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Halloween is coming!
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2 November 2025
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Halloween Monsters Crawl Out From Real Irish Folklore
6 October 2017
Edinburgh’s Top 5 Haunted Places to Visit at Halloween
21 January 2013
Spooky Isles Halloween Playlist 2019
27 October 2019
ghosts & hauntings
Ghostly Castle of Mey and the Queen Mother
8 September 2023
Bristol: 5 Haunted Places To Visit
16 February 2015
Salmesbury Hall Ghost, A Classic Haunting Tale Of Tragic Love Lost
26 November 2017
The Cloisters: Letchworth’s Hidden Spirits
14 September 2025
horror & fantasy films
13 Greatest Donald Pleasence Horror Films
10 October 2024
Christmas Carole 2022 TV REVIEW
9 December 2023
Top 10 Greatest British Folk Horror Films
10 July 2019
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 REVIEW
11 August 2013
Dracula Dead And Loving It 1995 REVIEW
2 August 2024
21 April 2014
television
6 December 2023
The Tractate Middoth: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
23 December 2017
Ghosts Christmas Special 2023 REVIEW
26 December 2023
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
16 December 2015
British Flowers: Superstition and Folklore
11 June 2021
Goblins In British Folklore: Myths And Mischief
10 March 2023
Visit to Ireland’s National Leprechaun Museum
29 October 2013
Hop tu Naa: A Isle of Man Celebration
26 October 2023
Teanlay Night: A Fylde Coast Halloween
4 October 2023
Dark history
The Slaughter of Sacrist Downie
10 January 2013
Jack to the Future: Jack the Ripper goes Sci-Fi
6 November 2013
Massacre at Dún an Óir, Ireland’s Fortress of Gold
15 September 2018
Warstone Lane Cemetery’s Unquiet Inhabitants
25 July 2021
Jennet Device: Whatever Happened To The Pendle Witch Child?
31 August 2017
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
Flap Over Broad Haven UFO Encounters
23 August 2023
Charles Jevington’s Mysterious Journey to the Stars
13 August 2022
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
12 September 2025
Weirdest England UFO Encounters from History
31 March 2019
The Mince Pie Martians And The Housewife
21 September 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Where Have Alien Big Cat Been Spotted In Wales?
21 June 2019
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster
28 November 2020
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
The Mysterious Angel of the Thames
23 July 2013
Eilean Mor’s Empty Lighthouse Mystery
13 July 2014
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
The Voice of Vrillon: A Hoax from Out of this World
15 June 2022
Ley Lines in the British Isles: Your Essential Guide
27 October 2021
1 March 2022
