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Horror and Fantasy Films

7 Captain Kidd films that created a pirate legend

Haunted Hotels and Pubs

Landlord reveals haunted secrets of the Ring O’ Bells, Middleton

Folklore

Paranormal Britain wins Katharine Briggs Award 2026

Television

Chiller (1995): Number Six TV REVIEW

Television

Tales of Frankenstein (1958) REVIEW

Ghosts & Hauntings

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Margam Castle, Port Talbot’s Paranormal Hotspot

The Tall Ghost of Rochdale’s Belfield Hall

Paisley: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Middlesex’s haunted heaths and woods along River Crane

County Galway: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

5 Haunted Mills in Lancashire You Wouldn’t Dare Visit

The Beast That Terrorised RAF Alconbury

Gawsworth Hall: A Haunted Gem in Cheshire

Discover London’s Creepiest And Most Haunted Museums

Beware the Hairy Hands of Dartmoor – especially when you are driving!

The Dustman’s Ghost Still Gives Us A Shudder

Haunted Cyfarthfa Castle: Bogeymen in Merthyr Tydfil

The Ghost Of The Wicked Lady Haunts Nomansland Common

Supernatural St Andrews by Gregor Stewart BOOK REVIEW

Haunting of Lansdowne Crescent: A Edinburgh Ghost Story

Horror Films & Television

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Graham Humphreys talks Horror Film Posters

Spooky Isles

Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1974 REVIEW

Terry Sherwood

Doctors in Horror Films: They’re Four Kinds of Crazy!

Richard Phillips-Jones

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 2023 REVIEW

Richard Markworth

John Hurt dies, 77, leaving long list of quirky and strange film and TV roles

Richard Phillips-Jones

Thriller (S3, E2) I’m The Girl He Wants To Kill REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

The Nightmare Man BBC RETROSPECTIVE

Simon Ball

Photographing a Ghost 1898 REVIEW

Spooky Isles

 A Lot to Take In: Ghosts BBC (S3, E2) REVIEW

Gemma Johnson

Thriller (S1, E6) Murder In Mind REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

The Comedy of Terrors 1963 REVIEW

Terry Sherwood

Veronica Carlson, Hammer Horror Icon OBITUARY

Richard Phillips-Jones

The Amazing Mr Blunden 1972 BLU-RAY REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

7 Captain Kidd films that created a pirate legend

Spooky Isles

Shadows (S2, E3): The Inheritance REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Folklore

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Folklore

The Hexham Heads and the Werewolf

Folklore

The Black Elf of Islay Strikes in Battle

Folklore

Boggart Hole Clough: What is a Boggart?

Mysterious Creatures

William of Newburgh’s vampires and ghosts of the Dark Ages

Folklore

The Further Adventures of Spring Heeled Jack

Folklore

10 Anglo-Saxon Gods You Never Knew Existed

Folklore

Secret Devil’s Standing Stones In Marston Moretaine

Folklore

6 Famous Caulbearers with Extraordinary Talents

Cryptozoology Mysterious Creatures

What Is The Mysterious Anfanc of Wales’ River Conwy?

Folklore

Ireland’s Biddy Early, Wise Woman or Witch?

Cryptozoology Folklore

10 Loch Ness Monster Facts You Didn’t Know

Folklore

Celebrating Spring Equinox Meaning and Magic

Dark History

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True Crime

Whatever happened to Lord Lucan? The strangest theories revealed!

True Crime

10 Brutal Murders That Shocked London

Dark History

5 Powerful Scottish Witch Memorials

Dark History Mysterious Phenomena

10 Historic Disappearances That Are Still A Mystery

True Crime

The Macnaghten Memoranda and Jack the Ripper Suspects

Dark History

Gruesome Death of Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge

Dark History

Guy Fawkes Night: 10 Things You Need to Know

Dark History

Jennet Device: Whatever Happened To The Pendle Witch Child?

True Crime

5 Grisliest Hebridean and Highland Murders Of The 19th Century

True Crime

Britian’s Most Notorious Unsolved Deaths

Dark History

Aleister Crowley, The Beast Of Boleskine House

Dark History Cemeteries and Burial Places

Thomas Vaughan: Great Yarmouth’s Greatest Grave Robber

Paranormal

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Ghosts and Hauntings

5 Saddest Tales of Ghostly Romance

Ghosts and Hauntings

Grace Darling’s Ghost Haunts Longstone Lighthouse

Paranormal Research

Founders of paranormal research and the formation of the SPR

Literature Paranormal Research

Respect ghosts like humans standing next to you, says Robert Radakovic

Ghosts and Hauntings

The Ghost House, Gloucestershire’s Spookiest Haunting 

Ghosts and Hauntings Paranormal Research

The Haunting of Redwood Castle, County Tipperary

Ghosts and Hauntings

27 Spookiest London Ghost Sightings To Visit

Folklore Ghosts and Hauntings

Herne the Hunter: The Spirit of Windsor Forest

Ghosts and Hauntings

Hammersmith: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Ghosts and Hauntings Haunted Hotels and Pubs

Weston Manor Hotel Cloaked In Ghostly Romance

Ghosts and Hauntings

5 Scottish haunted places to visit on Halloween

Ghosts and Hauntings

Barrhead: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

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