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 unavailableThe Beasts That Hide from Man
Karl P. N. Shuker examines reports of animals that remain unconfirmed, disputed or absent from conventional zoological records. The book ranges from Ireland’s dobhar-chú, described in tradition as a formidable otter, to Mongolia’s alleged death…
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Cover unavailableThe Black Monk of Pontefract
The Black Monk of Pontefract examines the reported poltergeist activity at 30 East Drive, Pontefract, where disturbances first emerged in 1966. Richard Estep sets the later investigation against the earlier history of the house, drawing…
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The Borley Rectory Companion
The Borley Rectory Companion traces the history of the Essex house from its construction in 1862 to the fire that destroyed it in 1939. Alongside the rectory’s changing occupants, the authors catalogue reported phenomena including…
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Cover unavailableThe Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions
The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions examines reports of alleged alien abduction, bringing together notable cases and episodes from the modern UFO record. Jenny Randles considers how these accounts have been described, investigated and…
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Cover unavailableThe Complete Book of Dowsing and Divining
The Complete Book of Dowsing and Divining examines the history, methods and disputed evidence surrounding dowsing, from traditional forked twigs and pendulums to divining rods, motorscopes and bare-handed techniques. Peter Underwood considers whether these practices…
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Cover unavailableThe Complete Book of UFOs
The Complete Book of UFOs surveys the modern history of reported UFO sightings, alleged alien contacts and abduction experiences. Jenny Randles considers how investigators assess witness testimony, photographs, radar records and claimed physical evidence, while…
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The Complete Book of UFOs surveys 50 years of reported UFO sightings, alleged alien contacts and attempts to investigate them. Jenny Randles places witness accounts alongside research methods, scientific questions and claims of physical evidence,…
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Cover unavailableThe Complete Visitor’s Guide to Loch Ness, Inverness and the Loch Ness Monster
Combining a visitor’s guide with an exploration of the Loch Ness Monster, Andy Owens introduces Loch Ness and nearby Inverness through both place and legend. The book joins practical regional material with the mystery that…
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Cover unavailableThe Cryptozoology Files
Reports of sea serpents, unusually large cats, giant squid and spectral or monstrous dogs form this survey of Hull and East Yorkshire’s animal mysteries. Covell combines archive research with visits to reported locations, tracing stories…
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Cover unavailableThe Derby Ghost Walk
Sheila Walsh and MJ Wayland guide readers through buildings and streets associated with Derby’s ghost stories. Accounts range from Roman Little Chester to tales of monks around Friargate, connecting the city’s history with reports of…
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Cover unavailableThe East Yorkshire UFO Files
This regional investigation surveys reports of unidentified aerial phenomena across East Yorkshire. Mike Covell draws on historical records and reported sightings to explore the area’s UFO history, extending the geographical scope of his earlier Hull…
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Cover unavailableThe Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals
The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals surveys reported zoological discoveries and rediscoveries from the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together documented species, animals once thought extinct and creatures known chiefly through cryptozoological accounts. It…
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Cover unavailableThe End of Borley Rectory
Harry Price’s sequel to The Most Haunted House in England assembles his account of reported disturbances at Borley Rectory, the Essex house associated with footsteps, moving objects, bell-ringing and the apparition of a nun. It…
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Cover unavailableThe Fanciful Nonsense of Dr Oliver Yewtree
A paranormal crime novel by Robert Radakovic, whose research and writing explore ghost stories and unexplained phenomena.
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Cover unavailableThe Flying Cow
The Flying Cow presents Guy Lyon Playfair’s investigations into reported psychic phenomena in Brazil, drawing on his involvement with the Brazilian Institute for Psychobiophysical Research. Its subjects include celebrated and controversial figures such as Chico…
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Cover unavailableThe Founders of Psychical Research
Alan Gauld’s study centres on Henry Sidgwick, Edmund Gurney and Frederic Myers, whose work helped shape the early Society for Psychical Research. It begins with modern Spiritualism in America between 1848 and 1855, follows its…
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Cover unavailableThe Geek's Guide to the Strange & Unusual: Poltergeists, Ghosts, and Demons
Rick E. Hale examines reported hauntings and unusual cases from around the world, with ghosts, poltergeists and demons at the centre of the collection. Written for a general audience, the book introduces paranormal accounts and…
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Cover unavailableThe Geller Effect
The Geller Effect combines Guy Lyon Playfair’s investigative account with Uri Geller’s own narrative of his career and claimed abilities. Its three-part structure follows Geller’s activities from around 1975, including work in Mexico, encounters involving…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghost Book
The Ghost Book: Strange Hauntings in Britain gathers reported encounters from across England and Scotland, arranged as a series of individual accounts rather than a continuous history. Its sections include “The Haunted Farmhouse” and “Haunted…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghost Files
Mike Covell examines reported hauntings in Hull’s shops, restaurants, hotels, theatres, factories and educational buildings. Each location is approached through its history as well as the supernatural stories associated with it. Contemporary records, timelines, activity…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghost Hunter's Almanac
The Ghost Hunter’s Almanac gathers reported hauntings from across the United Kingdom, arranged around the places associated with them. Its entries identify haunted properties, describe where apparitions were reportedly seen and consider the probable identity…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghost Hunter's Guide
The Ghost Hunter’s Guide presents ghost hunting as a practical investigation, beginning with different types of ghosts, hauntings and locations. Peter Underwood outlines methods for gathering evidence, using specialist equipment, photographing reported apparitions and recording…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghost Hunters
The Ghost Hunters profiles notable figures in psychical investigation, examining who they were, how they worked and what they concluded about reported hauntings. Peter Underwood considers ghost hunters from earlier periods alongside more recent investigators,…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghost Lab: Paranormal Meets Science
The Ghost Lab: Paranormal Meets Science examines how scientific concepts are applied to reports of ghosts and other paranormal experiences. Steve Higgins discusses the electromagnetic spectrum, instrumental transcommunication and electronic methods used in attempts to…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghosthunter's Guide to England
The Ghosthunter's Guide to England gathers reported hauntings from across the English counties, linking apparitions and other manifestations with the human stories attached to particular places. Its coverage includes ghosts, phantoms, poltergeists, black dogs and…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghosts of Borley
The Ghosts of Borley records the reported hauntings associated with Borley Rectory in Essex, tracing the case from the building’s origins in 1863. Peter Underwood follows the successive incumbencies of the Reverend Harry Bull, the…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghosts of Exeter
The Ghosts of Exeter gathers reported hauntings and ghost stories associated with the Devon city and its surrounding districts. Sally Barber and Chips Barber focus on local places where apparitions, lingering legends and other uncanny…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghosts of Soho: Tales of the Haunted Quarter and Its Restless Spirits
The Ghosts of Soho gathers legends, interviews, anecdotes and half-remembered tales from one of London’s most storied districts. Ima von Wenden approaches Soho through fieldwork, walking its streets, speaking with local people and recording the…
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Cover unavailableThe Good Ghost Guide
The Good Ghost Guide is a gazetteer of more than 1,000 reported hauntings, ghost sightings, legends and other unexplained phenomena across England, Scotland and Wales. John Brooks presents the material as a practical guide to…
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Cover unavailableThe Great Ghost Hunter
The Great Ghost Hunter gathers reported encounters and legends from Elliott O'Donnell’s long career as a writer and investigator of alleged hauntings. The collection draws on more than 60 years of personal investigations, bringing together…
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Cover unavailableThe Hag of the Dribble and Other True Ghosts
The Hag of the Dribble and Other True Ghosts gathers accounts presented as true hauntings from Elliott O'Donnell’s files, with its subject matter rooted chiefly in English ghost lore and demonology. The collection belongs to…
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Cover unavailableThe Hanging Pit: The Haunting of Bodmin Jail
Richard Estep’s The Hanging Pit examines Bodmin Jail in Cornwall, a former prison associated with more than 50 hangings and numerous reports of haunting. The book sets the site’s reputation against its history, including the…
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Cover unavailableThe Hangman, The Hound and Other Hauntings: A Gazetteer of Welsh Ghosts
Thomas Corum Caldas’s gazetteer gathers reported hauntings associated with places across Wales, organising its material by location rather than presenting a continuous regional history. Entries are arranged alphabetically within five sections covering pubs and hotels,…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted City
The Haunted City gathers supernatural stories linked to Liverpool, setting them alongside the city’s conventional history. Tom Slemen focuses on an overlooked strand of local storytelling, where reported hauntings, strange encounters and other paranormal incidents…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Homes of Hull
Mike Covell examines two centuries of reports about allegedly haunted homes across Hull. Victorian properties in the east and west of the city feature alongside the well-known house at 39 De Grey Street. Historical records,…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Inns
Hull’s pubs and inns supply the setting for this collection of haunting investigations. Mike Covell follows their changing histories through newspaper reports, archival records, maps and photographs, then considers the ghost stories attached to them.…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Ghosts and Legends of Wiltshire
Katy Jordan’s study brings together Wiltshire folklore, ghost reports and legends attached to the county’s landscape. Its subject matter includes local traditions, remembered supernatural encounters and stories whose meanings have shifted over time. Among the…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted North Two: Paranormal Tales from Aberdeen and the North East
The second Haunted North collection returns to Aberdeen and the surrounding region with further accounts from Graeme Milne’s investigations. Schools, community centres and public buildings feature among the locations examined. Witnesses describe apparitions, poltergeist disturbances…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted North: Paranormal Tales from Aberdeen and the North East
Graeme Milne collects paranormal tales from Aberdeen and the north-east of Scotland, ranging from haunted buildings and ghostly apparitions to local supernatural traditions. It is a regional survey of the stories and places that have…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Pub Guide
The Haunted Pub Guide records reported hauntings associated with pubs and other drinking establishments across Great Britain. Guy Lyon Playfair combines descriptions of the premises with background history, bringing together familiar older cases and more…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Realm
The Haunted Realm brings together Simon Marsden’s black-and-white photographs of British locations linked with ghost stories, witchcraft and other uncanny traditions. Its subjects include old houses, castles, ruins, graveyards and neglected sites where apparitions or…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Realms of Surrey and Hampshire
John S Tantalon turns his attention south to the haunted landscapes of Surrey and Hampshire. The collection brings together ghost stories, local legends and unsettling histories from places including Guildford, Farnham, Aldershot and the Isle…
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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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