The Noah's Ark, haunted by a counterfeiter. Noah Bullock is said to haunt the pub.
The River Gardens where unexplained lights are seen. Close to the site Noah Bullock built, moored and eventually sank his ark, several river ghosts and strange lights which erratically move and twist in a strange dance have been seen. There is no explanation for these lights, apart from one medium who claims that they are the lost souls of the dead seeking a pathway to the next life.
The George Inn has many ghosts and mysteries, none more bizarre than the 'George Skull'. This female human skull, with a damaged cranium, was found by workmen 4ft down in a pit beneath the cellar floor. With it were animal skulls and bones, old shoes and strips of leather. Work was stopped and the skull was taken to Nottingham for forensic testing which showed that it was very old. When the George was built, it was still customary to bury beneath the foundations of new buildings a human skull, a pair of shoes and a dead cat to ward off evil spirits and witches.
On two occasions a long-haired man in a blue coat has been spotted walking along the landing in the middle of the night. He has been followed down the stairs into the bar where he disappeared, although there was apparently nowhere for him to go as the George was well secured. Crockery moves itself from the racks in the kitchen, but never breaks.
Staff have had strange experiences. One found that stainless steel buckets were being thrown at him from a table. Another went down to change the beer barrels on a Friday night had to evade the plastic taps used on the beer kegs as they were hurled at him across the cellar floor. A disembodied human groan has been heard in the cellar and on three occasions, in the presence of customers, thick pint pots have shattered, cutting the hands of barmaids and the landlady. There has been no explanation for any of the occurrences.
The George has recently been renamed D Lafferty & Son.
St Peter's Chuch, burial ground of plague victims.
There are probably more bodies in St Peter's Churchyard than in any other graveyard in Derby. So many people died that the town resorted to burying corpses vertically instead of horizontally, but they still ran out of space, so many of the unfortunate victims of the Black Death were buried at the boundaries of the town, one of these places still being called Deadman's Lane, off London Road. There is a reported sighting, at the bottom of Ascot Drive, of a vampire, always accompanied by the smell of rotting fruit.
Uttoxeter Road Cemetery
Amongst the overgrown headstones in this old burial ground, a ghostly presence can be felt even on bright sunny days.
The Silk Mill burnt down in 1910, and all that was saved was the bell tower. This tower is known to be haunted by a little boy who was kicked down the stairs by one of the overseers for not working hard enough. This little boy's cries can still be heard at the foot of the stairs where he bled to death. On many occasions staff of what is now Derby's Industrial Museum have gone into the tower, thinking that there is a child lost, but there is never anyone there. The lift operates by itself, often going up and down on its own.
Beneath Derby's Guildhall is a labyrinth of tunnels and catacombs.
People say that they still hear ghostly footsteps along those tunnels. Perhaps it is those of Alice Wheeldon, who although imprisoned, was later found to be innocent. She died and was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in the town.
The ghost of a little boy has been seen dressed in rags. He often wanders through the tunnels and has been seen by workmen. They shout at him, thinking that he is trespassing, but then he disappears and although thorough searches are undertaken, no sign of the boy can be found.