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Margaret Docherty: the Halloween murder that exposed Burke and Hare

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Why are Ghosts seen wearing Bedsheets?

Television

BBC confirms The Witch Farm release date

Theatre and Live Events

FEAR at Avon Valley 2026 REVIEW: braving Malefica alone

Film Reviews

Scream Blacula Scream (1973) REVIEW

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13 Spine-Chilling Irish Ghost Facts

Plymouth: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

10 Haunted Irish Battlefields Echoing with Ghosts

Terrifying Blackpool Haunting Drove Us From Our Home

Newcastle’s Haunted Victoria Tunnel

As May 19th Approaches, Don’t Lose Your Head At Blickling Hall!

Spirits of Tooting: Ghostly Encounters in South London

County Antrim: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Haunted Hoop and Toy Pub, where the ghostly priests roam

Peckham: Top 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Demonic Possession Cases Still Shock And Terrify Ireland

Fort Brockhurst: Hampshire’s Haunted Fortress of Shadows

Lancashire’s Phantom Road Victim Scares Drivers

The Screaming Skull of Wardley Hall

Ghosts and Hauntings of Twickenham

Horror Films & Television

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Psychoville Halloween special: You’d be foolish to miss it

Chris Newton

The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill Director Kevin Gates Interview

David Saunderson

Shadows (S2, E5): Peronik REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Night of the Marionettes, Supernatural 1977 (E7)

Richard Markworth

Carpathian Eagle: Hammer House of Horror (Ep.9)

Andrew Garvey

Dead of Night (Devil’s Advocates) BOOK REVIEW

Stephen Jacobs

Incense for the Damned 1970 REVIEW

Guest Writer

The Hellfire Club 1961 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells REVIEW

David Saunderson

Frankenstein 2025 REVIEW

Chris Newton

Haunted: Poor Girl 1974 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Link 1986 REVIEW

Simon Ball

Dead of Night 1945: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

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Nicholas Vince’s ‘The Night Whispered’ gives us the shivers

David Saunderson

It! 1967 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Folklore

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Superstitions

Ladybirds Superstitions: The Luckiest of Beetles!

Folklore

What Happens in Newgrange on Winter Solstice?

Folklore Music

10 Dark Ireland Folk Songs About Ghosts and Death

Mysterious Creatures

Cat-Sith: The Soul-Stealing Fairy Cat

Dark History Folklore

Morfa Colliery: Mining Superstitions and Ghostly Forewarnings

Folklore

Wheel of the Year: Pagan Calendar Guide

Folklore

The Forgotten Ghost of Windermere: How the Claife Crier Inspired a Novel

Folklore

Otta F Swire, Scotland’s Forgotten Folklorist

Folklore

The Lantern Men: Norfolk Broads’ Haunting Lights

Folklore

The Sandown Clown: Fact or fiction?

Mysterious Creatures

England’s 6 Most Terrifying Vampires in History

Folklore

Birch Trees Folklore: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

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Dark History

Witch of Saratoga, Northampton’s Forgotten Magickal Emigrant

Horror and Fantasy Films True Crime

Maria Marten and the ‘Murder in the Red Barn’ on Film

Dark History

13 Creepy Facts about Sawney Bean, the Scottish Cannibal

Dark History Haunted Hotels and Pubs Paranormal

Does Cursed Painting At Nags Head Pub Shrewsbury Cause Insanity?

Dark History

Dublin’s 7 Creepiest Cathedrals and Churches

Cemeteries and Burial Places

The Horrific Truth of Ireland’s Bog Bodies

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Rainy Day Tour in Brompton Cemetery

Dark History

Keeper of the Heads: London Bridge’s Grim Custodian

Dark History

ZX Spectrum’s 5 Creepiest 1980s Computer Games

Dark History Literature

Whernside Manor’s Dark History Of Slaves, Ghosts And Bronte

Cemeteries and Burial Places Ghosts and Hauntings

Warstone Lane Cemetery’s Unquiet Inhabitants

True Crime

Ireland’s Last Witch? 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bridget Cleary

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Ghosts and Hauntings

10 Chilling Real Life Manchester Ghost Sightings

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Ghosts of St Mary’s Lighthouse, Whitley Bay

Ghosts and Hauntings

The Whisper of ‘Enid’: An EVP that led back to Dale House

Ghosts and Hauntings

Royal Haunting At Blickling Hall, Norfolk

Ghosts and Hauntings

A Dartmoor Christmas Ghost

Ghosts and Hauntings

Leap Castle: All You Need To Know About Ireland’s Most Haunted Place!

Ghosts and Hauntings

30 East Drive Terror: Black Monk of Pontefract

Mysterious Phenomena

Precognition: I Saw House Fire Before It Happened

Ghosts and Hauntings

Cobh, Ireland: Top 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Ghosts and Hauntings

Enfield’s Haunted Synagogue Spooks Community

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RAF Cosford And The Haunted Aeroplane

Ghosts and Hauntings

Halifax: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

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