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Old Scarlett, Peterborough’s Spookiest Gravedigger

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Nicholas Vince on Hellraiser, Nightbreed, and the Monsters Within

I Am Monsters! Nicholas Vince Interview

17 March 2025

The Ghost's Chance, Millionth Chance, aka Jay Hollis

Jay Hollis: Bringing Ghostly Tales to Life Through Music

15 March 2025

St Johns Bridge Kilkenny

Top 10 Ireland Haunted Bridges

14 March 2025

The well-preserved hand of the Old Croghan Man, one of Ireland's most famous bog bodies.

The Horrific Truth of Ireland’s Bog Bodies

14 March 2025

The Blood Worm Moon

The Blood Worm Moon, A Celestial Celebration

13 March 2025

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Edinburgh Haunted Theatres and the Ghosts That Linger

12 March 2025

Lantern Men of Norfolk Broads

The Lantern Men: Norfolk Broads’ Haunting Lights

11 March 2025

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

10 March 2025

GHOST & HAUNTINGS >

Ghosts and Hauntings

Royal Tunbridge Wells: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Nia Jones - 19 March 20150

NIA JONES checks out five of Royal Tunbridge Wells’s spookiest places…

Is the Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh’s scariest haunted pub?

6 October 2023

Isle of Man’s 10 Scariest Haunted Places to Visit

27 August 2023

Bruce Castle Park, Tottenham’s haunted mansion

4 August 2023

While staying at Churston Court Hotel, you can enjoy the sun and surf of the beautiful Devon coastline.

Is Churston Court Hotel, Devon’s most haunted hotel?

6 October 2023

Haunted Castles

Haunted Pubs

Haunted Hotels

HORROR & FANTASY FILMS >

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1912 Full Film VIDEO

15 July 2023

Frankenstein Created Woman 1967

Frankenstein Created Woman 1967 REVIEW

25 July 2023

Blood for Dracula 1974 aka Andy Warhol's Dracula 1974

Blood for Dracula 1974 REVIEW

22 July 2023

The Nightcomers 1971 REVIEW

30 October 2023

TELEVISION >

Armchair Thriller (S2, originally untransmitted): The Chelsea Murders REVIEW

1 March 2025

Emily’s Room: Uncanny (S2, E4) TV REVIEW

1 March 2025

Ripper Street: Victorian Shadows and Haunted Detectives

14 September 2024

The Voice of Vrillon: A Hoax from Out of this World

4 August 2023

Lockwood and Co

Lockwood and Co: Episode 1 REVIEW

16 March 2024

Exploring British Halloween TV Specials

1 November 2023

GHOST HUNTING

PARANORMAL REALITY TV

ESOTERIC ARTS

FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION >

The Blood Worm Moon

The Blood Worm Moon, A Celestial Celebration

14 March 2025

Lantern Men of Norfolk Broads

The Lantern Men: Norfolk Broads’ Haunting Lights

10 March 2025

Giant Ram of Derby’s Horrible Origins Revealed!

4 August 2023

Discover Easter’s Pagan Roots: The Story of Eostre

5 September 2023

Avebury Stones in Wiltshire

Avebury Stone Circles And Their Ancient Mysteries

6 October 2023

The Welsh Corpse Candles of St David

1 March 2023

DARK HISTORY >

Images from Peterborough of Old Scarlett, the cathedral's famous gravedigger.

Old Scarlett, Peterborough’s Spookiest Gravedigger

2 February 2025

The well-preserved hand of the Old Croghan Man, one of Ireland's most famous bog bodies.

The Horrific Truth of Ireland’s Bog Bodies

26 January 2025

Jemmy Whitehat Witch Doctor of Heywood

Jemmy Whitehat: Witch Doctor of Heywood

1 November 2024

Chewing Gum Grave

The Warning of the ‘Chewing Gum’ Grave

29 October 2024

Hatchet Inn: Blackbeard and Ghosts in Bristol’s Oldest Pub

11 November 2024

Image of Woodvale Cemetery in Brighton

Woodvale Cemetery: Victorian Beauty and Crowley’s Final Farewell

8 October 2024

LITERATURE >

The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham

The Magician: W. Somerset Maugham’s Lost Horror Classic

18 January 2025

7 Chilling Victorian Ghost Stories Perfect for Christmas

7 Chilling Victorian Ghost Stories Perfect for Christmas

24 December 2024

The Hampstead Horror: Hunting Dracula in NW3

13 July 2023

Irish horro and ghost story writer Sheridan Le Fanu

Sheridan Le Fanu’s Ireland: 11 Historic Places to Visit

3 August 2023

Human Skin Covered Books

Human skin covered books, the real story

20 February 2023

The Unheimlich Manoeuvre by Tracy Fahey BOOK REVIEW

15 January 2023

Dracula

Frankenstein

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

UFOS & ALIENS >

Paranormal The Village That Saw Aliens

Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens TV REVIEW

8 July 2024

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine's Island

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island

19 April 2024

The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire

4 February 2024

Did Ancient UFOs Commit Alien Abductions in England in 664AD?

4 August 2023

5 Unexplained UFO Sightings in London

9 March 2023

The Night Reg Presley Told Me About Crop Circles And Alien...

23 September 2023

CRYPTOZOOLOGY >

Beast of Bodmin Moor

The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?

10 November 2024

Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent

15 November 2024

Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire

30 August 2023

Loch Ness They Created A Monster

Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW

1 January 2024

Elliott O'Donnell Bigfoot

Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?

8 August 2023

Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death

19 February 2023

MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA >

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

9 March 2025

Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament

5 January 2025

How Hypnosis Helped Me to See a Ghost

4 August 2023

Haworth Old Hall

Did I Live In Haworth During A Past Life?

4 August 2023

An artist's impression of what might have happened to Thomas Farrant

The Mysterious Locked Room Death of Thomas Farrant

5 January 2023

The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery

The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery

27 October 2023

EDITOR'S PICKS

Film Reviews

The Limehouse Golem 2016 REVIEW

Andrew Garvey - 15 October 20190

The Limehouse Golem 2016 reviewed by ANDREW GARVEY

White Lady Of Oystermouth Castle, Wales

28 July 2014

Ghost Hunting in the Black Country and Beyond with Andrew Homer

Ghost Hunting in the Black Country and Beyond

20 September 2023

Is the Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh’s scariest haunted pub?

15 October 2018

Christmas Carole 2022

Christmas Carole 2022 TV REVIEW

9 December 2023

Macabre Notions by Aaron White BOOK REVIEW

31 July 2017

Peter Capaldi in Martin's Close 2019

Martin’s Close 2019 TV REVIEW

20 December 2023

Mummy’s Curse, Howard Carter and one scared Norfolk copper

9 March 2017

Haunted St Andrews, the home of ghosts … not just golf!

20 August 2015

Most Haunted

Paranormal Reality TV

The Manor House Restaurant, Most Haunted (S4, E12) REVIEW

Joanna Hague - 16 November 2023 0

Speak As Ye Choose BBC Ghosts

Television

Speak As Ye Choose: Ghosts BBC (S4, E2) REVIEW

Gemma Johnson - 4 December 2024 0

Salvation Z

Featured

Salvation Z: Hell comes to Gloucester Prison

Guest Writer - 25 October 2024 1

Wicca Journey

Folklore

A Year of Transformation: Embracing Wicca

Les Hewitt - 2 March 2024 0

A History of Horror Guided Tour

Horror and Fantasy Films

A History of Horror Guided Walk, INTERVIEW

Spooky Isles Team - 27 July 2024 0

Not Again Ghosts BBC

Television

Not Again: Ghosts BBC (S4, E6) REVIEW

Gemma Johnson - 1 January 2025 0

Reading Haunted Places

Ghosts and Hauntings

Reading: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Spooky Isles Team - 25 August 2024 0

Overton Bridge Dog Suicides

Mysterious Phenomena

Mysterious Overtoun Bridge Where Scottish Dogs Go To Die

MJ Steel Collins - 22 March 2015 0

Nicholas Vince on Hellraiser, Nightbreed, and the Monsters Within

Horror and Fantasy Films

I Am Monsters! Nicholas Vince Interview

William Bove - 17 March 2025 0

Love At First Bite 1979

Film Reviews

Love At First Bite 1979 REVIEW

William Bove - 2 November 2024 0

Buxton Postcard

Ghosts and Hauntings

Buxton: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Spooky Isles Team - 8 September 2024 0

Berrington Hall

Ghosts and Hauntings

Spectral Splendour of Haunted Berrington Hall

Spooky Isles Team - 13 September 2023 0

Mr Nightingale, Supernatural

Television

Mr Nightingale, Supernatural 1977 (Ep4)

Richard Markworth - 11 September 2023 1

Scrooge McDuck in Mickey's Christmas Carol 1983

Film Reviews

Mickey’s Christmas Carol 1983 REVIEW

David Saunderson - 19 December 2024 0

A Muppet Christmas Carol 1992

Film Reviews

A Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 REVIEW

Christine Miller - 1 December 2023 1

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Alloa Tower

Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament

Spooky Isles Team - 21 February 2025 0

Alloa Tower, one of Scotland’s most historic tower houses, harbours a chilling curse that has haunted the Erskine family for centuries

Bournemouth: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

19 May 2015

You’ll Find Out 1940 REVIEW

7 November 2023

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

23 May 2023

Ireland’s Fairy Forts and the Curse of Tara

17 May 2014

Leap Castle: All You Need To Know About Ireland’s Most Haunted...

12 January 2018

Haunted Camberwell

Haunted Camberwell, A Spooky Journey Into South London

26 December 2019

Liverpool Pyramid William McKenzie

The Strange Liverpool Pyramid of William McKenzie

5 June 2012

Lord Crewe Arms Hotel: Beware its classic ghostly Monk haunting!

11 December 2018

PARANORMAL

Flitwick Manor Hotel

Ghosts and Hauntings

Guide to Haunted Flitwick Manor, over a century of ghostly scares

Rick Hale - 19 June 2019 2

DARK HISTORY

Welcome 19

Dark History

What Happened On Friday the 13th July, 1894?

Andrew Garvey - 13 July 2014 2

HORROR FILMS

Cherry Tree Lane 2010

Film Reviews

Cherry Tree Lane 2010 REVIEW

Kate Ingleby-Parylo - 8 January 2023 0

FILM REVIEWS >

The Asphyx 1972

The Asphyx 1972 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones - 20 October 2013 0

The Asphyx 1972 is an endearing mix of Brit-horror and period costume drama, says RICHARD PHILLIPS-JONES

Rawhead Rex 1986 REVIEW

24 July 2012

The Last Showing 2014

The Last Showing 2014 REVIEW

24 February 2015

The Wicker Tree 2011

The Wicker Tree 2011 REVIEW

18 July 2012

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors 1965 REVIEW

31 March 2013

The Limehouse Golem 2016 REVIEW

15 October 2019

Captain Clegg Poster

Captain Clegg 1962 REVIEW

13 November 2013

Dracula Prince of Darkness 1966 REVIEW

4 August 2012

Cry of the Banshee 1970 REVIEW

8 May 2014

FOLKLORE

butterfly superstitions

Superstitions

Butterfly Superstitions: Symbolism and Meanings

Spooky Isles Team - 12 April 2023 0

ESOTERIC ARTS

Citrine

Esoteric Arts

Citrine: Harness the Energy of Joy and Abundance

Spooky Isles Team - 29 March 2024 0

HORROR FILMS

Kiss of the Vampire

Film Reviews

Kiss of the Vampire 1963 REVIEW

Charles E. Butler - 4 November 2012 2

Hooray! Ripper Street Has Been Saved!

Welcome 24

Exploring The Devil Rides Out Film Versus Book

The Devil's Glen is in County WIcklow, Ireland.

Top 10 Strange Ireland Place Names

Devil Doll 1964

Devil Doll 1964 REVIEW

Ghosts and horror haunt Cornwall’s Kennall Vale

Flitwick Manor Hotel

Guide to Haunted Flitwick Manor, over a century of ghostly scares

Yew Tree

10 Spooky Facts About Yew Trees

Irish Paranormal Investigations at work

Irish Paranormal Investigations, Ghost Hunting in Haunted Ireland

Schalcken the Painter

Schalcken the Painter 1979 BBC TV REVIEW

Welcome 26

Electrickety! 10 Catweazle Facts You Didn’t Know

Walter Raleigh Ghost

Sir Walter Raleigh’s Ghost Still Roams England

A Christmas Carol 2000

A Christmas Carol 2000 REVIEW

Welcome 27

The Karloff Compendium by Stephen Jacobs BOOK REVIEW

The Wheatsheaf Pub

Psychic Uncovers Horror At The Wheatsheaf Pub

Dracula

20 Creepy Facts About Dracula

The Uninvited 1944

The Uninvited 1944 REVIEW

St Valentine Relic

Saint Valentine, Heartbreak and Haunting in Ireland

The Family Ness

Lochs Of Fun With The Family Ness

Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light

Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light REVIEW

The Rufus Stone, a memorial to King William II, in New Forest

Mystery of the Rufus Stone, New Forest

Pete the Cardiff Poltergeist Plays Havoc With Repair Shop

Royal Hop Pole Hotel Tewkesbury

Tewkesbury’s Spookiest Ghosts and Hauntings

Vincent Price in Witchfinder General 1968

Witchfinder General 1968: 20 Shocking Facts You Never Knew!

Enniscorthy Poltergeist

Enniscorthy, Ireland’s Most Chilling Poltergeist Tale

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham: The Man Who Mummified Himself

10 Mum and Dad 2008 facts you didn’t know!

British Werewolf Music

British Werewolves in Music

Welcome 30

When the Lights Went Out 2012 REVIEW

Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle in Shropshire

The Legend of Mitchell’s Fold Stone Circle

Locked In 2023

Locked In 2023 REVIEW

Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper

6 Times Sherlock Holmes Met Jack the Ripper

Curse is a blessing with Peter Cushing in Hammer's original Frankenstein

Grotbags Christmas

Have A Grotty Grotbags Christmas!

Horrors of the Black Museum 1959 REVIEW

Welcome 33

Henry Bertram Starr, The Case Of The Blackpool Ripper

X The Unknown 1956 Review

Hanbury Hall

Hanbury Hall and the Ghost of Emma Vernon

Zircon

Zircon: Discover the Power of Spiritual Growth and Mental Clarity

Welcome 35

Ghosts And Heartbreak At Bilborough Estate House

England’s North-East Coast: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Great Missenden

Four Friends Go Ghost Hunting In Great Missenden

Straight On Til Morning 1972

Straight On Till Morning 1972 REVIEW

Shaun Hutson's The Revenge Of Frankenstein

The Revenge Of Frankenstein 2013 BOOK REVIEW

Welcome 37

Witchcraft And Ghosts At Tredegar House, Wales

Vincent Price and Peter Cushing in Madhouse 1974

Madhouse 1974 REVIEW

Libraries in the London Borough of Lambeth have some very special connections to horror literature and the supernatural, says guest writer DAVID TURNBULL

Lambeth’s Fantastical Trinity of Specialist Libraries

RAF Museum Colindale Hendon

Ghosts of RAF Air Museum, London

Phantasm Collective

Phantasm Collective Blends Mystical With Science

Howl 2015

Howl 2015 REVIEW

London Bridge

Keeper of the Heads: London Bridge’s Grim Custodian

Meet Bwbachod, the Welsh goblin

Nandor Fodor and The Talking Mongoose

Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose 2023 REVIEW

Thriller (S1, E4): An Echo Of Theresa (1973) REVIEW

Brooks Country House Has Luxury With Plenty of Ghosts!

Welcome 40

Witch of Saratoga, Northampton’s Forgotten Magickal Emigrant

Top 10 Kills From The Omen Films

Brede Place

Spooky Mysteries Surround Brede Place, East Sussex

Dunrobin Castle

Dunrobin Castle: Scotland’s Most Haunting Love Story

Welcome 41

What Lurks At The Written Stone, Longridge?

The Snarling

The Snarling Mixes Laughs With Old School Horror

Captain Clegg Poster

Captain Clegg 1962 REVIEW

Carlisle

Carlisle: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Paul Adams and David Saunderson interview David Farrant

Vale David Farrant, a tribute for a psychic and friend OBITUARY

George C Scott as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol 1984

A Christmas Carol 1984 TV Review: Being a Ghost Story of...

Welcome 42

The Ice House 1978 REVIEW

Scotland Witchcraft Apology

Scotland Apologises for Historic Witchcraft Trials and Executions

Samhain: A New Witch's Perspective

Samhain: A New Witch’s Perspective

Welcome 43

3 Scariest Buckinghamshire Churches

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 REVIEW

Clairvoyant eye

The Power of Clairvoyance: Unlocking the Power Within

Derek Acorah

Derek Acorah, TV Psychic Medium, Dies Aged 69

Dumfries And Galloway: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Child Possession

Shocking Child Demonic Possession Cases in Medieval England

The Book of Beasts

The Book of Beasts: Examining Nigel Kneale’s 1970s Horror Masterpiece

Irish Demonologist Gavin Canavan Interview

Eye of the Devil 1966 REVIEW

Welcome 46

Dr Jekyll goes Looney Tunes! Jekyll and Hyde in cartoons

Welcome 47

Bloodbath at the House of Death 1984 REVIEW

Welcome 48

Lizard’s Leg and Owlet’s Wing: Route 66 with Karloff, Lorre &...

Welcome 49

Stocksbridge Bypass, England’s most haunted highway

The old Queen Pub in Camberwell

Haunted Camberwell’s Top 5 Creepiest Ghost Stories

The Loney

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley BOOK REVIEW

Outpost 2008 REVIEW

Bridget Cleary and Ireland’s Last Witch Burning

Ravenspark Asylum

Ravenspark Asylum: Is it Scotland’s most haunted hospital?

Lofus Hall in County Wexford is one of Ireland's most haunted places to visit

Back In Time Paranormal’s Favourite Irish Haunting

Blackwater Castle in County Cork

5 Spooky Reasons to Stay in Blackwater Castle, County Cork

Rochdale Postcard

Rochdale: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Denbigh Castle

Denbigh Castle Haunts Welsh Landscape

Varney the Vampire

Varney the Vampire: The world’s first vampiric hero

The Burning Girls TV series

The Burning Girls TV REVIEW

Great British Ghosts

The New Inn and Chavenage House: Great British Ghosts (S1, E2)

Welcome 51

My Fairy Pilgrimage

Dorabella Supernatural

Dorabella, Supernatural 1977 (E8)

Scottish Ghosthunting

My 5 Top Scottish Ghosthunting Spots

Stranglers of Bombay 1959

The Stranglers of Bombay 1959 REVIEW

John Christie

John Christie: The 10 Rillington Place Murders

Huntington Castle

Carlow’s Haunted Huntington Castle

The Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury

Old Bell Hotel Malmesbury Haunted By Supernatural Forces That Won’t Budge

Alanbrooke-Hall Belfast

Alanbrooke Hall, Belfast’s Uncanny Haunting

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