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2 November 2025
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Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall
27 October 2023
Samhain: A New Witch’s Perspective
30 October 2024
Why FEAR at Avon Valley leads the UK scare scene
2 November 2025
ghosts & hauntings
Ireland’s 7 Most Haunted and Mysterious Islands
25 June 2018
5 Haunted Pubs To Visit In The Fylde, Lancashire
11 January 2018
Haunted Ramsgate: Ghosts and Paranormal Tales from Kent
2 September 2025
Weymouth: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
30 September 2022
horror & fantasy films
The Island of Doctor Moreau on Film and TV
24 September 2024
Bride of Frankenstein 1935 REVIEW
27 June 2012
Curse of the Crimson Altar 1968 REVIEW
16 March 2022
15 November 2014
The House That Dripped Blood 1970 REVIEW
22 October 2013
The Ghoul 1933 REVIEW: When Karloff met British Horror
3 October 2018
television
Edinburgh Vaults, Most Haunted REVIEW
20 July 2019
Shadows (S3, E4): The Boy Merlin
13 August 2023
Athelhampton Hall, Most Haunted REVIEW
23 July 2014
Chislehurst Caves (Night 1), Most Haunted REVIEW
11 April 2015
14 March 2016
23 November 2019
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Illustrated Tales of Cornwall, John Husband INTERVIEW
3 September 2024
Roche Rock Cornwall, The Home Of Jan Tregeagle’s Evil Spirit
20 November 2020
6 Welsh Places with Gates to Annwn, ‘The Otherworld’
9 November 2019
Lady Howard and the Death Coach VIDEO
27 April 2023
5 Deadly Welsh Curses That Could Destroy Your Life
17 August 2017
Dark history
British Death Through The Ages
20 February 2012
Morfa Colliery: Mining Superstitions and Ghostly Forewarnings
2 December 2023
Where Is Bedlam Asylum, London’s Original Madhouse?
6 April 2012
Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones: Aberdeen Sack Murder
6 September 2013
A Monk’s Curse that Blighted New Ross for Centuries
18 August 2018
Why Does Jack the Ripper Still Haunt Whitechapel?
18 April 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
UFOS & ALIENS
Charles Jevington’s Mysterious Journey to the Stars
13 August 2022
Cedric Allingham’s Flyer Saucer: A UFO Hoax But A Good One
6 October 2023
5 Unexplained UFO Sightings in London
30 June 2019
Attacked by a UFO: The Robert Taylor Incident
19 October 2019
The Warminster Thing, UFO over Wiltshire
13 June 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?
25 October 2017
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster
28 November 2020
St Columba And the Loch Ness Monster
8 November 2014
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Eilean Mor’s Empty Lighthouse Mystery
13 July 2014
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
Why Do Mystics, Misfits and Madmen Fascinate Us?
21 October 2023
The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell
21 November 2023
Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Real?
16 February 2015
Christmas Eve Tale of Crisis Apparitions in Waterford and Cork
23 December 2022
