IAN  JARVIS

The famous Enfield poltergeist case of 1977 made it onto the cinema screens in 2016 as the Conjuring 2. If you’ve seen the other horror...

Where did Bram Stoker write his celebrated novel, Dracula? Take a pictorial tour of the locations that inspired the book and the places...

Why do people have this bizarre urge to literally throw away their money, especially these days in our current ‘cost of living’ crisis?...

The Rumba of the Beast was released by MX Publishing in September 2023, the latest in the Bernie Quist series of humorous detective...

Croglin is a tiny settlement in the wilds of Cumbria, nestling in the beautiful Eden Valley some fifteen miles north of Penrith. This...

There are only two places in Britain named Cottingley and, for some bizarre reason, they’re just fifteen miles apart from each other in...

With all the recent wildfires, flooding and other planetary catastrophes, the media is once again filled with horror stories of global...

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...

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...

Writing the Bernie Quist series of detective mysteries has involved plenty of research on werewolf legends, but one story that I was...

Judgment Clay was released by MX Publishing on May the 15th, the latest in the series of humorous mysteries featuring York private...

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...

A pictorial visit to the Suffolk locations used in Witchfinder General and a look at Matthew Hopkins himself. Witchfinder General. The...

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...

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...

Along with Borley and the Enfield poltergeist, the Black Monk of Pontefract (can we still say ‘black’ monk these days?) is arguably one...

Like all baby boys at the time, Jesus was ritually mutilated at eight days old by having the end hacked off his todger. Unbelievably,...

Borley Rectory, the Most Haunted House in England is a 2017 film by Ashley Thorpe starring Jonathan Rigby and Reece Shearsmith, a...

I watched one of those awful ghost shows recently, those 'reality' programmes, bought cheaply from the USA and shown on obscure Freeview...

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...