Im setting up a database about ghost's in Hampshire, Any feedback would be appreciated. Not only the well known ones, but also personal ones, things you have seen, friends have seen, who's houses are haunted and where they are located etc. Your details will be mentioned when the database is finally produced.
So please help!!!!
Also I can investigate any problems with spirits you have, finding proof etc. Have all the materials etc. Just message me and we can arrange something.
Thanks James .

The Eclipse Inn, Winchester: Probably Winchesters' most famous haunted Inn. Dame Alice Lisle spent her last night in this pub in 1685 after being condemned by Hanging Judge Jeffreys. She had been found guilty of harbouring fugitive cavaliers. She stepped from an upstairs window onto the scaffold structure which had been erected against the pub frontage. She was 71 years of age when she was beheaded. She had originally been condemned to be burnt at the stake but after the Winchester clergy pleaded with the Judge he kindly commuted the sentence to death by hanging.

Hyde Inn: The Inn, reputed to be the oldest in the city (as opposed to the Old Royal Oak which is the oldest bar - whatever that means!) and haunted by a ghost of a lady.

Theatre Royal, Winchester: The ghost of a woman is said to haunt this theatre in Jewry Street, Winchester. She is apparently awaiting her long-lost lover. A number of ghost-watches have been held at the theatre in recent years but without success.

Hampshire Chronicle, Winchester: The offices of the county's oldest newspaper date back to the 18th century so it is perhaps not surprising that there is a ghost. It is apparently a woman and she is heard more than seen - usually rattling chains or machinery in the High Street building. The ghost was last seen in October, 2001.

Bramshill House: The oft-told Mistletoe Bough legend is associated with this house - "the most haunted house in Hampshire". I suspect there's no more evidence for it having really happened at Bramshill than many of the other stately homes that claim it but author Donald Parr gives the most detailed account in Ghosts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. He dates it to Christmas Eve (of course) 1727 with Anne, eldest daughter of Sir John Cope, married on that day to Hugh Bethell of Yorkshire. After the wedding breakfast, the bride wanted to play hide-and-seek. The bride hid and the other guests tried to find her. But they never did find her - she had seemingly vanished into thin air. It was only years later that servants open a chest (the lock of which could only be opened from the outside) in a disused part of the house and find Anne's body - still clutching a sprig of Christmas mistletoe. Bramshill House is now a police training college. This legend is also claimed by Marwell House, near Colden Common.

Montagu Arms, Beaulieu: The Montagu Arms is in one of the most beautiful parts of Britain: The New Forest. It also has the added advantage of being close to the coast. The village of Beaulieu is close to the stately home of the Montagu family, an area well known for its hauntings. Many apparitions, including monks, have been seen walking in the area. There have been unaccounted aromas of incense, unexplained lights and other phenomena. One of the ghosts is believed to be that of Isabella, Countess of Beaulieu, who died in 1786. The ghosts even attracted the attention of Spiritualist and creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He believed he contacted one of the spirits through a seance. The Montagu Arms is itself believed to be haunted and reports of various phenomena have been received even in recent times.

Angel Inn, Lymington: Haunted by no fewer than six poltergeists and is one of many Inns that claims to be one of Britain's most haunted pubs.

Netley Hospital, Royal Victoria Country Park, Netley: Grey Lady seen by countless frightened walkers. Said to be the ghost of a young nurse who committed suicide after accidentally killing a patient.

Dolphin Hotel, High Street, Southampton: A cleaner called Molly has been seen gliding across the ground floor.

The Mayflower Theatre, Commercial Road, Southampton: The spectral figure of an old man sits in a wicker chair backstage.

Red Lion, High Street, Southampton. A ghostly procession has been witnessed leaving the pub for the Bargate.

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iam doing the same for somerset

Soul Reaver, Research 'Hopwood House' WATERLOOVILLE, Hants. I used to live behind this house and the stories (plural) are veeeerrry interesting! I'd post up what I know but it's a lot of typing an I cant be bothered at this moment.

....and the 'Hulbert Road' Hitchhiker

Hi soul reaver.

I have a ghost or a pressance or somthing in my bedroom. For a long time things would happen and i would dissmiss these as soon as they had, not believing in ghosts etc. Noises and bumps i thought was just water traveling through the pipes ect.( our boiler can be very noisy). Seeing things out of the corner of my eye was just put down to shadows. My alarm clock would go off sometimes when it wasnt supposed to and do things it wasnt supposed to. Didnt put this down to anything supernatural as i said before i didnt believe in all that.
Untill one night my daughter woke up at about 10 oclockish, i went upstairs to give her, her dummy( she was only a couple of months old ) as i leant over her cot i felt someone come into the room and stand beside me. I thought this was my girlfriend as i actually felt someone there, on my arm. i turnt to say something to her and there was NO-ONE THERE !! I cant begin to tell you how scared i was, i wouldnt go up there alone for weeks. That was about a year ago now and im not so scared. One thing that does freak me out is ( i now have another daughter and she is 9 months old ) when i go in to check on my daughter or put her to bed she sometimes looks right through me or stares to my left or right as if she is looking at someone else. Anyway gotta go now got a couple of other small stories not as convincing as this one but cant be assed at the mo.
Oh got an iteresting one about a young girl seeing something, will post it later.

thanks for reading.

My relivance to this thread is that i live in hampshire.

Thanks for your replies, please keep postin!

king kong, where abouts in Hants you live?

well as i keep looking i can see people on these boards are setting up databases for their area/areas. So once we all have a fair amount of detail in them, you want to combine forces and make a huge database about ghosts in England. Then obviously give it to the site to put up?

Seeing as you already have a topic started about a 'ghost database', Soul_reaver, there isn't much point in starting another thread. I'll merge your post with the original.

MM

I in woolston, southampton mate

Right, I know the story about Netley Abbey, it goes summit like this.......
Cue eerie music!
Basically it was an Abbey (Obviously) during King Henry 8th's reign, because of his religious views, (too much to explain!) but something to do with Protestant and Catholics, he went round taking all the bit and pieces of the churches etc which contained gold, crosses etc.
So the Monks took the Gold etc and hid it in a tunnel underneath netley Abbey. So when Henry the 8th's troops came and couldnt find anything, most of the monks were killed. One was killed just outside the tunnel, cant remember his name! I know it though! but he didnt reveal the secret so the tunnel was lost.
Apparently if you go down there at night and look striaght into the centre of the abbey, you see a procession of Monks. Also singing is heard etc. If somebody gets too close to the tunnel one monk appears and throws things at you. E.g. In the Southern Daily Echo they had a story about a mysterious bucket of water. Someone was walking underneath a window frame kicking at the walls. Out of no where cam a bucket full of water. He ran round to see who it was looked up and there was nobody, not even a place where someone could of stood!
There we go it all came from memory! excuse mistakes.

Also you know Nursling Church (really small) quite a way through country lanes, is often a hotspot for ghost hunters. Also called lovers lane!
Been sat down there once in a car (Doing nothing)
Nobodies about, and all the handles on the car door went up and down at once and that was it! Moment spoiled! Sped off!

I will look up Hopfield House, never heard of it before. If you can get pics great!.

i heard something new to me about the hulbert road hitchhicker. apparantly the appiration is that of a young girl that was raped and murdered there by a man in a white car. according to the rumours ive heard she only appears at dusk to white cars.

dunno whether this is true or not but its wot heard

Steve

Havant, Hampshire

Gypsies’ Clump (part of Havant Forest), is haunted by a hard-drinking poacher called Charlie Pearce who lived at Rowlands Castle.

One night he was freely drinking from the kettle of gin he carried with him when he was swept from his horse by an overhanging bough and ruptured his windpipe.

His ghost can be identified by the weals seen on his throat

Waterlooville, Hampshire

Hopfield House is a Victorian Gothic house which had a reputation of being dangerously haunted.

Its first owner resented the idea of anyone living there, apart from his descendants. It’s thought that his malevolent spirit made life intolerable for occupiers of the house after his family left, causing two of them to commit suicide.

Ferndale in Waterlooville is haunted by the ghost of an old drover who hanged himself on an oak tree in the 1850’s. He can be seen as a brooding, besmoked figure smoking a pipe and when he disappears the smell of tobacco lingers on.

Frenchmans Alley in FAREHAM. A ghostly WWI soldier practices bayonet charging.






Paaaaaarrrrrrrrppp! is what i'd say if I ran into him


ps. Soul rEAVER - photos of hopfield are coming up. Just need to borrow a mates digicam.

Whereabouts in Hants are you? Some of the stuff round my way (Havant/Waterlooville) is pretty interesting. I do believe in ghosts myself but NOT as spirits. I'm more of a physics man and believe all this stuff can be explained (Physics/timespace etc).

Im from Lordswood in Southampton. Really wanna see the most haunted places in Southampton...... Add them to a database and start a kinda ghost hunting group anyone from Hampshire interested, i know there are several other groups. But trying to start up a different one.

Ok, the old merchants house, but you probably already know that one.

Does the New Forest count? Once I saw strange things there, in Stoney Cross.

Moyles Court at Ringwood. Haunted by Dame Alice Lisle who lived there and was executed outside the Eclipse Inn, Winchester, which is also ghosted by her.

I don't know if it's classed as haunted but there was a few creepy places near the woods at Stoney Cross. On a day out for a family picnic, my cousin and I were both kids back then and we went off to play near some bushes. Some strange things happened but the oddest was when we both saw a boy in period clothes and he seemed alone and out of place. I know the site was an airfield during WW2 but not sure if there had ever been a farm or village there in the distant past, such as around the bubonic plague times.

Great links Agent-21

I used to live in Stoney Cross, in a old manor house called charlford house.....it is now called charlford manor though.....just as u turn off the motorway for stoney cross its 2nd on ur left.....anyways it was haunted by an elderly man...as I saw him one night leaning over my mother when i was 11. Its the creepiest house ever and I cant find any information on it at all!!! I want to find out who this man was....apparently the house was an old hunting lodge for royalty. Anyways as soon as i told my mum i had seen this man leaning on her in bed...we moved....as apparently she felt that some nights she would wake up but couldnt physically move or open her eyes!! Creepy!!!! If anyone can find any info...wud b much appreciated!!!!