HISTORIC records of West Yorkshire’s most haunted pubs have been published online, including two well-known local watering holes.

Details of more than 75,000 landlords and their pubs through the ages are listed, including the Dog and Gun at Oxenhope and the Old White Lion at Haworth.

The 17th century coach inn in Denholme Road, Oxenhope, is said to be home to the mischievous ghost of a woman pig farmer who was run over by a horse and cart outside its door and died in an upstairs room, said landlord of 21 years Mike Roper.

"I've not seen her, but my wife Kath and I were once talking to a chap in the bar who suddenly lurched forward, went drip white and said, 'someone's just pushed me in the back,'

"There was nobody who could have touched him, so it could well have been her.

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"But there are lots of other things - the lights and music come on in the middle of the night or many a time I come down in the morning and the lights have all been put on."

But Mr Roper said one of the oddest events happened in the women's toilets.

"I've come down to find all the cubicles in the ladies' have been locked - from the inside," he said.

At The Old White Lion Hotel in Haworth's Main Street, front of house manager Jude Thompson told the tale of Lily Cove - a daredevil parachutist famed for launching herself out of hot air balloons and parachuting back down to earth.

In 1906 while performing at Haworth in her trademark long frilly bloomers, she fell out of her parachute and plummeted to the ground.

"Still showing signs of life, she was rushed to the Old White Lion but died at the scene.

"She is said to haunt room seven where she died and one guy told how he was sure someone appeared in his room and sat on his bed. He hid under the covers," Miss Thompson said.

Ancestry, an online family history site, has compiled the records which form part of The West Yorkshire Occupation Collection 1638-1962.

Its content manager Miriam Silverman said: "This collection presents the perfect opportunity for people to get online and find out more about the heritage and history of the local area, right down to their ancestors’ favourite boozer."