Ghost Stories of Hessle Road & Its Neighbourhood

Place

West Dock Avenue, off Hessle Road

Period / source date

Investigations reported in 2016; later coverage in 2021

Bob Carver’s former pattie-making premises became the subject of ghost investigations. Newspaper coverage places visiting teams at the building in 2016. Published paranormal accounts describe banging and crashing, alleged shadowy figures and unexplained injuries during investigations. The industrial setting makes this a distinctive local story, but the claimed experiences do not establish a supernatural cause.

Sources: Hull Daily Mail, 25 June 2021: the old pattie-making factory · My Haunted Life Too: Fish, Chips, and a Demon?

Place

Unidentified private flats on Hessle Road

Period / source date

Circa October 1997

The Paranormal Database records two couples reportedly sleeping in a car to avoid disturbances in their building. The account includes soot falling in a kitchen, cold spots, screeching and banging, and a man claiming that something unseen grabbed him. The entry identifies Hessle Road but does not disclose the building.

Sources: Paranormal Database: Raining Soot, Hessle Road, circa October 1997

Place

Alexandra Hotel, Hessle Road

Period / source date

Claim discussed in Mike Covell’s 2017 article

Historian Mike Covell records that a former landlord claimed the Alexandra was haunted and had photographed “orbs”. His article also explains that the adjoining green space is a Jewish burial ground. The published account establishes that a haunted reputation was being discussed; it does not identify a particular ghost or prove that the photographs show spirits.

Sources: Mike Covell, Spooky Isles, 2017: Alexandra Hotel haunted claim and burial-ground history

Place

Anlaby Road side of the neighbourhood; later Day Street alignment

Period / source date

October 1852

Carnegie Heritage Centre identifies a Hull Packet article of 22 October 1852, page 5, concerning a haunted house at the bottom of Wellington Lane. The lane’s alignment later became associated with Day Street. A surviving transcription describes repeated knocking, large crowds gathering outside and police trying to discover the source of the disturbance. The episode is documented as a Victorian ghost scare; the cause is not established by the material presented here.

Sources: Carnegie Heritage Centre: Day Street / Wellington Lane and Hull Packet reference · Fortean Findings: transcription of an 1852 Hull Packet story reprinted in the Weston-super-Mare Gazette

Place

Commercial Road, adjoining the eastern end of the Hessle Road area

Period / source date

Accounts published in January 2026

A feature in The Hull Story records owner Gill Ralph’s stories of a presence in the cellar supposedly turning the gas off, and staff seeing people who disappear. The article recounts a long history of the premises alongside those experiences. These are reported pub stories, rather than findings that a particular deceased person haunts the building.

Sources: The Hull Story, January 2026: Hard graft and ghost stories at the Whittington & Cat

Place

Redbourne Street off Hessle Road; several other homes in the account

Period / source date

Hull Daily Mail report, 9 August 2014

A newspaper account reproduced by Mysterious Britain describes a woman who believed unexplained disturbances followed her through several homes. One was on Redbourne Street, off Hessle Road. Her account included missing belongings and other unsettling domestic experiences. It is a personal story spanning different locations, rather than evidence that Redbourne Street as a whole is haunted.

Sources: Mysterious Britain: reproduction of Faye Preston’s Hull Daily Mail report, 9 August 2014