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2 November 2025
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Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know
7 October 2018
Why FEAR at Avon Valley leads the UK scare scene
2 November 2025
Headless Horsemen and Halloween: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
4 September 2022
ghosts & hauntings
Victorian Ghost Sightings Found in 1890s Newspapers
20 July 2014
Pontypool’s Haunted Hanbury Arms Hotel
3 September 2023
Racton Monument: A Haunting Folly in West Sussex
9 September 2025
Ghostly Memories of Thurleigh’s Haunted Airfield
22 February 2023
Duntrune Castle: Domain Of The Phantom Piper
13 January 2024
Gawsworth Hall: A Haunted Gem in Cheshire
16 April 2025
horror & fantasy films
25 July 2023
Dog Soldiers 2002 BLU-RAY REVIEW
21 August 2022
The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill Director Kevin Gates Interview
22 September 2013
14 May 2012
The House That Dripped Blood 1970 REVIEW
22 October 2013
Slaughterhouse Rulez 2018 REVIEW
2 November 2018
television
Treasure Holt, Essex, Most Haunted REVIEW
31 August 2019
Ghosts BBC Christmas Special 2020 REVIEW
9 December 2023
Dracula by the Purple Playhouse (1973), Canada’s forgotten vampire film
27 September 2020
The Muckleburgh Collection, Most Haunted REVIEW
4 July 2014
Armchair Thriller (S2, E23-28): The Circe Complex REVIEW
7 February 2025
Lady Sybil, Supernatural 1977 (Ep5)
18 September 2023
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Alp-Luachra, flesh-burrowing fairies
21 August 2012
Ireland’s Biddy Early, Wise Woman or Witch?
19 January 2023
40 Death Folklore and Superstitions You Should Know
12 March 2026
Dark history
The Orkney Witch Memorial Plaque
21 February 2020
What Do Grave Flowers Tell Us?
5 January 2013
The Demise Of The Great Lafayette
4 January 2016
Route 666, On The Trail Of The Devil In Ireland
30 August 2015
Haunted Kirkcaldy Book Reveals ‘Testimony of the Dead’
26 August 2015
Literature
Who is Dracula’s Father? BOOK REVIEW
15 April 2026
D.E.V.I.L by Jill Lincoln BOOK REVIEW
18 March 2026
Dr Jekyll and Mr Seek BOOK REVIEW
19 February 2026
UFOS & ALIENS
The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire
13 June 2019
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
Weirdest England UFO Encounters from History
31 March 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
Is Bolam Lake home to Northumberland’s Man-Beast?
29 September 2013
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
Adventures in Cryptozoology: Interview with Richard Freeman
24 September 2019
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
28 October 2022
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
What is a Caulbearer and Why is it Spooky?
27 September 2018
Richard Case: How I’d Solve The Talking Mongoose Mystery
9 October 2023
Christmas Eve Tale of Crisis Apparitions in Waterford and Cork
23 December 2022
Why Do Mystics, Misfits and Madmen Fascinate Us?
21 October 2023
