Category: Paranormal

With True Blood back for a fourth season, fans of the hit TV show will know that not every vampire is content with synthetic blood substitute. Some insist on the real deal, freshly decanted from a mortal vessel, and so it’s important to know how to protect yourself. Fortunately centuries of vampire mythology have described...

People didn’t just start ghost hunting, though from watching TV it seems like they have thrown themselves into it with particularly maniacal gusto over the last several years. A noteworthy, even altruistic aspect of Ghost Adventures‘ Zak Bagans’ new Travel Channel show, Paranormal Challenge, is the spotlight it shines on workaday investigation teams out there...

Supernatural romance comes to the London stage this week when Ghost: The Musical – adapted from the Oscar®-winning Paramount Pictures film Ghost – starts its West End run at the Piccadilly Theatre. As the show will no doubt put you in the mood for a spot of ghost-hunting, here are some handy hints for what...

Don’t tell anyone but I think I may be on to something. I have a sneaking suspicion that Prince William and Kate Middleton are secretly hunting ghosts on behalf of the British Monarchy. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (as they are now officially known) are to move into refurbished apartments inside Kensington Palace and...

With Captain Jack Sparrow entertaining cinema audiences in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, I thought I’d take a trip to east London on the trail of another pirate – this one of the supernatural variety. The waterfront neighbourhood of Wapping, to the east of the City of London, has changed enormously over the...

Heads up, folks! If she keeps to her supernatural schedule then now’s a great time to look out for Britain’s most famous phantom. When Anne Boleyn (or Bullen) married King Henry VIII she wasn’t his first wife. That dubious privilege had fallen to Catherine of Aragon, who had previously been married to Henry’s brother Arthur...