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The Black Elf of Islay Strikes in Battle
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Morett Castle: The Forgotten Haunted Fortress of Laois
21 October 2025
22 haunted Kent hotels where ghosts never leave
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Sapphire & Steel, Assignment II: The Railway Station 1979 REVIEW
19 October 2025
Ghost Stories of Eddystone Lighthouse, Devon
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Johnny One-Arm: Edinburgh’s Restless Paranormal Avenger
18 October 2025
Dark Secrets exhibition explores the occult in London
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Come to the Sabbat: The Occult Rock Song Banned By The BBC
16 October 2025
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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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Halloween is coming!
Halloween Haunt Fest: Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes to rural Hertfordshire
23 October 2025
With official tie-ins to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, Halloween Haunt Fest 2025 aimed high with blockbuster horror sets — but P M BUCHAN found it a mix of brilliance and inconsistency
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Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit
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Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween
27 October 2024
Top Creepy British TV Shows for Halloween
22 October 2023
Spooky Isles Halloween Radio Show 2021
26 October 2021
ghosts & hauntings
The Spirits Of Stratton Farm, Inverness
28 October 2021
Psychic medium ANGELA MACKENZIE recalls her time living in an old, sprawling mansion in Inverness, complete with a spirit or two keen to make themselves known…
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Morett Castle: The Forgotten Haunted Fortress of Laois
21 October 2025
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
horror & fantasy films
The Woman in Black Facts: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
13 March 2017
When the Lights Went Out 2012 REVIEW
6 June 2013
90 Years of Sir Christopher Lee!
27 May 2012
Werewolf of London 1935 REVIEW
20 August 2013
Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter 1974 REVIEW
20 November 2011
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
