Spooky Isles: ghosts, folklore, dark history and horror across Britain and Ireland

Top stories

Latest articles

Television

Chiller (1995): Number Six TV REVIEW

Television

Tales of Frankenstein (1958) REVIEW

Folklore

The fairy abduction of Anne Jeffries of St Teath

Ghosts and Hauntings

First Ghosts: From ancient civilisations to Britain

Theatre and Live Events

Dracula: A feminist revenge fantasy, really – Rochdale REVIEW

Ghosts & Hauntings

View all

Incubus Demon Sex Attacks In Wales

The Haunted Realms Of Surrey And Hampshire: John S Tantalon INTERVIEW

My Ghost Experience: "Stop That, Lille!"

County Antrim: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Swintsy Hall: Dark History Behind Gareth Southgate’s Haunted Mansion

The Possession Of Richard Dugdale, The Surey Demoniac

Dumfries And Galloway: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Gawsworth Hall: A Haunted Gem in Cheshire

5 Haunted Haworth Pubs In West Yorkshire

Relentless Spirits Haunt Cumber House

Northampton: Top 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Haunted Heathrow’s busy with flying phantoms!

Slaybrook Hall: Kent’s Bloodiest Haunted House

Barnet’s 10 Most Haunted Places To Visit

King’s Head Aylesbury and its Paranormal Mysteries

Horror Films & Television

View all

Shaun of the Dead 2004 REVIEW

Ann Massey McElroy

Dracula 1931 REVIEW

Guest Writer

Top 5 Jack the Ripper films of all time

Guest Writer

Carmilla films: A Guide to Sheridan Le Fanu Lesbian Vampire Influence

Jim Ivers

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1931 REVIEW

Adam Scovell

Outcast 2010 REVIEW

Simon Ball

Caveat 2020 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

5 Alternatives To ‘A Ghost Stories for Christmas’ You Haven’t Seen

Mark Fryers

Corruption 1968 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Exploring British Halloween TV specials

Brontë Schiltz

Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1974 REVIEW

Terry Sherwood

Vincent Price in the UK Part 1: The Early Years (1928-1935)

Peter Fuller

Fiend without a Face 1958 REVIEW

Terry Sherwood

Please Sir’s Frankie Abbott returns for Frankula horror romp

Richard Phillips-Jones

The Limehouse Golem 2016 REVIEW

Andrew Garvey

Folklore

View all

Mysterious Creatures

Dobhar Chu, Ireland’s Vicious Supernatural Crocodile Otter Monster

Folklore

The Sea Tombed Village of Singleton Thorpe

Folklore

Medieval Vampire Legends in UK and Ireland

Folklore

England’s 10 Most Mysterious Stone Circles

Folklore Cryptozoology

Cornish Owlman: Everything you need to know

Folklore

6 Welsh Places with Gates to Annwn, ‘The Otherworld’

Folklore

The Welsh Corpse Candles of St David

Folklore

What Happens in Newgrange on Winter Solstice?

Folklore

St Alban’s eye-popping execution: The gory death of Britain’s first saint

Folklore

What are Witch Bottles? A Brief History

Folklore

Spring Heeled Jack and other phantom attackers

Mysterious Creatures

Red Caps, Scotland’s Bloodthirsty Goblins of Terror!

Dark History

View all

Dark History

Keeper of the Heads: London Bridge’s Grim Custodian

Paranormal Dark History

Bolton Strid Deadly Waters Inspire Tales Of Horror

Dark History

Mad Jack Mytton: A Riches to Rags Story

True Crime

The Jack the Ripper Show

True Crime Music

Red Barn Murder Told in Song: Shirley Collins and The Albion Country Band

Dark History

The Maggie Wall Witchcraft Monument, Dunning

True Crime

Baby Farmers: Women Who Killed Infants For Cash

Dark History

Bridget Cleary and Ireland’s Last Witch Burning

Dark History

Who Was The Real Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins?

Dark History True Crime

How Half Hangit’ Margaret Dickson Survived The Hangman’s Noose!

Dark History

Saint Valentine, Heartbreak and Haunting in Ireland

True Crime

13 Jack the Ripper Facts You Didn’t Know

Paranormal

View all

Ghosts and Hauntings

The Black Dog of Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset

Ghosts and Hauntings Theatre and Live Events

Mostly Ghostly: haunted highways and the Headless Piper of Dumfries and Galloway

Ghosts and Hauntings

Finedon’s Demonic Dutch Doll Haunting: Full Creepiness Revealed

Ghosts and Hauntings

The Haunting of Dudley Castle

Ghosts and Hauntings

Mists and Murmurs at Haunted Belgrave Hall

Paranormal Reality TV Paranormal Research Television

Athelhampton Hall, Most Haunted REVIEW

Ghosts and Hauntings

Ghosts relight fires at The Old White Swan, York

Ghosts and Hauntings Haunted Hotels and Pubs

Salford Hall Hotel, A Favourite Haunt of Ghosthunters In Warwickshire

Haunted Hotels and Pubs Paranormal Research

The Royal Oak Swanage Haunting: A Decade of Investigation

Ghosts and Hauntings

Ghostly Memories of Haunted Hale

Ghosts and Hauntings

Newquay’s Scariest Haunted Places to Visit

Paranormal Research

Official Jamaica Inn Paranormal Team Interview VIDEO

Books just added to Spooky Isles

Browse all books