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Latest Articles
Beaumaris, Wales: 5 Haunted Places To Visit
13 April 2026
Boys from County Hell 2020 REVIEW
8 April 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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Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
Samhain: A New Witch’s Perspective
30 October 2024
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
ghosts & hauntings
Black Swan York Ghost Stories: A Quietly Haunted Pub
15 April 2026
Beaumaris, Wales: 5 Haunted Places To Visit
13 April 2026
Crazy Mary’s Ghost of Pakefield Lighthouse, Suffolk
3 April 2026
5 Haunted Places in Loughborough
27 March 2026
horror & fantasy films
Five Missing British Classic Horror Films You’ve Never Seen
21 September 2018
The Descent 2005: 10 fun facts you didn’t know
8 November 2016
How To Make A Classic Horror Vincent Price Mocktail
1 October 2024
Mad Monster Party? 1967 REVIEW
6 September 2021
Dave Prowse, Hammer Horror Strongman, dies aged 85
29 November 2020
9 January 2023
television
Detectorists and the Ghosts Beneath the Field
21 February 2026
Small Prophets brings Alchemy and Homunculi to the BBC
13 February 2026
8 February 2026
The Room in the Tower TV REVIEW
31 December 2025
BBC’S The Read: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece Shearsmith REVIEW
11 November 2025
Sapphire & Steel, Assignment II: The Railway Station 1979 REVIEW
19 October 2025
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Meet Gytrash, Yorkshire’s Black Dog of Death
4 April 2026
40 Death Folklore and Superstitions You Should Know
12 March 2026
Daffodils: 10 Superstition and Folklore You Didn’t Know
27 February 2026
Dark history
Martha Ray’s Grave in Elstree: A Georgian Murder Remembered
20 February 2026
Old Cankey, Middleton’s Most Notorious Grave Robber
5 February 2026
The Manchester Mummy Won’t Stay Dead
21 January 2026
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
Lily’s Monster by Cliff McNish BOOK REVIEW
8 November 2025
UFOS & ALIENS
The Great Flying Saucer Hoax: How a 1967 Student Prank Fooled Britain
19 September 2025
Neil Nixon: Why We Still Don’t Know the Truth About UFOs
16 September 2025
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
12 September 2025
UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW
29 August 2025
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Sightings of the Huttock Top Beast Continue to Intrigue
18 February 2026
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW
1 January 2024
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
2 January 2026
Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?
21 April 2025
10 March 2025
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen
9 September 2024
