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22 haunted Kent hotels where ghosts never leave
20 October 2025

Sapphire & Steel, Assignment II: The Railway Station 1979 REVIEW
19 October 2025

Ghost Stories of Eddystone Lighthouse, Devon
18 October 2025

Johnny One-Arm: Edinburgh’s Restless Paranormal Avenger
18 October 2025

Dark Secrets exhibition explores the occult in London
17 October 2025

Come to the Sabbat: The Occult Rock Song Banned By The BBC
16 October 2025

‘I Saw a Child Spirit at Antwerp Mansion’
15 October 2025

Dracula 101: A Guide To Bram Stoker’s Horror Classic
15 October 2025

Boggart Hole Clough’s Monster Waits in the Dark
14 October 2025

The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
14 October 2025

Crich Tramway Village ghost hunt uncovers haunting tales
12 October 2025
Halloween is coming!
The Nightmare Realm Dublin: A Halloween Experience You Won’t Forget
21 October 2025
The Nightmare Realm in Dublin offers a truly immersive and adrenaline-fuelled Halloween experience that transforms horror into live theatre, writes JOHN AMBROSE MARTIN
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Inside Number 9: ‘Dead Line’ Live Halloween Special 2018 REVIEW
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Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know
7 October 2018

Samhain: A New Witch’s Perspective
30 October 2024
ghosts & hauntings
Ruth Roper Wylde: Growing Up With A ‘Scary’ Poltergeist in Hertfordshire
28 April 2020
Guest writer RUTH ROPER WYLDE describes the poltergeist events that plagued her home as a teenager, growing up in Welwyn, Hertfordshire
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Ghost Stories of Eddystone Lighthouse, Devon
18 October 2025

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
11 October 2025
horror & fantasy films

The Canterville Ghost 1996 REVIEW
19 December 2017

The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire 1971 REVIEW
24 May 2019

Led Zeppelin, Runes, Rock And Revenge
9 August 2014

5 Greatest Dracula Films You Can’t Afford to Miss
20 April 2012

Dead of Night 1945: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
1 January 2016
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

The Black Elf of Islay Strikes in Battle
22 October 2025

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
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

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