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The Demon Headmaster Keeps Us Spellbound!

Gemma Johnson - 9 May 2024 0

The Demon Headmaster

The Demon Headmaster, an old-school spooky BBC kids show from the mid 1990s, has mesmerized our Junior Paranormal Events reviewers, writes GEMMA JOHNSON

Exploring the Haunting Echoes of Craiglockhart

Guest Writer - 9 May 2024 0

Craiglockhart Hydrotherapy Hospital, Tales from the Crypts of Auld Reekie

Craiglockhart, a creepy old building in Edinburgh, is central to guest writer JOSS CAMERON's contribution to John S. Tantalon's chilling new paranormal collection, Tales from the Crypts of Auld Reekie.

Denbigh Castle Haunts Welsh Landscape

Spooky Isles Team - 8 May 2024 0

Denbigh Castle

The imposing ruins of Denbigh Castle in North Wales echo centuries of violent history and whispered tales of the supernatural

Spooky Isles readers SALLY SELL and SAMANTHA DAVIES share their creepy experiences living in a haunted cottage in West Sussex that made them (possibly) believe in ghosts

Friends Unveil Haunted Cottage’s Secrets

5 May 2024

Mystery of the Gwydir Witch: Beyond Their Emerald Spires

1 May 2024

Templemichael Castle Ruins

Haunted Templemichael: Knights Templar, an Ancient Curse and Ley Lines

30 April 2024

A scene from When Evil Came To Rochdale, a documentary on Channel 5

When Evil Came To Rochdale TV REVIEW

30 April 2024

Happy Death Day - Ghosts BBC

Happy Death Day: Ghosts BBC (S1, E3) REVIEW

28 April 2024

Hauntings by Neil Oliver

Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts by Neil Oliver BOOK REVIEW

27 April 2024

FEATURED ARTICLE

Morfa Colliery

Morfa Colliery: Mining Superstitions and Ghostly Forewarnings

Spooky Isles Team - 2 December 2023 0

LATEST GHOST & HAUNTINGS

Craiglockhart Hydrotherapy Hospital, Tales from the Crypts of Auld Reekie

Exploring the Haunting Echoes of Craiglockhart

Guest Writer - 9 May 2024 0

Denbigh Castle Haunts Welsh Landscape

8 May 2024

Spooky Isles readers SALLY SELL and SAMANTHA DAVIES share their creepy experiences living in a haunted cottage in West Sussex that made them (possibly) believe in ghosts

Friends Unveil Haunted Cottage’s Secrets

5 May 2024

Mystery of the Gwydir Witch: Beyond Their Emerald Spires

1 May 2024

Hauntings by Neil Oliver

Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts by Neil Oliver BOOK REVIEW

27 April 2024

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine's Island

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island

19 April 2024

Torry Battery in Aberdeen, once a defensive fortress, now whispers tales of ghostly apparitions and eerie encounters. GRAEME MILNE reveals firsthand accounts of the paranormal from this spooky historical site

Torry Battery’s Haunted Echoes of the Past

2 April 2024

The Royal Mile in Edinburgh is one of Scotland's greatest tourist attractions. RICK HALE tells you where you can find its most haunted places to visit

The Royal Mile: A Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings

16 March 2024

Chilling Truth Behind Ireland’s Loftus Hall Secrets

9 March 2024

LATEST TELEVISION

The Demon Headmaster

The Demon Headmaster Keeps Us Spellbound!

Gemma Johnson - 9 May 2024 0

A scene from When Evil Came To Rochdale, a documentary on Channel 5

When Evil Came To Rochdale TV REVIEW

30 April 2024

Happy Death Day - Ghosts BBC

Happy Death Day: Ghosts BBC (S1, E3) REVIEW

28 April 2024

Count Duckula Quacks Us Up

26 April 2024

Most Haunted The Stage Show

Most Haunted The Stage Show REVIEW

16 April 2024

THE ghosts of Button House declare war on their living housemates but it's to no avail... GEMMA JOHNSON takes a back look at Ghosts BBC episode two, titled Gorilla War

Gorilla War: Ghosts BBC (S1, E2) REVIEW

12 April 2024

Armchair Thriller

Armchair Thriller Episode Guide: 1978-81 Anthology Series

5 April 2024

Who Do You Think You Are?: Ghosts BBC (S1, E1) REVIEW

Who Do You Think You Are?: Ghosts BBC (S1, E1) REVIEW

1 April 2024

Lockwood and Co

Lockwood and Co: Episode 1 REVIEW

18 March 2024

LATEST HORROR & FANTASY FILMS

Chloe Franks

Daughter of Darkness: The Horror Films of Chloe Franks

David Turnbull - 19 April 2024 0

How Video Nasties Shocked 1980s Britain

24 March 2024

Doctor Jekyll 2023

Doctor Jekyll 2023 REVIEW

22 March 2024

Spooky Isles, with the help of its editors, writers and horror expert/enthusiasts, has crafted a chilling list of the top 50 British horror films, showcasing decades of eerie cinematic masterpieces

Top 50 British Horror Films Of All...

25 February 2024

It Came From South London

It Came From South London: Greatest Horror...

31 January 2024

Aiden and Aaron Truss

Pareidolia Horror: Aaron and Aiden Truss Interview

20 January 2024

Patrick Stewart as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol 1999

A Christmas Carol 1999 REVIEW

24 December 2023

A Christmas Carol 2000

A Christmas Carol 2000 REVIEW

23 December 2023

Albert Finney as Scrooge 1970.

Scrooge 1970 REVIEW

11 December 2023

Christmas Carole 2022

Christmas Carole 2022 TV REVIEW

9 December 2023

LATEST FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION

Candles superstitions and folklore

Candles Superstitions in British Folklore

Spooky Isles Team - 12 April 2024 0

Cheese Superstitions

10 Cheese Superstitions in the UK

22 March 2024

Wedding customs

Unveiling Britain’s 10 Wedding Customs and Superstitions Secrets

15 March 2024

Myths and Legends of Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland

9 March 2024

A Year of Transformation: Embracing Wicca

2 March 2024

Robert Kirk and the Good People

Robert Kirk and The Good People: A Fairy Murder Mystery

1 March 2024

A Rowan Tree in Elrick Hill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Rowan Tree Superstitions and Folklore You Didn’t Know

23 February 2024

10 Mandrake Roots Facts: Mysticism, Magic and Death

4 February 2024

Rain at a funeral

What Does Rain At A Funeral Mean?

2 February 2024

LATEST DARK HISTORY

Templemichael Castle Ruins

Haunted Templemichael: Knights Templar, an Ancient Curse and Ley Lines

Guest Writer - 30 April 2024 0

Curses and Violence Engulf Pittenweem Witch Hunt

1 April 2024

Jack The Ripper's Bedroom, 1907, painted by artist Walter Sickert

Why Was Walter Sickert Mistaken For Jack The Ripper?

2 March 2024

The Exorcism of Michael Taylor

The Exorcism of Michael Taylor

14 February 2024

Morfa Colliery: Mining Superstitions and Ghostly Forewarnings

2 December 2023

Jeremy Bentham: The Man Who Mummified Himself

14 November 2023

Calanais Stones, aka Callanish Stones, Isle of Lewis

Callanish Stones: Mysteries Older Than Stonehenge

2 November 2023

Halloween started in the Emerald Isle, and ANN MASSEY McELROY guides us along the road through five spooky places to visit there for a true Ireland Halloween experience!

Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit

25 October 2023

Why Witches Were Safer In Wales

15 October 2023

LATEST LITERATURE

Nosferatu dies in the sunlight

6 Dracula Myths Not Mentioned By Bram Stoker

Chris Newton - 23 March 2024 0

Alex Guinness as Jacob Marley in Scrooge 1970.

Who are the Ghosts of A Christmas Carol?

16 December 2023

Dracula Daily by Matt Kirkland

Reading Dracula Daily in Real Time: Interview with Matt Kirkland

14 December 2023

This House is Haunted by John Boyne is a suspenseful gothic novel, which keeps the reader hooked with every page turn, writes JOANNA HAGUE

This House is Haunted by John Boyne BOOK REVIEW

10 December 2023

10 Bram Stoker Facts You Didn’t Know

8 November 2023

Addiction Horror

Dual Faces of Fear: Addiction in Horror Stories

4 November 2023

Shakespeare's Witches

Shakespeare And Witches: A Dark Fascination

31 October 2023

Neil R Storey Bram Stoker Book

I’m Dracula Author Bram Stoker’s Kindred Spirit: Neil R Storey

20 October 2023

The Ghost Hunter Chronicles by Yvette Fielding

Yvette Fielding Raises Spirits With Ghost Hunter Chronicles Books

8 October 2023

LATEST UFOS & ALIENS

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine's Island

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island

Rick Hale - 19 April 2024 0

Dr Robert Young

How I Started Hunting Ghosts And UFOs: Dr Robert Young

3 January 2024

Ralph Noyes: An Authentic MoD Voice Amid UFO Controversies

29 November 2023

Phantoms in the Night or ETs highlights Lorraine McAdam's significant UFOlogy career, praised by NEIL NIXON for its honest and straightforward storytelling

Phantoms In The Night Or ETs? BOOK REVIEW

17 November 2023

Mark Olly's book, Europe's Roswell: 40 Years Since Impact, is a thorough and engaging examination of the Llanilar UFO event in Wales in 1983, writes NEIL NIXON

Europe’s Roswell: 40 Years Since Impact BOOK REVIEW

11 November 2023

Dargle Cottage UFO Investigation, A Cautionary Tale

16 October 2023

Haunted Clapham Wood

Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?

10 October 2023

Cedric Allingham's 1954 book "Flying Saucer from Mars," claiming a UFO encounter, was later exposed as a likely debunking hoax by TV astronomer Patrick Moore. NEIL NIXON tells us more

Cedric Allingham’s Flyer Saucer: A UFO Hoax But A Good One

6 October 2023

John Warren's UFO Experience in 1943 Norfolk.

John Warren’s 1943 Close Encounter in Norfolk

29 September 2023

LATEST CRYPTOZOOLOGY

Loch Ness They Created A Monster

Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW

Neil Nixon - 1 January 2024 0

Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent

Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent

12 November 2023

In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose

In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose

18 September 2023

Loch Ness Monster

10 Loch Ness Monster Facts You Didn’t Know

1 September 2023

Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire

19 April 2023

The Man-Monkey of Shropshire Union Canal

26 January 2022

Aleister Crowley and the Loch Ness Monster

Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster

28 November 2020

Trewint Tor: A Tale Of Scaredy Cats On Bodmin Moor

19 August 2020

Elliott O'Donnell Bigfoot

Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?

2 July 2020

LATEST MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA

Chasing Nightmares: The Horror of Sleep Paralysis

Chasing Nightmares: The Horror of Sleep Paralysis

Rachael Elizabeth - 26 March 2024 1

Crisis apparitions appear once to convey a message. RICK HALE explores the historical example of John Bonnell at Queen's College, Oxford

The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell

21 November 2023

The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery

The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery

27 October 2023

Precognition: I Saw House Fire Before It Happened

24 October 2023

Mystics, Misfits and Madmen

Why Do Mystics, Misfits and Madmen Fascinate Us?

21 October 2023

Stonehenge Crow

The Supernatural Side of Stonehenge

19 October 2023

Haunted Clapham Wood

Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?

10 October 2023

Richard Case and Gef The Talking Mongoose

Richard Case: How I’d Solve The Talking Mongoose Mystery

9 October 2023

In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose

In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose

18 September 2023

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FEATURED HAUNTINGS

Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin

Dublin: 30 Most Haunted Places to Visit

Ann Massey McElroy - 25 October 2018 1

Gravestones And Ghosts at George And Dragon Pub, Shipley

31 August 2019

Ragged Cot Inn’s Haunted highwayman and other ghostly noises

9 September 2018

Ghost Hunting with Richard III

4 February 2013

RANDOM PICKS FROM THE ARCHIVE

Denis Gifford’s A Pictorial History of Horror Movies

10 March 2013

Great British Ghosts

The Black Swan Hotel and Devizes: Great British Ghosts (S1, E7)

13 October 2020

Bloody Britain, at least we’ve got Hammer!

30 April 2012

Schooner Hotel, full of supernatural activity

22 September 2018

Lavender is a beautiful smelling flower and has many uses, including magic

Lavender in Folklore and Magic: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

12 July 2020

Foulksrath Castle Plagued by Haunted Souls

7 November 2014