# Ghost Stories of Hessle Road & Its Neighbourhood Canonical: https://hessleroad.com/ghost-stories.html Six published accounts. Six different routes into the record. ## The Old Ropery Type: Reported haunting 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. Context and research: Next research: check the building’s earlier uses against directories and plans. Claims about particular spirits, deaths or a “demon” should not be treated as historical facts. Sources: [Hull Daily Mail, 25 June 2021: the old pattie-making factory](https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/old-pattie-making-factory-hull-5576934); [My Haunted Life Too: Fish, Chips, and a Demon?](https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/?p=1845) ## The raining-soot disturbance Type: Reported disturbance 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. Context and research: Next research: locate the original published report. No house number, resident identity or confirmed explanation is supplied here. Sources: [Paranormal Database: Raining Soot, Hessle Road, circa October 1997](https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/yorkshire/Pages/yorkdataeast.php?pageNum_paradata=1&totalRows_paradata=90) ## The Alexandra’s haunted reputation Type: Published local claim 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. Context and research: The burial-ground history and the landlord’s paranormal claim are separate matters. We do not attribute a haunting to anyone buried nearby. A dated first-hand account would help establish how the story developed. Sources: [Mike Covell, Spooky Isles, 2017: Alexandra Hotel haunted claim and burial-ground history](https://www.spookyisles.com/hull-myths-debunked/) ## The Wellington Lane ghost scare Type: Historical newspaper story 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. Context and research: Next research: read the full original newspaper page and subsequent reporting. This address was on the Anlaby Road side of the surrounding neighbourhood, rather than on Hessle Road itself. Sources: [Carnegie Heritage Centre: Day Street / Wellington Lane and Hull Packet reference](https://carnegiehull.org.uk/resources/anlaby-road-history/south-side-streets/); [Fortean Findings: transcription of an 1852 Hull Packet story reprinted in the Weston-super-Mare Gazette](https://forteanfindings.blogspot.com/2017/03/people-love-poltergeist-hull-1852.html) ## The cellar presence at the Whittington & Cat Type: Reported pub haunting 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. Context and research: The pub is in the adjoining docks and Castle Street area. Historical claims about deaths at the premises need independent checking before being connected with any supposed ghost. Sources: [The Hull Story, January 2026: Hard graft and ghost stories at the Whittington & Cat](https://www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/whittington-and-cat-feature) ## A haunting said to follow its witness Type: Personal reported experience 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. Context and research: Next research: check the original report and seek permission before adding personal recollections or images. A supernatural explanation remains the witness’s interpretation. Sources: [Mysterious Britain: reproduction of Faye Preston’s Hull Daily Mail report, 9 August 2014](https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/underwear-stealing-ghosts/) Decorative illustrations are imagined, not documentary evidence. Research reviewed 10 October 2026.