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Who is the Little Girl Ghost of Chester’s Queen Hotel?
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13 July 2026
Halloween is coming!
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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Exploring British Halloween TV Specials
2 October 2023
Halloween Monsters Crawl Out From Real Irish Folklore
6 October 2017
Top Creepy British TV Shows for Halloween
22 October 2023
Inside Number 9: ‘Dead Line’ Live Halloween Special 2018 REVIEW
29 October 2018
ghosts & hauntings
Rochester: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
11 July 2023
The Lighthouse Ghoul of Perch Rock, New Brighton
1 October 2025
Aston Hall, Birminghan’s Haunted Jacobean Mansion
14 February 2025
Peckham: Top 5 Haunted Places To Visit
22 August 2015
horror & fantasy films
20 June 2013
Quatermass and the Pit 1967 REVIEW
9 July 2012
The Haunting of Helen Walker 1995 REVIEW
28 September 2023
Nightbreed 1990 The Cabal Cut REVIEW
8 September 2012
Scrapbook memories of horrors past
23 March 2012
television
Shadows (S2, E2) Time Out Of Mind REVIEW
8 July 2022
Bram Stoker’s Dublin Childhood: Folklore, Illness and Horror
17 September 2025
Exploring British Halloween TV Specials
2 October 2023
Is Rupert Everett the most underrated Sherlock Holmes?
23 March 2016
Thriller (series 1, episode 9): The Eyes Have It (1973) REVIEW
23 February 2017
Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW
1 January 2024
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Hooden Horse Folklore of East Kent
17 February 2026
Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween
27 October 2024
Dark history
Mary Pannell, The Witch Haunting Of Ledston Hall
12 October 2023
8 strange things you never knew about Mummies!
24 May 2012
The Warning of the ‘Chewing Gum’ Grave
28 October 2024
Bartlow Hills, the Pyramids of Essex
23 April 2025
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
UK Beginners Guide to UFOs VIDEO
28 September 2023
High Wycombe UFO: The Tale of William Robert Loosley
29 September 2023
Attacked by a UFO: The Robert Taylor Incident
19 October 2019
4 Sceptical Reasons Against Alien Abduction
21 June 2019
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51
27 July 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
St Columba And the Loch Ness Monster
8 November 2014
What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?
25 October 2017
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster
28 November 2020
Yeth Hounds and Alien Big Cats VIDEO
7 June 2020
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
The Mysterious Locked Room Death of Thomas Farrant
7 January 2023
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Time Slips: What Is It and How Does It Happen?
29 November 2012
The Supernatural Side of Stonehenge
19 October 2023
Who was Gef the Talking Mongoose?
17 April 2014
Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?
21 April 2025
