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Cemeteries and Burial Places

The Horrific Truth of Ireland’s Bog Bodies

Spooky Isles Team - 14 March 2025

Folklore

The Blood Worm Moon, A Celestial Celebration

Rachael Elizabeth - 13 March 2025

Ghosts and Hauntings

Edinburgh Haunted Theatres and the Ghosts That Linger

John S Tantalon - 12 March 2025

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Lantern Men of Norfolk Broads

The Lantern Men: Norfolk Broads’ Haunting Lights

11 March 2025

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

10 March 2025

Darren Sarsfield Spooky Isles

Ghost Hunting for 21 Years: Inside Manchester Paranormal

9 March 2025

The Amazing Mr Blunden 2021

The Amazing Mr Blunden 2021 TV REVIEW

5 March 2025

England Stone Circles

England’s 10 Most Mysterious Stone Circles

3 March 2025

Armchair Thriller (S2, originally untransmitted): The Chelsea Murders REVIEW

1 March 2025

Emily’s Room: Uncanny (S2, E4) TV REVIEW

1 March 2025

Dale Kaczmarek Spooky Isles

Dale Kaczmarek Paranormal Investigator INTERVIEW

1 March 2025

GHOST & HAUNTINGS >

Ghosts and Hauntings

Watford: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Christine Miller - 19 October 20200

Watford: CHRISTINE MILLER presents 5 haunted places in Watford you can visit.

Day of the Unexplained

Day of the Unexplained: Ireland’s Biggest Paranormal Event

4 August 2023

Haunted NIghtclub

‘Shadow Figure’ Terrified Me At Haunted Brentford Nightclub

4 August 2023

Watch Cyril The Haunted Doll And My Creepy Doll Collection VIDEO

3 August 2023

The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill BOOK REVIEW

14 August 2023

Haunted Castles

Haunted Pubs

Haunted Hotels

HORROR & FANTASY FILMS >

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 REVIEW

2 March 2022

Shaun of the Dead 2004

Shaun of the Dead 2004 REVIEW

28 December 2020

Christopher Lee facts

11 Christopher Lee Facts You Never Knew!

4 August 2023

The Omen Father Brennan

Where was the Father Brennan Death Scene from The Omen?

16 July 2023

TELEVISION >

Armchair Thriller (S2, originally untransmitted): The Chelsea Murders REVIEW

1 March 2025

Emily’s Room: Uncanny (S2, E4) TV REVIEW

1 March 2025

In Search of the Paranormal

In Search of the Paranormal: Skirrid Inn TV REVIEW

4 August 2023

Moondial BBC TV REVIEW

24 September 2022

The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells REVIEW

24 September 2024

Bella Ramsey as The Worst Witch (2017-2020).

The Worst Witch (2017-2020) TV REVIEW

25 October 2024

GHOST HUNTING

PARANORMAL REALITY TV

ESOTERIC ARTS

FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION >

The Blood Worm Moon

The Blood Worm Moon, A Celestial Celebration

14 March 2025

Lantern Men of Norfolk Broads

The Lantern Men: Norfolk Broads’ Haunting Lights

10 March 2025

The Christmas ‘Werewolf’

6 October 2023

Secret Devil’s Standing Stones In Marston Moretaine

16 September 2023

St Elian, the Saint who Banned Greyhounds

7 August 2023

May Day Rituals

Britain’s Weirdest May Day Rituals

12 October 2022

DARK HISTORY >

The well-preserved hand of the Old Croghan Man, one of Ireland's most famous bog bodies.

The Horrific Truth of Ireland’s Bog Bodies

26 January 2025

Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament

5 January 2025

Chewing Gum Grave

The Warning of the ‘Chewing Gum’ Grave

29 October 2024

Hatchet Inn: Blackbeard and Ghosts in Bristol’s Oldest Pub

11 November 2024

Image of Woodvale Cemetery in Brighton

Woodvale Cemetery: Victorian Beauty and Crowley’s Final Farewell

8 October 2024

Executioner Jack Ketch beheads James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, in 1685.

Jack Ketch: The Executioner Who Horrified London

6 October 2024

LITERATURE >

The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham

The Magician: W. Somerset Maugham’s Lost Horror Classic

18 January 2025

7 Chilling Victorian Ghost Stories Perfect for Christmas

7 Chilling Victorian Ghost Stories Perfect for Christmas

24 December 2024

Banquet for the Damned by Adam Nevill: BOOK REVIEW

4 August 2023

Dracula by Bram Stoker – Thoughts on Chapter 7

15 July 2023

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood: The Master of Supernatural Horror

22 March 2023

The War of the Worlds

H.G Wells’ The War Of The Worlds: Sci-Fi Horror Ahead Of Its Time

25 August 2023

Dracula

Frankenstein

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

UFOS & ALIENS >

Paranormal The Village That Saw Aliens

Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens TV REVIEW

8 July 2024

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine's Island

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island

19 April 2024

Haunted Clapham Wood

Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?

30 September 2023

Broad Haven UFO

Flap Over Broad Haven UFO Encounters

23 August 2023

Dr Robert Young

How I Started Hunting Ghosts And UFOs: Dr Robert Young

12 December 2023

UFOs over Irish Skies: An Interview with Dr Eamonn Ansbro

1 April 2023

CRYPTOZOOLOGY >

Beast of Bodmin Moor

The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?

10 November 2024

Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent

15 November 2024

Loch Ness Monster

10 Loch Ness Monster Facts You Didn’t Know

1 September 2023

Yeth Hounds and Alien Big Cats VIDEO

21 October 2023

Where Have Alien Big Cat Been Spotted In Wales?

6 August 2023

What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?

7 August 2023

MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA >

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

The Shadow Man Who Stalks Us

9 March 2025

Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament

5 January 2025

How Hypnosis Helped Me to See a Ghost

4 August 2023

Ley Lines in the British Isles: Your Essential Guide

28 February 2023

The Time Slips of Bold Street, Liverpool

22 October 2023

Time Slips: What Is It and How Does It Happen?

22 October 2023

EDITOR'S PICKS

Superstitions

Why is Friday the 13th considered unlucky?

Paul Moynihan - 13 June 20140

PAUL MOYNIHAN takes a look at the origins of Friday the 13th and why it's considered unlucky!

Russell Hunter (as Mr. Stabs) and Kenneth Caswell (as Luko) in Sahdows: Dutch Schlitz's Shoes (1975)

Shadows (S1, E6) Dutch Schlitz’s Shoes REVIEW

10 April 2022

James Bruce, the Scotsman Who Discovered The Devil

15 May 2012

Cleadon Old Mill

Cleadon, A Village Of Ghosts And Monstrous Beasts

24 May 2013

RACHAEL ELIZABETH shares a vivid and unsettling childhood memory of a porcelain doll that she believes smiled at her, which, combined with a ghost story, has left her with a lasting fear of dolls

My Porcelain Doll Nightmare

10 August 2024

How the Jack the Ripper Murders began

31 August 2012

The Flask Highgate: A Scary Ghost Guide

12 December 2018

Bodelwyddan Castle

Bodelwyddan Castle Hotel: Where Nature Meets The Supernatural

15 October 2018

Most Haunted - Mary King's Close

Mermaid Inn Most Haunted REVIEW

21 July 2019

Great Fire of Southwark 1212

Dark History

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

Richard Clements - 31 May 2024 2

Lockwood and Co

Television

Lockwood and Co: Episode 1 REVIEW

Gemma Johnson - 18 March 2024 1

Nina Dodds Interview about Dunster

Ghosts and Hauntings

Mysteries of Dunster: Interview with Nina Dodd

Spooky Isles Team - 13 December 2023 0

Newington Cemetery Edinburgh

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Edinburgh’s Dark October: Newington Cemetery Ghost

John S Tantalon - 14 October 2023 0

Joan Collins Horror Films

Horror and Fantasy Films

5 Joan Collins Horror Films You Can’t Miss

Spooky Isles Team - 7 February 2025 0

Haunted Clapham Wood

Ghosts and Hauntings

Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?

Peter McCue - 10 October 2023 1

Wardown Park

Ghosts and Hauntings

Ghostly Secrets of Luton’s Wardown Park

Spooky Isles Team - 1 September 2024 0

About Last Night

Television

About Last Night: Ghosts BBC (S2, E2) REVIEW

Gemma Johnson - 10 July 2024 0

THE ghosts of Button House declare war on their living housemates but it's to no avail... GEMMA JOHNSON takes a back look at Ghosts BBC episode two, titled Gorilla War

Television

Gorilla War: Ghosts BBC (S1, E2) REVIEW

Gemma Johnson - 12 April 2024 0

Ace of Wands TV Series

Television

Ace of Wands: Forgotten Cult Classic That Refuses To Die

David Saunderson - 23 February 2025 1

Sherborne Castle

Ghosts and Hauntings

Hauntings and Curses at Sherborne Castle, Dorset

Spooky Isles Team - 26 November 2024 0

Paranormal Burton Upon Trent

Ghosts and Hauntings

Paranormal Burton Upon Trent, Richard O’Connor INTERVIEW

Spooky Isles Team - 24 September 2024 0

Demons

Paranormal Research

Do Demons Really Exist?

Guest Writer - 1 August 2023 2

Christmas Carole 2022

Film Reviews

Christmas Carole 2022 TV REVIEW

Gemma Johnson - 9 December 2023 0

Roger Daltrey and Katharine Ross in The Legacy 1978.

Film Reviews

The Legacy 1978 REVIEW

Guest Writer - 16 September 2023 0

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Battle of Hastings

Ghostly Tales from the Battle of Hastings

Spooky Isles Team - 14 October 2024 0

Strange apparitions and chilling phenomena continue to haunt the battlefield of Hastings, more than 950 years after the battle that changed England forever

Batman versus Jack the Ripper

9 March 2016

Dream Demon 1988 REVIEW

8 September 2020

The grave of Jane Jones at Penyffordd Farm

Penyffordd Farm: Genuine Haunting or Hoax?

24 August 2023

Irish Demonologist Gavin Canavan Interview

25 March 2018

Liverpool’s 8 Creepiest Ghosts and Hauntings

26 August 2018

Austin Osman Spare paints nightmares

8 July 2012

Roche Rock Cornwall

Roche Rock Cornwall, The Home Of Jan Tregeagle’s Evil Spirit

20 November 2020

Wellington Hotel in Boscastle, Cornwall: A Ghostly Guide

22 November 2018

PARANORMAL

Hag stones

Esoteric Arts

How to Use Hag Stones for Magick and Fun

Callum Campbell - 6 January 2022 3

DARK HISTORY

Greyfriars in Leicester was plagued by ghostly noises and disturbances well before the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath the site in 2012, write former nearby office worker BEV BARSBY

Cemeteries and Burial Places

Haunted Echoes of Richard III at Greyfriars, Leicester

Guest Writer - 1 August 2024 0

HORROR FILMS

Dracula 1958, Horror of Dracula 1958

Film Reviews

Dracula 1958 REVIEW

David Saunderson - 12 December 2011 1

FILM REVIEWS >

Welcome 19

Countess Dracula 1971 REVIEW

Simon Ball - 13 October 2014 0

SIMON BALL reviews Hammer classic, Countess Dracula 1971

John Barrymore as Mr Hyde in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1920

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1920 REVIEW

12 June 2012

The Ritual 2017 REVIEW

17 October 2017

Martyrs Lane 2021 REVIEW

3 July 2022

Doctor Jekyll 2023

Doctor Jekyll 2023 REVIEW

22 March 2024

Dog Soldiers 2002 REVIEW

9 October 2012

Prometheus 2012 REVIEW

2 June 2012

Underworld Rise of the Lycans

Underworld Rise of the Lycans 2009 REVIEW

5 August 2014

Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell in Spirited 2022

Spirited 2022 REVIEW

5 December 2024

FOLKLORE

Welcome 23

Folklore

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

David Saunderson - 5 October 2020 0

ESOTERIC ARTS

Psychic readings

Esoteric Arts

Psychic readings: Secrets from a medium on what to expect

Andy Chaplin - 15 November 2017 1

HORROR FILMS

Joe DeSue in the monster in Blackenstein 1973, one of the key Blaxploitation horror films of the 1970s.

Horror and Fantasy Films

British Gothic Horror meets 1970s Blaxploitation Cinema

Richard Phillips-Jones - 29 October 2014 1

Irish Paranormal Investigations at work

Irish Paranormal Investigations, Ghost Hunting in Haunted Ireland

Pevensey Castle

Pevensey Castle’s Haunting Melody of Ghostly Fear

Skaill House

Skaill House: Orkney’s Classic Haunted House

House of Whipcord 1974

House of Whipcord 1974 REVIEW

Bentwaters-Lakenheath IncidentBentwaters-Lakenheath Incident

Bentwaters-Lakenheath Incident Tests Cold War Allies Over 1950s Suffolk

Do ghosts exist

Do Ghosts Exist? 5 Hauntings That May Prove They Do!

St Stephen's Green Dublin

St Stephen’s Green, Dublin: A Centre Of Spooks And Spectres!

Yew Tree

10 Spooky Facts About Yew Trees

Scotland Serves Up The Horror Films

The Devil of Christmas Inside Number 9

Inside Number 9’s The Devil of Christmas TV REVIEW

The Curse of Frankenstein 1957

The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 REVIEW

Wolverhampton: Top 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Psychic vampire, energy vampire

7 Ways to Stop Psychic Vampires Draining Your Life Away

Welcome 26

What were the Death Tokens of Wales?

Welcome 27

Adrian Atkins, Paranormal Investigator Q&A

Girvan Old Street Burial Ground

Girvan Old Street Burial Ground: Are ghosts of your family scarier?

Tracy Fahey: I’m Obsessed With Sinister Folklore

Chichester

Chichester: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Frightfest Guide Mad Doctor Movies, Dr John L Probert

Frightfest Guide To Mad Doctor Movies: Dr John L Probert INTERVIEW

Welcome 28

Brigid Goode, Irish Ghosts and Gettysburg VIDEO

Welcome 29

Lancaster: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin: Dark Truth behind England’s Infamous Highwayman

5 Black Sabbath Songs to Chill the Blood

Huddersfield: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Who is Bean Nighe, the Celtic Washerwoman, Prophetess of Doom?

Count Dracula's Great Love

Count Dracula’s Great Love 1972 REVIEW

Bill Ramsay, The Southend Werewolf

Meet Bill Ramsey, The Southend Werewolf

Allantide

Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall

5 Haunted Pubs To Visit In The Fylde, Lancashire

Child Ghosts Haworth

Child Ghosts: Remnants of Haworth’s Tragic Past

David McCallum in The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man 1975 TV Series REVIEW

Welcome 33

Newquay’s Scariest Haunted Places to Visit

Prometheus 2012 REVIEW

Most Haunted - Mary King's Close

The Station Hotel Most Haunted REVIEW

The Green Manalishi (with The Two Prong Crown) by Fleetwood Mac

Hammer Bubblegum Cards

My Hammer Horror Shock Theatre Bubblegum Days

Stirling Castle

The Trapped Souls of Haunted Stirling Castle

Welcome 36

Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1974 REVIEW

Navan Fort

Navan Fort, County Armagh: 7 Supernatural Reasons to Visit!

Rentasanta Rentaghost 1979 Christmas Special

Rentasanta: Rentaghost 1979 Christmas Special REVIEW

The Bride 1985

The Bride 1985 REVIEW

Precognition

Precognition: I Saw House Fire Before It Happened

Secrets of a Highgate Cemetery Tour Guide

Christine Donnelly, Hidden Realms Paranormal Investigators

Tam Lin

Don’t Go By Carterhaugh: The Lives of Tam Lin

Haunted Burleigh Castle

Haunted Burleigh Castle, Perth and Kinross

The Devil's Glen is in County WIcklow, Ireland.

Top 10 Strange Ireland Place Names

Charlotte Ritchie as Alison in the Ghosts BBC episode Free Pass.

Free Pass: Ghosts BBC (S1, E4) REVIEW

Druid's Temple, Marsham, Yorkshire

The Druid’s Temple, Yorkshire’s Ancient Folly

Cleadon Old Mill

Cleadon, A Village Of Ghosts And Monstrous Beasts

The Haunting of Hollymount Farm: Uncanny

The Haunting of Hollymount Farm: Uncanny (S2, E1) TV REVIEW

5 Haunted Mills in Lancashire You Wouldn’t Dare Visit

Welcome 40

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge REVIEW

Poached Guests

Poached Guests: Ghosts BBC (S4, E5) REVIEW

Robert Hallman

Essex Author Robert Hallmann Talks Ghosts and Dark History

Konga 1961 REVIEW

Pretoria Pit

The Ghosts of Bolton’s Pretoria Pit Disaster

Lewisham train cries haunt spooky South London bridge

Angela Pleasence Symptoms 1974

Symptoms 1974 REVIEW

Welcome 42

Children of the Full Moon: Hammer House of Horror (Ep.8)

Welcome 43

Thriller (S3, E5) Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are REVIEW

Welcome 44

Thetford: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Perfect Day Ghosts BBC

Perfect Day: Ghosts BBC (S2, E6) REVIEW

Blood on Satans Claw

Blood On Satan’s Claw 1971 REVIEW

Targets 1969 Blu Ray

Karloff Classic, Targets 1968, Now On Blu-Ray

Welcome 45

Donald Pleasence: To Halloween and Back

The Girl With All The Gifts

The Girl With All The Gifts 2016 REVIEW

Thriller (S1, E6) Murder In Mind REVIEW

Haunted Wardour Castle is scarred from centuries of bloodied history

Ghosts wander Wardour Castle and its haunted forest

Vincent Price Films

Vincent Price in the UK Part 2: In The Country (1963-1973)

Shakespeare's Witches

Shakespeare And Witches: A Dark Fascination

Many faces of Irene Adler, Sherlock’s “The Woman”

Libraries in the London Borough of Lambeth have some very special connections to horror literature and the supernatural, says guest writer DAVID TURNBULL

Lambeth’s Fantastical Trinity of Specialist Libraries

Mystics, Misfits and Madmen

Why Do Mystics, Misfits and Madmen Fascinate Us?

Dorian Gray 2009

Dorian Gray 2009 REVIEW

The Trap Door

The Trap Door Still Captures The Imagination

50 Berkeley Square has a reputation of being the most haunted house in London.

Is 50 Berkeley Square, London’s Most Haunted House?

A70-UFO-Incident

The Curious Tale Of The A70 UFO Incident

Binge reading all 7 Harry Potter Novels in a week

Lily Allen in Danny Robin's 2:22 A Ghost Story

2:22 A Ghost Story PLAY REVIEW

Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau BOOK REVIEW

The Badger in Superstition and Spellcraft

The Badger in Superstition and Spellcraft

The Wolf Man Facts

13 Things You Didn’t Know About The Wolf Man 1941

While staying at Churston Court Hotel, you can enjoy the sun and surf of the beautiful Devon coastline.

Is Churston Court Hotel, Devon’s most haunted hotel?

The Vincent Price Mocktail!

A Vincent Price: A Classic Horror Mocktail

Aaron Kosminski

Has DNA proved Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper?

Michael Gough in Horror Hospital 1973

Horror Hospital 1973 REVIEW

Something Evil Stalks Haunted Prideaux Place

haunted south london trains

Haunted South London Train Stations

The Volunteer, Haunted London Pub

Volunteer Baker Street: Profile of a haunted London pub

Welcome 49

Dublin City Centre: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Welcome 50

Peter Underwood versus The Vampire

Pendle Hill Witches

Pardon the Pendle Witches: Sign The Petition

The Others 2001 REVIEW

Phantasm Collective

Phantasm Collective Blends Mystical With Science

The Hardest Word Ghosts BBC

The Hardest Word: Ghosts BBC (S4, E3) REVIEW

St Mary's Church in Langenhoe

Was Langenhoe The Most Haunted Church In England?

Dumbarton Castle

Haunting of Dumbarton Castle, Scotland

Welcome 52

Circus Of Horrors 1960 BLU-RAY REVIEW

Haunted Edinburgh Vaults

Edinburgh’s Haunted Vaults Exposed

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