DID YOU HEAR THIS STORY ABOUT A CLUB OF STORYTELLERS TELLING STORIES TO GET INTO A STORYTELLING CLUB?


You know those questions you sometimes get asked "if you could have a dinner party and invite anyone from any time, past, present, dead, alive, fact or fiction?" well, just for curiosity purposes mine would be Stan Laurel, Steve McQueen, Spike Milligan and Billy Idol to name but four. Anyway, to cut a long dinner party story short, a genius of a Scottish writer called William Meikle has turned that question on it's head, flipped it sideways, bounced it up and down a few times and has used it to come up with a fascinating book called THE GHOST CLUB. Without wanting to sound jealous I so wished i'd have thought of this idea first, but hey ho I didn't so the best I can come up with is to interview William and promote his fantastic book on here.

HEY HELLO, HERE'S A HULL HISTORIAN'S HISTORICAL HULL HAUNTINGS....


TOP TEN HISTORICAL HAUNTINGS IN HULL BY GUEST BLOGGER MIKE COVELL... 

WE KNOW HE WILL LOVE THIS PIC!!
As Hull prepares to lose its UK City of Culture shiny badge and matching rosette we thought we would let our good friend and resident of Hull, Mike Covell, tell you about some paranormal culture that you may or may not know about.  Take it away, Mike.

"In this day in age a group only has to have a vested financial interest in a property for it to be announced to the world that it is the most haunted property in the world.  Many forget to do the legwork, or look at the historical primary sources to ascertain whether there has been a precedent for historical hauntings at the property. "As a local historian, with an interest in the paranormal, I tackle cases of historical haunted properties by going back in time, albeit through the archives.  With this in mind I have gone through the archives to bring you ten stories from the haunted history of Hull" - Mike Covell

#LOCKDOWNSHOCKDOWN - THE NEW HOME OF PARANORMAL INVITES YOU TO ITS HAUNTED HOUSE WARMING PARTY... IF YOU DARE!!

Just when you thought it was safe to turn back on your television… the channel for the paranormal, proper paranormal is bringing you so much paranormal than you can shake a ghostly stick at..

There's no denying the growth of Paranormal on Quest Red, just 7 months old, the channel is now becoming the channel for paranormal, new shows, premieres, different styles, top stars who engage with their fans on social media AND not just the same old repeats again and again and again. Paranormal tops the viewing figures for Quest Red most weeks.

Now they are being even bolder and braver with #LockdownShockdown, their very own twitter hashtag to kick off their paranormal fest and a very special Facebook Live event, a ghost hunt, featuring UK Ghost Hunters Haun7edLIVE at one of the most popular and spookiest locations in the UK.

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES FOR KIDS: NEAR THE KNUCKLE OR JUST A BIT OF FREAKY FANCY DRESS FUN?

Thousands of kids will be wearing Halloween costumers whilst trick or treating this Halloween but have retailers gone a bit too far this year? 

TRICK OR TREAT? SICK OR SWEET? 


A MODERN GHOST STORY: WHEN GHOSTLY GADGETS GO WRONG.

Pozzitive Television Proudly Presents…
A NEW BBC RADIO 4 COMEDY SERIES
THE HAUNTENING
A NEW ELECTRIFYING TWO-PART RADIO SERIES COMING TO BBC RADIO 4 ON WEDNESDAY 11TH & 18TH OCTOBER AT 11.15pm
Produced and directed by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for the BBC

TIME FOR SOME SCARY COMEDY SHORTS (AND WE DON'T MEAN THE ONES WITH THE RIP AT THE BACK)

Female directors bring comedy Horror Shorts to Sky this Halloween. A spooky collection of comedy Horror Shorts is arriving on Sky this Halloween, directed for the first time by an all-female line-up. Curated and produced by the award-winning Merman team of Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford (Catastrophe, Bliss), this collection of Halloween-themed treats brings together some of the best new and established female directing talent in a fright-fest of short-form comedy.
Ghastly ghost tours, a wedding turned sinister and mysterious strangers harbouring scary secrets make for a spine-chilling yet hilarious collection of stories that includes: A Deal, directed by Nida Manzoor; It Should Have Been Me, directed by Emily Greenwood; and Twin Thing, directed by Kate Herron.

A plethora of paranormal programming when October puts on a scary wig and renames itself GhostOber!!


DESTINATION AMERICA LINES UP TRICKS AND TREATS, THROUGHOUT MONTH-LONG “GHOSTOBER” HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION...

We are a few days into October, or as it is known as (to some people in the paranormal world) #GhostOber and Halloween is just around the corner.  Yes we are a few days into the month but it’s Halloween all month long on Destination America with a celebration of all things that go bump in the night with premieres and extra content so spooky viewers will never want to leave the safety of their living rooms.

SKY CINEMA HALLOWEEN BRINGING 50 SHADES OF SCARY TO #GHOSTOBER

Sky Cinema to bring a week of fright nights with a dedicated Halloween channel


Sky Cinema is bringing customers over a week of fright nights on a dedicated channel to mark the Halloween season. Sky Cinema Halloween, available from 23-31 October on Sky channel 303, will screen some of the greatest scary movies of all time, including the original Halloween (1978) on Sky Cinema for the very first time - as well as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Hannibal horror Silence of the Lambs (1991).

Haunted Issue 18 with Nick Groff

This issue is guest edited by Nick Groff and will feature an exclusive interview with the man himself. This issue is now sold out and only available from our Etsy Store - Haunted House of Cards in digital-only PDF edition here and on our Haunted Magazine app. #dontbenormal




SO YOU'RE A BIG BRAVE GHOSTHUNTER? SO WHAT, I ONCE WORE LYCRA IN PUBLIC!!

So, here I am sat in a graveyard, writing my latest blog post, it's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight, I've just seen a sight that almost stopped my heart. I try to scream but terror has taken back the sound before I make it and then I freeze as horror looked me right between the eyes. Am I brave, am I stupid or am I just using the words to a Michael Jackson song to introduce this? Well some might say none, one, two or all of the above, but according to a recent survey, there are far more braver things to do than walk around old buildings and alleged haunted locations talking to things that might not exist and using equipment that might not work whilst you're taking to things that might not exist...

PRINT JUST GOT SCARY: is Haunted Magazine possibly paranormal's premier printed paraphernalia - perhaps?

SOME DAY MY PRINTS WILL COME

Now for the very first time, Haunted Magazine has a place where you can order ALL the issues that we currently have in print... I bet you're jumping for joy by that major announcement, go on admit you let out a little wee too. Come on, be honest....

DEREK ACORAH IN THE CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER HOUSE? YOU KNOW IT MAKES SIXTH SENSE!!

Celebrity Big Brother or as it's known as on social media #CBB starts on the 1st of August and I'll be honest, I normally don't watch it, the wife does, so it's on in the background whilst I am either a) working b) reading c) falling asleep or d) all of the above.  Watching a job lot of jumped up wannabees and egos wrestling to be King or Queen, playing up to the camera and basically talking a load of crystal balls is something I do most days, just by watching the paranormal groups on social media.. 

Ghosts, Witchcraft, UFOs .. just another night in the paranormal hot spot known as Ashfield....

7 MEN CHASING GHOSTS - IT'S ALL IN THE JEANS YOU KNOW!!

We've discovered Nottinghamshire's 'most haunted' location - and it may surprise you...

FLASHBACK TO JULY 2011
Six years ago, we made a FOI (Freedom of Information) request asking for police reports of Paranormal Activity, UFOs, Ghosts and Witchcraft ... 

We got the information back and then BOOM, it was in the papers, on social media and on the radio.

46 reports of Witchcraft, 3 UFO Sightings, and 34 "incidents" involving Ghosts.

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GHOST HUNTING BUT WERE EITHER AFRAID OR COULDN'T BE ARSED TO ASK!!

THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT FOR ME
Don't be fooled into thinking Ghost Hunting or as the self-styled experts like to call it, investigating the paranormal, is hard - BECAUSE IT'S NOT! Contrary to popular opinion, there is no rule book, no manifesting manifesto (see what I did there?) and certainly no degree or certificate on your wall is compulsory.  

Don't get me wrong, you acquire skills and improved judgement over time, but that's common sense and eventually it will fall into place. You don't need to be a believer either, some ghost hunters / paranormal investigators are sceptics or sit on the fence types and even if they saw a whole Roman Legion cross they're path they'd find some reason to dismiss it. They should really be called: creaking floorboard investigators, or banging pipes hunters, they are insistent on disproving the paranormal, spending their hard earned cash in doing so. I would say WHY, but this is the paranormal and everything is fair game in this world.


A GHOST HUNTER MATE STABS YOU IN THE FRONT, DON'T THEY?

MY EYES ARE SPOOKIER THAN YOURS?
So, you're out with your friends ghost hunting, OR ARE YOU? Which ones are plotting behind your back to start a new team, which ones are plotting to kick you out of the team and which ones are plotting to call another team up during their live ghost hunt and then hang up, but cleverly remembering to add 141 in front of it?

Millions of Brits, which include Ghost Hunters can’t stand' their own friends – because they are too high maintenance or have no shared interests, a study has found. 

THERE'S A BAND WAGON APPROACHING ... AND IT'S FULL OF GREEN EYED MONSTERS

THE MEDIEVAL SOCIAL MEDIA
The Paranormal is awash with cries and accusations of fakery and trickery at the moment, I can now easily imagine what it was like to be witness to people accused of Witchcraft in medieval times, the slightest suspicion of wrongdoing and / or dodgy-ness and you were thrown in the lake and having survived that, it didn't end there, you were further under suspicion from people and were killed until you were dead.. literally.

Haunted Magazine Issue 17. In Digital. In Print.

The leading paranormal magazine of its generation with over 100,000 digital readers per issue, Haunted is a magazine about all things paranormal that delves into the history and mystery of the paranormal in its own unique way. ONE THING WAS MISSING THOUGH, a printed version.

Well, it is missing no longer. Haunted Magazine IS BACK IN PRINT, but for a limited print run only, 500 copies are available AND once they’re gone, they are indeed gone.

Purchase your collectable and limited edition print version of Haunted Magazine and do what you can’t do with a ghost – HOLD IT IN YOUR HANDS.

You can purchase HAUNTED from anywhere in the world, at the click of a button or three and to keep postage costs as cheap as possible you can choose to have the magazine sent tracked or untracked, giving you the choice.

The magazine will be posted w/c 19th June and a proof of postage will be emailed to every purchaser on the day of despatch, as well as a free digital version of the magazine.

Thank YOU so much for your continued support for Haunted, whereas the digital version will always be free, we have listened to the people who have always said they’d love to see Haunted in print and be able to physically hold a copy. We have tried to keep the costs as cheap as possible and considering and taking into account design, publishing, printing and postage costs, we think we have.

#dontbenormal BE PARANORMAL

Haunted 17 including P&P UK
Haunted 17 including P&P US
Haunted 17 including P&P Rest of World
Haunted 17 including P&P Europe

ARE YOU BORING THE SPIRITUAL PANTS & KNICKERS OFF OF GHOSTS?


MAN WATCHING MOST HAUNTED!!
So, you're a ghost hunter yes, SORRY i mean you're a paranormal investigator, yes? Do you worry about how boring you come across, how you go on and on about ghost hunting to your friends and not realising your boring them into a snoring stupor? Do you complain too much about how many ghost pictures there are on social media, moan about gadgets, TV shows and all the paranormal shizzle in the paranormal world apart from the paranormal that you are involved in, do you love the paranormal stuff that your friends do but hate the paranormal staff that your non-friends do (even though it's very similar).

IS GHOST HUNTING BECOMING A SAGA FOR THE AGEING INVESTIGATOR?


So, YES we are back, the blog has been inactive for some time whilst we work on other projects such as the magazine, script writing, social media hashtagging and something special for Halloween 2017.

PUTTING THE EVIL INTO MEDIEVAL, THEY COULDN'T SPELL IN THEM DAYS...


Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds. Archaeological research may represent first scientific evidence of English practices attempting to protect the living from the dead. A study by archaeologists has revealed certain people in medieval Yorkshire were so afraid of the dead they chopped, smashed and burned their skeletons to make sure they stayed in their graves. The research published by Historic England and the University of Southampton may represent the first scientific evidence in England of attempts to prevent the dead from walking and harming the living – still common in folklore in many parts of the world.

HELP! MY BLOG POST IS HAUNTED...


twitter has gone into paranormal overdrive (just look at this)
ZAK BAGANS TO PRODUCE SHOW FOR UK CHANNEL!
REALLY?
YES, HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS THAT CHANNEL?

THE RISE OF THE DEMON AND THE RISE OF D BROWN: A SCARE FOR ALL SEASONS


This behind the scenes footage shows 10 terrified human guinea pigs taking part in ‘scare tests’ for Derren Brown’s revamped ghost train ride at Thorpe Park Resort. One terrified participant’s heart rate TREBLED to 183 bpm as they tried out the shocking VR attraction under laboratory conditions. The footage, captured with the approval of the participants, shows Derren Brown experimenting on ‘fearless’ participants chosen especially for their perceived ability to withstand shocks and fear. The subjects were the very first to preview the new VR additions to the illusionist’s upgraded Ghost Train – renamed Derren Brown’s Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon.

THE QUEST FOR THE PARANORMAL JUST TURNED A SCARY SHADE OF RED

Get ready for a NEW Quest Channel called ‘Quest Red’ launched yesterday, 15th March and Quest Red looks set to be the home of ‘Irresistibly Real TV’. Shows you can look forward to are… Is OJ Innocent? The Missing Evidence, Jo Frost: Nanny on Tour, Long Lost Family US, Martin Kemp’s Detectives, Vogue Williams Investigates, and a certain show called Paranormal Lockdown with ghost hunter Nick Groff. 

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? GHOST BROTHERS!!

TLC is ready to be scared silly, announcing a new season of GHOST BROTHERS premiering during its Friday night supernatural strand. Featuring TV’s first African American ghost hunters, Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass, and Marcus Harvey are budding paranormal enthusiasts on a mission to find out if legendary haunted locations are the real deal. These charismatic characters blend natural curiosity with comedic flair, bringing humor and good manners to the spirit world. With eight episodes, season 2 of GHOST BROTHERS premieres Friday, March 10 at 9/8c on TLC.

HALF-MAN, HALF OWL? OR JUST IRRITABLE OWL SYNDROME? ENGLISH FOLKLORE AT ITS BEST!

Phantom dogs, spring-heeled demons and a half-man, half-owl hybrid - these are just some of the strange and mythical creatures from English folklore that have inspired writers for centuries. It was while novelist Sarah Perry was driving through Essex with her husband that she first heard the story of giant serpent, with teeth "very white and sharp".

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GHOST HUNTING EQUIPMENT THAT PROVES GHOSTS ARE REAL!!

FACT: REAL GHOST 
The most authentic piece of ghost hunting equipment was developed and patented 54 years ago. Thousands of ghost pictures hit social media on a monthly basis and they are laughed at, scorned at, scoffed and basically ridiculed by expert after expert BUT the ones that feature this awesome piece of ghost hunting equipment are not laughed, scorned and scoffed at they are taken seriously and have made self-styled experts to issue humble grovelling apologies to the photographer. It has now become an essential piece of kit for the ghost hunter but it came from modest humble beginnings. 

SOLVED?? THE QUESTION THAT HAS BAFFLED GHOST HUNTERS FOR YEARS!!

In a recent poll on the Haunted Magazine facebook chat page it came to be that a ghost hunter's favourite biscuit was a Jaffa Cake, but that was not the end of the discussion, a lot of paranormal peeps were up in arms saying that the Jaffa was not a biscuit, it is a cake as the name suggests, it was literally all out war on the page. So in true investigative journalistic style we dug a hole in a haunted location and looked into it.

POSSESSION IS NINE TENTHS OF THE LAW, THE CATHOLIC LAW

"That is a possessed woman there," says Fr Vincenzo Taraborelli as he points up to an 18th Century fresco in his Roman church. "They're holding her with her mouth open. She has little devils coming out of her body. She's being freed."

WE ARE NOT WORTHY!! OR ARE WE?

Here at Haunted Magazine, we take ghost hunting and the paranormal very extremely bloody seriously, I hope it shows in how we conduct ourselves in the paranormal circus?

So, we want to find out how much are ghost hunters worth, now we've all heard the saying YOU ARE WORTH YOUR WEIGHT IN GOLD yes? Which means that if you're a skinny fella then you're not really worth that much, but if you're more robust and solid then there's a decent chance that you're going to be worth more in gold than johnny-thin-fella.

WE NEED THE TOOTH, THE WHOLE TOOTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TOOTH

**ALERT: NON PARANORMAL STORY FOLLOWS** ...But it is still interesting and something to get your teeth into...

She’s almost as famous as Father Christmas and the Easter bunny, but just how old is the tooth fairy ritual and why did pillows become the hiding place of choice? Plus survey reveals that while half of the UK currently leaves a shiny £1 coin per tooth, more than 20% of British kids are getting between £2 and £5 per tooth – that’s up to around £100 per child by the time they’ve lost all of their baby teeth!

Now That's What I Call Haunted Magazine!


Define the Paranormal? Many have tried, many have failed, many are still trying and the best of luck to them. Haunted Magazine has never tried to define the paranormal, never tried to understand it and nor we will ever attempt to. It is what it is, we just surf the paranormal waves, soaking up the flotsam and jetsam that often comes with it, bottling the best bits, adding spooky dialogue, a pinch of salt, eye of a newt and all that and hey presto Haunted Magazine arrives like an orb in a china shop.

We are back, we survived 2016, not that we are saying that we are celebrities but we are quite well thought of in Milton Keynes, we have a couple of fans in Berwick-upon-Tweed and apparently there's a Haunted Magazine fan club in Prestatyn. 



IS DOOFUS DISEASE HITTING THE UK?

 UNIDENTIFIED FAKE OBJECT??

information supplied by J.Welsh, Corroborating Evidence Operations
UOOOH, dynamite. What the hell is happening?

Will this be the first and last ever Ghost Hunt at Britain's oldest shop?

Haunted locations are ten-a-penny these days, every town, city, hamlet, village lays claim to the most haunted property EVER in the histories of haunted properties. Every county also states that they are the "most haunted" county in the UK. 
The question on everyone's lips, well maybe a few of you, is "when does a location become haunted?" Does it have to be investigated first to be labelled as a paranormal place of activity? Can a demon play tricks and cause havoc in a location but because no one is there saying "did anyone see that" or "woah, what the hell was that" is it just wasting it's time, does it want and need and thrive an audience?

HELP US!! Our Facebook page is being kidnapped by a Paranormal Team!!

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST 20TH OF JANUARY!!
Social media, it's been around for a few years now, it's like it was never not part of our lives, I can't actually remember the last time I went out of a night and there wasn't a mention of it anywhere on Facebook or Twitter.
If a group of people go out into the woods and a tree falls down BUT no one captures it on photo, films it as a LIVE video or talks about it on social media.... DID IT ACTUALLY HAPPEN?

S to Z to D - THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: DO THE MATHS (or as they say in USA 'do the math')


A Zombie Apocalypse would wipe out humankind in just 100 days, students calculate. 

University of Leicester physics students explore feasibility of surviving viral infection.

FACEBOOK FUNERALS: GO LIVE AFTER DEATH??

CELEBRITY DEATHS TRIGGER OUTPOUR OF FACEBOOK MOURNERS
2016 WITNESSED an unusual amount of celebrity deaths, including music legends George Michael, Prince, David Bowie, actress Carrie Fisher and sporting hero, Mohammed Ali, all of which have prompted worldwide mourning via social media. Unofficial tribute and memorial pages are created the moment the news of a celebrity passing breaks, often set up by management or fans, while some celebrities’ Twitter accounts and official Facebook pages remain active for fans to engage with.

EVER BEEN SNOGGED BY A GHOST WHILST DOING POTTERY?

PATRICK SWAYZE HAD READY BREK THAT MORNING
No? What about pashed by a phantom? Smooched by a Succubus? Still no? Ah, you've never lived. 
Maybe that whisper in your ear whilst you're ghost hunting is more than a whisper, maybe it's an amorous attempt to get intimate by an Incubus. Jeez, I don't know, I am just trying to build up this blog post.

now that 2016 has finally buggered off, how DID YOU celebrate its demise?



Can anyone remember as a kid the time when your parents let you stop up on New Year's Eve till midnight? I think I was about 8 or 9 and whilst stopping up until after the witching hour is commonplace with me now, there was something magical and wonderful about sharing the last night of the year with your family.