Truro Ghost Tour: Take Your Own Self-Guided Walk
Take a creepy journey through Truro on a self-guided ghost tour uncovering eerie tales, haunted landmarks and chilling local legends
Growing Up In The Shadow of the Enfield Poltergeist
John West tells Spooky Isles how growing up near the Enfield Poltergeist sparked his lifelong search for paranormal truth
Haunted Bootle: 7 Spooky Tales from a Dockside Town
Bootle’s dark past lives on through eerie local legends and ghost sightings that continue to haunt its streets today
Irish Vampires Before Dracula: From Dearg Due to Le Fanu’s Carmilla
Ireland’s chilling vampire folklore and Gothic fiction laid the foundation for Dracula long before Bram Stoker gave him fangs
Bram Stoker’s Dublin Childhood: Folklore, Illness and Horror
Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, spent a sickly childhood in 19th-century Dublin, where local folklore shaped his imagination
I Waited for the Ghost Coach at the Molesworth Arms
A stay at the haunted Molesworth Arms on New Year’s Eve brings more questions than answers—and perhaps a missed encounter with Cornwall’s ghostliest legend, writes DAVID SAUNDERSON
Richard Clements: From Ongar’s Ghostly Airman to Psychic Questing in Essex
Veteran paranormal investigator Richard Clements blends scepticism and curiosity in his explorations of ghostly encounters and psychic questing across Essex
Neil Nixon: Why We Still Don’t Know the Truth About UFOs
Veteran UFO investigator Neil Nixon explains why, despite decades of sightings and speculation, we still don’t know the full truth about UFOs
Ghosts of Whistlebinkies Roam Edinburgh’s Vaults
Whistlebinkies in Edinburgh is the rare pub where you can enjoy a gig, a pint, and possibly a ghost — all in the same evening
Wycombe Paracon 2025: A Spooky Conference in a Very Haunted Pub
Wycombe Paracon returns on 1 November with a day of paranormal talks, local legends and ghostly tales set inside the haunted King’s Arms in Amersham
New Lowndes Arms, Whaddon’s Haunted Village Pub
The New Lowndes Arms in Buckinghamshire hides a chilling side that keep paranormal investigators coming back, says Ghostly Gathering’s Emma Saunders
The Cloisters: Letchworth’s Hidden Spirits
A fleeting visit to The Cloisters in Letchworth reveals eerie encounters and lingering echoes from the past, writes EMMA SAUNDERS of Ghostly Gatherings
The Moaning Workman of Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse
The Moaning Workman is a spectre said to haunt Burnham-on-Sea’s High Lighthouse after a fatal fall during its construction
Ghost Hunter Launches ‘Respectful’ Paranormal Hub
After decades of ghost hunting, Michael Hulse has launched Paranormal Country, an online community, to offer a more respectful space for sharing unexplained experiences
Haunted Leeds Beckett University: The Campus That Never Sleeps
Leeds Beckett University’s Headingley Campus is a place where the dead do not wander – they wait
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
The 1912 Sheerness UFO incident, involving mysterious lights and wartime fears, remains one of Britain’s earliest and most intriguing aerial mysteries, writes NEIL NIXON
Steph Lay Reveals Haunted Milton Keynes’ Hidden Ghost Stories
Psychologist and writer Dr Steph Lay is uncovering Milton Keynes’ hidden haunted history through first-hand ghost stories shared on her blog City of Secrets
Ghosts of the Roman Pharos, Dover Castle
A ghostly hooded monk and spooky ancient soldier are said to wander the 2,000-year-old ancient ruins of Roman Pharos at Dover Castle
Haunted Speke Hall’s Grey Lady
When moonlight glances across the Tapestry Room at Speke Hall, some say the silence is not stillness but sorrow
5 Haunted Sheffield Pubs You Can Visit
Sheffield pubs hold more than beer and banter. Behind the tiled bars and oak beams, spirits linger, and patrons still whisper about the city’s most haunted drinking holes
Robert Blair’s The Grave: Dark Humour, Death, and the Questions That Haunt Us
Robert Blair’s The Grave is a darkly humorous meditation on death that asks the questions we all secretly want answered, writes WILLIAM BOVE
Haunted: E. Jay Gilbert’s Journey Through Britain’s Ghost Lore
Dr E. Jay Gilbert tells Spooky Isles how studying language helped her trace the voices behind Britain’s ghosts in Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives
Is Craigcrook Castle Edinburgh’s Most Frightening Haunting?
Craigcrook Castle in Edinburgh gave a respected ghosthunter the fright of his life in 2014, but its haunted reputation goes back decades, writes DAVID SAUNDERSON
Dracula’s Lost Volcano: The Forgotten Eruption Bram Stoker Left Out
Bram Stoker originally envisioned Dracula’s final battle atop a real-life extinct volcano, a fiery climax that was ultimately cut from the novel’s ending
