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Why FEAR at Avon Valley leads the UK scare scene
2 November 2025
FEAR at Avon Valley delivers the UK’s most consistently thrilling and immersive Halloween event, balancing theatre-quality storytelling with a genuine festival atmosphere, writes PM BUCHAN
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Ghostwatch, the birth of paranormal reality TV
19 June 2019
Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know
7 October 2018
ghosts & hauntings
16 August 2020
A Haunted House Built by My Ancestors in Somerset
16 October 2024
Glasgow: Top 30 Haunted Places to Visit
2 November 2018
Haunted Scottish Castles You Probably Don’t Know
29 June 2015
The Witch Farm Podcast EPISODE GUIDE
10 November 2022
horror & fantasy films
What Inspired Charles Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas?
18 September 2017
Frankenstein The True Story 1973 TV REVIEW
13 March 2014
28 August 2012
The Hellraiser Marathon: It’ll Tear Your Soul Apart
11 September 2012
The Mummy’s Shroud 1967 REVIEW
4 October 2023
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square 1947 REVIEW
30 November 2017
television
How Boris Karloff Voiced How the Grinch Stole Christmas
17 December 2016
Thriller Episode Guide: 1970s Anthology Series
21 March 2017
The Charity Shop Poltergeist: Uncanny (S2, E2) TV REVIEW
8 February 2025
Redding Weddy: Ghosts BBC (S2, E3) REVIEW
15 July 2024
Carol For Another Christmas 1964 TV REVIEW
22 December 2021
The Enfield Haunting 2015 TV REVIEW
5 May 2015
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Rochdale’s Curious Deaths and Superstitions
11 August 2024
Thyme: 10 Supernatural Uses and Folklore
31 July 2023
28 April 2023
Strange British Love Spells and Curses
20 January 2013
10 Maple Tree Superstitions from UK and Irish Folklore
15 September 2023
Beware of the Evil Changeling Child
15 April 2015
Dark history
Thames River Monsters Lurk In the Heart of London
23 August 2024
Who was Susan Willis Fletcher, Convicted Spiritualist Fraud?
10 August 2014
The Druid’s Temple, Yorkshire’s Ancient Folly
11 November 2021
Molly Leigh, the Burslem Witch, or Was She?
22 December 2012
13 Jack the Ripper Facts You Didn’t Know
21 February 2015
Literature
Who is Dracula’s Father? BOOK REVIEW
15 April 2026
D.E.V.I.L by Jill Lincoln BOOK REVIEW
18 March 2026
UFOS & ALIENS
Phantoms In The Night Or ETs? BOOK REVIEW
17 November 2023
The Curious Tale Of The A70 UFO Incident
23 June 2023
The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire
13 June 2019
UK Beginners Guide to UFOs VIDEO
28 September 2023
The Great Flying Saucer Hoax: How a 1967 Student Prank Fooled Britain
19 September 2025
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51
27 July 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
The Man-Monkey of Shropshire Union Canal
26 January 2022
Cornish Owlman: Everything you need to know
2 January 2019
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?
2 July 2020
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Precognition: I Saw House Fire Before It Happened
24 October 2023
What were the Death Tokens of Wales?
23 January 2013
The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery
27 October 2023
Time Slips with Dr Ann Winsper INTERVIEW
16 February 2022
