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UFOs/Aliens

Adrian Hicks and the Winchester alien encounter

Television

Chiller (1995): The Man Who Didn’t Believe in Ghosts TV REVIEW

Ghosts and Hauntings Theatre and Live Events

Lincoln Ghost Walk: the stories that still unsettle a guide

True Crime

Margaret Docherty: the Halloween murder that exposed Burke and Hare

Paranormal

Why are Ghosts seen wearing Bedsheets?

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The Paranormal Bell-Ringing of Bealings House, Suffolk

Langley Castle Hotel has a haunted storybook appeal

Torbay: Haunted Places To Visit

Lumphanan: Murder and Ghosts in Aberdeenshire

What haunts The Guy Fawkes Inn in York?

Towers Asylum: Leicester’s Most Haunted Hospital

Why Haunted Himley Hall is my favourite spooky place: Andrew Homer

Essex’s 7 Haunted Woods and Commons You Shouldn’t Visit Alone

Contagion: In the Shadow of the South Shields Poltergeist

Tulloch Castle, Beware The Ghosts Of Room 8!

Top 3 Most Haunted Glasgow Museums to Visit

Devon’s 10 Most Haunted Places To Visit

Stockton-on-Tees: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Ghost Stories in Reading: Hauntings and Creepy Legends

Ireland’s 7 Most Haunted and Mysterious Islands

Horror Films & Television

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The City of the Dead 1960 REVIEW

Andrew Garvey

Viktoria, Supernatural 1977 (Ep6)

Richard Markworth

Rude Awakening: Hammer House of Horror (Ep.3)

Andrew Garvey

We Rank Amicus Horror Anthologies, From 1 To 8!

Terry Sherwood

Severance 2006 REVIEW

Guest Writer

The Book of Beasts: Examining Nigel Kneale’s 1970s Horror Masterpiece

David Saunderson

10 Doctor Who Scariest Moments

Chris Newton

Legacy of Thorn 2014 REVIEW

Simon Ball

20 Things You Never Knew About The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957)

Richard Phillips-Jones

Batman versus Jack the Ripper

Andrew Garvey

Caveat 2020 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 2009 REVIEW

Sarah Blair-Dickinson

Flesh for Frankenstein 1973 REVIEW

Richard Markworth

House of Frankenstein 1944 REVIEW

Terry Sherwood

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1912) Review

Barry McCann

Folklore

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Folklore

Illustrated Tales of Wiltshire: Eddy Greenfield Author Interview

Folklore

Morgan Le Fay, The Woman Who Stole Excalibur

Folklore

Springheel’d Jack: The Terror Of My Imagination

Folklore

Illustrated Tales of the Black Country by Helen Harwood BOOK REVIEW

Dark History Folklore

Healey Dell’s witchcraft and fairy legends linked to Robin Hood

Folklore

Magic Wands in History: From Ancient Times to Harry Potter

Mysterious Creatures

The Sluagh: Celtic Spirits of the Unforgiven Dead

Folklore

Beware Ireland's Death Coach

Folklore

St John Ogilvie: The Glasgow Dockworker Who Made A Saint

Superstitions

10 Rat Superstitions and Folklore You Didn’t Know

Folklore Literature

David Copperfield and other amazing caulbearers in fiction

Superstitions

Holly Folklore: Things You Didn’t Know

Dark History

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Dark History

Who Was The Last Executed Witch In England?

Dark History True Crime

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Burke and Hare ‘The Bodysnatchers’

True Crime

The Jack the Ripper Show

Dark History Mysterious Phenomena

When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor

Dark History

Doctor Faustus and Demonic Pacts: When Demonology was taught as Science…

Dark History

Haunted Templemichael: Knights Templar, an Ancient Curse and Ley Lines

Dark History

London’s Knights of the Living Dead

True Crime

How the Jack the Ripper Murders began

Dark History Mysterious Creatures

The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire

Dark History Literature

Shropshire’s Spooky Tale of Two Nells

Dark History Ghosts and Hauntings

Jeremy Bentham: The Man Who Mummified Himself

Dark History

Mad Jack Mytton: A Riches to Rags Story

Paranormal

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Ghosts and Hauntings

House of the Binns: Bluidy Tam’s Deal With The Devil

Ghosts and Hauntings Haunted Hotels and Pubs

5 Haunted Manchester Pubs to Visit for Halloween

Ghosts and Hauntings

Steph Lay Reveals Haunted Milton Keynes’ Hidden Ghost Stories

Dark History Paranormal

20 Spooky Things About Ireland’s Ancient East

Ghosts and Hauntings Haunted Hotels and Pubs

Discover Mercure Banbury Whately Hall Hotel’s Ghostly Secrets

Paranormal Research

Haunted Sefton: Merseyside’s Most Creepy!

Paranormal Research

Official Jamaica Inn Paranormal Team Interview VIDEO

Paranormal Research

Harry Price Versus The Psychic Frauds

Ghosts and Hauntings

The Haunted Back Road from Belfast to Lisburn

Ghosts and Hauntings

England’s Scariest Screaming Skulls

Ghosts and Hauntings Paranormal Research

Hodroyd Hall: A Haunted Barnsley Mansion

Paranormal Research

You Don’t Need Two Legs to Chase Ghosts, says Rick Hale

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