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Television

Tales of Frankenstein (1958) REVIEW

Folklore

The fairy abduction of Anne Jeffries of St Teath

Ghosts and Hauntings

First Ghosts: From ancient civilisations to Britain

Theatre and Live Events

Dracula: A feminist revenge fantasy, really – Rochdale REVIEW

Literature

The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes BOOK REVIEW

Ghosts & Hauntings

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Ireland’s 7 Most Haunted and Mysterious Islands

The Ghost of Gressenhall, Norfolk

Haunted Camberwell’s Top 5 Creepiest Ghost Stories

Bexley’s Haunted Hall Place Creaks With Ghosts!

The Ostrich Inn: Berkshire’s Most Supernatural Pub

Ghost Stories in Luton: Hauntings and Chilling Legends

Imber: Abandoned Ghost Town of Wiltshire

Tewkesbury’s Spookiest Ghosts and Hauntings

Elvey Farm Country Hotel: Pluckley’s Haunted Rooms

Shankill Castle: Murder, Ghosts and Mystery

Burnley: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Trerice Manor, Ghostly Tales Of Evil Lords And Headless Horsemen

The Phantom London Bus: Unravelling An Urban Legend

Skeletons behind the walls: 10 secrets of Britain’s haunted houses and castles

Ghostly Spirits Linger at Old Silent Inn

Horror Films & Television

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The Mummy’s Shroud 1967 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

The Haunting 1963 REVIEW

Jon Kaneko-James

Top 5 Creepy Kids ITV shows

Richard Phillips-Jones

The Last Man on Earth 1964: 15 things you didn’t know!

Peter Fuller

Top 5 Spaced Horror Film References

James Williams

100 Years of BBC Horrors: Auntie’s Dark Corners!

Richard Phillips-Jones

28 Days Later: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

Kayleigh Marie Edwards

Trog 1970 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Lust for a Vampire 1971 REVIEW

Stephen Mosley

Schalcken the Painter 1979 BBC TV REVIEW

Simon Ball

Dracula Dead And Loving It 1995 REVIEW

William Bove

The Legend Of Hell House 1973 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

10 Best Ghost-Hunting Films for Halloween Night

Spooky Isles

Count Magnus BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas TV REVIEW

Richard Markworth

Dominique 1979 aka Dominique is Dead REVIEW

Andrew Garvey

Folklore

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Mysterious Creatures

Irish Vampires Before Dracula: From Dearg Due to Le Fanu’s Carmilla

Folklore

Ireland’s Fairy Forts and the Curse of Tara

Mysterious Creatures

Black Shuck and Demon Dogs

Folklore

Navan Fort, County Armagh: 7 Supernatural Reasons to Visit!

Folklore Paranormal

Top 10 Most Disturbing Welsh Folk Legends

Folklore

The Wizard of Gordonstoun

Folklore Music

10 Dark Ireland Folk Songs About Ghosts and Death

Cryptozoology Folklore

10 Loch Ness Monster Facts You Didn’t Know

Folklore

Lady Day, The Forgotten 25 March Date Britain Once Feared

Folklore

The Devil’s Breath: Lincoln Cathedral’s Sinister Legend of St Anne’s Well

Folklore

10 Anglo-Saxon Gods You Never Knew Existed

Folklore

Ireland’s Biddy Early, Wise Woman or Witch?

Dark History

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Dark History

Aberglasney Gardens: Beware the Corpse Candles

Dark History Literature

The Day Agatha Christie Disappeared: A Real-Life Mystery

Dark History

Curse of the Paisley Witches

True Crime

Mary Jane Kelly, Jack the Ripper’s Final Victim

Dark History

Jennet Preston, The Pendle Witch of Yorkshire

True Crime

8 Scottish serial killers who shocked the world

Dark History

Who Were The Golden Dawn, Britain’s Most Famous Occultists?

Dark History

13 Creepy Facts about Sawney Bean, the Scottish Cannibal

Dark History

Grissel Jaffray, Dundee’s Last Witch Burning

Dark History True Crime

Dr Crippen’s Strange Legacy

True Crime

Edward Pritchard, the Poisoning Philanderer

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Scottish Bodysnatchers: A Gazetteer by Geoff Holder BOOK REVIEW

Paranormal

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Ghosts and Hauntings Paranormal Research

Does Tantallon Castle Photo Prove Ghosts Are Real?

Paranormal Research

Irish Demonologist Gavin Canavan Interview

Ghosts and Hauntings

Tewkesbury’s Spookiest Ghosts and Hauntings

Ghosts and Hauntings Haunted Hotels and Pubs

New Lowndes Arms, Whaddon’s Haunted Village Pub

Ghosts and Hauntings

Aldershot’s Chilling Hauntings Revealed

Esoteric Arts

Madame Blavatsky in London: The Woman Who Reshaped the Occult

Ghosts and Hauntings

Wartime Ghosts of St Catherine’s Lighthouse, Isle of Wight

Paranormal Research

Belfast ghost stories that will make you cry

Ghosts and Hauntings Haunted Hotels and Pubs

Haunted Portrait Watches Over The Three Swans Hotel

Ghosts and Hauntings

County Donegal: Haunted Places to Visit

Ghosts and Hauntings

Camberwell’s Machete-Wielding, Pram-Pushing Ghost

Film Reviews Paranormal Research

Borley Rectory film, an animated ghostly delight, say paranormal experts

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