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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?

Television

BBC confirms The Witch Farm release date

Theatre and Live Events

FEAR at Avon Valley 2026 REVIEW: braving Malefica alone

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Why Is Grange-over-Sands A Spooky Place To Visit?

Harry Called: Is this Uncanny’s perfect M.R. James ghost story?

Merthyr Tydfil: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

10 Haunted Cornwall Pubs to Terrify You!

Hartlepool: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Middlesbrough: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Birkdale’s Palace Hotel with the Haunted Lift

Cleadon, A Village Of Ghosts And Monstrous Beasts

The Haunted Highways of Bolton

Relentless Spirits Haunt Cumber House

Whalley: A Ghostly Village Full of Haunting Tales

Haunted Frome: 5 Spooky Places You Need to Know

Hell Hounds of Jersey and Guernsey

Darlington: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Schooner Hotel, full of supernatural activity

Horror Films & Television

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Dr Jekyll goes Looney Tunes! Jekyll and Hyde in cartoons

Richard Phillips-Jones

Veronica Carlson, Hammer Horror Icon OBITUARY

Richard Phillips-Jones

Chris vs Bela: The Ultimate Dracula Showdown

David Saunderson

Boris Karloff London Location Guide

Stephen Jacobs

Torture Garden 1967 Review

Selene Paxton-Brooks

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 REVIEW

Sarah Blair-Dickinson

Targets 1968 REVIEW

Terry Sherwood

Black Death 2010 REVIEW

Simon Ball

Byzantium 2012 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Top 10 Creepy Kids in British Horror

Richard Phillips-Jones

Danny Moss and The Haunted Hunts Interview VIDEO

David Saunderson

The Woman in Black Facts: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

Kayleigh Marie Edwards

Werewolf of London 1935 REVIEW

Andrew Garvey

Thriller (S1, E1): Lady Killer REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Dracula TV Series 2012 REVIEW

Andrew Garvey

Folklore

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Mysterious Creatures

Bucca: The Sea Spirit of Cornwall

Esoteric Arts Folklore

Poppet Magic, A Magical Guide

Folklore

Spring Heeled Jack and other phantom attackers

Superstitions

What Does Rain At A Funeral Mean?

Mysterious Creatures

William of Newburgh’s vampires and ghosts of the Dark Ages

Cryptozoology Mysterious Creatures

Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire

Mysterious Creatures

What is a Selkie or Seal Bride?

Folklore

Ireland’s Fairy Forts and the Curse of Tara

Ghosts and Hauntings Mysterious Creatures

Hell Hounds of Jersey and Guernsey

Superstitions

10 Oak Tree Superstitions You Should Know

Mysterious Creatures

Goblins In British Folklore: Myths And Mischief

Mysterious Creatures

From Sirens to Nymphs: A Short History of Mermaids

Dark History

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Dark History

ZX Spectrum’s 5 Creepiest 1980s Computer Games

Cemeteries and Burial Places Folklore

Father Andrew Mullen: The Healing Grave of County Offaly

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Britain’s Forgotten Bodysnatchers

Dark History

The Disappearance of Owen Parfitt

Mysterious Phenomena True Crime

Pype Hayes Park Murder Coincidences Mystify Experts

Dark History

Last Sunday in August is Eyam’s Plague Sunday

Dark History Folklore

What are the Arthur’s Seat Coffins?

True Crime

How the Jack the Ripper Murders began

Dark History Folklore

Morfa Colliery: Mining Superstitions and Ghostly Forewarnings

Dark History

London’s Forgotten Inferno: Great Fire of Southwark in 1212

Dark History

Murder and Martyrdom, 7 Irish Saints and Sinners

True Crime

A Madman Feeds And Dances With A Corpse: Is This The Foulest Story Ever?

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Esoteric Arts

Sapphire: Power of Spiritual Growth and Inner Peace

Ghosts and Hauntings

A Haunted House Built by My Ancestors in Somerset

Esoteric Arts Folklore

11 Common British Garden Plants and How To Use Them in Magic and Folklore

Ghosts and Hauntings

Haunting of Dumbarton Castle, Scotland

Ghosts and Hauntings

8 Haunted English Churches You Must Visit

Ghosts and Hauntings

Murder, fire and ghost stories at The Punch Bowl, York

Ghosts and Hauntings

Eastbourne: Top 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Ghosts and Hauntings

Tore House: Where Fire Met Fairy Folklore in Haunted Westmeath

Ghosts and Hauntings

13 of Queen Elizabeth I’s victims still haunting England

Paranormal Research

Barbara Lowe, Paranormal Investigator Q&A

Ghosts and Hauntings

Was The Cheltenham Poltergeist The Real ‘Woman In Black’?

Ghosts and Hauntings True Crime

Charles Peace: The Victorian Killer Who Still Haunts Yorkshire

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