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Vicars Close, Wells: The Street That Time Forgot
21 June 2025
20 June 2025
The Baby in the Basket 2025 REVIEW
11 June 2025
Murder and Dripping Fat: Kate Webster Horrors
7 June 2025
Haunted Waters of the Roman Baths of Bath
2 June 2025
The Unquiet Grave Reminds Us: Let the Dead Rest
27 May 2025
ghosts and hauntings
Vicars Close, Wells: The Street That Time Forgot
21 June 2025
Vicars’ Close in Wells, Somerset, is Europe’s oldest inhabited street and a place where ghostly encounters and timeless architecture blend into a hauntingly atmospheric experience
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Haunted Waters of the Roman Baths of Bath
2 June 2025
Gawsworth Hall: A Haunted Gem in Cheshire
16 April 2025
Scarborough: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
30 March 2025
horror and fantasy films
20 June 2025
The Baby in the Basket 2025 REVIEW
11 June 2025
The Horror Films of Skip Martin
11 April 2025
television
Emily’s Room: Uncanny (S2, E4) TV REVIEW
1 March 2025
Ace of Wands: Forgotten Cult Classic That Refuses To Die
23 February 2025
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Whispering Mysteries of the Rollright Stones
9 May 2025
10 Enchanting Secrets of the Hawthorn Tree
30 April 2025
Glastonbury Tor’s Magical Mystery Tour
11 April 2025
Dark history
Murder and Dripping Fat: Kate Webster Horrors
7 June 2025
Bartlow Hills, the Pyramids of Essex
23 April 2025
Literature
Christabel: Coleridge’s Unfinished Vampire Poem
31 March 2025
The Magician: W. Somerset Maugham’s Lost Horror Classic
18 January 2025
UFOS & ALIENS
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island
19 April 2024
How I Started Hunting Ghosts And UFOs: Dr Robert Young
3 January 2024
Ralph Noyes: An Authentic MoD Voice Amid UFO Controversies
29 November 2023
Phantoms In The Night Or ETs? BOOK REVIEW
17 November 2023
Europe’s Roswell: 40 Years Since Impact BOOK REVIEW
11 November 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW
1 January 2024
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?
21 April 2025
10 March 2025
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen
9 September 2024
Chasing Nightmares: The Horror of Sleep Paralysis
26 March 2024
The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell
21 November 2023
EDITOR’S PICKS
film reviews
To the Devil a Daughter 1976 REVIEW
13 March 2015
To the Devil a Daughter 1976 is one of Hammer’s least successful horrors but it’s better than you think, says DAVID SAUNDERSON
15 May 2012
3 April 2015
15 April 2015
14 October 2017
21 January 2022
The Evil Beneath Loch Ness 2001 REVIEW
28 May 2015
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein 1948 REVIEW
12 September 2018
Straight On Till Morning 1972 REVIEW
13 February 2023
