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 unavailableHaunted Plymouth
Haunted Plymouth gathers reported ghost stories from the city and its surrounding districts, combining historical traditions with contemporary accounts and investigation records. Its three sections cover the Historic Barbican, the city and locations beyond it,…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Pubs in Devon
Haunted Pubs in Devon gathers reported ghost stories connected with public houses across the county. Drawing on material collected during the authors’ field expeditions, Sally and Chips Barber present pub-based accounts within the wider setting…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Rochester
Haunted Rochester gathers reported ghost stories from the historic Kent city, organising its account around the High Street, Eastgate House, Restoration House, Rochester Cathedral and Rochester Castle. A final section records other locations associated with…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Salisbury
Haunted Salisbury gathers reported apparitions, manifestations and spirit encounters from the medieval city and its surrounding hinterland. The cases are linked to historic buildings and familiar local settings, placing Salisbury’s ghost stories within the area’s…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Scarborough
Haunted Scarborough gathers reported apparitions, local legends and unsettling tales from one of Yorkshire’s best-known seaside resorts. Mark Riley covers stories involving poltergeists, mummies and the ominous figure known as the Headless Man, alongside the…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Scunthorpe
Haunted Scunthorpe gathers reported ghost stories from the town and nearby villages, tracing accounts from the 1700s to cases linked with family homes today. Jason Day includes material from his own case files, including previously…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Sheffield
Haunted Sheffield gathers reported ghost stories told by Steel City Tours’ ghost walkers, Mr and Mrs P Dreadful, placing Sheffield’s pubs, theatres and public buildings at the centre of the book. The accounts include a…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Shrewsbury
Haunted Shrewsbury gathers reported ghost stories from one of Shropshire’s oldest towns, using historical and contemporary sources. Martin Wood includes accounts of poltergeists, first-hand encounters with apparitions and a range of local haunting traditions. Among…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Southampton
Haunted Southampton gathers reports of ghostly apparitions and unexplained occurrences from the city’s history and surrounding area. Penny Legg traces stories attached to historic buildings, former institutions and places shaped by Southampton’s long military and…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Spalding
Haunted Spalding gathers reported ghost sightings, unexplained experiences and paranormal investigations from the Lincolnshire town and its surrounding villages. Gemma King combines local testimony with background on the history of the places involved, including Spalding’s…
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Cover unavailableHaunted St Albans
Haunted St Albans gathers reported supernatural experiences from the city and its surrounding area, arranging them by location and setting. Paul Adams covers roads, open spaces, public houses, hostelries, houses and historic buildings, alongside accounts…
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Cover unavailableHaunted St Andrews
Haunted St Andrews gathers reported apparitions, poltergeist cases and older supernatural traditions associated with one of Scotland’s most historic towns. Geoff Holder examines the White Lady and the Haunted Tower, including the Victorian mystery of…
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Cover unavailableHaunted St Ives
Haunted St Ives gathers reported apparitions, manifestations and alleged encounters with ghouls and spirits from the Cornish town. Arranged in an A–Z format, Ian Addicoat’s collection brings together both familiar tales and less well-known accounts…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Stevenage
Haunted Stevenage gathers reports of ghostly activity from Old Stevenage, New Stevenage and the surrounding Hertfordshire countryside. Paul Adams covers unexplained sightings, local traditions and attempts to find evidence behind the stories, drawing on both…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Stockton
Haunted Stockton gathers reported ghost stories and supernatural accounts connected with Stockton-on-Tees, drawing on both historical records and contemporary sources. The material includes apparitions, manifestations and other claims of unexplained activity linked to the town…
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Haunted Suffolk
Haunted Suffolk gathers reported apparitions, poltergeist activity and other supernatural encounters from more than 150 locations across the county. Pete Jennings draws on historical and contemporary sources, bringing together local traditions alongside accounts attributed to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Sunderland
Haunted Sunderland gathers more than 100 reported ghost stories from Sunderland and nearby settlements, including Cleadon, Boldon, Hylton and Rythorpe. Rupert Matthews covers local traditions and alleged encounters ranging from the Havelok Road poltergeist, linked…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Surrey
Haunted Surrey gathers reported apparitions, hauntings and related supernatural accounts from locations across the county. Rupert Matthews draws on historical and contemporary sources, bringing together both familiar legends and less widely known stories connected with…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Taverns
Haunted Taverns catalogues British pubs and inns associated with reported apparitions, local legends and stories of unexplained activity. Donald Stuart arranges the entries alphabetically, with a county index that gives the book a practical gazetteer-like…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Teesside
Haunted Teesside gathers reported ghost stories from the towns and villages scattered along the banks of the River Tees. Rebecca Hall, writing as a paranormal investigator, records eyewitness sightings in abandoned factories and mines, alleged…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Theatres of East Sussex
Haunted Theatres of East Sussex brings together reported apparitions and eerie traditions linked to the county’s theatres, piers and other entertainment venues. Tina Lakin sets these accounts against a history of performance that stretches from…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Tunbridge Wells
Haunted Tunbridge Wells gathers reported ghost stories from Royal Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding Kent villages, placing local folklore alongside the area’s long history. Neil Arnold covers locations including The Pantiles, Groombridge, Sissinghurst, Southborough, Pembury…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Tyneside
Haunted Tyneside gathers reported ghost stories from across the region, covering apparitions, unexplained phenomena and poltergeist activity. Darren W. Ritson includes accounts associated with Tynemouth Priory, Newcastle’s Jin Jameson and the haunting of Willington Mill.…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Tyrone
Haunted Tyrone gathers reported hauntings and paranormal accounts from across County Tyrone, ranging from disturbances at a farmhouse near Gortin in the Sperrin Mountains to a reputed apparition in a locked room at Knocknamoe Castle…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Waters
Haunted Waters gathers reported hauntings associated with rivers, streams, lakes and pools across Great Britain and Ireland. Elliott O'Donnell focuses on water-bound locations where ghost stories, local traditions and accounts of apparitions have become attached…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Wearside
Haunted Wearside gathers more than 50 reported ghost encounters from Sunderland and the surrounding Wearside area. Darren W. Ritson combines eyewitness testimony with accounts of attempts to find evidence for ghostly activity, presenting local stories…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Wigan
Haunted Wigan gathers reported ghost stories from the town and surrounding region, drawing on both historical and contemporary sources. Its settings include former cotton mills and public houses, places associated with Wigan’s industrial and social…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Wiltshire
Haunted Wiltshire gathers reported ghost stories from the county’s historic buildings, ancient sites and rural landscapes. Keith Wills covers claimed manifestations at Devizes Castle, a supposed haunting by a dwarf at Lacock Abbey and a…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Wirral: Volume 1
Haunted Wirral: Volume 1 gathers 51 reported tales from across the Wirral peninsula, ranging from apparitions and phantom figures to doppelgangers, premonitions and accounts of reincarnation. The collection treats the area as a setting for…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Wirral: Volume 2
Haunted Wirral: Volume 2 gathers reported ghost stories connected with the Wirral peninsula, presenting local accounts of apparitions and other uncanny experiences in a regional setting. The book belongs to Tom Slemen’s wider series of…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Worcestershire
Anthony Poulton-Smith’s A–Z survey gathers reported hauntings from across Worcestershire, combining historical material with interviews conducted with local witnesses. The accounts range from apparitions and poltergeist activity to unexplained sounds, sudden chills and stories involving…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Worthing
Haunted Worthing gathers reported encounters and local traditions from the seaside town and its surrounding countryside. Among the accounts are an eight-foot monk apparently reading a prayer book, a young girl whose hair is stroked…
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Cover unavailableHaunted York
Haunted York gathers reported apparitions and uncanny traditions from one of England’s most historic cities. Rupert Matthews covers stories attached to York Minster, where a medieval stonemason is said to remain, and the Treasurer’s House,…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Yorkshire
Haunted Yorkshire gathers reported ghost stories, local legends and darker historical tales from across the county. Nick Tyler discusses ghostly hounds on the North York Moors, a phantom highwayman in Sheffield, the Oxenhope spectre and…
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Cover unavailableHauntings
Peter Underwood examines several of Britain’s most closely documented haunting cases, combining historical accounts with the findings of his own investigations. The cases include reported activity at Hampton Court, the demon drummer associated with Bedworth,…
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Cover unavailableHauntings and Apparitions
Hauntings and Apparitions examines reported ghost sightings and haunting experiences through the evidence gathered around individual cases. Andrew MacKenzie considers apparitional figures, recurring experiences and claims linked to particular places, including the well-known Cheltenham case,…
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Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them
Historian Neil Oliver travels across the British Isles through haunted castles, coastlines and old battlefields, tracing ghost stories and the history of the places that keep them alive. His reflections ask why some locations seem…
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Cover unavailableHere's Nessie!
Here's Nessie! brings together Karl P. N. Shuker's writings on the Loch Ness monster, presenting the case's history, controversies and competing explanations. The book considers proposed identities for Nessie, from plausible zoological possibilities to more…
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Cover unavailableHexy B*tch
Hexy B*tch is Daisy May Cooper’s memoir of a long-standing fascination with ghosts, spirits, astrology, tea leaves and paranormal activity. It follows her investigations into haunted houses, conversations with people who claim to communicate with…
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Cover unavailableHow to Build a Haunted House
Why do some buildings become haunted in our imagination while others do not? Caitlin Blackwell Baines traces the history of the haunted house through architecture, folklore, literature and popular culture, exploring famous locations including Hampton…
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Cover unavailableHow UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth
How UFOs Conquered the World traces the modern UFO myth from Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 sighting, when reports of flying objects were transformed by newspaper coverage into the flying-saucer phenomenon. David Clarke combines social history with…
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Cover unavailableHuman Electromagnetic Interference
Human Electromagnetic Interference introduces the SLIDER effect, a subject presented through the author’s research into alleged interactions between people and electromagnetic phenomena. The book focuses on defining this effect and setting out the questions surrounding…
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Cover unavailableIf This Be Magic
If This Be Magic centres on a 1951 medical case in which a young hospital doctor used hypnosis to treat a patient with a rare and debilitating skin disease. The apparent recovery was documented in…
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Cover unavailableIn Search of Britain's Haunted Castles
In Search of Britain’s Haunted Castles gathers reported hauntings and ghost traditions from more than 60 castles across Britain. Marc Alexander and Paul Abrahams pair each account with historical background, showing how stories of spectral…
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Cover unavailableIn Search of Ghosts
Darren W. Ritson visits reputedly haunted places around Britain, combining interviews with witnesses and accounts of his own travels. Locations range from Exeter Castle and the Tower of London to Edinburgh’s Mary King’s Close and…
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Cover unavailableIn Search of Prehistoric Survivors
Karl P. N. Shuker examines reports of animals thought to have vanished from the fossil record, asking whether some might still survive in remote habitats. The coelacanth provides a documented starting point: a fish once…
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Cover unavailableIn Search of the Supernatural
Peter Travis’s In Search of the Supernatural is a collection of reported hauntings drawn from his own investigations and from accounts supplied by friends and acquaintances. The emphasis is on incidents presented as carefully examined…
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Cover unavailableInto the Uncanny
Into the Uncanny examines reports of paranormal experiences through four cases Danny Robins has not previously covered on television or in his podcast. The investigations include a poltergeist case in Rome, a haunted house in…
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