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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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Ghostwatch, the birth of paranormal reality TV
19 June 2019
Spooky Halloween Fun For The Whole Family
9 October 2022
Dudley Castle’s Halloween Anniversary Ghost
7 October 2022
ghosts & hauntings
St Mary’s Church Houghton-on-the-Hill, Full of Ghostly Activity
24 September 2013
Did Civil War Ghosts Haunt The Rookery in Kent?
19 April 2022
Torry Battery’s Haunted Echoes of the Past
2 April 2024
Edinburgh’s Dark October: Newington Cemetery Ghost
14 October 2023
High Wycombe: Top 5 Haunted Places to Visit
15 June 2014
Scottish Royal Phantoms Still Haunt Linlithgow Palace
21 October 2017
horror & fantasy films
25 May 2023
11 December 2023
25 February 2015
13 July 2023
Hellbound – Hellraiser 2 (1988) REVIEW
11 September 2012
1 October 2015
television
Thriller (S3, E1): A Coffin For The Bride REVIEW
2 April 2020
Home: Ghosts BBC (S5, E2) EPISODE REVIEW
13 October 2023
Armchair Thriller (S2): The Chelsea Murders REVIEW
1 March 2025
Lady Sybil, Supernatural 1977 (Ep5)
18 September 2023
Thriller (S2, E2): Once The Killing Starts REVIEW
16 November 2019
The Nightmare Man BBC RETROSPECTIVE
28 December 2014
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
The Tragic Tale of Glasgow’s Bob Dragon
9 September 2013
Northern England Charms That Guard Against Evil
30 October 2023
Hedgehog Superstitions: 10 Strange Things You Didn’t Know
15 August 2023
Top 10 Most Disturbing Welsh Folk Legends
21 June 2017
Sleep Paralysis, a Visit from an Old Hag
3 June 2012
A Guide to British Dragon Slayers
15 October 2014
Dark history
5 English Pubs With Skulls And Other Dark Objects
18 January 2022
Haunted Echoes of Richard III at Greyfriars, Leicester
1 August 2024
‘Naming Jack the Ripper’ doesn’t prove Jack
14 September 2014
The Devil In The Derwent Valley
12 May 2023
Old Scarlett, Peterborough’s Spookiest Gravedigger
19 March 2025
13 Belfast Creepy Facts That May Shock You!
4 December 2017
Literature
Who is Dracula’s Father? BOOK REVIEW
15 April 2026
D.E.V.I.L by Jill Lincoln BOOK REVIEW
18 March 2026
UFOS & ALIENS
How I Started Hunting Ghosts And UFOs: Dr Robert Young
3 January 2024
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
12 September 2025
Did Ancient UFOs Commit Alien Abductions in England in 664AD?
7 September 2022
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51
27 July 2019
The Voice of Vrillon: A Hoax from Out of this World
15 June 2022
UK Beginners Guide to UFOs VIDEO
28 September 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
St Columba And the Loch Ness Monster
8 November 2014
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
Adventures in Cryptozoology: Interview with Richard Freeman
24 September 2019
Is Bolam Lake home to Northumberland’s Man-Beast?
29 September 2013
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
What were the Death Tokens of Wales?
23 January 2013
Meet Bill Ramsey, The Southend Werewolf
3 November 2022
Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen
9 September 2024
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
Why Do Mystics, Misfits and Madmen Fascinate Us?
21 October 2023
