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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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Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall
27 October 2023
5 Reasons to Thank Ireland for Halloween
30 October 2013
Teanlay Night: A Fylde Coast Halloween
4 October 2023
ghosts & hauntings
Rising Sun, the haunted London pub that rose from the dead
10 December 2018
Prince Rupert Hotel’s ancient paranormal horrors
10 December 2018
Sir Walter Raleigh’s Ghost Still Roams England
29 October 2024
The Ghostly Watcher Of Wolverhampton
6 September 2022
Maidstone: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
20 January 2024
horror & fantasy films
3 May 2021
6 October 2017
Mickey’s Christmas Carol 1983 REVIEW
19 December 2024
5 Funny Dracula Films Played for Laughs
7 September 2013
Exploring The Devil Rides Out Film Versus Book
2 April 2023
television
Detectorists and the Ghosts Beneath the Field
21 February 2026
Lost Hearts 1973, Ghost Story for Christmas TV REVIEW
13 April 2015
The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells REVIEW
20 October 2024
Ghosts BBC Series 1 (2019) Episode Guide
18 October 2020
Dick Turpin Most Haunted Live REVIEW
21 July 2014
1 January 2023
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
What evil lurks inside the haunted St Osyth Witches Cage in Essex?
26 November 2016
Glossary of British and Irish Folklore Creatures
20 October 2024
The Sluagh: Celtic Spirits of the Unforgiven Dead
24 October 2024
What Happens in Newgrange on Winter Solstice?
21 December 2013
5 Mysterious Devon Folklore Tales
11 June 2021
3 October 2020
Dark history
Old Cankey, Middleton’s Most Notorious Grave Robber
5 February 2026
Westminster Bridge: Triffids, Daleks and Zombies
25 July 2023
Clopton House Horrors and the real ‘Ophelia’
12 August 2018
Mystery of Roanoke: How 117 English Settlers Vanished Into Thin Air
28 November 2024
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
5 Unexplained UFO Sightings in London
30 June 2019
John Warren’s 1943 Close Encounter in Norfolk
29 September 2023
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51
27 July 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Sightings of the Huttock Top Beast Continue to Intrigue
18 February 2026
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
St Columba And the Loch Ness Monster
8 November 2014
The Pig-Man Roams Cannock Chase
24 July 2013
Is Bolam Lake home to Northumberland’s Man-Beast?
29 September 2013
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster
28 November 2020
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Who are the Black Eyed Children?
13 April 2015
Meet Bill Ramsey, The Southend Werewolf
3 November 2022
Lord Dufferin and his Moonlit Vision
29 September 2014
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
The Mysterious Angel of the Thames
23 July 2013
The Dodleston Messages: A Mystery From The Beyond?
27 July 2022
