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Lincoln Ghost Walk: the stories that still unsettle a guide

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Margaret Docherty: the Halloween murder that exposed Burke and Hare

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Why are Ghosts seen wearing Bedsheets?

Television

BBC confirms The Witch Farm release date

Theatre and Live Events

FEAR at Avon Valley 2026 REVIEW: braving Malefica alone

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Ghost Hunting with Richard III

Chorley, Lancashire: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Dunrobin Castle: Scotland’s Most Haunting Love Story

The Possession Of Richard Dugdale, The Surey Demoniac

5 Most Haunted Milton Keynes Pubs

Balnagown Castle, Haunted Estate Once Owned By Mohamed Al-Fayed

Ye Olde Cock Tavern: A guide to Fleet Street’s most haunted pub

Tore House: Where Fire Met Fairy Folklore in Haunted Westmeath

Cumbria: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Hitchin, Hertfordshire: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Real UK Roman Ghost Sightings You Can Visit Today

Chesterfield: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Daniel Dunglas Home, The World-Famous Scottish Seer

Peg Entwistle, The Welsh Woman Who Haunts The Hollywood Sign

Old Bull And Bush: A Traditional London Pub Full of Ghosts!

Horror Films & Television

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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1953 REVIEW

David Saunderson

Doctor Jekyll 2023 REVIEW

David Saunderson

The Cottage 2008 REVIEW

Gemma Johnson

What Big Eyes: Beasts REVIEW

Chris Newton

House of the Long Shadows 1983 REVIEW

Terry Sherwood

Most Haunted Episode Guide

Spooky Isles

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes 1963 REVIEW

Peter Fuller

Top 10 She Monsters in British Horror

Richard Phillips-Jones

Rasputin the Mad Monk 1966 REVIEW

Adam Scovell

I Don’t Want To Be Born 1975 REVIEW

Peter Fuller

Wake Wood 2011 REVIEW

Katie Doherty

Murders In The Zoo 1933 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Stigma 1977 TV REVIEW

Richard Markworth

Alan Frank on Peter Cushing

David Saunderson

A Reluctant Vampire: Episode 2 REVIEW

Gemma Johnson

Folklore

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Folklore

Michaelmas Traditions: Supernatural Marks Autumn’s Arrival

Folklore

Visit to Ireland’s National Leprechaun Museum

Folklore

Whispering Mysteries of the Rollright Stones

Folklore

Crooked Spire: The Devil in Derbyshire

Folklore

Hooden Horse Folklore of East Kent

Folklore Music

10 Dark Ireland Folk Songs About Ghosts and Death

Folklore

Teanlay Night: A Fylde Coast Halloween

Superstitions

How To Protect Against The Evil Eye

Folklore

The Folklore of Night-Time Sounds and the Haunting of Buckinghamshire, Part 1

Folklore

Beaghmore Stone Circles: 7 Reasons to Visit

Folklore Superstitions

Bats Folklore and Superstition: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

Mysterious Creatures

Scottish Mermaid Real Life Tales

Dark History

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Dark History True Crime

Liverpool’s Black Widows: A Dubious Tradition

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Gruesome Tales of Friars Bush Graveyard

Dark History

Simon of Sudbury, a Canterbury Tale of Ghosts and Murder

Dark History

Last Sunday in August is Eyam’s Plague Sunday

True Crime

Did Jack the Ripper Write The Dear Boss Letter?

Dark History

Guy Fawkes Night: 10 Things You Need to Know

Dark History Ghosts and Hauntings

Jeremy Bentham: The Man Who Mummified Himself

True Crime

Why Did Jack the Ripper Stop Killing?

Dark History

Post Mortem Photography: My hobby is collecting photos of dead people

True Crime

Edward Pritchard, the Poisoning Philanderer

Cemeteries and Burial Places Ghosts and Hauntings

Dark Legends Of Betty’s Grave, Gloucestershire

Cemeteries and Burial Places Folklore

Meet Isle of Man Vampire, Matthew Hassal

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Ghosts wander Wardour Castle and its haunted forest

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The Moaning Workman of Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse

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Cornwall: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Paranormal Research

My First Epping Forest Ghost Hunt

Ghosts and Hauntings

Beware Blue Bell Hill’s Phantom Hitchhiker

Paranormal Research

Hull’s 10 Craziest Ghostly Myths And Legends Debunked!

Ghosts and Hauntings

Haunted Balgonie Castle in Fife, Scotland

Ghosts and Hauntings

England’s Scariest Poltergeist Hauntings

Ghosts and Hauntings

The Other Mary Celestes: Spooky Maritime Mysteries

Ghosts and Hauntings

Was The Cheltenham Poltergeist The Real ‘Woman In Black’?

Dark History Ghosts and Hauntings

5 Spooky Reasons to Stay in Blackwater Castle, County Cork

Paranormal Research

5 Things You Should Never Do On A Halloween Ghost Hunt

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