4 d. ago Charli xcx: House ft John Cale review – haunt me, then! An elegant, brutal taste of the Wuthering Heights OST

(Atlantic) Featuring a lugubrious monologue from the Velvet Underground legend, its jagged strings are more reminiscent of that band than anything on BratWhen Charli xcx says her first new material in more than a year is “something entirely new, entirely opposite” to the sound she pursued on the era-defining Brat, she isn’t joking. Taken from the soundtrack to director Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the darkly gothic House bears almost no relation in sound or mood to the contents of Brat: it was, she says, inspired by John Cale’s description of the sound of his old mob the Velvet Underground as “elegant and brutal”.Always skilled and generous at collaboration, here Charli xcx cedes two-thirds of the track’s vocal to Cale. He delivers a monologue – oblique and initially conversational, it turns increasingly ominous – in a voice that’s rich, sonorous and, to a certain kind of music fan at least, immediate recognisable. Weathered by time at age 83, it’s ...

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7 d. ago Inside the Osbournes' haunted house – Sharon's 'demon attack' to 'unexplainable' encounters

Jack Osbourne said he encountered "unexplainable" paranormal phenomena at his Grade-II listed home in England, returning there to shoot various ghost shows for TV

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1 week ago Coronation Street star Beverley Callard pleads to 'run' as barn house 'haunted by spirits'

The actress has been seen pleading to 'run' as she was seen seeking help from a team of paranormal experts

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2 w. ago Inside Britain's most haunted house where eerie shadows appear in mirrors and a figure roams the bedrooms

Snuggling up in bed in their three-bedroomed rural cottage in Ross-on-Wye, Chris Benwell and his fiancée Pam Webb turned off the lights and settled down for the night.

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2 w. ago Inside Britain's 'most haunted house' that no one wanted to buy for 12 years

After sitting eerily on the market for more than a decade, Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting bought The Cage earlier this year

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2 w. ago My house is plagued by ‘ghost’ who slams doors, turns shower on and spins coins at 5am could it be linked to evil past?

WHEN I bought a new home in 2020 after a painful divorce, I thought I’d found the perfect place for a fresh start. It was a small Victorian terrace in Walthamstow, north-east London, on a street that felt quiet and cosy – somewhere safe for my four-year-old daughter to grow. Then I discovered it was...

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2 w. ago Owners of UK's 'most haunted house' say home renovations sparked spooky activity

Paranormal investigators Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting said their home renovations caused spooky activity.

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2 w. ago 'I did the 10 haunted houses at Universal – here's the hidden Easter eggs to spot'

Beneath the jump scares and gore at Halloween Horror Nights 2025 lies something only the most devoted visitors notice - a secret layer of the event built for those who pay attention

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2 w. ago Inside Motherwell's most haunted Halloween house as family open their doors

The Howson family are set to open their Halloween house for the 19th year in a row - and they say it's better than Christmas.

Society

2 w. ago 'We're restoring Britain's most haunted house – things go bump in the night'

Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting bought The Cage in St Osyth, Essex earlier this year after finding out it was up for sale from a friend - and have been spooked by the goings on

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2 w. ago I tried out a virtual Halloween festival – and got more than I bargained for

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visitIn an attempt to avoid spending £80 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in a row to secure a ticket to a Scottish farm to tramp damply around looking at pumpkins, I tried something different with my kids this Halloween: a virtual pumpkin festival.Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu’s real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. It has improved slightly every year: 2024’s big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took...

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2 w. ago The Séance of Blake Manor review – gripping gothic detective game steeped in mystery and menace

Raw Fury/Spooky Doorway; PCAn atmospheric folk-horror adventure combines colonial guilt, spiritualism and supernatural chills in a tale of secrets and seances on Ireland’s haunted west coastA remote manor house on the west coast of Ireland, an eccentric cast of misfits and ne’er-do-wells, a dapper investigator with secrets of his own. The Séance of Blake Manor sounds like the stuff of cosy Sunday evening gaming. Thankfully, this folk-horror drama has much more to offer than a bit of fun for Agatha Christie fans.It’s October 1897, and you play as private investigator Declan Ward, sent to the aforementioned manor – now a grand hotel – to discover the whereabouts of one of its guests, Evelyn Deane, who has gone missing in mysterious circumstances. What you discover is a gothic mansion filled with eccentrics: from a psychic researcher wielding a spirit camera to a vodouist oungan and a Brazilian woman tracing her family roots. They are here to attend a grand seance that will take place ...

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2 w. ago 'I own UK's most haunted doll and my house is full of possessed items – I'm not scared'

Candice Collins bought the UK's most haunted doll, Norman, and has since taken on a number of other cursed objects - but she says life has been a 'living hell' since

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2 w. ago How To Build A Haunted House by Caitlin Blackwell Baines: My night of terror in a haunted house

One woman's journey through some of the spookiest houses in the world

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3 w. ago One of world's most haunted houses that inspired The Conjuring goes up for sale

A haunted house that has lured ghost hunters from across the globe and even inspired horror blockbuster The Conjuring is going up for auction — and the sale is happening on Halloween

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3 w. ago Haunted house ‘monster’ actor arrested for attacking female thrillseeker with TASER & choking her as horror CCTV emerges

A HAUNTED house actor has been arrested after disturbing CCTV showed him attacking a young woman with a taser and choking her. Piercing screams could be heard in the footage as 24-year-old Melike G begged the masked employee to let go even as he pinned her down. The 18-year-old worker, later identified as Baran T,...

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3 w. ago Woman choked and tasered by haunted house staff in horror attack as she screams

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Melike G was left screaming in terror as an employee at a haunted house attraction in Turkey began choking her and pulling her by her hair while zapping her with a taser

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3 w. ago Only people with 20/20 vision can spot bat in spooky Halloween scene within seconds

Searching for a spooky brainteaser with a Halloween theme? Look no further as you need to find a bat in this frightening scene – and he's very well hidden among other scary things

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3 w. ago You have 20/20 vision if you can spot the hidden bat in haunted house

Halloween is fast approaching, so we've got a spooky brainteaser for you, and if you're able to spot the hidden bat in the haunted house – then it means your vision is scarily good

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3 w. ago A deal to die for: Half of Americans would buy a haunted house if it were a bargain, research finds

A recent survey looked into how willing Americans are to buy a haunted home

Economics