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Halloween is coming!
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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Robert Burns’ Halloween: Haunting Origins of Tradition
12 October 2024
Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know
7 October 2018
Inside Number 9: ‘Dead Line’ Live Halloween Special 2018 REVIEW
29 October 2018
Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
ghosts & hauntings
Isle of Skye: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
24 March 2015
Llandoger Trow: Bristol’s Haunted Pirate Pub
19 May 2023
Creepy Blue Boy Haunts The Coylet Inn, Argyll
10 June 2023
Britain’s 5 Spookiest Haunted Hospitals
5 July 2022
North Yorkshire’s Most Haunted Places to Visit
26 October 2022
horror & fantasy films
5 Dracula Films You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
4 September 2013
6 November 2014
Damien: The Omen 2 1978 REVIEW
12 April 2015
Blood On Satan’s Claw 1971 BLU-RAY REVIEW
12 June 2019
British Werewolves on Film, A Beginner’s Guide
9 October 2014
Incense for the Damned 1970 REVIEW
6 October 2014
television
Catweazle: Time-Travelling Wizard Warms Our Hearts
16 October 2023
Ghosts Christmas Special 2021 REVIEW
23 December 2021
Robin Redbreast 1970 TV REVIEW
23 October 2017
A View From A Hill 2005 TV REVIEW
26 August 2024
Exploring British Halloween TV Specials
2 October 2023
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
St Dunstan And His Devil-Beating Tongs
7 June 2012
What Happens in Newgrange on Winter Solstice?
21 December 2013
Holly Folklore: Things You Didn’t Know
24 December 2023
Michaelmas Traditions: Supernatural Marks Autumn’s Arrival
26 September 2024
Dark history
Dr Crippen’s Execution: He Swung Into Eternity Without A Word
23 November 2012
Saint Valentine, Heartbreak and Haunting in Ireland
14 February 2015
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
2 January 2026
Campden Wonder: A Mystery of False Confessions and Injustice
20 September 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
7 Strangest Ireland UFO Sightings
19 February 2020
Greater Manchester: A Hub of UFO Activity?
23 February 2023
The Curious Tale Of The A70 UFO Incident
23 June 2023
Ralph Noyes: An Authentic MoD Voice Amid UFO Controversies
29 November 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?
25 October 2017
How The Loch Ness Monster Was Used For Political Propaganda
15 February 2015
Is Bolam Lake home to Northumberland’s Man-Beast?
29 September 2013
Loch Ness Monster Mania – 1933-style
18 May 2012
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen
9 September 2024
Eilean Mor’s Empty Lighthouse Mystery
13 July 2014
How Hypnosis Helped Me to See a Ghost
24 April 2012
10 March 2025
Richard Case: How I’d Solve The Talking Mongoose Mystery
9 October 2023
