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.
111 books found
Cover unavailableThe Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts
Owen Davies traces how ghosts have been perceived, encountered and discussed from the medieval period to the present. Rather than assembling a catalogue of famous hauntings, he examines the social settings in which apparitions are…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunting of Alma Fielding
The Haunting of Alma Fielding reconstructs a reported 1938 poltergeist case in suburban Croydon, where crockery and eggs were said to fly, jewellery appeared on Alma’s fingers, and white mice emerged from her handbag. The…
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The Haunting of Borley Rectory: The Story of a Ghost Story
Sean O’Connor recounts the reported haunting of Borley Rectory in Essex, beginning with Eric and Mabel Smith’s arrival in 1928 and the disturbing incidents they described. A skull found in a cupboard, unexplained movements, strange…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunting of Cashen's Gap
The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap records Harry Price and R. S. Lambert’s investigation of Gef, the alleged talking mongoose reported at an isolated farmhouse on the Isle of Man. The case centred on the Irving…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunting of Willington Mill
The Haunting of Willington Mill reconstructs the nineteenth-century reports surrounding a mill and mill house near Wallsend, where witnesses described unexplained noises, apparitions and poltergeist activity. The accounts include disturbances associated with the Procter family…
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Cover unavailableThe Heyday of Mental Mediumship 1880s-1930s
Alan Gauld examines the period from the 1880s to the 1930s, when mental mediumship became a sustained subject of investigation in Britain, Europe and the United States. The book follows the development of organised psychical…
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Cover unavailableThe Hidden Powers of Animals
The Hidden Powers of Animals examines the remarkable abilities and behaviour of creatures ranging from insects and amphibians to birds, mammals and marine life. Karl P. N. Shuker considers how animals sense, communicate, navigate and…
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Cover unavailableThe History & Mystery of Parapsychology
The History & Mystery of Parapsychology surveys extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, hauntings and near-death experiences through their historical, scientific and psychological contexts. Steve Higgins considers how researchers have investigated claims of telepathy, mind over matter and…
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Cover unavailableThe Humber Monster
This investigation traces reports of the Humber Monster from accounts in the 1920s and 1930s to later sightings and renewed public attention. Covell follows witnesses and searches along the Humber Estuary and Yorkshire coast, examining…
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Cover unavailableThe Indefinite Boundary
The Indefinite Boundary examines the relationship between matter and spirit through Guy Lyon Playfair’s review of evidence for psychic phenomena. The book considers claims that appear to challenge a strictly material explanation of human experience,…
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Cover unavailableThe Journal of a Ghosthunter
The Journal of a Ghosthunter follows Simon Marsden on a year-long search for reported supernatural sites, beginning in southern Ireland and travelling through the British Isles, France and Germany to Transylvania. Castles, palaces and ruins…
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Cover unavailableThe Killamarsh Poltergeist
The Killamarsh Poltergeist recounts Hazel and Gary Price’s reported experiences in an ordinary home in Killamarsh, North East Derbyshire. The disturbances began in 2012, when they returned to find their dining room disrupted: fruit had…
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Cover unavailableThe Little Book of Ghosts
Paul Adams gathers reported ghost stories and traditions from a broad range of settings, including haunted houses and castles, churches, roads, woods and byways. The book also considers phantom animals, royal ghosts, poltergeists and objects…
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Cover unavailableThe Little Book of the Paranormal
Rupert Matthews surveys reported paranormal phenomena including UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot and other claims that remain outside accepted scientific explanation. Rather than concentrating on one type of encounter, the book assembles a broad selection of subjects…
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Cover unavailableThe Lost Ark: New and Rediscovered Animals of the Twentieth Century
The Lost Ark surveys animals discovered or rediscovered by zoologists during the 20th century, bringing together species from mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and invertebrates. Karl P. N. Shuker considers how creatures once unknown to modern…
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Cover unavailableThe Midnight Hearse, and More Ghosts
The Midnight Hearse, and More Ghosts gathers reported apparitions, legends and supernatural traditions from Britain and the wider British Isles. Elliott O'Donnell includes phantom buses, trains and an aeroplane, alongside accounts of haunted churches and…
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Cover unavailableThe Most Haunted House in England
Harry Price’s account centres on Borley Rectory in Essex, a Victorian parsonage surrounded by reports of footsteps, moving objects, phantom coach sounds and a spectral nun. The book traces the building’s history and gathers testimony…
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Cover unavailableThe Mystery Animals of the Northern Isles
Glen Vaudrey examines reports of mystery animals associated with Scotland’s Northern Isles, placing cryptozoological claims alongside local folklore and questions about what may remain undiscovered. The book considers accounts of animals known only from limited…
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Cover unavailableThe Mystery Animals of the Western Isles
The Western Isles provide the setting for accounts of sea serpents, dragons, monsters, ghostly animals and other creatures preserved in local tradition or reported by witnesses. Glen Vaudrey considers what lies behind these stories, including…
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Cover unavailableThe New Zoo: New and Rediscovered Animals of the Twentieth Century
The New Zoo surveys animals discovered or rediscovered during the 20th century, bringing together recognised species and creatures whose status remains disputed. Karl P. N. Shuker covers mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, invertebrates and other groups,…
View book details →The Old Cowes Ghost Trail
The Old Cowes Ghost Trail gathers reported ghost stories and haunting traditions associated with Old Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. Its tightly local focus places the book within the island’s wider tradition of collecting…
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Cover unavailableThe Original Ghosts of the Isle of Wight
The Original Ghosts of the Isle of Wight collects reported apparitions and haunting stories gathered by local writer Gay Baldwin. Presented as first-hand accounts, the book records the island’s supernatural lore through stories attached to…
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Cover unavailableThe Paranormal Articles
This collection gathers Mike Covell’s writing on hauntings, ghost legends, unusual animals, UFO reports and darker episodes of history. It also examines how he chooses subjects and develops articles for newspapers, magazines and blogs. Together,…
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Cover unavailableThe Paranormal Encyclopaedia
The Paranormal Encyclopaedia gathers definitions and discussions of more than 200 subjects associated with paranormal belief and investigation. Steve Higgins covers ghosts, UFOs, cryptids, psychic phenomena and parapsychology, providing an accessible reference to the terms,…
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Cover unavailableThe Paranormal Investigator
The Paranormal Investigator recounts Danny Moss’s 15 years working in the paranormal, from his beginnings in ghost hunting to investigations that helped shape his career. Moss discusses the realities behind the public image of paranormal…
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Cover unavailableThe Paranormal Press
Covell brings together newspaper accounts of alleged ghosts and hauntings in Hull between 1800 and 2018. The transcribed reports are accompanied by historical background, family research, maps and photographs. Cases range from early haunted-house reports…
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Cover unavailableThe Paranormal Source Book
The Paranormal Source Book surveys reported paranormal phenomena and cases across a broad range of subjects, from ghosts and poltergeists to UFOs, alien abductions and crop circles. Jenny Randles also covers ESP, precognition, dreams, out-of-body…
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Cover unavailableThe Penguin Book of Ghosts
The Penguin Book of Ghosts gathers reported hauntings and ghost lore from across England, arranged county by county and place by place. Its accounts include the malevolent apparition associated with 50 Berkeley Square, the tapping…
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Cover unavailableThe Pennine UFO Mystery
The Pennine UFO Mystery investigates a reported wave of UFO activity across Northern England, concentrating on events around Todmorden and the wider Pennine region. Jenny Randles begins with the death of Zigmund Adamski, whose body…
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Cover unavailableThe Police and the Paranormal
Andy Owens collects reports from police officers who say they encountered phenomena they could not readily explain. The book considers the tension between their professional role as observers and the risk of ridicule when describing…
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Cover unavailableThe Poltergeist Casebook
John West reviews notable poltergeist cases, drawing together historical records, witnesses’ accounts and later investigations. The selection includes Cock Lane, Epworth, Enfield, the Black Monk of Pontefract and the Bell Witch. Alongside descriptions of alleged…
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Cover unavailableThe Poltergeist Prince of London
The Poltergeist Prince of London recounts the reported haunting that began in 1956 at the Hitchings family home in Battersea. The disturbances started with an unidentified silver key on Shirley Hitchings’ bed, followed by tapping…
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Cover unavailableThe Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
Sam Knight’s book recounts the story of John Barker, a British psychiatrist whose interest in clairvoyance led him to establish a Premonitions Bureau with Evening Standard science editor Peter Fairley. Their project followed reports that…
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Cover unavailableThe Psychic Detectives
The Psychic Detectives examines psychometry, the claimed ability to obtain impressions from objects linked with people, places or events. Colin Wilson places this practice within the broader history of psychical research, considering how psychic perception…
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Cover unavailableThe Realm of Ghosts
The Realm of Ghosts traces ghost lore and reported hauntings from ancient societies to the recent past, placing apparitions within a long history of belief. Eric Maple considers the traditions of primitive and pagan peoples,…
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Cover unavailableThe Science of Weird Shit
The Science of Weird Shit examines paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences through the lens of anomalistic psychology. Chris French considers ghostly encounters, communication with the dead, alien abduction, reincarnation and UFO sightings, alongside out-of-body and…
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Cover unavailableThe Scole Report
The Scole Report records an investigation into a mediumistic group holding séances in a private house in Scole, Norfolk. David Fontana, Montague Keen and Arthur Ellison describe sittings conducted between 1995 and 1997, detailing reported…
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Cover unavailableThe Screaming Skulls, and Other Ghost Stories
The Screaming Skulls, and Other Ghost Stories gathers purportedly true ghost tales alongside traditional legends collected under Elliott O'Donnell's name. Its accounts describe apparitions, haunted houses, creeping hands, vengeful phantoms and tortured wraiths, with several…
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Cover unavailableThe Search for Harry Price
The Search for Harry Price is a critical biography of the British psychical researcher and public ghost investigator Harry Price, who died in 1948. Trevor H. Hall examines Price’s background, career and published claims, questioning…
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Cover unavailableThe Seen and the Unseen
The Seen and the Unseen examines reported presences, apparitions and other experiences gathered under the broad heading of psychical research. Its 30 chapters are arranged in five sections, beginning with sensed presences and moving through…
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Cover unavailableThe Sixth Sense
Sixth Sense: Psychic Powers and Your Five Senses examines claims of psychic ability alongside the ordinary sensory faculties used in everyday life. Jenny Randles considers how experiences described as extrasensory perception might relate to seeing,…
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Cover unavailableThe South Shields Poltergeist
The South Shields Poltergeist documents a reported outbreak of disturbing activity in a South Shields family home between 2005 and 2006. Darren W. Ritson and Michael J. Hallowell investigate claims that objects moved without explanation,…
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Cover unavailableThe South Shields Poltergeist: One Family's Fight Against an Invisible Intruder
The South Shields Poltergeist recounts a reported haunting that began in 2005, when a young family in South Shields noticed doors opening, chairs moving and their son’s toys behaving violently. The disturbances escalated to scratches,…
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Cover unavailableThe Strange but True Casebook
The Strange but True Casebook gathers reported paranormal cases associated with the ITV series Strange But True? Its subjects range across reincarnation, UFO sightings, poltergeist activity, miracle healers and psychic detectives, bringing together accounts presented…
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Cover unavailableThe Supernatural
Rupert Matthews surveys a range of reported psychical phenomena, introducing claims and beliefs that have long surrounded the supernatural. The book covers extrasensory perception, reincarnation, foretelling the future, dowsing and levitation, presenting these subjects in…
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Cover unavailableThe UFO Conspiracy
The UFO Conspiracy: The First Forty Years surveys the modern UFO story from the flying-saucer reports of 1947 to the official and public debates of 1987. Jenny Randles covers landmark claims including Roswell, sightings over…
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Cover unavailableThe UFO Files
Hull’s reported aerial mysteries are examined from 1801 to 2018 through witness accounts, newspaper material and official records. Topics include early airship scares, a reported 1967 landing, mass sightings in the 1970s and the Hull…
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Cover unavailableThe UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings
The UFO Files traces more than a century of British reports of unexplained objects and lights, using accounts preserved in Ministry of Defence records. David Clarke follows the changing language and official response surrounding aerial…
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