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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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10 Great Monster Songs For Your Halloween Party!
9 October 2020
Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit
25 October 2023
Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween
27 October 2024
Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know
7 October 2018
ghosts & hauntings
Hartlepool: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
27 February 2020
GAYLE FIDLER takes us on a visit to haunted Hartlepool in the north-east of England
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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
Buckingham Gaol: The Haunted Cell That Scratched Back
8 December 2025
horror & fantasy films
In Search of Igor, Frankenstein’s Assistant
16 October 2022
6 December 2023
2 July 2013
Dr Jekyll goes Looney Tunes! Jekyll and Hyde in cartoons
8 October 2017
Top 10 She Monsters in British Horror
10 March 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
