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The Haunted Trail of Lismore, County Waterford
28 September 2025
Ghosts of The Cotswolds Send Shivers Up Your Spine
28 September 2025
What Lurks Inside Winstanley House After Dark?
26 September 2025
Colin Wilson: The Outsider Who Explored the Mystical and the Macabre
25 September 2025
The Ash Grove Poltergeist: Leeds’ Forgotten Paranormal Mystery
24 September 2025
Paranormal with Purpose: Jaimie Lee‑Barron on Truth Over Thrills
23 September 2025
Edward Young’s Night Thoughts: Gloom, Mortality, and the Beauty of Death
22 September 2025
Guide to History of Ghost Hunting in the UK
21 September 2025
Halloween is coming!
Best Dracula Places to Visit This Halloween with Dacre Stoker
23 August 2025
Discover the best places to experience Dracula this Halloween — from Whitby to Bran Castle. Join Dacre Stoker’s Halloween tour or book the Bran Castle Ball
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Robert Burns’ Halloween: Haunting Origins of Tradition
12 October 2024
Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit
25 October 2023
Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
Halloween the Beginning: Ireland’s Cave of Cats
21 October 2023
ghosts & hauntings
5 Most Haunted New Forest Pubs
17 February 2021
Guest writer EDWARD NICHOLLS takes us on a crawl around 5 most haunted New Forest pubs in Hampshire.
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Ghosts of The Cotswolds Send Shivers Up Your Spine
28 September 2025
What Lurks Inside Winstanley House After Dark?
26 September 2025
The Ash Grove Poltergeist: Leeds’ Forgotten Paranormal Mystery
24 September 2025
Grace Darling’s Ghost Haunts Longstone Lighthouse
20 September 2025
The Smuggler Ghost of Happisburgh Lighthouse, Norfolk
20 September 2025
Haunted Cardiff Ghost Tour: Take A Self-Guided Walk
19 September 2025
horror & fantasy films
17 April 2015
11 June 2012
Taryn Barker Demon Hunter director Zoe Kavanagh interview
24 November 2014
Hammer Horror star John Carson dies, aged 89
7 November 2016
The Woman In Black 1989 Blu-Ray REVIEW
2 August 2020
Dr Phibes Rises Again 1972 REVIEW
8 October 2013
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
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
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
How I Embraced My Uncle Bram’s Dracula Legacy, says Dacre Stoker
1 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
