Littledean Jail was begun in 1788 and was in use as a prison from 1791, built by the architect William Blackburn, who worked on prison reform. It is now a museum of crime, and its owners open it for public ghost hunting events because of the activity reported there.
Spooky sites list the same set of reports. A child spirit called James is said to wander the cells day and night and is described as friendly. Children are heard crying from the cells built for them, and visitors report footsteps and doors slamming with nobody around.
The most feared presence is a former jailer, said to touch visitors and throw objects at them, and occasionally to appear. Museum exhibits are also said to shake and lights to flicker. Some write-ups tie the crying to the jail's history, noting that children as young as eight were held with adults, and that three infants were born to unmarried mothers in the jail in 1837 and 1838, two of whom died in the cell.
No dated individual sightings were found, only the pattern of reports repeated across tourism and ghost hunt pages, so it is tagged as a thin, traditional entry.
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