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5 scariest Grey Lady ghosts that’ll give you the shivers!

Grey lady ghosts are known throughout the British Isles. RICK HALE presents five of the most intriguing ones...

Three Crowns Hotel, Dartmoor, and its Cavalier Ghost

The Three Crowns Hotel in Devon is a charming haunted house in Devon, the perfect place for a spooky stay, says RICK HALE

Drury Lane Theatre Most Haunted Episode REVIEW

Derby Gaol Most Haunted Episode REVIEW

Charleville Forest Castle Most Haunted REVIEW

Souter Lighthouse Most Haunted REVIEW

Horror Films

Memory (2019), new documentary essential viewing for any Alien fan

LORCAN MAGUIRE reviews Memory, a new film delving into what made Alien (1979) a classic of the sci-fi horror genre

Horror Films

Hammer Horror’s Top 5 Greatest Monsters List

Monsters were essential to Hammer horror. Guest writer ELLIOT CHAPMAN picks his favourites from the studio's lists of classic films...

Asylum (1972) and The House That Dripped Blood (1970) Blu-ray Review

Freddie Jones, an actor and national treasure, OBITUARY

Top 10 greatest British folk horror films

Hammer Horror’s Mummy Films, we rank them!

Strange History

Witch of Saratoga, Northampton’s forgotten magickal emigrant

Angeline Tubbs left England in 1761 and became the infamous Witch of Saratoga, writes JJ MERRYWEATHER

Strange History

Two Doctors and the Human Candle: A Case of Spontaneous Human Combustion?

DR FIONA-JANE BROWN looks at a strange case of a woman mysteriously burning to death in Aberdeen, Scotland... was it Spontaneous Human Combustion?

Alien Big Cat sightings in Wales

5 Creepy Abandoned London Underground Stations

Ireland’s Top 10 Strangest Place Names

Who were the Witches of Belvoir?

Folklore

Gurning Man of Glasgow Mystery: Fact of Fiction?

Gurning Man is a Glasgow urban legend that may well have been invented by the internet. MJ STEEL COLLINS looks at whether there's any truth in the legend.

Folklore

Secret Devil’s Standing Stones in Marston Moretaine

MELISSA ELBORN follows in the Devil’s footsteps in Bedfordshire village, Marston Moretaine.

Top 10 scariest Banshee appearances in Ireland

Britain’s strangest food-related superstitions

The Corpse Bird: A guide to Welsh Owl Folklore

England’s 6 most terrifying historic vampire cases

True Crime

Acid Bath Murderer: Walk in John Haigh’s bloody footsteps

PETULA MITCHELL describes how the trial of Acid Bath murderer John Haigh affected her West Sussex home town in the 1940s

True Crime

Ratcliff Highway Murders: Historic Killings Revealed

The Ratcliff Highway Murders are the most horrific London crimes you've probably never heard of, TREVOR BOND says.

10 brutal murders that shocked London

Mary Jane Kelly, the 130th anniversary of her death – Jack the Ripper VIDEO

13 Jack the Ripper locations the tour guides won’t show you!

30 September 1888: Jack the Ripper ‘Double Event’ Murder – 130th Anniversary VIDEO

Television

Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape, the TV show changed paranormal research

The legacy of The Stone Tape, a classic 1970s BBC supernatural thriller by Nigel Kneale, continues to be felt, says MATTHEW E BANKS

Paranormal, Television

Ghostwatch, the birth of paranormal reality TV

Ghostwatch terrified 10-year-old MJ STEEL COLLINS back in 1992. She now looks back on the groundbreaking paranormal TV special.

Inside Number 9: ‘Dead Line’ Live Halloween Special 2018 REVIEW

Children of the Stones: Essential Episode Guide

Top 5 Creepy Kids ITV shows

Welcome to the real Devil’s End, as seen in Doctor Who: The Daemons

Books, Horror Films

10 ways David Pinner’s Ritual may have inspired The Wicker Man (1973)

BARRY McCANN analyses David Pinner's 1967 Novel, Ritual, to see how it may have inspired horror film classic, The Wicker Man in 1973!

Books

Dracul (2018) by Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker BOOK REVIEW

DR KAJA FRANCK reviews Dracul (2018), by Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker, a worthy prequel to the greatest vampire novel of all…

Return to the Stones brings us back to Milbury BOOK REVIEW

Real-life M.R. James locations every fan must visit

M R James’ The Tractate Middoth: Just Who was Doctor Rant?

Why we love Dracula: From monster to sex symbol

UFOs/Aliens

Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51

Berwyn Mountains in Wales was central to a 1970s UFO coverup, similar to the Area 51 conspiracy, says RICK HALE

UFOs/Aliens

Unearthly force tests Cold War allies over 1950s Suffolk

The Bentwaters-Lakenheath Incident saw a UFO appear to US and Royal Airforce personnel over England in 1956, RICK HALE reports...

Why is the Falkirk Triangle, Scotland’s UFO capital?

5 Unexplained UFO sightings in London

4 sceptical reasons against Alien Abduction

Winston Churchill versus The UFOs: WW2 coverup exposed!

Paranormal

5 scariest Grey Lady ghosts that’ll give you the shivers!

Grey lady ghosts are known throughout the British Isles. RICK HALE presents five of the most intriguing ones...

Horror Films

Memory (2019), new documentary essential viewing for any Alien fan

LORCAN MAGUIRE reviews Memory, a new film delving into what made Alien (1979) a classic of the sci-fi horror genre

Paranormal

Three Crowns Hotel, Dartmoor, and its Cavalier Ghost

The Three Crowns Hotel in Devon is a charming haunted house in Devon, the perfect place for a spooky stay, says RICK HALE

Paranormal

Drury Lane Theatre Most Haunted Episode REVIEW

CHRISTINE MILLER takes a look back at Most Haunted: Drury Lane Theatre

Paranormal

Derby Gaol Most Haunted Episode REVIEW

CHRISTINE MILLER takes a look back at Most Haunted: Derby Gaol

Paranormal

Charleville Forest Castle Most Haunted REVIEW

CHRISTINE MILLER looks back on Most Haunted: Charleville Forest Castle

Paranormal

Souter Lighthouse Most Haunted REVIEW

CHRISTINE MILLER takes a look back at Most Haunted: Souter Lighthouse

True Crime

Acid Bath Murderer: Walk in John Haigh’s bloody footsteps

PETULA MITCHELL describes how the trial of Acid Bath murderer John Haigh affected her West Sussex home town in the 1940s

Paranormal

Back in Time Paranormal’s Favourite Irish Haunting

NATALIE FOWLER PHELAN talks to Back in Time Paranormal Team about their favourite haunting in Ireland to investigate

Paranormal

Haunted Fisherman’s Cot, home to good and evil spirits

Fisherman's Cot in Devon is haunted with spirits of unknown origin, says RICK HALE

Paranormal

Middlesex’s haunted heaths and woods along River Crane

PATSY SORENTI takes us on a tour along the Haunted River Crane with its ghostly highwaymen and other restless spirits

UFOs/Aliens

Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51

Berwyn Mountains in Wales was central to a 1970s UFO coverup, similar to the Area 51 conspiracy, says RICK HALE

5 scariest Grey Lady ghosts that’ll give you the shivers!

Three Crowns Hotel, Dartmoor, and its Cavalier Ghost

Drury Lane Theatre Most Haunted Episode REVIEW

Derby Gaol Most Haunted Episode REVIEW

Charleville Forest Castle Most Haunted REVIEW

Souter Lighthouse Most Haunted REVIEW

Memory (2019), new documentary essential viewing for any Alien fan

Hammer Horror’s Top 5 Greatest Monsters List

Asylum (1972) and The House That Dripped Blood (1970) Blu-ray Review

Freddie Jones, an actor and national treasure, OBITUARY

Top 10 greatest British folk horror films

Hammer Horror’s Mummy Films, we rank them!

Witch of Saratoga, Northampton’s forgotten magickal emigrant

Two Doctors and the Human Candle: A Case of Spontaneous Human Combustion?

Alien Big Cat sightings in Wales

5 Creepy Abandoned London Underground Stations

Ireland’s Top 10 Strangest Place Names

Who were the Witches of Belvoir?

Gurning Man of Glasgow Mystery: Fact of Fiction?

Secret Devil’s Standing Stones in Marston Moretaine

Top 10 scariest Banshee appearances in Ireland

Britain’s strangest food-related superstitions

The Corpse Bird: A guide to Welsh Owl Folklore

England’s 6 most terrifying historic vampire cases

Acid Bath Murderer: Walk in John Haigh’s bloody footsteps

Ratcliff Highway Murders: Historic Killings Revealed

10 brutal murders that shocked London

Mary Jane Kelly, the 130th anniversary of her death – Jack the Ripper VIDEO

13 Jack the Ripper locations the tour guides won’t show you!

30 September 1888: Jack the Ripper ‘Double Event’ Murder – 130th Anniversary VIDEO

Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape, the TV show changed paranormal research

Ghostwatch, the birth of paranormal reality TV

Inside Number 9: ‘Dead Line’ Live Halloween Special 2018 REVIEW

Children of the Stones: Essential Episode Guide

Top 5 Creepy Kids ITV shows

Welcome to the real Devil’s End, as seen in Doctor Who: The Daemons

10 ways David Pinner’s Ritual may have inspired The Wicker Man (1973)

Dracul (2018) by Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker BOOK REVIEW

Return to the Stones brings us back to Milbury BOOK REVIEW

Real-life M.R. James locations every fan must visit

M R James’ The Tractate Middoth: Just Who was Doctor Rant?

Why we love Dracula: From monster to sex symbol

Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51

Unearthly force tests Cold War allies over 1950s Suffolk

Why is the Falkirk Triangle, Scotland’s UFO capital?

5 Unexplained UFO sightings in London

4 sceptical reasons against Alien Abduction

Winston Churchill versus The UFOs: WW2 coverup exposed!

5 scariest Grey Lady ghosts that’ll give you the shivers!

Memory (2019), new documentary essential viewing for any Alien fan

Three Crowns Hotel, Dartmoor, and its Cavalier Ghost

Drury Lane Theatre Most Haunted Episode REVIEW

Derby Gaol Most Haunted Episode REVIEW

Charleville Forest Castle Most Haunted REVIEW

Souter Lighthouse Most Haunted REVIEW

Acid Bath Murderer: Walk in John Haigh’s bloody footsteps

Back in Time Paranormal’s Favourite Irish Haunting

Haunted Fisherman’s Cot, home to good and evil spirits

Middlesex’s haunted heaths and woods along River Crane

Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51

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