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Lychgates, Britain’s Forgotten Gates of the Dead
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3 July 2026
Halloween is coming!
Why FEAR at Avon Valley leads the UK scare scene
2 November 2025
FEAR at Avon Valley delivers the UK’s most consistently thrilling and immersive Halloween event, balancing theatre-quality storytelling with a genuine festival atmosphere, writes PM BUCHAN
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Dark Origins of Halloween: The Night The Dead Haunts The Living
29 October 2012
Why FEAR at Avon Valley leads the UK scare scene
2 November 2025
Dudley Castle’s Halloween Anniversary Ghost
7 October 2022
5 Scottish Haunted Places To Visit On Halloween
16 October 2014
ghosts & hauntings
St Ives, Cornwall: 5 Haunted Places To Visit
25 June 2014
Imber: Abandoned Ghost Town of Wiltshire
15 September 2022
Revisiting the 1899 Burry Port Ghost Phenomenon
13 December 2024
Lumphanan: Murder and Ghosts in Aberdeenshire
12 April 2020
10 Most Haunted Lancashire Pubs
27 January 2019
horror & fantasy films
The Abominable Dr Phibes 1971 REVIEW
8 September 2013
Ah-Hoo, Werewolves Of London! A Study In Lycanthropy
11 August 2023
25 October 2012
Underworld Evolution 2006 REVIEW
19 August 2013
Top 5 Greatest Hammer Horror Monsters List
27 July 2019
8 January 2023
television
Uncanny Case 1: Miss Howard TV REVIEW
20 October 2023
Spooky UK Kids TV Shows of 1980s and 1990s
18 February 2024
The Charity Shop Poltergeist: Uncanny (S2, E2) TV REVIEW
8 February 2025
Part of the Family: Ghosts BBC (S3, E6) REVIEW
20 November 2024
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Holly Folklore: Things You Didn’t Know
24 December 2023
Black Dog of Newgate: A Phantom Prisoner’s Revenge?
29 April 2023
The Duergar, The Dwarves of Simonside Hills
30 July 2013
The Trickster Fox in British Folklore
1 October 2022
Mari Lwyd: How the Welsh celebrate Christmas with Horse Skull
20 December 2018
Iron Folklore Facts And Superstitions You Didn’t Know
17 August 2021
Dark history
13 Jack the Ripper Locations Tour Guides Won’t Show You
30 September 2018
The Strange Case Of Glasgow’s Madeleine Smith
11 March 2015
What Do Grave Flowers Tell Us?
5 January 2013
Kingsclere’s Ghosts: Echoes of Wartime Tragedy
26 September 2023
Do Ripper Victim Ghosts Haunt Whitechapel?
21 October 2015
Literature
Who is Dracula’s Father? BOOK REVIEW
15 April 2026
D.E.V.I.L by Jill Lincoln BOOK REVIEW
18 March 2026
Dr Jekyll and Mr Seek BOOK REVIEW
19 February 2026
UFOS & ALIENS
UK Beginners Guide to UFOs VIDEO
28 September 2023
High Wycombe UFO: The Tale of William Robert Loosley
29 September 2023
Did Ancient UFOs Commit Alien Abductions in England in 664AD?
7 September 2022
Neil Nixon: Why We Still Don’t Know the Truth About UFOs
16 September 2025
The Voice of Vrillon: A Hoax from Out of this World
15 June 2022
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island
19 April 2024
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster
28 November 2020
Sightings of the Huttock Top Beast Continue to Intrigue
18 February 2026
Adventures in Cryptozoology: Interview with Richard Freeman
24 September 2019
What Is The Loch Ness Monster?
5 November 2014
The Man-Monkey of Shropshire Union Canal
26 January 2022
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Busby Stoop, Thirsk’s Cursed Chair
1 February 2023
Pype Hayes Park Murder Coincidences Mystify Experts
21 February 2023
Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?
21 April 2025
10 March 2025
Precognition: I Saw House Fire Before It Happened
24 October 2023
The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery
27 October 2023
