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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
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Dark Secrets exhibition explores the occult in London
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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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The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
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Crich Tramway Village ghost hunt uncovers haunting tales
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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
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Samhain: A New Witch’s Perspective
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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
22 October 2017
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
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
