ghosts
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I’ve always been a fan of a good bucket list, and one of the items on mine was to go to the annual ‘Blame It On Robert’ party that was held at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida every Halloween. The museum was where the original demon dolly, Robert, was displayed in…
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This new year I was fortunate enough to visit the famous and ancient Jamaica Inn, sitting high on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. I’d visited this Inn once before, many years ago, so when I got the chance to actually go and spend the night at the old smugglers hangout, I couldn’t get there quick enough!…
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Once upon a time, a boy lived in a big old house in the English countryside. The house had stood in the village for longer than most houses that had grown up around it, and was the biggest and oldest house for miles around. The boy loved living there with his mum, dad and younger…
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On 25th May 1937, an advert appeared in the Personal section of The Times newspaper. The article read: ‘Haunted House. Responsible persons of leisure and intelligence, intrepid, critical, and unbiassed, are invited to join rota of observers in a years night and day investigation of alleged haunted house in Home Counties. Printed instructions supplied. Scientific…
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I’m going to be taking a little break from research and writing while I move house. I’m going to be moving into a beautiful 500 year old cottage that is just steeped in history and I absolutely can’t wait! If walls could talk I expect they’d have some amazing tales to tell. And I can’t…
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These tales come from Carlene from Lancashire who has had two memorable spooky encounters. In the first one, Carlene had moved into a house in Merseyside with her parents and four brothers and sisters. It was 1976 and behind the house was an old derelict gas/petrol station that had been abandoned a long time before.…
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We’ve all had that thing haven’t we? Where you see something out of the corner of your eye and spin around to find that there’s nothing there. Frequently, people attribute this to a ghost or a shadow person – something paranormal at least. But what is it really? Shadow people have been around in the…
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Back in 2008, I was shooting a horror film in this derelict mansion house you see in the photo above. We were shooting mostly nights so we didn’t have to black out all of the windows (I made all of my films on a budget of 50p) and had gone in early so I could…
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Two Places At Once This reader wanted to remain anonymous but has a wonderful ghostly encounter to share. The reader was working in a care home in the 2000s looking after elderly residents who needed around the clock attention. She absolutely adored her job and loved the residents she worked with. Checking Out One morning…
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Hell Hound Paul from Milton Keynes was living in a squat in London in the 90s. It was a big old townhouse in Ladbroke Grove with 10 occupied bedrooms and a huge communal space on the ground floor. They frequently had parties there, inviting friends from all over the capital to come and drink for…
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One Of The Most Haunted Houses In England Now, I absolutely adore an old building, and we’re deeply blessed here in the UK to have thousands of them that are open to the public. I love the history, the architecture, and I’m quite partial to a gargoyle – so the more gothic a building is,…
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Even though Sceptic is still in its infancy, I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking me a lot of questions. I really appreciate every email I get – even the shitty ones – so keep them coming because I do try to answer them all. There are two main things that people have been…
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Comment A man murders his family, and a horror legacy is born. This November 2024, will see the 50th anniversary of Ronald De Feo Jr shooting dead his whole family at his house in Amityville, Long Island. That house stood at 112 Ocean Avenue, and this mass murder was the start of a horror legacy…
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