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5 Reasons to Thank Ireland for Halloween
30 October 2013
Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween
27 October 2024
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
ghosts & hauntings
Manchester Cholera Victims Haunt St John’s Gardens
16 November 2025
Wycoller Hall’s Ghosts and Legends
23 October 2021
The Manchester Mummy Won’t Stay Dead
21 January 2026
Grace Darling’s Ghost Haunts Longstone Lighthouse
20 September 2025
10 Scariest Banshee Hauntings in Ireland
7 July 2019
St Stephen’s Green, Dublin: A Centre Of Spooks And Spectres!
30 October 2014
horror & fantasy films
Séance on a Wet Afternoon 1964 REVIEW
6 April 2022
10 things you didn’t know about Young Frankenstein (1974)
3 September 2017
The Amazing Mr Blunden 2021 TV REVIEW
5 March 2025
Doctor Who British Gothic Horror Connections
27 October 2014
Scrapbook memories of horrors past
23 March 2012
Top 10 Greatest British Folk Horror Films
10 July 2019
television
Thriller (S6, E4): Dial A Deadly Number REVIEW
8 October 2021
The Haunted Airman 2006 TV REVIEW
17 February 2015
Thriller (S2, E2): Once The Killing Starts REVIEW
16 November 2019
Delapré Abbey, Northampton: Most Haunted REVIEW
15 December 2021
Caeser’s Nightclub, Most Haunted REVIEW
9 September 2019
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Top 10 Most Disturbing Welsh Folk Legends
21 June 2017
What is a Kelpie? Scotland’s Horses of Hell!
3 January 2022
The Princess and the Knight of the Blood Red Plume
25 July 2014
Halloween Monsters Crawl Out From Real Irish Folklore
6 October 2017
Who Was Jack O’Kent, The Welsh Doctor Faustus?
30 July 2014
The Trickster Fox in British Folklore
1 October 2022
Dark history
Secrets of a Highgate Cemetery Tour Guide
28 January 2012
Pardon the Pendle Witches: Sign The Petition
24 November 2021
Aleister Crowley, The Beast Of Boleskine House
16 June 2012
The Ghosts of Bolton’s Pretoria Pit Disaster
21 May 2015
Jack the Ripper Scares During Autumn of Terror
4 September 2012
Literature
Who is Dracula’s Father? BOOK REVIEW
15 April 2026
D.E.V.I.L by Jill Lincoln BOOK REVIEW
18 March 2026
Dr Jekyll and Mr Seek BOOK REVIEW
19 February 2026
UFOS & ALIENS
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
12 September 2025
Flap Over Broad Haven UFO Encounters
23 August 2023
7 Strangest Ireland UFO Sightings
19 February 2020
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island
19 April 2024
The Great Flying Saucer Hoax: How a 1967 Student Prank Fooled Britain
19 September 2025
Weirdest England UFO Encounters from History
31 March 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?
25 October 2017
Cryptid Worms: Legend and Lore
4 January 2019
The Man-Monkey of Shropshire Union Canal
26 January 2022
Cornish Owlman: Everything you need to know
2 January 2019
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Could ‘Near Death Experiences’ Actually Be Painful?
13 June 2012
The Supernatural Side of Stonehenge
19 October 2023
10 March 2025
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Mysterious Overtoun Bridge Where Scottish Dogs Go To Die
22 March 2015
