Browse paranormal books exploring strange experiences, unexplained phenomena and supernatural claims from across the UK and Ireland. The collection includes investigations, eyewitness accounts, regional studies and wider works on the paranormal.
612 books found
Cover unavailable30 Real Christmas Ghost Stories: True life experiences with ghosts and spirits at Christmas time
Wayland gathers thirty accounts of alleged ghosts and strange events linked with Christmas, drawing on archives from Britain and the United States. Stories include the Missouri Wild Man, a clanking apparition near London and haunted…
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Cover unavailable50 Real Ghost Stories 2: More terrifying real life encounters with ghosts and spirits
The second collection in Wayland’s series presents fifty further witness accounts of alleged ghosts and unusual experiences. Haunted hotels, shadowy figures, road encounters and disturbances in houses appear alongside stories associated with places such as…
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Cover unavailable50 Real Ghost Stories 3: Spirits in the Shadows
The third volume of Wayland’s series gathers fifty personal accounts of alleged supernatural encounters. Its settings include hotels, roads, theatres, historic sites and homes, with stories ranging from Northern Ireland to London. Reports associated with…
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Cover unavailable50 Real Ghost Stories: Terrifying Real Life Encounters with Ghosts and Spirits
MJ Wayland collects fifty accounts of experiences described by their witnesses as encounters with ghosts or spirits. Drawn from years of paranormal research, the stories range across homes, workplaces, roads and other everyday settings. The…
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Cover unavailable800 Years of Haunted Liverpool
800 Years of Haunted Liverpool gathers reported ghost stories and paranormal accounts from across the city and surrounding Merseyside. John Reppion arranges the material geographically, moving through North, South, East and Central Liverpool before widening…
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A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls
A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls examines reported cases involving dolls said to be haunted or cursed, placing famous names such as Robert, Annabelle and Peggy alongside lesser-known figures including Mandy and Okiku. Fiona Dodwell…
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Cover unavailableA Gallery of Ghosts
A Gallery of Ghosts brings together 19 documented accounts of reported paranormal experience, including apparitions, psychic encounters and three poltergeist cases. The anthology opens with an introductory dialogue involving Rosalind Heywood and draws on accounts…
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Cover unavailableA Ghost Hunter's Handbook
A Ghost Hunter’s Handbook is an introductory guide to investigating reported ghosts and hauntings, written for younger readers but suited to anyone beginning their own research. Peter Underwood sets out practical questions for witnesses, suggestions…
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Cover unavailableA Ghostly Almanac of Devon and Cornwall
Nicola Sly arranges reported ghost sightings and other paranormal accounts from Devon and Cornwall month by month. The stories range from apparitions in streets, buildings and churchyards to local legends attached to particular sites and…
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Cover unavailableA Haunted Experiment
A Haunted Experiment examines the origins, theories and practical use of four paranormal investigation methods. Penny Griffiths-Morgan looks beyond instructions for conducting experiments, asking who developed them, what inspired them and how their procedures have…
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Cover unavailableA Haunted Land: Ireland's Ghosts
Bob Curran’s book gathers Irish accounts of ghosts and hauntings, ranging from wraith-like apparitions to more solid, threatening figures. It considers reports associated with buildings, families and particular places, showing how spirits may be said…
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A Haunting in Harborne: A True Story of Fear, Family and Survival
Joanne Donaldson’s memoir recounts the frightening experiences her family says it endured in a Victorian home in Harborne during the 1970s and early 1980s. Told from personal memory and supported by recollections from others who…
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Cover unavailableA Host of Hauntings
A Host of Hauntings records Peter Underwood’s quarter-century of psychic investigation through reports of seances, unexplained voices, curious odours, mysterious noises and other alleged phenomena. The book presents these experiences as investigated accounts rather than…
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Cover unavailableA Manifestation of Monsters
A Manifestation of Monsters gathers reported mystery creatures, legendary beasts and contentious animals under the broad heading of “monster”. Karl P. N. Shuker ranges beyond conventional cryptozoology, bringing together accounts of Nessie, Bigfoot, the chupacabra,…
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A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof
Roger Clarke traces five centuries of Western ghost stories, reported sightings and attempts to establish whether spirits exist. The book considers how hauntings are shaped by the stories told about them, and asks what witnesses…
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Cover unavailableA Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the County of Monmouth and the Principality of Wales
Edmund Jones gathers reported apparitions from Monmouthshire and elsewhere in Wales, arranging much of the material by parish and locality. Accounts connected with Aberystruth, Bassaleg and other parts of the county sit alongside further Welsh…
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Cover unavailableA Wee Guide to the Haunted Castles of Scotland
A Wee Guide to the Haunted Castles of Scotland gathers reported hauntings and ghostly traditions associated with Scotland’s castles. Martin Coventry’s compact guide focuses on the stories attached to historic strongholds, from apparitions and lingering…
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Cover unavailableAbduction
Abduction examines more than 200 documented reports of alleged UFO kidnappings, treating them as claims requiring investigation rather than established encounters. Jenny Randles considers how such accounts have been recorded, interpreted and debated within UFO…
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Cover unavailableAberdeen's Haunted Heritage
Graeme Milne explores Aberdeen's haunted reputation through stories of ghosts, apparitions and unexplained events associated with the Granite City. Drawing on local history and paranormal tradition, the book brings together cases from buildings, streets and…
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Cover unavailableAbove Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up
Above Top Secret examines reported UFO incidents across several countries, concentrating on claims that governments and security agencies concealed information about them. Timothy Good brings together witness testimony, official reports, documentary material and photographic evidence,…
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Cover unavailableAdventures in Time: Encounters with the Past
Adventures in Time examines reports of retrocognition: experiences in which people appear to encounter scenes, surroundings or events belonging to the past. Andrew MacKenzie considers several direct accounts, including the celebrated 1901 Versailles incident, when…
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Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence for Life After Death
Colin Wilson examines claims that consciousness may survive bodily death, bringing together psychical research, case histories and arguments from psychology. The book considers near-death and out-of-body experiences alongside mediumship, apparitions, telepathy, precognition and reported communication…
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Cover unavailableAlien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth
Alien Base examines worldwide reports of encounters with alleged extraterrestrial beings, beginning in the early 20th century. Timothy Good considers accounts describing different kinds of visitors, arguing that reported appearances are more varied than familiar…
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Cover unavailableAlien Contact
Alien Contact presents Timothy Good’s investigation into alleged UFO sightings, encounters and contact between humans and extraterrestrial beings. Drawing on interviews with military, intelligence, scientific and aviation personnel, it examines claims about recovered spacecraft, alien…
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Cover unavailableAlien Contact: The First Fifty Years
Alien Contact: The First Fifty Years presents a chronological account of alleged alien contact from 1947 onwards, beginning with the Roswell Incident and tracing reported encounters across the following five decades. Jenny Randles considers how…
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Cover unavailableAlien Contact: Window on Another World
Alien Contact: Window on Another World centres on the Sunderland family, whose reported experiences took place in Deeside, North Wales. The account considers claims that several members of one family encountered something they understood as…
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Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience
Alien Dawn examines documented reports of UFO sightings and alleged contact experiences, while placing them alongside a wider range of anomalous claims. Colin Wilson considers poltergeists, lake monsters, ancient folklore and time slips, suggesting that…
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Alien Liaison
Alien Liaison examines claims that extraterrestrial spacecraft have landed or crashed on Earth, and that the United States government concealed recovered vehicles while attempting to reproduce their technology. Timothy Good builds his account around interviews…
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Alien Update
Alien Update gathers reported UFO sightings, alleged alien encounters and claims of government involvement from Britain and abroad. Timothy Good brings together accounts from an international field, including a large object seen over Montreal and…
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Aliens: The Real Story
Aliens: The Real Story examines reports of extraterrestrial beings, alleged contact experiences and accounts of abduction. Jenny Randles considers what such reports may indicate about life beyond Earth, while placing them within the wider history…
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Alone at the Inn
Alone at the Inn recounts Steve Higgins’s solo, overnight investigation of the Ancient Ram Inn in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, a building associated with longstanding reports of paranormal activity. The account follows the night’s vigils, observations and…
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Cover unavailableAnnisons
Annisons in Hull has served as a funeral parlour, police horse stable and photography business, on a site associated with the old North Blockhouse. Covell draws on more than a decade of research to investigate…
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Cover unavailableApparitions and Ghosts: A Modern Study
Andrew MacKenzie examines reported apparitions and ghosts through the methods and questions of modern psychical research. The subject is treated as a body of testimony requiring assessment, rather than as proof of supernatural survival, with…
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Cover unavailableAround Haunted Manchester
Around Haunted Manchester gathers source material on reported hauntings, legends and myths associated with locations within Manchester’s borders. Peter Portland includes accounts of the celebrated Hannah Beswick and the Grey Lady of Birchen Bower, placing…
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Cover unavailableArthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle examines the tension between the creator of Sherlock Holmes and the author’s later convictions about spiritualism and fairies. Dr Andrew Norman considers how a writer associated with logic and deduction came to…
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Cover unavailableAtlas of Paranormal Places
Atlas of Paranormal Places surveys more than 50 locations linked to ghost stories, witchcraft, sacred traditions, unexplained events and cryptid lore. Its worldwide selection ranges from the Chase Vault in Barbados and Charleville Castle in…
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Cover unavailableBeasts, Banshees and Bogeymen
Beasts, Banshees and Bogeymen gathers Tom Slemen’s accounts of reported supernatural encounters, folklore and sinister local legends from Liverpool and its surroundings. The stories range from named apparitions and uncanny beings to tales rooted in…
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Cover unavailableBecoming Peggy: My Paranormal Journey
Becoming Peggy: My Paranormal Journey is an autobiographical account of the experiences, interests and discoveries that shaped Penny Griffiths-Morgan’s work in paranormal investigation. Rather than presenting a sequence of haunted locations, it focuses on the…
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Cover unavailableBeer and Spirits: A Guide to Haunted Pubs in the Black Country and Surrounding Area
David Taylor and Andrew Homer explore the haunted pubs of the Black Country and neighbouring areas. Their guide combines the histories of licensed premises with stories of ghostly customers, mysterious sounds and other reported experiences.…
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Cover unavailableBehold! Shocking True Tales of Terror... and Some Other Spooky Stuff!
Rick Hale recounts the experiences that drew him into paranormal investigation, beginning with a childhood encounter at his grandmother's home. His memoir follows investigations of troubled households, reports of dark entities, visits to the Stanley…
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Cover unavailableBeyond North Edinburgh Nightmares
John S Tantalon returns to Edinburgh’s haunted streets in this follow-up to North Edinburgh Nightmares. The collection widens the map to include Leith, Portobello, South Queensferry and other parts of the city, gathering more local…
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Cover unavailableBeyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experiences
Beyond the Body examines reported out-of-the-body experiences through psychological investigation and psychical research. Susan Blackmore considers accounts in which people seem to perceive the world from outside their physical bodies, alongside claims about astral projection…
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Cover unavailableBeyond Top Secret
Beyond Top Secret examines reported UFO incidents alongside questions of military secrecy, intelligence work and national security. Timothy Good brings together accounts from Britain, the former Soviet Union, Argentina, Spain, China, Cuba and the United…
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Cover unavailableBlack Country Ghosts and Hauntings
Black Country Ghosts and Hauntings catalogues more than 150 reported haunted locations across the Black Country and surrounding parts of the West Midlands. Andrew Homer covers a broad range of sites, including houses, castles, pubs,…
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Cover unavailableBorley Postscript
Borley Postscript revisits the reported haunting of Borley Rectory in Essex, adding further material to Peter Underwood’s earlier account, The Ghosts of Borley. The book centres on the evidence, recollections and investigations associated with the…
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Cover unavailableBritain's Paranormal Forests
Peter A. McCue examines reported encounters in Britain’s woods and forests, including mysterious lights, strange animal sightings, ghostly experiences and UFO claims. The cases range from troubling reports in a Kentish wood to incidents associated…
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Cover unavailableBritain's Paranormal Forests: Encounters in the Woods
Peter McCue investigates reports of unusual experiences in Britain's forests and wooded places. The cases include apparitions, strange animals, UFO-related phenomena and other anomalies, with attention to both witness testimony and possible explanations.
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Cover unavailableBritain's X-traordinary Files
Britain's X-traordinary Files examines official British records relating to paranormal claims, unexplained incidents and persistent historical mysteries. David Clarke draws on files from The National Archives and other collections, including reports investigated by military intelligence,…
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