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The Moaning Workman of Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse
13 September 2025
Ghost Hunter Launches ‘Respectful’ Paranormal Hub
12 September 2025
Steph Lay Reveals Haunted Milton Keynes’ Hidden Ghost Stories
12 September 2025
Haunted: E. Jay Gilbert’s Journey Through Britain’s Ghost Lore
9 September 2025
Dracula’s Lost Volcano: The Forgotten Eruption Bram Stoker Left Out
9 September 2025
Ghostly Echoes Fill Nottingham’s City of Caves
8 September 2025
Dering Wood: From Ghostly Legends to a Paranormal Hoax
5 September 2025
Halloween is coming!
Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
Dacre Stoker, great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, tells the Spooky Isles Podcast why Dracula remains the ultimate Halloween story, rooted in folklore, fiction, and Gothic horror
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Top Creepy British TV Shows for Halloween
22 October 2023
Halloween Monsters Crawl Out From Real Irish Folklore
6 October 2017
Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit
25 October 2023
Robert Burns’ Halloween: Haunting Origins of Tradition
12 October 2024
ghosts & hauntings
County Wicklow: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
27 November 2016
Guest writer CHRIS RUSH takes a look at five of the most haunted places in County Wicklow, Ireland
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The Moaning Workman of Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse
13 September 2025
Steph Lay Reveals Haunted Milton Keynes’ Hidden Ghost Stories
12 September 2025
Haunted: E. Jay Gilbert’s Journey Through Britain’s Ghost Lore
9 September 2025
Ghostly Echoes Fill Nottingham’s City of Caves
8 September 2025
Dering Wood: From Ghostly Legends to a Paranormal Hoax
5 September 2025
80 Haunted Places in the West Midlands
5 September 2025
horror & fantasy films
22 October 2017
30 October 2018
27 September 2023
The Package, ‘a violent promotion of peace’
9 April 2015
The Tell-Tale Heart 1960 REVIEW
24 October 2013
television
Armchair Thriller (S2): The Chelsea Murders REVIEW
1 March 2025
Emily’s Room: Uncanny (S2, E4) TV REVIEW
1 March 2025
Ace of Wands: Forgotten Cult Classic That Refuses To Die
23 February 2025
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
St Werburgh: The Goose-Taming Saint of Chester
13 August 2025
Bucca: The Sea Spirit of Cornwall
21 July 2025
Tiddy Mun: The Bog Spirit of Lincolnshire
7 July 2025
Dark history
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
Gruesome Tales of Friars Bush Graveyard
21 August 2025
Literature
Dracula’s Lost Volcano: The Forgotten Eruption Bram Stoker Left Out
9 September 2025
How I Embraced My Uncle Bram’s Dracula Legacy, says Dacre Stoker
1 September 2025
Thomas Parnell’s A Night-Piece on Death
30 August 2025
Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
UFOS & ALIENS
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
How I Started Hunting Ghosts And UFOs: Dr Robert Young
3 January 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
