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Does Princess Diana Haunt Althorp House?
Spooky Isles
30 August 2026
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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Psychoville Halloween Special: You’d Be Foolish To Miss It
25 November 2017
Teanlay Night: A Fylde Coast Halloween
4 October 2023
Spooky Halloween Fun For The Whole Family
9 October 2022
How To Make An Authentic Turnip Jack o’Lantern for Halloween
15 October 2022
ghosts & hauntings
Royal Tunbridge Wells: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
19 March 2015
The Ghosts of Llandaff Cathedral
7 August 2025
The Manchester Mummy Won’t Stay Dead
21 January 2026
A Fright at the Feathers Hotel, Ludlow
16 January 2022
Cambridge’s Abbey House Buzzes With Paranormal Activity
21 August 2013
The Ringcroft Poltergeist, Scotland’s Most Extreme Haunting
3 January 2021
horror & fantasy films
The Beast Must Die 1974 REVIEW
25 March 2015
Young Frankenstein 1974 REVIEW
9 September 2017
Charles Laughton’s 7 Best Horror Films
3 October 2024
Underworld Evolution 2006 REVIEW
19 August 2013
23 July 2024
Farewell Shane Briant (1946-2021), Obituary
28 May 2021
television
Uncanny Case 2: The Bearpark Poltergeist TV REVIEW
24 October 2023
The Tractate Middoth 2013 TV REVIEW
30 November 2023
Lady Sybil, Supernatural 1977 (Ep5)
18 September 2023
Thriller (S5, E4): The Crazy Kill REVIEW
3 July 2021
The Enfield Haunting 2015 TV REVIEW
5 May 2015
Sapphire & Steel Episode Guide: Classic Creepy Sci-Fi Series
13 October 2024
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Evil Fairies Bewitch Ploughman On Bennachie
18 May 2020
Did Welsh Giants Once Roam the Valleys?
3 January 2020
10 Spooky Facts About St George’s Day
22 March 2022
England’s 6 Most Terrifying Vampires in History
18 June 2019
Boggart Hole Clough’s Monster Waits in the Dark
14 October 2025
Molly Leigh, the Burslem Witch, or Was She?
22 December 2012
Dark history
Gibbeted: The Last Live Gibbeting in England
20 July 2013
Britain’s 5 Most Sinister Abandoned Mental Asylums
3 April 2015
Hatchet Inn: Blackbeard and Ghosts in Bristol’s Oldest Pub
11 October 2024
A Corpse by Lamplight, the Horror of Smalls Lighthouse
20 October 2022
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
Ralph Noyes: An Authentic MoD Voice Amid UFO Controversies
29 November 2023
The Curious Tale Of The A70 UFO Incident
23 June 2023
Alan Godfrey and the Yorkshire Alien Abduction
13 June 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire
19 April 2023
Where Have Alien Big Cat Been Spotted In Wales?
21 June 2019
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
Is Bolam Lake home to Northumberland’s Man-Beast?
29 September 2013
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster
28 November 2020
Adventures in Cryptozoology: Interview with Richard Freeman
24 September 2019
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Time Slips with Dr Ann Winsper INTERVIEW
16 February 2022
How Hypnosis Helped Me to See a Ghost
24 April 2012
The Magnus Archives Episode 1: Anglerfish REVIEW
7 December 2021
Why Do Mystics, Misfits and Madmen Fascinate Us?
21 October 2023
The Time Slips of Bold Street, Liverpool
22 May 2022
