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Johnny One-Arm: Edinburgh’s Restless Paranormal Avenger
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‘I Saw a Child Spirit at Antwerp Mansion’
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Dracula 101: A Guide To Bram Stoker’s Horror Classic
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Boggart Hole Clough’s Monster Waits in the Dark
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The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
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Crich Tramway Village ghost hunt uncovers haunting tales
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Haunted Srah Castle: Whispering Walls of Offaly
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The Black Dog of Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset
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Ghost Stories of Slough: Halloween Hauntings and Creepy Legends
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Haunted St Ives: Ghosts and Paranormal Tales from Cornwall
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Halloween is coming!
Farmaggedon: Lancashire’s heavy metal horror brings lasting chills
14 October 2025
Farmaggedon turns Farmer Ted’s Adventure Farm into a full-blown Halloween haunt, packed with movie-quality sets and animatronics. P M BUCHAN uncovers how 20 years of evolution forged this heavy metal horror experience
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Samhain: A New Witch’s Perspective
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ghosts & hauntings
13 Spine-Chilling Irish Ghost Facts
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ANN MASSEY enlightens us with some little known Irish Ghost facts!
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Johnny One-Arm: Edinburgh’s Restless Paranormal Avenger
18 October 2025
Crich Tramway Village ghost hunt uncovers haunting tales
12 October 2025
Haunted Srah Castle: Whispering Walls of Offaly
11 October 2025
The Black Dog of Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset
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Ghost Stories of Slough: Halloween Hauntings and Creepy Legends
10 October 2025
horror & fantasy films
My Top 15 Favourite Christopher Lee Films
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16 October 2019
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein 1948 REVIEW
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What Inspired Charles Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas?
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Max Schreck: The Enigma Behind Nosferatu’s Iconic Vampire
31 January 2025
Top 5 Greatest Hammer Horror Monsters List
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television
Sapphire & Steel, Assignment II: The Railway Station 1979 REVIEW
19 October 2025
Bram Stoker’s Dublin Childhood: Folklore, Illness and Horror
17 September 2025
Armchair Thriller (S2): The Chelsea Murders REVIEW
1 March 2025
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Boggart Hole Clough’s Monster Waits in the Dark
14 October 2025
The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
14 October 2025
Goram and Vincent: The Giants Who Created Bristol
20 September 2025
Irish Vampires Before Dracula: From Dearg Due to Le Fanu’s Carmilla
17 September 2025
St Werburgh: The Goose-Taming Saint of Chester
13 August 2025
Bucca: The Sea Spirit of Cornwall
21 July 2025
Dark history
The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
14 October 2025
Queensberry House: Edinburgh’s Forgotten Cannibal Ghost
2 September 2025
Arbor Low: Ancient Stone Circle Steeped in Mystery
30 August 2025
Witch of Scrapfaggot Green: Essex’s Wartime Ghost Story
25 August 2025
John Horwood: Was Justice Served or Was He a Victim?
24 August 2025
Literature
Dracula 101: A Guide To Bram Stoker’s Horror Classic
15 October 2025
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
Thomas Gray’s Elegy and the Human Truth Beneath the Grave
3 October 2025
Edward Young’s Night Thoughts: Gloom, Mortality, and the Beauty of Death
22 September 2025
UFOS & ALIENS
The Great Flying Saucer Hoax: How a 1967 Student Prank Fooled Britain
19 September 2025
Neil Nixon: Why We Still Don’t Know the Truth About UFOs
16 September 2025
UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW
29 August 2025
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island
19 April 2024
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW
1 January 2024
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?
21 April 2025
10 March 2025
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen
9 September 2024
Chasing Nightmares: The Horror of Sleep Paralysis
26 March 2024
The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell
21 November 2023
