbed by invisible hands.

Coach

Location: West Kennett - Road, exact area unknown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Pulled by a team of four horses, a spectral coach haunts the area.

Grey Lady

Location: West Lavington (was Bishops Lavington) - Dial House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early to mid twentieth century?
Further Comments: One former occupier believed her home haunted by a friendly old woman who wore grey. The kitchen was also said to be haunted by a seventeenth century maid.

Auburn Woman

Location: West Lavington (was Bishops Lavington) - Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early or mid twentieth century?
Further Comments: This phantom woman had auburn hair and was dressed in blue. The witness reported the face was quite beautiful, and the entity smiled before looking sad. The figure was illuminated, and when the witness turned briefly away, the woman in blue vanished.

Cloudy Figure

Location: Westbrook - Old path between Westbrook and Bromham
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown, but said to appear once a year
Further Comments: Not much is known about this strange figure who is white and cloudy in form.

Dane Battle site

Location: Westbury - Bratton Camp, aka Bratton Castle
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This location is said to be the battlefield where King Arthur defeated the Danes.

White Horse

Location: Westbury - Chalk Figure on Hillside
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: The age of this large chalk horse cut into the hillside is debated, some believing it was first created in the ninth century. The horse is said to wander off for a drink of water at midnight.

Woman in the Bedroom

Location: Westwood - Westwood Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: The ghost of a woman in one of the bedrooms is said to guarantee a sleepless night. There are also stories of a headless person who silently walks the manor house at night.

Coach

Location: Whetham - Road heading towards Calne
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly coach is pulled by a team of six grey horses.

Archdeacon Cockin

Location: Wilcot - Church
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1925
Further Comments: The Archdeacon was briefly seen by his daughter shortly after his death, standing behind another clergyman giving communion.

Dame Anne Wroughton

Location: Wilcot - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Anne's husband believed her to be having an affair and threw her out of their home - she froze to death in the winter snow a few hours later. Her husband was wrong about her infidelity, and now Anne's ghost walks forlornly through the village.

Hanged Monk

Location: Wilcot - Wilcot Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Once a monastery, the building is now haunted by a monk who hanged himself on the site after he was told he had to leave.

Panting Dog

Location: Wilton - Field known locally as Severals (path of old Roman road)
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: The phantom hound found here would be completely silent, though the dog's panting gives away its location. The Roman road is also haunted by a woman in black, said to move so quickly that she is impossible to catch.

Coach

Location: Winsley - Converted coach house at Winsley Manor
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century?
Further Comments: It was said that horse and carriage could sometimes be heard outside this coach house, even though they could never be seen.

Blue Lady

Location: Winterbourne Dauntsey - Manor House
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: A painting of a blue woman (who died after being banished from the property) that hanged in the manor house was thought to have been cursed, with the destruction of the property a promised result of any movement of the work.

Sounds of Smashing

Location: Winterbourne Gunner - Sergeants' Mess
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2021
Further Comments: This place would generate a feeling of terrible unease with staff, and the sound of smashing glasses would be heard in the kitchen, although nothing would be found broken.

Golden Coffin

Location: Winterslow - Exact location not known
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Another location said to contain a coffin made of gold, though its location is not really known (nor, for that matter, its existence).

Cavalier

Location: Woodborough - Road between village and Allington
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1971
Further Comments: Returning home one night, a driver encountered a man wearing Cavalier-style clothing. The figure was accompanied by a large black dog. The driver sped away, rather than investigate further.

Headless Horses

Location: Woodmanton - Location known as Patty's Bottom
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rumoured to be a battleground between Britons and Romans, the sounds of battle, accompanied by the site of headless horses, have been reported. The battle was said to be so intense, the valley filled with blood.

Black Dog

Location: Wootton Bassett - Black Dog Road
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Unsurprisingly, it is a black dog that haunts the road which has taken its name. It is believed to only reveal itself to those soon to die.