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3 July 2026
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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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Spooky Isles Halloween Playlist 2019
27 October 2019
Dudley Castle’s Halloween Anniversary Ghost
7 October 2022
5 Scottish Haunted Places To Visit On Halloween
16 October 2014
Top Creepy British TV Shows for Halloween
22 October 2023
ghosts & hauntings
Sutton Scarsdale Hall And Its Spectres Revisited
26 March 2012
Top 30 Most Haunted London Pubs Guide
19 April 2016
Haunted London: Manor Park E12
23 November 2016
Shankill Castle: Murder, Ghosts and Mystery
24 September 2014
Haunted St Ives: Ghosts and Paranormal Tales from Cornwall
9 October 2025
Buckingham Gaol: The Haunted Cell That Scratched Back
8 December 2025
horror & fantasy films
And Now The Screaming Starts! 1973 REVIEW
8 June 2022
5 Funny Dracula Films Played for Laughs
7 September 2013
Fiend without a Face 1958 REVIEW
15 November 2014
Peter Cushing in Dracula Invites Wonder
21 April 2017
7 September 2021
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 REVIEW
4 November 2014
television
Young Dracula: Something To Get Your Fangs Into
15 November 2023
Dracula Mystery and Imagination 1968 REVIEW
9 January 2013
21 November 2024
Paranormal Lockdown visits Morecombe’s Park Hotel
19 October 2018
Inside Number 9: ‘Dead Line’ Live Halloween Special 2018 REVIEW
29 October 2018
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Discover Easter’s Pagan Roots: The Story of Eostre
2 April 2023
Celebrating Spring Equinox Meaning and Magic
20 March 2023
Dandelions in Folklore and Superstition
11 May 2019
Discover Dark Truth Behind St Valentine, Patron Saint of Lovers!
14 February 2013
10 Anglo-Saxon Gods You Never Knew Existed
25 August 2023
Dark history
London’s Knights of the Living Dead
11 July 2012
Murder and Mystery on Arnish Moor
31 July 2013
13 Creepy Edinburgh Facts You Didn’t Know
18 December 2017
Do Ripper Victim Ghosts Haunt Whitechapel?
21 October 2015
Holy Trinity Church, The Bone Crypt of Rothwell
21 January 2025
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
Weirdest England UFO Encounters from History
31 March 2019
UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW
29 August 2025
UK Beginners Guide to UFOs VIDEO
28 September 2023
Cedric Allingham’s Flyer Saucer: A UFO Hoax But A Good One
6 October 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?
2 July 2020
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
What Is The Loch Ness Monster?
5 November 2014
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
Precognition: I Saw House Fire Before It Happened
24 October 2023
There’s Something Mysterious About Milton Keynes
26 August 2013
The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell
21 November 2023
1 March 2022
