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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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Spooky Isles Halloween Radio Show 2021
26 October 2021
Halloween Monsters Crawl Out From Real Irish Folklore
6 October 2017
Dark Origins of Halloween: The Night The Dead Haunts The Living
29 October 2012
ghosts & hauntings
The Haunting of Ham House, Richmond
3 May 2013
Ghosts of the North East by Rob Kirkup BOOK REVIEW
15 August 2025
A Family Visit To Cornwall’s Haunted Jamaica Inn
19 July 2015
The Ash Grove Poltergeist: Leeds’ Forgotten Paranormal Mystery
24 September 2025
The Enfield Haunting Shapes Paranormal History
19 August 2024
horror & fantasy films
5 November 2025
23 January 2013
7 Spooky Disney Films Inspired by British and Irish Legends
7 October 2024
1 October 2015
2 April 2022
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1969 REVIEW
27 July 2013
television
Children of the Stones: Essential Episode Guide
10 October 2018
Shadows (S1, E3) The Witch’s Bottle REVIEW
29 January 2022
Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Most Haunted REVIEW
12 March 2018
Ordsall Hall Most Haunted REVIEW
28 March 2015
A Lot to Take In: Ghosts BBC (S3, E2) REVIEW
18 September 2024
100 Years of BBC Horrors: Auntie’s Dark Corners!
23 October 2022
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Black Dog of Newgate: A Phantom Prisoner’s Revenge?
29 April 2023
Mugwort: 9 Traditional Uses and Superstitions You Must Know
18 September 2023
17 Things You Didn’t Know About Saint Patrick
16 March 2015
22 May 2012
What is a Caulbearer and Why is it Spooky?
27 September 2018
Dark history
Witch Hunt Horror: Jane Wenham’s Shocking Tale
28 August 2024
County Limerick: 13 Creepy Facts You Didn’t Know
7 November 2017
The Tyburn Tree: London’s Most Infamous Gallows
3 March 2023
Gibbeted: The Last Live Gibbeting in England
20 July 2013
The Phantoms of Hollingworth Lake
3 May 2026
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
Winston Churchill WW2 UFO coverup exposed!
17 June 2019
UFOs over England with Nigel Wright VIDEO
21 May 2020
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51
27 July 2019
4 Sceptical Reasons Against Alien Abduction
21 June 2019
UK Beginners Guide to UFOs VIDEO
28 September 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Cornish Owlman: Everything you need to know
2 January 2019
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?
2 July 2020
Loch Ness Monster Mania – 1933-style
18 May 2012
Yeth Hounds and Alien Big Cats VIDEO
7 June 2020
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Eilean Mor’s Empty Lighthouse Mystery
13 July 2014
The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell
21 November 2023
Chasing Nightmares: The Horror of Sleep Paralysis
26 March 2024
28 October 2022
Why Do Mystics, Misfits and Madmen Fascinate Us?
21 October 2023
Are Time Slips Caused by Paranormal Memory Tampering?
23 August 2023
