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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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Nos Galan Gaeaf, Halloween in Wales’ Strangest Customs
5 October 2023
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
ghosts & hauntings
10 Haunted Cornwall Pubs to Terrify You!
31 October 2016
5 Scariest Dublin Hauntings That Chill the Blood
4 October 2012
Pontypool’s Haunted Hanbury Arms Hotel
3 September 2023
Hatton Cross: 8 Haunted Places To Visit
4 October 2017
Haunted Colwick Hall Hotel Echoes with Ghosts
28 June 2025
Glastonbury: Haunted Places to Visit
16 May 2012
horror & fantasy films
18 June 2013
Village of the Damned 1960 REVIEW
3 July 2013
Sean Chapman actor, Hellraiser interview
31 July 2012
8 March 2020
7 Loch Ness Monster Films, Nessie on Screen
11 March 2026
television
Phantasm Collective Blends Mystical With Science
16 August 2024
8 October 2018
14 March 2016
The Charity Shop Poltergeist: Uncanny (S2, E2) TV REVIEW
8 February 2025
Shadows (S2, E2) Time Out Of Mind REVIEW
8 July 2022
Ghosts BBC Christmas Special 2020 REVIEW
9 December 2023
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Evil Fairies Bewitch Ploughman On Bennachie
18 May 2020
The Ying and Yang Of Scottish Fairy Queens
13 April 2016
Changelings Fairies: Dark Side of Irish Fairy Lore
27 July 2013
Illustrated Tales of Cornwall, John Husband INTERVIEW
3 September 2024
5 Scottish Death Customs You Never Knew Existed
24 February 2020
Dark history
Black Swine: Did Feral Pigs Live In London’s Sewers?
27 June 2024
Aleister Crowley, The Beast Of Boleskine House
16 June 2012
Terrifying Legend Of The Evil Black Vaughan
22 September 2015
Ghost Hunting with Richard III
4 February 2013
Discover Meg Shelton, the Witch of Woodplumpton’s spooky grave
2 November 2016
The Orkney Witch Memorial Plaque
21 February 2020
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
Ralph Noyes: An Authentic MoD Voice Amid UFO Controversies
29 November 2023
Neil Nixon: Why We Still Don’t Know the Truth About UFOs
16 September 2025
Flap Over Broad Haven UFO Encounters
23 August 2023
4 Sceptical Reasons Against Alien Abduction
21 June 2019
The Great Flying Saucer Hoax: How a 1967 Student Prank Fooled Britain
19 September 2025
The Mince Pie Martians And The Housewife
21 September 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?
2 July 2020
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW
1 January 2024
The Man-Monkey of Shropshire Union Canal
26 January 2022
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
The Dodleston Messages: A Mystery From The Beyond?
27 July 2022
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Busby Stoop, Thirsk’s Cursed Chair
1 February 2023
Meet Bill Ramsey, The Southend Werewolf
3 November 2022
