A BLOGLIN – A BLOG ON BRITAIN’S FAMOUS TALE OF THE UNDEAD - THE CROGLIN VAMPIRE.
Croglin is a tiny settlement in the wilds of Cumbria, nestling in the beautiful Eden Valley some fifteen miles north of Penrith. This...
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ianjarvis2000
- Jan 9, 2022
- 3 min
COTTINGLEY - A BIT OF A FAIRY STORY
There are only two places in Britain named Cottingley and, for some bizarre reason, they’re just fifteen miles apart from each other in...
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ianjarvis2000
- Sep 14, 2021
- 5 min
GLOBAL WARMING - HIT OR MYTH?
With all the recent wildfires, flooding and other planetary catastrophes, the media is once again filled with horror stories of global...
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ianjarvis2000
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
IS THERE ANYMONEY THERE?
Advice for spirits in the afterlife who wish to contact the living. One of the central characters in my novel Badda Moon Rising is a fake...
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ianjarvis2000
- Mar 20, 2021
- 3 min
IS THERE ANYMOGGY THERE?
I wonder if anyone can help with animal spirits and pet hauntings? In the 1980s, I used to know a girl named Linda who worked as a...
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ianjarvis2000
- Jan 24, 2021
- 5 min
NETHERWOOD - A BEASTLY NIGHT IN HASTINGS
Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast 666 and self-proclaimed ‘wickedest man in the world’. Whenever most people picture this notorious...
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ianjarvis2000
- Sep 4, 2019
- 5 min
IF YOU WANT TO GET A HEAD...
Writing the Bernie Quist series of detective mysteries has involved plenty of research on werewolf legends, but one story that I was...
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ianjarvis2000
- Apr 22, 2019
- 3 min
CLAY THE 15th - JUDGMENT CLAY.
Judgment Clay was released by MX Publishing on May the 15th, the latest in the series of humorous mysteries featuring York private...
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ianjarvis2000
- Nov 18, 2018
- 5 min
I SEE A TALL DARK STRANGER AND A BOOK - JUDGMENT CLAY
Standing by the harbour in the pretty Yorkshire fishing port of Whitby you’ll find a wooden shack owned by a gypsy named Lee Ester Alita...
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ianjarvis2000
- Jul 19, 2018
- 4 min
GENERALLY SPEAKING...
A pictorial visit to the Suffolk locations used in Witchfinder General and a look at Matthew Hopkins himself. Witchfinder General. The...
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ianjarvis2000
- May 26, 2018
- 8 min
FRANK - SEVEN YEARS FAKING THE MONSTER
I was nominated on one of those Facebook polls, sent by friends, to come up with a book that makes me feel happy. Mark Chapman would...
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ianjarvis2000
- May 12, 2018
- 3 min
WHATEVER POSSESSED YOU TO GO THERE?
A pictorial visit to the locations used in the Exorcist. In the 45 years since the Exorcist opened in cinemas very little has changed in...
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ianjarvis2000
- Mar 20, 2018
- 5 min
THE BLACK MONK OF PONTEFRACT
Along with Borley and the Enfield poltergeist, the Black Monk of Pontefract (can we still say ‘black’ monk these days?) is arguably one...
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ianjarvis2000
- Jan 23, 2018
- 2 min
HERE'S A GOOD TIP...
Like all baby boys at the time, Jesus was ritually mutilated at eight days old by having the end hacked off his todger. Unbelievably,...
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ianjarvis2000
- Oct 16, 2017
- 6 min
BORLEY RECTORY
Borley Rectory, the Most Haunted House in England is a 2017 film by Ashley Thorpe starring Jonathan Rigby and Reece Shearsmith, a...
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ianjarvis2000
- Sep 5, 2017
- 5 min
I WOULDN'T BE SEEN DEAD WEARING THAT.
I watched one of those awful ghost programmes recently, those shows bought cheaply from the USA and shown on obscure Freeview channels –...
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ianjarvis2000
- Jul 10, 2017
- 5 min
‘THE FUTURE IS NOT SET’ – SARAH CONNOR, CIRCA 1991, OR 1984, OR POSSIBLY 2015.
Standing by the harbour in the pretty Yorkshire fishing town of Whitby you’ll find a wooden shack owned by a gypsy named Lee Ester Alita...
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ianjarvis2000
- May 22, 2017
- 5 min
'PARANORMAL ADVENTURES IN YORK? ELEMENTARY.'
The City of York and a Supernatural Sherlock York has many claims to fame, one of the lesser known being that it has more ghosts and...
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ianjarvis2000
- May 12, 2017
- 3 min
CRY WOLF, OR CRY ACADEMIC EXPLANATION
Scientific insight into the Yorkshire Werewolf. This time last year, frightened villagers around Beverley began reporting sightings of an...
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ianjarvis2000
- May 4, 2017
- 4 min
WHO'S HE AND WHY IS SHE SCARED OF HIM?
How do you watch films at home these days? This may sound a bit weird to some, but I’m a film lover and always watch the whole movie from...
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