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Ghostly Whispers: Inside the World of Phantom Seekers Paranormal
16 January 2026
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
2 January 2026
The Room in the Tower TV REVIEW
31 December 2025
Edinburgh family flees Christmas haunting terror
29 December 2025
Inside No.9 Stage Fright THEATRE REVIEW
29 December 2025
Corpse Roads: Walking England’s Ghostly Paths of the Dead
29 December 2025
Newsham Park Hospital, Liverpool’s Most Haunted Asylum Revealed
27 December 2025
How Science Can Enhance Paranormal Investigations
26 December 2025
Blood Money: The Newcastle Witch Trials
19 December 2025
Haunted Frome: 5 Spooky Places You Need to Know
16 December 2025
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle Upon Tyne
14 December 2025
Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein: A Gothic Must-See in Bath
14 December 2025
Avondale House, The Ghostly Home of the Uncrowned King
10 December 2025
10 December 2025
Buckingham Gaol: The Haunted Cell That Scratched Back
8 December 2025
Halloween is coming!
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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Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know
7 October 2018
Halloween the Beginning: Ireland’s Cave of Cats
21 October 2023
Robert Burns’ Halloween: Haunting Origins of Tradition
12 October 2024
Samhain: A New Witch’s Perspective
30 October 2024
ghosts & hauntings
Haunted Oxford Castle and Prison: Ghosts of 1000 Years
28 March 2025
Oxford Castle and Prison, with nearly 1000 years of history, remains one of the UK’s most haunted sites, where ghosts like Empress Matilda and restless prisoners still linger
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The Manchester Mummy Won’t Stay Dead
21 January 2026
Edinburgh family flees Christmas haunting terror
29 December 2025
Newsham Park Hospital, Liverpool’s Most Haunted Asylum Revealed
27 December 2025
Haunted Frome: 5 Spooky Places You Need to Know
16 December 2025
Avondale House, The Ghostly Home of the Uncrowned King
10 December 2025
horror & fantasy films
Madhouse 1974 Facts: 13 Things You Didn’t Know
30 October 2017
Led Zeppelin, Runes, Rock And Revenge
9 August 2014
Happy Birthday Charles Laughton
1 July 2014
Hairy and Scary: Peter Cushing’s Finest MoMents
29 May 2013
16 September 2015
television
The Room in the Tower TV REVIEW
31 December 2025
BBC’S The Read: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece Shearsmith REVIEW
11 November 2025
Sapphire & Steel, Assignment II: The Railway Station 1979 REVIEW
19 October 2025
Bram Stoker’s Dublin Childhood: Folklore, Illness and Horror
17 September 2025
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle Upon Tyne
14 December 2025
Mystery and Magic at the Goblin Ha’
28 October 2025
The Black Elf of Islay Strikes in Battle
22 October 2025
Boggart Hole Clough’s Monster Waits in the Dark
14 October 2025
The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
14 October 2025
Dark history
The Manchester Mummy Won’t Stay Dead
21 January 2026
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
2 January 2026
Corpse Roads: Walking England’s Ghostly Paths of the Dead
29 December 2025
Blood Money: The Newcastle Witch Trials
19 December 2025
Manchester Cholera Victims Haunt St John’s Gardens
16 November 2025
Why Did Jack the Ripper Stop Killing?
10 November 2025
Literature
Lily’s Monster by Cliff McNish BOOK REVIEW
8 November 2025
Dracula 101: A Guide To Bram Stoker’s Horror Classic
15 October 2025
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
Thomas Gray’s Elegy and the Human Truth Beneath the Grave
3 October 2025
UFOS & ALIENS
The Great Flying Saucer Hoax: How a 1967 Student Prank Fooled Britain
19 September 2025
Neil Nixon: Why We Still Don’t Know the Truth About UFOs
16 September 2025
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
12 September 2025
UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW
29 August 2025
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
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
2 January 2026
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
