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Haunted Hotels and Pubs

Landlord reveals haunted secrets of the Ring O’ Bells, Middleton

Folklore

Paranormal Britain wins Katharine Briggs Award 2026

Television

Chiller (1995): Number Six TV REVIEW

Television

Tales of Frankenstein (1958) REVIEW

Folklore

The fairy abduction of Anne Jeffries of St Teath

Ghosts & Hauntings

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Ghosts and Hauntings of Gisborough Hall Hotel

Dudley: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Barnard Castle, A Spectacle Of Strange Hauntings

5 Scariest Dublin Hauntings That Chill the Blood

Dalston Hall Hotel: A Haunted Ghost Guide

Newcastle Upon Tyne: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Rochester: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Edinburgh Haunted Theatres and the Ghosts That Linger

Phantoms of Haunted Craig y Nos Castle, Wales

Penyffordd Farm: Genuine Haunting or Hoax?

Is This The Spookiest Haunted London Pub Crawl?

Queensberry House: Edinburgh’s Forgotten Cannibal Ghost

Chillingham Castle, A Haunted Guide

Shadowy Ghosts in Haunted Lancaster Flats Creep Out Terrified Residents

The Witch Farm Podcast EPISODE GUIDE

Horror Films & Television

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What Inspired Charles Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas?

Guest Writer

10 London Underground Depictions in Horror Film and TV 

Kate Ingleby-Parylo

Scrapbook memories of horrors past

Spooky Isles

Lionel Atwill’s 7 maddest and baddest scientists

Terry Sherwood

The Nanny 1965 REVIEW

Donna Cuttress

The Shining 1980 REVIEW

Ann Massey McElroy

Countess Ilona, Supernatural 1977 (Ep2)

Richard Markworth

Magic 1978 Blu-ray REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

Hammer Mummy Films, We Rank Them From Best To Worst!

Richard Phillips-Jones

Penny Dreadful, Episode One, TV REVIEW

Jon Kaneko-James

Frankenhooker 1990 REVIEW

William Bove

Jacqueline Pearce Tribute: The Reptile on Film, an Angel in Life

Jason D. Brawn

Max Schreck: The Enigma Behind Nosferatu’s Iconic Vampire

Spooky Isles

The Black Swan Hotel and Devizes: Great British Ghosts (S1, E7)

Christine Miller

Nothing But The Night 1973 REVIEW

Stephen Mosley

Folklore

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Folklore

Discover Easter’s Pagan Roots: The Story of Eostre

Folklore

5 Deadly Welsh Curses That Could Destroy Your Life

Folklore

Visit Grovely Woods And Its Haunting Terrors

Superstitions

Shoe Superstitions: British and Irish Folklore Unlaced

Folklore

King Arthur’s Adventures In The Underworld

Cemeteries and Burial Places Folklore

Father Andrew Mullen: The Healing Grave of County Offaly

Folklore

Wayland’s Smithy, A Guide to the Mysterious Tomb

Cryptozoology Mysterious Creatures

Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death

Folklore Ghosts and Hauntings

Ceredigion’s Spookiest Folklore And Legends

Folklore

Olney And The Folklore Of My Childhood Home

Mysterious Creatures

Cyhyraeth: The Dreaded Groaning Spirit

Folklore

St Michael’s Mount: Guide to its Secrets and Legends

Dark History

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True Crime

6 Unlikely Jack the Ripper Suspects

Cemeteries and Burial Places Ghosts and Hauntings

Manchester Cholera Victims Haunt St John’s Gardens

True Crime

Dr Crippen’s Execution: He Swung Into Eternity Without A Word

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Kate Cherrell’s Top 5 English Cemeteries

Ghosts and Hauntings True Crime

Charlotte Dymond’s Ghost, A Body on Bodmin Moor

Dark History

London’s Plague Pits: A Grim Guide

Dark History

Isobel Gowdie, Witch of Auldearn

Dark History

Britain’s 5 Most Sinister Abandoned Mental Asylums

Dark History

Curse Of William Shakespeare’s Skull

Cemeteries and Burial Places

The Mysterious Coffin of Thatcham

Dark History True Crime

The Tyburn Tree: London’s Most Infamous Gallows

Folklore True Crime

Blackpool’s Horrible Flaherty Sisters and Their Trail of Blood!

Paranormal

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Ghosts and Hauntings

Haunted Carisbrooke Castle: Isle of Wight’s Fortress of Death

Ghosts and Hauntings Haunted Hotels and Pubs

5 Haunted Pubs To Visit In The Fylde, Lancashire

Esoteric Arts

Crystal Energy: How To Harness The Power

Paranormal Research

I Saw a Child Spirit at Antwerp Mansion

Haunted Hotels and Pubs

The Pack Horse’s Ghostly Footsteps and Giggling Children

Ghosts and Hauntings

5 Haunted Places in Stockport

Dark History Ghosts and Hauntings

Jeremy Bentham: The Man Who Mummified Himself

Ghosts and Hauntings

The ghosts of the Tron Theatre, Glasgow

Ghosts and Hauntings

Was Manchester’s Castlefield House Poltergeist Fake?

Ghosts and Hauntings

New Forest: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Ghosts and Hauntings True Crime

Charlotte Dymond’s Ghost, A Body on Bodmin Moor

Paranormal Reality TV Paranormal Research Television

Chillingham Castle Most Haunted REVIEW

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