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 unavailableThey Walk At Night: Real British Ghost Stories
This collection surveys British ghost stories, uncanny legends and places with supernatural reputations. Wayland considers black-eyed children, screaming skulls, haunted Oxford colleges, a phantom ship and stories from the Scottish Borders. Brief accounts are accompanied…
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Cover unavailableThirteen Famous Ghost Stories
Thirteen Famous Ghost Stories is an anthology of 13 classic tales of ghosts, apparitions and supernatural disturbance, edited and introduced by Peter Underwood. It brings together distinguished writers from the 19th and early 20th centuries,…
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Cover unavailableThis Haunted Isle
This Haunted Isle examines ghost stories and legends attached to Britain’s historic buildings, including houses, castles and mansions whose architecture and past have encouraged generations of haunting reports. Peter Underwood presents these traditions as testimony…
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Cover unavailableThis House Is Haunted: The Investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist
Guy Lyon Playfair’s account follows the Enfield poltergeist investigation from the first disturbances in a north London council house in 1977. Reported events included unexplained knockings, doors opening and closing, objects being thrown across rooms…
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Cover unavailableTime Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts and Time Travel
Time Storms examines reported experiences in which people appear to move across time or space, including accounts involving missing hours or days. Jenny Randles proposes that such incidents may reflect a recurring phenomenon she calls…
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Cover unavailableTime Travel
Time Travel: Fact, Fiction and Possibility examines whether movement through time belongs solely to speculative fiction or might have a basis in science. Jenny Randles considers theories about the nature of time, alongside ideas concerning…
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Cover unavailableTrees of Ghostly Dread
Trees of Ghostly Dread gathers Elliott O'Donnell’s accounts of apparitions, folklore and reported hauntings connected with trees. The subject is treated as a meeting point between ghost stories and older beliefs about the presence or…
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Cover unavailableTrue Leeds Ghost Stories
True Leeds Ghost Stories gathers reported paranormal accounts connected with the city of Leeds, bringing together stories that range from familiar local lore to lesser-known incidents. Chris Wade presents these accounts as tales of alleged…
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Cover unavailableTwin Telepathy: The Psychic Connection
Twin Telepathy: The Psychic Connection examines reports that twins, especially identical twins, can share thoughts, sensations, dreams or reactions despite being apart. Guy Lyon Playfair brings together historical cases, personal testimonies and investigations into claims…
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Cover unavailableUFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe? The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Jenny Randles examines the reported UFO incident at Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk during December 1980, when unexplained lights were associated with an alleged close encounter and landing. The book reconstructs the events and considers what…
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Cover unavailableUFO Drawings from The National Archives
UFO Drawings from The National Archives presents selected images from Britain’s Ministry of Defence UFO files, placing witness sketches and paintings alongside letters, photographs and official reports. David Clarke considers how these pictures recorded alleged…
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UFO Investigation is a practical handbook for examining reported UFO sightings through organised fieldwork rather than speculation. It sets out general investigative principles, sources of information and the British UFO Research Association’s network for receiving,…
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Cover unavailableUFO Retrievals
UFO Retrievals examines reports of alleged UFO crashes, landings and subsequent recoveries, alongside claims that governments concealed craft, debris or occupants. Jenny Randles arranges the material chronologically, tracing stories from the 19th century through the…
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UFO's Werewolves & The Pig-Man: Exposing England's Strangest Location - Cannock Chase
Lee Brickley investigates the reported UFOs, werewolves and Pig-Man of Cannock Chase. The book brings together sightings, local stories and questions about the Staffordshire woodland's reputation for strange events.
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Cover unavailableUFOs and How to See Them
UFOs and How to See Them presents a practical field guide to watching the sky and assessing reports of unidentified aerial objects. Jenny Randles explains how familiar sights, including ordinary aircraft and other common aerial…
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Cover unavailableUFOs and Other Close Encounters
This illustrated introduction for younger readers explores UFO reports alongside wider questions about space and possible life beyond Earth. Short sections consider different kinds of close encounter, military sightings, natural explanations, hoaxes and the media’s…
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Cover unavailableUFOs of the First World War
Nigel Watson examines reports of phantom airships, strange aircraft, balloons and other unexplained aerial sightings recorded during the First World War. The book places these accounts alongside the rapid development of military aviation, where unfamiliar…
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UFOs Over Britain
UFOs Over Britain traces reported sightings across more than 110 years, beginning with the mystery airships recorded in 1909. Neil R. Storey follows the subject through wartime accounts, post-war encounters and later British cases, including…
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Cover unavailableUFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth: A Short History of UFOlogy
Neil Nixon traces the development of UFO reports and the competing explanations offered for them. His concise history weighs celebrated encounters, unusual testimony and arguments for extraterrestrial visitors against sceptical interpretations. The updated guide also…
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Cover unavailableUFOs: A British Viewpoint
UFOs: A British Viewpoint examines reported sightings in Britain while placing them within a wider discussion of UFO research. Written by Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, it considers how reports can be classified, from low-definition…
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Cover unavailableUncanny Clydeside
MJ Steel Collins explores supernatural stories and darker history in Glasgow and the surrounding Clyde area. Poltergeists, railway ghosts and university hauntings appear alongside body-snatching and accusations of witchcraft in Paisley and Pollok. The collection…
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Cover unavailableUnearthly Disclosure
Unearthly Disclosure assembles Timothy Good’s investigations into reported UFO encounters, alleged alien contact and claims of concealed extraterrestrial activity. Its subjects include supposed subterranean and submarine bases, abductions, animal mutilations, genetic anomalies and government secrecy,…
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Cover unavailableUnexplained Ghosts and Spirits
Unexplained Ghosts and Spirits examines reported encounters with ghosts and spirits from around the world, combining famous cases with testimony from people who claimed to experience them. The book presents these accounts as mysteries rather…
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Cover unavailableUnexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century
The Unexplained surveys reported mysteries and paranormal claims across the 20th century, arranged chronologically from the opening years of modernity to the approach of the new millennium. Jenny Randles places these accounts alongside changing science,…
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Cover unavailableUnknown Ghosts of the South East
Unknown Ghosts of the South East presents reported hauntings from the South East of England, continuing Andrew Green’s long interest in regional ghost lore and psychical investigation. The book belongs to the same broad body…
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Cover unavailableWalking Haunted London
Walking Haunted London sets out 25 routes through London and nearby locations, linking streets, buildings, pubs and theatres with reported apparitions, ghost stories and darker episodes from the capital’s past. Richard Jones includes well-known names…
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Cover unavailableWeekend Book of Ghosts
Weekend Book of Ghosts is an edited collection of reported apparitions, haunting accounts and ghost lore, assembled within the popular British supernatural-book tradition of the 1970s. Richard Whittington-Egan presents the material as a varied gathering…
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Cover unavailableWhat is a Poltergeist? Understanding Poltergeist Activity
Geoff Holder’s study examines what is meant by a poltergeist and how reports of ‘noisy ghosts’ have been understood. It considers disturbances such as objects apparently moving without visible cause, unexplained knocks and other noises,…
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Cover unavailableWhere the Ghosts Walk
Where the Ghosts Walk is a gazetteer of reported hauntings across Britain, organised by the kinds of places where apparitions and related phenomena are said to occur. Airfields, ancient sites, ruins, bridges, battlefields, graveyards, gardens,…
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Cover unavailableWhispers from the Other Side
Whispers from the Other Side by Steve Higgins examines Electronic Voice Phenomenon, focusing on human-like voices reportedly captured on electronic recording devices. The book considers how such recordings are made, what investigators listen for, and…
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Cover unavailableWho's There?: The True Story of a Leeds Haunting
Who's There? recounts the Slater family’s reported haunting in Leeds, beginning with what sounds like a baby crying in their new home. Colette Shires, who experienced the events as a child, describes paranormal activity that…
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Cover unavailableWhy Mystery Matters
Neil Nixon and E. K. Knight explore what mystery contributes to human experience, moving between unexplained phenomena, religious belief, entertainment and psychology. UFO accounts sit alongside stand-up comedy and the unusual condition in which people…
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Cover unavailableWill Storr vs. the Supernatural
Will Storr investigates reported hauntings, ghost hunters and the psychology of supernatural belief, beginning with a meeting with Philadelphia demonologist Lou Gentile. Experiences involving strange lights and disturbing sounds prompt him to examine claims he…
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Cover unavailableYork’s Hidden Hauntings
Wayland explores some of York’s less familiar ghost stories, looking beyond the accounts most often repeated about the city. The collection connects reported hauntings with historic buildings and earlier written sources, including nineteenth-century material. It…
View book details →Yorkshire Ghosts
Yorkshire Ghosts is a short regional work devoted to ghost accounts associated with Yorkshire. Its scope is defined by place, bringing together material under the county’s name rather than presenting a general history of apparitions…
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Cover unavailableZones of Strangeness: An Examination of Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots
Peter McCue examines locations associated with clusters of paranormal and UFO reports, asking why certain places repeatedly attract strange experiences. The book draws together cases involving apparitions, unusual lights, anomalous creatures and other unexplained phenomena.
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