Denewood Crescent
In 1968, Charles Hill, a local bus driver, and his family were forced to flee their home on Denewood Crescent in Bilborough due to an unexplained and terrifying haunting. The relentless disturbances drove them to plead with the city council for assistance. Sympathetic to their plight, officials promised to relocate the family to a new home and launched a full-scale investigation into the chilling events that had taken over their lives. The case remains one of the most unsettling tales of paranormal activity in the area, leaving a legacy of unanswered questions and lingering fear.


When Charles Hill and his three children moved into their new home, strange and unsettling events quickly began to unfold. Shortly after moving in, Mr. Hill awoke one night to see what he described as a ghostly figure, clad in white, with a cloth drape around his neck walking toward the window. Resembling a French foreign legion soldier. Despite dismissing it as a dream or nightmare, the eerie sightings continued, affecting each family member in turn.
One afternoon, while alone in the house with only the family dog, Mr. Hill’s daughter, Sandra, witnessed the apparition herself. The usually calm dog growled at the stairs before Sandra saw a man in white trousers and a blue jacket walking up the stairs to the second floor. The figure vanished, followed by a loud door slam. Meanwhile, unexplained incidents plagued the family—strange sounds echoed within walls, fires mysteriously went out, and accidents and sudden illnesses occurred.
So disturbing were the incidents that the family sought official help, eventually securing a transfer out of the home. A doctor advised the children should not return due to their fear. Even after the Hills moved out, the empty house continued to attract trouble; thieves broke in and looted the gas and electricity meters, which for those who remember were coin based, seemingly unfazed by the haunting.
Mr. Hill expressed relief over leaving but noted wryly that, while the thieves ignored the ghost, his family could not.
In the investigation of the haunting, the neighbours confirmed that a young man once lived there a mere 19 years prior, as a window cleaner. Who had either had a fall or an illness, that left him paralyzed and unable to work. Feeling like there was no other option, he ended his life in the upstairs bedroom.
The Paranormal Database attributes another phenomenon at the location, not found in the reports or news articles. Disembodied singing.

Georges Lane
Georges Lane is a winding route, unlit with eerie trees that arch over the road that extends to the village town of Calverton to the northeast of the city.

Home to a number of reports of spooky going ons, of the reports I can locate a mysterious figure in a black robe has been seen on several occasions since the 1930s. With a hood masking the face except for a large hook nose it has spooked out those walking when the clock chimes midnight.
The figure chased resident Mr Lawrence Bardill, for some distance and he was ill for several days afterwards.
In 1977, reports of eerie hanging mists were seen along the road as well as swirling black vapour was reported to officials. Country roads are prone to thick patches of fog so perhaps not paranormal. In 1992 when villagers Bill and Allison saw a pair of legs, just legs mind, clad in white riding breeches running across the road. White trousers running across the road, it seems I was not the first Nottingham Nightcrawler!
A duck, a swan, a Nightcrawler, this happened to occur as a bus travelling at speed was also coming along the road.
It is said, though no one has confirmed it to me personally, that taxi drivers would avoid using the road. There’s a number of apparent claims, of a black-cloaked figure appearing in the back seat of the car when looking in the rearview mirror, only for them to look around to find no-one. Not a safe road decision to take your eyes off the road on such a winding unlit fast-moving route.
When PI East Midlands, comprised of Sion Marc Simpson, Mark Birch and Neve visited the location, doing a few runs of the road, what they discovered were 2 interesting aspects, they found a homeless person, a vagabond standing at the side of the road! They freaked out thinking they had found the ghost, and stopped even going as much to touch him to determine he was real, as well as a small encampment. Likewise, a visual matrix phenomena, were the bends in the roads with the black and white arrows indicating a turn. If the eyes track the board and move your head during the turn, it’s like animation frames of a standing tall thin black figure.

In Hucknall, there is a road far less known to haunting Papplewick Lane, in 2007 an account was given to me, by a resident of the road at the Station Hotel one evening. Who said on an occasion, they were driving in the time between times, when the sun has descended and there is remaining light. She looked up to the rearview mirror to see a carriage cart with 2 horses behind the car keeping up with the car, she slowed and moved slightly across to let them pass. Only it looked like the horse and carriage were about to plough into the back of the car. She braced and closed her eyes fearing the worst. For it not to occur, then looking up the horses and a floating rider only with no carriage moved ahead as if they rode through the car before disappearing.

Sources:
Bygones October 2006, Haunted Nottinghamshire special
Paranormal Database
Resident of Papplewick Lane, Hucknall.
The Haunting of George’s Lane https://mydrivinginstructortraining.com/the-haunting-of-georges-lane/
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