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Welcome to Haunted Doncaster - Doncaster Ghosts - Myths and Legends.
This page will list all of Doncaster's haunted places, from forts, to pubs, schools, and public places,
Please feel free to browse our directory, If you know any other haunts or myths please email them through to us at
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Cadby ghost
Location: Denaby Railtrack, Denaby (
Info:A girl know as the Mexborough Ragger is said to have been walking through a tunnel taking water to the quarry when a big train hit her. There is a archway in the tunnel wall, which you can sit in, then you say her name 3 times and she reappears walking through the tunnel.
Headless Highwayman
Location: Atwick - Roads in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Info: This decapitated spectral bandit remains lurking in the shadows of his old ambush area.
The William Nevison
Location: Ardwick le Street - Hanging Wood
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Info: The woods is a popular place for Nevison, a highwayman, to lurk before riding out to commit his crimes. After he was hanged in York, his shade returned to the scene of better times.
Three Discs
Location: Conisborough - Skies above town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 28 March 1966
Info: The famous black and white photograph of three discs flying over the town taken by a 15 year old school boy was revealed, much later, to be a hoax.
Music Box
Location: Doncaster - Burghwallis Hall,
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s
Info: The sounds of a music box were heard around the hall 'before the days of radio', and a small woman dressed in dark clothing was observed walking down a corridor. Two more witnesses saw a man dressed in grey which they mistook as their father as he dashed down the staircase. This could be the same figure that one woman woke up to; he stood over her bed watching her with a look of hatred and madness, vanishing as she hit the lamp.
Three Discs
Location: Conisborough - Skies above town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 28 March 1966
Info: The famous black and white photograph of three discs flying over the town taken by a 15 year old school boy was revealed, much later, to be a hoax.
Grey Monk
Location: Conisborough - Conisborough Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1971
Info: Sightings of this spectral figure date back to the 1770s, when he was first seen drifting among the ruins. Reports also exist of sightings of a white woman, and the sounds of quiet voices and bumping.
Pennies from Nowhere
Location: Doncaster - Sayers Tyre and Exhaust Centre, Athron Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Early 2003
Info: Stories of the building being haunted by a lonely man go back many years, though recently the manifestations have been stones and coinage that appear from nowhere and fly towards the owner of the garage.
Mayor's Aid
Location: Doncaster - Mansion House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Info: This tall, thin gentleman has been seen gazing at the portraits in the building, and is sometimes seen walking behind an important guest to the building.
Cynthia
Location: Doncaster - Volunteer Inn, Frenchgate (since demolished)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s
Info: Cynthia was the nickname given to this ghost by the landlord and his wife. They described the phantom woman as appearing so dainty and gentle that they grew attached to the spirit.
Mayor's Aid
Location: Doncaster - Mansion House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Info: This tall, thin gentleman has been seen gazing at the portraits in the building, and is sometimes seen walking behind an important guest to the building.
Tall Man
Location: Doncaster - Darlington Grove, Moorland
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1968
Info: A ghostly gentleman over six foot tall made several appearances in a house on this estate.
Green Serpent
Location: Easington - Off coast
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Late 1930s
Info: This sea creature was snakelike, possessing a flat head. It appeared to gasp for air as it skimmed across the waves.
Matching Soldier
Location: Doncaster - Just off the B1403,
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 2005
Info: A couple in a parked car watched a soldier wearing a hat match by their car before vanishing in the beam of their headlights.
if you know any more haunted places - myths or legends in doncaster please email them me. thanks.
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