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Margaret Docherty: the Halloween murder that exposed Burke and Hare

Paranormal

Why are Ghosts seen wearing Bedsheets?

Television

BBC confirms The Witch Farm release date

Theatre and Live Events

FEAR at Avon Valley 2026 REVIEW: braving Malefica alone

Film Reviews

Scream Blacula Scream (1973) REVIEW

Ghosts & Hauntings

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Mystery of the Gwydir Witch: Beyond Their Emerald Spires

Is Plas Mawr North Wales’ Most Haunted House?

Scariest Haunted Castles Of South West Scotland

Staffordshire’s Spookiest Ghost Sightings Of The Victorian Times

The Ghost Dog of Ward Nine, Challenger Lodge

Haunted Kirkstall Abbey: Leeds’ Ghostly Gem

Great Yarmouth: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Haunted Scotland’s 25 spookiest places to visit

Bedford: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Harlow Ghost Tour: Walk Among the Spirits of Essex

Beast of Killakee: Demonic Entity or Ghost?

Salford Hall Hotel, A Favourite Haunt of Ghosthunters In Warwickshire

Is 50 Berkeley Square, London’s Most Haunted House?

Bretforton, The Village of Grim Death

The Black Monk and Grey Lady of Belle Tout Lighthouse

Horror Films & Television

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Day Of The Triffids 1981 Blu-ray REVIEW

Guest Writer

Charlie Boy: Hammer House of Horror (Ep.6)

Andrew Garvey

The Changes 1975 RETROSPECTIVE

Simon Ball

Lust for a Vampire 1971 REVIEW

Stephen Mosley

Link 1986 REVIEW

Simon Ball

The Vampire Bat 1933 REVIEW

David Saunderson

Mary Reilly (1996) REVIEW

Ann Massey McElroy

The Ostrich Inn Most Haunted REVIEW

Patsy Sorenti

Souter Lighthouse, Most Haunted REVIEW

Christine Miller

Avebury Stones And The Red Lion: Most Haunted REVIEW

Andrew Homer

Moresby Hall: Most Haunted REVIEW

Christine Miller

7 Creepiest Female Characters In British Horror Film History

Paul Moynihan

Vincent Price in the UK Part 2: In The Country (1963-1973)

Peter Fuller

Werewolf of London 1935 REVIEW

Andrew Garvey

Thriller (S6, E3): Nightmare For A Nightingale REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Folklore

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Folklore

Why Do We Celebrate Boxing Day?

Folklore

A Goblin Funeral and the Rotting Remains of Extwistle Hall

Folklore True Crime

Blackpool’s Horrible Flaherty Sisters and Their Trail of Blood!

Folklore Literature

David Copperfield and other amazing caulbearers in fiction

Folklore

St Werburgh: The Goose-Taming Saint of Chester

Dark History Folklore

What are the Arthur’s Seat Coffins?

Esoteric Arts Folklore

11 Common British Garden Plants and How To Use Them in Magic and Folklore

Folklore Dark History

Hungry Grass tells horrific tales of the Irish Famine

Folklore

The Wizard of West Bow

Superstitions

Fire-gazing Folklore: A Guide Seeing Through The Flames

Folklore

Hooden Horse Folklore of East Kent

Folklore

Celebrating St John’s Eve in England

Dark History

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Dark History

13 Creepy Edinburgh Facts You Didn’t Know

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Bloody Horrors at St Mary’s Church Hendon

Dark History Ghosts and Hauntings

The Many Hauntings Of Dame Alice Lisle

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Holy Trinity Church, The Bone Crypt of Rothwell

Dark History Esoteric Arts

Who was Susan Willis Fletcher, Convicted Spiritualist Fraud?

True Crime

Edward Pritchard, the Poisoning Philanderer

Cemeteries and Burial Places

The Overcrowded Afterlife

Dark History

Jennet Device, The Child Witch Who Killed The Pendle Witches

Dark History

400th Anniversary of Pendle Witch Trials

True Crime

The Killing of Annie Chapman

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Scottish Bodysnatchers: A Gazetteer by Geoff Holder BOOK REVIEW

Dark History Folklore

Callanish Stones: Legends and Visiting Calanais

Paranormal

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Ghosts and Hauntings

Brentwood, Essex: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Ghosts and Hauntings

Dering Wood: From Ghostly Legends to a Paranormal Hoax

Paranormal Research

Why I Believe in the Enfield Poltergeist

Mysterious Phenomena

The Magnus Archives Episode 1: Anglerfish REVIEW

Ghosts and Hauntings

Chelmsford: Top 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Paranormal Research

Rosalie and the séance that spooked Harry Price

Ghosts and Hauntings

Haunted Powis Castle’s Spooky Secrets

Ghosts and Hauntings Haunted Hotels and Pubs

Gravestones And Ghosts at George And Dragon Pub, Shipley

Esoteric Arts Folklore

Poppet Magic, A Magical Guide

Ghosts and Hauntings

Enniscorthy, Ireland’s Most Chilling Poltergeist Tale

Ghosts and Hauntings Paranormal Research

Haunted Bolling Hall: Exploring its Ghostly Past

Ghosts and Hauntings

England’s Top 5 Haunted Railway Stations

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