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The Forgotten Ghost of Windermere: How the Claife Crier Inspired a Novel
Guest Writer
21 July 2026
Halloween is coming!
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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Discover Halloween’s Scottish Origins
14 October 2014
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
Hop tu Naa: A Isle of Man Celebration
26 October 2023
Spooky Halloween Fun For The Whole Family
9 October 2022
ghosts & hauntings
Owlpen Manor, A Haunted Tudor Retreat
8 August 2025
Dover Castle’s Headless Drummer Boy and Other Phantoms
14 April 2023
Pluckley, England’s Most Haunted Village
15 February 2013
horror & fantasy films
16 October 2019
The Ghost and Mrs Muir 1947 REVIEW
17 August 2024
The Woman In Black 1989 Blu-Ray REVIEW
2 August 2020
The Genius of Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes
28 November 2025
Young Frankenstein 1974 REVIEW
9 September 2017
8 October 2014
television
The Haunting of Hollymount Farm: Uncanny (S2, E1) TV REVIEW
1 February 2025
The Tractate Middoth 2013 TV REVIEW
30 November 2023
The Demon Headmaster Keeps Us Spellbound!
9 May 2024
Thriller (S1, E3): Someone At The Top Of The Stairs REVIEW
11 December 2016
Remembering Christopher Lee’s Fireside Tales
12 June 2015
1 January 2023
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Discover Dark Truth Behind St Valentine, Patron Saint of Lovers!
14 February 2013
Green Children Of Woolpit Remains A Mystery
27 December 2012
What Happens in Newgrange on Winter Solstice?
21 December 2013
The Wrekin Giant Who Hated The People Of Shrewsbury
10 January 2017
Dark history
Ireland’s 7 Nastiest Witch Trials in History
31 October 2018
The Devil In The Derwent Valley
12 May 2023
Are these Jack the Ripper ghosts?
14 October 2015
Meet The Gypsy Queen of Norwood
5 September 2022
Abergavenny Massacre Leaves Welsh Market Town Red With Blood
12 October 2017
Martha Ray’s Grave in Elstree: A Georgian Murder Remembered
20 February 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
UFOs over England with Nigel Wright VIDEO
21 May 2020
The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire
13 June 2019
The Mince Pie Martians And The Housewife
21 September 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
What Is The Loch Ness Monster?
5 November 2014
Cryptid Worms: Legend and Lore
4 January 2019
Is Bolam Lake home to Northumberland’s Man-Beast?
29 September 2013
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Time Slips: What Is It and How Does It Happen?
29 November 2012
The Mysterious Locked Room Death of Thomas Farrant
7 January 2023
How Hypnosis Helped Me to See a Ghost
24 April 2012
Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?
21 April 2025
The Voice of Vrillon: A Hoax from Out of this World
15 June 2022
Precognition: I Saw House Fire Before It Happened
24 October 2023
