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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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Spooky Halloween Fun For The Whole Family
9 October 2022
Inside Number 9: ‘Dead Line’ Live Halloween Special 2018 REVIEW
29 October 2018
Spooky Isles Halloween Playlist 2019
27 October 2019
10 Great Monster Songs For Your Halloween Party!
9 October 2020
ghosts & hauntings
Does The Ghost Of Mary Shelley’s Sister Haunt Swansea?
22 April 2015
Newry City Ghost Tours, Purveyors of Dark Tourism In Ireland!
12 October 2015
Ghostly Airmen Haunted The Skies Over Lincolnshire
30 September 2012
Meet Margaret, Bristol’s Haunted Doll
12 November 2019
Nottingham Ghost Tour, A Visit To Rosie’s Playhouse
20 December 2011
Woodchester Mansion, A Haunted House Untouched By Time
30 October 2020
horror & fantasy films
The Redwood Massacre 2014 REVIEW
10 October 2015
Flesh for Frankenstein 1973 REVIEW
3 September 2021
11 November 2013
20 June 2013
television
Carpathian Eagle: Hammer House of Horror (Ep.9)
23 May 2013
Lockwood and Co: Episode 1 REVIEW
18 March 2024
The Clock House, Most Haunted REVIEW
9 September 2019
23 February 2018
Something to Share? Ghosts BBC (S3, E5) REVIEW
13 November 2024
Thriller (S3, E1): A Coffin For The Bride REVIEW
2 April 2020
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Scottish Mermaid Real Life Tales
25 January 2023
St Willibrord The Rambo Monk: They Couldn’t Stop Him!
9 August 2012
Vampires Discovered In 8th Century Ireland
23 October 2013
Hell Hounds of Jersey and Guernsey
28 December 2015
What Happened On Friday the 13th July, 1894?
13 July 2014
Dark history
25 December 2012
Psychic Stain Plagues 16 Wardle Brook Avenue Murder Site
30 March 2023
Gruesome Tales of Friars Bush Graveyard
21 August 2025
Dr Crippen’s Ghost and Other Murderer Spirits
24 June 2014
Mysterious Bidston Hill, Beautiful But Sinister
19 December 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
Charles Jevington’s Mysterious Journey to the Stars
13 August 2022
The Alien Autopsy Scandal, A Very British Con
22 June 2026
The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire
13 June 2019
UK Beginners Guide to UFOs VIDEO
28 September 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Where Have Alien Big Cat Been Spotted In Wales?
21 June 2019
What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?
25 October 2017
Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire
19 April 2023
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
Adventures in Cryptozoology: Interview with Richard Freeman
24 September 2019
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Lord Dufferin and his Moonlit Vision
29 September 2014
The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery
27 October 2023
What were the Death Tokens of Wales?
23 January 2013
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
2 January 2026
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Real?
16 February 2015
