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Interview with Earthbound Paranormal: Helen Barrett and Simon Blake
16 November 2025
Manchester Cholera Victims Haunt St John’s Gardens
16 November 2025
BBC’S The Read: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece Shearsmith REVIEW
11 November 2025
Haunting Secrets of Hunters Tryst, Edinburgh
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Why Did Jack the Ripper Stop Killing?
10 November 2025
Ashley Darkwood’s Haunted Road Trip Begins
8 November 2025
Ghostly Secrets of Preston’s Hoghton Tower
8 November 2025
Lily’s Monster by Cliff McNish BOOK REVIEW
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Lake on the Cabin 2024: Behind the Scenes
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5 November 2025
It Walks Around The House at Night THEATRE REVIEW
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Why FEAR at Avon Valley leads the UK scare scene
2 November 2025
Mystery and Magic at the Goblin Ha’
28 October 2025
The Haunting of Blaine Manor THEATRE REVIEW
28 October 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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Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
10 Great Monster Songs For Your Halloween Party!
9 October 2020
Dudley Castle’s Halloween Anniversary Ghost
7 October 2022
ghosts & hauntings
Croydon: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
26 December 2021
Croydon in South London is an area steeped in history and paranormal activity. MONA HERB BOUGHTON tells us five of its most haunted places.
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Manchester Cholera Victims Haunt St John’s Gardens
16 November 2025
Ghostly Secrets of Preston’s Hoghton Tower
8 November 2025
5 Haunted Places in Dartford, Kent
27 October 2025
5 Haunted Places in Caerphilly
24 October 2025
Morett Castle: The Forgotten Haunted Fortress of Laois
21 October 2025
Ghost Stories of Eddystone Lighthouse, Devon
18 October 2025
horror & fantasy films
5 October 2017
Christmas Carole 2022 TV REVIEW
9 December 2023
Remembering Channel 4’s Monster Horrors Season (1986)
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The Amazing Mr Blunden 1972 BLU-RAY REVIEW
6 December 2019
television
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
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
Irish Pig Folklore: 10 Strange and Sacred Facts
24 September 2025
Dark history
Manchester Cholera Victims Haunt St John’s Gardens
16 November 2025
Why Did Jack the Ripper Stop Killing?
10 November 2025
The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
14 October 2025
Queensberry House: Edinburgh’s Forgotten Cannibal Ghost
2 September 2025
Arbor Low: Ancient Stone Circle Steeped in Mystery
30 August 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
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
