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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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5 Scottish Haunted Places To Visit On Halloween
16 October 2014
Spooky Halloween Fun For The Whole Family
9 October 2022
Nos Galan Gaeaf, Halloween in Wales’ Strangest Customs
5 October 2023
ghosts & hauntings
Haworth: Five Haunted Places To Visit
11 January 2020
Inverness: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
4 February 2013
Long Melford’s Mysterious and Ghostly History
20 December 2013
Haunted Rochester Castle and Lady Blanche’s Ghost
10 January 2025
Hook Lighthouse And Its Haunting Mysteries
30 August 2013
horror & fantasy films
Ray Milland, Welsh Horror Star Who Won An Oscar
29 December 2021
A Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 REVIEW
1 December 2023
26 February 2022
Dracula vs Frankenstein 1971 REVIEW
11 August 2021
2 December 2015
television
The Nightmare Man BBC RETROSPECTIVE
28 December 2014
Chislehurst Caves (Night 2), Most Haunted REVIEW
11 April 2015
Schalcken the Painter 1979 BBC TV REVIEW
2 August 2014
Armchair Thriller (S1, E21-26): The Limbo Connection REVIEW
15 October 2024
Dracula BBC 2020 Episode Two: Blood Vessel REVIEW
3 January 2020
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
St Willibrord The Rambo Monk: They Couldn’t Stop Him!
9 August 2012
Meet Bwbachod, the Welsh goblin
1 March 2015
Slua Sidhe, the Fairy Shock Troop of Ireland
23 September 2014
St Michael’s Mount: Guide to its Secrets and Legends
5 October 2020
A Year of Transformation: Embracing Wicca
2 March 2024
Dark history
5 Creepy Abandoned London Underground Stations
8 June 2019
13 Jack the Ripper Facts You Didn’t Know
21 February 2015
Why Did Jack the Ripper Stop Killing?
10 November 2025
Grissel Jaffray, Dundee’s Last Witch Burning
5 November 2014
Mystery of Roanoke: How 117 English Settlers Vanished Into Thin Air
28 November 2024
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
High Wycombe UFO: The Tale of William Robert Loosley
29 September 2023
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Britain’s Area 51
27 July 2019
Dargle Cottage UFO Investigation, A Cautionary Tale
16 October 2023
The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire
13 June 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Trewint Tor: A Tale Of Scaredy Cats On Bodmin Moor
19 August 2020
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
How The Loch Ness Monster Was Used For Political Propaganda
15 February 2015
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster
28 November 2020
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
There’s Something Mysterious About Milton Keynes
26 August 2013
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
2 January 2026
The Voice of Vrillon: A Hoax from Out of this World
15 June 2022
The Magnus Archives Episode 1: Anglerfish REVIEW
7 December 2021
Are Time Slips Caused by Paranormal Memory Tampering?
23 August 2023
