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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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Dudley Castle’s Halloween Anniversary Ghost
7 October 2022
Spooky Isles Halloween Radio Show 2021
26 October 2021
Dark Origins of Halloween: The Night The Dead Haunts The Living
29 October 2012
Nos Galan Gaeaf, Halloween in Wales’ Strangest Customs
5 October 2023
ghosts & hauntings
British Museum Ghosts: An Insider’s Guide To Its Hauntings
10 October 2019
Is This A Photograph Of Fort William’s Ghost?
15 July 2014
Derby’s Saddest Ghost: Hangman John Crossland
22 June 2013
Southampton: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
28 March 2015
Blennerville Windmill, A Paranormal Investigation
14 March 2022
horror & fantasy films
Frankenstein Created Woman 1967 REVIEW
11 July 2013
Michael Ripper, A Hammer Horror Mainstay
5 August 2017
28 October 2025
30 May 2012
The Wicker Tree: Robin Hardy’s Underrated Sequel
26 September 2023
television
Thriller (S4, E2): Nurse Will Make It Better REVIEW
24 January 2021
Ordsall Hall Most Haunted REVIEW
28 March 2015
Friday Night Frights, Horror on 1980s TV
16 May 2014
Dracula BBC 2020 Complete Episode Guide
15 January 2020
Thriller (S2, E2): Once The Killing Starts REVIEW
16 November 2019
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
17 Things You Didn’t Know About Saint Patrick
16 March 2015
Britain’s Strangest Food Superstitions
7 July 2019
The Trickster Fox in British Folklore
1 October 2022
6 Magical St Patrick Places to Visit
17 March 2015
6 Strangest Beings From Scottish Highland Folklore
8 October 2015
30 April 2012
Dark history
Aberdeen Witch Trials Frenzy Sparks Terror
4 August 2024
Molly Leigh, the Burslem Witch, or Was She?
22 December 2012
‘Naming Jack the Ripper’ doesn’t prove Jack
14 September 2014
Jack the Ripper’s Secret Confession BOOK REVIEW
14 May 2012
Last Sunday in August is Eyam’s Plague Sunday
31 August 2014
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
The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire
13 June 2019
7 Strangest Ireland UFO Sightings
19 February 2020
Flap Over Broad Haven UFO Encounters
23 August 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
Adventures in Cryptozoology: Interview with Richard Freeman
24 September 2019
Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?
2 July 2020
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?
25 October 2017
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
What were the Death Tokens of Wales?
23 January 2013
Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen
9 September 2024
Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Real?
16 February 2015
Eilean Mor’s Empty Lighthouse Mystery
13 July 2014
