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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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Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
Spooky Isles Halloween Playlist 2019
27 October 2019
Dark Origins of Halloween: The Night The Dead Haunts The Living
29 October 2012
ghosts & hauntings
Ghosts and Legends of Sunbury-on-Thames
20 September 2022
London Apprentice Pub: Highwaymen And Hauntings In Isleworth
22 January 2017
Friends Unveil Haunted Cottage’s Secrets
5 May 2024
Tragic ghosts haunt MacDonald Bear Hotel in Woodstock
2 December 2018
horror & fantasy films
10 An American Werewolf In London Facts You Didn’t Know
23 October 2017
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 2023 REVIEW
9 October 2025
24 April 2023
14 June 2014
Slaughterhouse Rulez 2018 REVIEW
2 November 2018
9 November 2014
television
Poached Guests: Ghosts BBC (S4, E5) REVIEW
25 December 2024
Carol For Another Christmas 1964 TV REVIEW
22 December 2021
Apparitions BBC TV EPISODE GUIDE
19 October 2014
Is Most Haunted Fake, Real Or Somewhere In Between?
6 November 2017
Paranormal Lockdown visits haunted Shepton Mallett Prison
1 September 2018
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Meet Nuckelavee, Scotland’s Cronenbergian Centaur
25 November 2021
St Armel, a Saint of Arthurian greatness
26 July 2012
Teanlay Night: A Fylde Coast Halloween
4 October 2023
The Devil In The Derwent Valley
12 May 2023
Dark history
What haunts The Guy Fawkes Inn in York?
2 May 2026
What Happened On Friday the 13th July, 1894?
13 July 2014
How WW2 Turned Tyneham Into A Ghost Village
10 November 2017
Top 10 Strange Ireland Place Names
23 May 2019
Rochdale’s Curious Deaths and Superstitions
11 August 2024
Black Dog of Newgate: A Phantom Prisoner’s Revenge?
29 April 2023
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
The Curious Tale Of The A70 UFO Incident
23 June 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
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW
1 January 2024
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
Cryptid Worms: Legend and Lore
4 January 2019
What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?
25 October 2017
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Pype Hayes Park Murder Coincidences Mystify Experts
21 February 2023
The Voice of Vrillon: A Hoax from Out of this World
15 June 2022
The Mysterious Locked Room Death of Thomas Farrant
7 January 2023
The Magnus Archives Episode 1: Anglerfish REVIEW
7 December 2021
Time Slips: What Is It and How Does It Happen?
29 November 2012
