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30 Haunted Schools of England: Ghosts in the Classroom

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Shrewsbury Prison: Ghost Stories from Britain’s Most Haunted Jail

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Binnorie (The Twa Sisters): A Dark and Haunting Ballad

Binnorie (The Twa Sisters): A Dark and Haunting Ballad

1 September 2025

West Malling UFO Weirdness: A 1953 Mystery That Still Intrigues

West Malling UFO Weirdness: A 1953 Mystery That Still Intrigues

31 August 2025

Arbor Low: Ancient Stone Circle Steeped in Mystery

Arbor Low: Ancient Stone Circle Steeped in Mystery

30 August 2025

Thomas Parnell’s A Night-Piece on Death

Thomas Parnell’s A Night-Piece on Death

30 August 2025

UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW

UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW

29 August 2025

Haunted Charlie Hall: From Childhood Night Terrors to Paranormal Explorer

Haunted Charlie Hall: From Childhood Night Terrors to Paranormal Explorer

29 August 2025

Haunted Portrait Watches Over The Three Swans Hotel

Haunted Portrait Watches Over The Three Swans Hotel

29 August 2025

Frankenstein Unbound 1990 REVIEW

Frankenstein Unbound 1990 REVIEW

28 August 2025

ghosts & hauntings

Ghosts and Hauntings

Bishop Auckland: 6 Haunted Places To Visit

25 May 2020

Guest writer ELAINE KELLY, from Spectre Detectors, takes us to six of Bishop Auckland in County Durham’s most haunted places

Shrewsbury Prison: Ghost Stories from Britain’s Most Haunted Jail

Shrewsbury Prison: Ghost Stories from Britain’s Most Haunted Jail

1 September 2025

Haunted Portrait Watches Over The Three Swans Hotel

Haunted Portrait Watches Over The Three Swans Hotel

29 August 2025

The Phantom Children of Bedern Hall: York’s Most Heartbreaking Haunting

The Phantom Children of Bedern Hall: York’s Most Heartbreaking Haunting

27 August 2025

Ghostly Encounters at Bradwell Farm House Leave Sceptics Shaken

Ghostly Encounters at Bradwell Farm House Leave Sceptics Shaken

24 August 2025

more ghosts & hauntings

Haunted Castles

Haunted pubs

Haunted hotels

horror & fantasy films

The Uncanny 1977 REVIEW

The Uncanny 1977 REVIEW

29 June 2014

The Vampire Bat 1933 REVIEW

The Vampire Bat 1933 REVIEW

8 October 2024

Rawhead Rex 1986 REVIEW

Rawhead Rex 1986 REVIEW

24 July 2012

The Mummy 1959 REVIEW

The Mummy 1959 REVIEW

14 August 2012

The Children 2008 REVIEW

The Children 2008 REVIEW

17 April 2015

Carry On Screaming! 1966 REVIEW

Carry On Screaming! 1966 REVIEW

9 November 2014

more horror & fantasy films

television

Sapphire & Steel – Assignment I: Escape Through A Crack In Time 1979 REVIEW

Sapphire & Steel – Assignment I: Escape Through A Crack In Time 1979 REVIEW

14 May 2025

Why the UK Version of Ghosts Still Haunts Us – And the US One Doesn’t

Why the UK Version of Ghosts Still Haunts Us – And the US One Doesn’t

11 April 2025

Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible: A Wicked Homage to Classic British Horror

Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible: A Wicked Homage to Classic British Horror

9 April 2025

Armchair Thriller (S2, originally untransmitted): The Chelsea Murders REVIEW

Armchair Thriller (S2, originally untransmitted): The Chelsea Murders REVIEW

1 March 2025

Emily’s Room: Uncanny (S2, E4) TV REVIEW

Emily’s Room: Uncanny (S2, E4) TV REVIEW

1 March 2025

Ace of Wands: Forgotten Cult Classic That Refuses To Die

Ace of Wands: Forgotten Cult Classic That Refuses To Die

23 February 2025

more television

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paranormal reality tv

esoteric arts

FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION

St Werburgh: The Goose-Taming Saint of Chester

St Werburgh: The Goose-Taming Saint of Chester

13 August 2025

Bucca: The Sea Spirit of Cornwall

Bucca: The Sea Spirit of Cornwall

21 July 2025

Tiddy Mun: The Bog Spirit of Lincolnshire

Tiddy Mun: The Bog Spirit of Lincolnshire

7 July 2025

Illustrated Tales of Devon by John Husband BOOK REVIEW

Illustrated Tales of Devon by John Husband BOOK REVIEW

1 June 2025

Ring of Brodgar: Orkney’s Ancient Circle of Mystery

Ring of Brodgar: Orkney’s Ancient Circle of Mystery

31 May 2025

9 Fascinating Facts About Elm Superstitions in the UK and Ireland

9 Fascinating Facts About Elm Superstitions in the UK and Ireland

21 May 2025

more folklore and superstition

Dark history

Arbor Low: Ancient Stone Circle Steeped in Mystery

Arbor Low: Ancient Stone Circle Steeped in Mystery

30 August 2025

Witch of Scrapfaggot Green: Essex’s Wartime Ghost Story

Witch of Scrapfaggot Green: Essex’s Wartime Ghost Story

25 August 2025

John Horwood: Was Justice Served or Was He a Victim?

John Horwood: Was Justice Served or Was He a Victim?

24 August 2025

Nottingham Killer William Saville Hanged Twice And Haunts Gallows Hill

Nottingham Killer William Saville Hanged Twice And Haunts Gallows Hill

23 August 2025

Gruesome Tales of Friars Bush Graveyard

Gruesome Tales of Friars Bush Graveyard

21 August 2025

St Edmund Arrowsmith: Lancashire’s Martyr, Miracle Worker and Mystery

St Edmund Arrowsmith: Lancashire’s Martyr, Miracle Worker and Mystery

16 August 2025

more dark history

Literature

How I Embraced My Uncle Bram’s Dracula Legacy, says Dacre Stoker

How I Embraced My Uncle Bram’s Dracula Legacy, says Dacre Stoker

1 September 2025

Thomas Parnell’s A Night-Piece on Death

Thomas Parnell’s A Night-Piece on Death

30 August 2025

Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story

Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story

21 August 2025

Stig of the Dump: The Kent Legend Behind a Two-Million-Selling Classic

Stig of the Dump: The Kent Legend Behind a Two-Million-Selling Classic

9 August 2025

Emily Brontë’s Spellbound: Gothic Horror and Inner Strength

Emily Brontë’s Spellbound: Gothic Horror and Inner Strength

1 August 2025

The Monster Within: Duality in Classic Horror’s Greatest Stories

The Monster Within: Duality in Classic Horror’s Greatest Stories

30 July 2025

more literature

dracula

Frankenstein

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

UFOS & ALIENS

West Malling UFO Weirdness: A 1953 Mystery That Still Intrigues

West Malling UFO Weirdness: A 1953 Mystery That Still Intrigues

31 August 2025

UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW

UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW

29 August 2025

Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens TV REVIEW

Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens TV REVIEW

8 July 2024

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island

19 April 2024

How I Started Hunting Ghosts And UFOs: Dr Robert Young

How I Started Hunting Ghosts And UFOs: Dr Robert Young

3 January 2024

Ralph Noyes: An Authentic MoD Voice Amid UFO Controversies

Ralph Noyes: An Authentic MoD Voice Amid UFO Controversies

29 November 2023

more UFOs & aliens

CRYPTOZOOLOGY

The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?

The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?

17 January 2025

Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent

Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent

15 November 2024

Mystery Animals of The Lothians

Mystery Animals of The Lothians

4 June 2024

Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW

Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW

1 January 2024

Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent

Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent

12 November 2023

In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose

In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose

18 September 2023

more cryptozoology

MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA

Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?

Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?

21 April 2025

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

10 March 2025

Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament

Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament

21 February 2025

Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen

Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen

9 September 2024

Chasing Nightmares: The Horror of Sleep Paralysis

Chasing Nightmares: The Horror of Sleep Paralysis

26 March 2024

The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell

The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell

21 November 2023

more mysterious phenomena

EDITOR’S PICKS

Ghosts and Hauntings

Isle of Arran: 5 Haunted Places to visit

MJ Steel Collins

7 August 2014

Thriller (S4, E1): Screamer REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

16 January 2021

Werewolf of London 1935 REVIEW

20 August 2013

Ghosts and Hauntings

Windhouse At Yell: A Creepy Shetland Haunting

14 August 2023

Ghosts and Hauntings

St Ives, Cornwall: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

25 June 2014

Derbyshire’s Ghostly Choir and Sermon for the Dead

1 November 2017

Paranormal Research

Malahide Castle: Five Go Ghost Hunting In Dublin

Ann Massey McElroy

25 October 2019

7 Chilling Victorian Ghost Stories Perfect for Christmas

Rachael Elizabeth

25 December 2024

The Silent Scream: Hammer House of Horror (Ep.7)

18 May 2013

The Woman in Black 2012 REVIEW

2 February 2022

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