The Empire Theatre, Sunderland
A 2004 the Sunderland Echo article stated ‘The Empire Theatre in High Street West is thought to be haunted by the White Lady, known to frequent the bar area. A staff member says she...
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Maud’s Elm
Sometime around 1907 a huge elm in Cheltenham was felled. This tree was a local landmark but was no longer safe to leave standing. The tree was known as Maud’s Elm and was associated...
Queen Street Masonic Temple, Sunderland
According to a Chronicle Live article by Sophie Finnegan (18/04/2020) entitled ‘Creepy tales behind 10 of the most haunted places in Sunderland’, ‘The Grade 1 Listed building is thought to be one of the...
Fairies Foiling A Pig Theft
In her ‘Some West Sussex Superstitions Lingering in 1868’, Mrs Latham recounts the following story. ‘There is an unromantic fairy-tale told in our nurseries the scene of which is laid in West Sussex, how,...
Lighthouse, Poole
The Lighthouse arts centre in Poole which opened in April 1978 has a reputation of being haunted. In a Bournemouth Daily Echo article by Nick Findley entitled ‘The ghostly encounters staff have had at...
Osmotherley
According to The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893). ‘The village of Osmotherley is seven miles from Northallerton in the Cleveland hillside. Tradition has it that Osmund,...
Frock Coated Small Figure
According to ‘Some West Sussex Superstitions Lingering in 1868’ by Mrs Latham, ‘A ghost, “not three feet in height, and dressed in a round frock and brown gaiters,” has been seen repeatedly by the...
Lady Well (Our Lady’s Well), Speen
‘A WELL about 200 yards above the church, on the side of a steep hill, is remarkable for a fine and distinct echo. It is called “Our Lady’s Well,” most probably in reference to...
Our Lady Well, Woolpit
According to The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893), ‘Near the church is the famous well of “Our Lady,” to which pilgrimages were wont to be made...
Major Peter Labilliere, Box Hill
‘According to local folklore, an eccentric sword-wielding officer, Major Peter Labelliere, roams the summit by his grave, where he was buried upside down, as instructed in his will, in 1800.’ [Surrey Life, ‘Surrey’s most...
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