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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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Halloween the Beginning: Ireland’s Cave of Cats
21 October 2023
Psychoville Halloween Special: You’d Be Foolish To Miss It
25 November 2017
ghosts & hauntings
Ghosts of Littledean Jail: Horrors of Crimes Past
1 August 2020
Psychic Uncovers Horror At The Wheatsheaf Pub
6 September 2022
Truro Ghost Tour: Take Your Own Self-Guided Walk
18 September 2025
Britain’s Haunted First Responders
9 December 2022
11 November 2014
horror & fantasy films
Boris Karloff: 18 Amazing Things You Didn’t Know
10 September 2018
20 December 2022
22 November 2016
8 November 2017
12 February 2015
Charles Laughton’s 7 Best Horror Films
3 October 2024
television
Lochs Of Fun With The Family Ness
9 March 2024
Against the Crowd: Murrain 1975 REVIEW
1 December 2016
Casting the Runes 1979 TV REVIEW
31 October 2022
Clerkenwell House of Detention Most Haunted REVIEW
25 October 2019
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Who was St Patrick? We Profile Ireland’s Patron Saint
17 March 2013
Ireland’s Fairy Forts and the Curse of Tara
17 May 2014
The Church Grim: Guide or Ghoul?
18 September 2022
St Endelienta Brought Cows Back To Life!
12 July 2012
Gurning Man of Glasgow Mystery: The truth revealed!
17 July 2019
Dark history
5 Strangest Ireland Executions
22 December 2016
Kingsclere’s Ghosts: Echoes of Wartime Tragedy
26 September 2023
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Burke and Hare ‘The Bodysnatchers’
31 December 2022
Britain’s 6 Most Disgusting Killer Cannibals
8 May 2021
Bloody Horrors at St Mary’s Church Hendon
12 September 2022
Curse Of William Shakespeare’s Skull
16 May 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
UFOS & ALIENS
The Mince Pie Martians And The Housewife
21 September 2023
Flap Over Broad Haven UFO Encounters
23 August 2023
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
12 September 2025
Alan Godfrey and the Yorkshire Alien Abduction
13 June 2019
The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire
13 June 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire
19 April 2023
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
10 Loch Ness Monster Facts You Didn’t Know
1 September 2023
Trewint Tor: A Tale Of Scaredy Cats On Bodmin Moor
19 August 2020
Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?
2 July 2020
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
The Mysterious Locked Room Death of Thomas Farrant
7 January 2023
Christmas Eve Tale of Crisis Apparitions in Waterford and Cork
23 December 2022
What were the Death Tokens of Wales?
23 January 2013
What is a Caulbearer and Why is it Spooky?
27 September 2018
Did I Live In Haworth During A Past Life?
8 June 2020
