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Ghost Stories of Slough: Halloween Hauntings and Creepy Legends
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Halloween is coming!
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
Halloween is a great time to read spooky poetry. Here are some old and new Halloween poems to read by candlelight!
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Top Creepy British TV Shows for Halloween
22 October 2023
Hop tu Naa: A Isle of Man Celebration
26 October 2023
10 Great Monster Songs For Your Halloween Party!
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Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall
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ghosts & hauntings
13 Shades of Fear: Ireland’s Most Colourful Female Ghosts
13 March 2015
ANN MASSEY look at 13 of Ireland’s female ghosts recognised by colour.
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Haunted Srah Castle: Whispering Walls of Offaly
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The Black Dog of Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset
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Ghost Stories of Slough: Halloween Hauntings and Creepy Legends
10 October 2025
Haunted St Ives: Ghosts and Paranormal Tales from Cornwall
9 October 2025
Basingstoke: 5 Haunted Places To Visit
8 October 2025
Ghost Stories in Luton: Hauntings and Chilling Legends
6 October 2025
horror & fantasy films
3 April 2015
Dracula Lord of the Damned 2012 REVIEW
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Ray Milland, Welsh Horror Star Who Won An Oscar
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Top 5 Cosy British Horror Films
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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
Goram and Vincent: The Giants Who Created Bristol
20 September 2025
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
Queensberry House: Edinburgh’s Forgotten Cannibal Ghost
2 September 2025
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
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
Thomas Gray’s Elegy and the Human Truth Beneath the Grave
3 October 2025
Edward Young’s Night Thoughts: Gloom, Mortality, and the Beauty of Death
22 September 2025
Dracula’s Lost Volcano: The Forgotten Eruption Bram Stoker Left Out
9 September 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
UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW
29 August 2025
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island
19 April 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
