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New Lowndes Arms, Whaddon’s Haunted Village Pub
15 September 2025
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
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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5 Scottish Haunted Places To Visit On Halloween
16 October 2014
Headless Horsemen and Halloween: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
4 September 2022
Hop tu Naa: A Isle of Man Celebration
26 October 2023
Ghostwatch, the birth of paranormal reality TV
19 June 2019
ghosts & hauntings
The Stately Ghosts Of England 1965 TV REVIEW
7 October 2023
The Stately Ghosts of England is paranormal TV 1960s style at its finest, writes RICK HALE. as he looks back at the TV special that sees Margaret Rutherford journey some of England’s greatest haunted houses
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New Lowndes Arms, Whaddon’s Haunted Village Pub
15 September 2025
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
horror & fantasy films
1 October 2014
14 May 2013
9 January 2023
The Canterville Ghost 1996 REVIEW
19 December 2017
Sean Hogan: ‘To Fire You Come At Last’ INTERVIEW
5 September 2023
Peter Cushing in Dracula Invites Wonder
21 April 2017
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
