The bowler hatted ghost who haunted a Newcastle railway station

Nothing unusual there, but this dapper fellow would suddenly disappear.

Three piece suit, bowler hat and an umbrella

The spooky tale happened at Manors station in Newcastle and is one of the many fascinating tales included in the online Paranormal Database.

The sighting happened in 1990 and a report on the database says the chap was ‘wearing a smart three-piece suit and bowler hat, and holding an umbrella.

“The phantom figure stood on the platform as if waiting for a train. The man is said to look concerned and would suddenly disappear.’

The growling child near the Keep

Newcastle paranormal sightings are listed in detail on the database and here are some more examples.

A small child is reputed to haunt the area of the Newcastle Keep. There were reports of stone throwing, growling sounds and strange black shapes around the Black Gate.

A woman and child had to move out of a house in the Elswick Road area after seeing the faded figure of a nun drift down a passage before vanishing.

Toys which turn themselves on in the night

There had been other activity as well including toys being activated in the early hours of the morning and items vanishing for several days at a time.

All of these stories - and hundreds more - can be found on the Paranormal Database which was founded and is run by Darren Mann.

Darren said: “I started a photographic project based on documenting haunted locations in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex which I published online.

‘A vast collection of strangeness and oddities’

“It wasn’t long before people started to email me their experiences of ghosts, UFO sightings and snippets of folklore from all over the country, which ultimately shaped the website into a vast collection of strangeness and oddities.”

To view the local entries on the database, visit here.

And to share your own ghostly experiences, email [email protected]