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On the night of 27 November 2025, the dream came. I was seated in a room made entirely of brown wood, walls, floor, and ceiling, all stripped bare, no furniture other than a table and chairs. At this table, there sat a man, silent, watching. Somewhere beyond sight, another presence wandered, restless. We were waiting,…
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Episode 9: Dr. Adam Rizvi
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Remains believed to belong to legendary musketeer D’Artagnan have been discovered beneath a church over 350 years after he died. Charles de Batz de Castelmore, Count D’Artagnan, was a real-life marksman whose name went down in history in Alexandre Dumas’s Three Musketeers adventure stories. A close confidant of France‘s Louis XIV, he was killed during the Siege of…
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The winter of 2018 was unforgiving, and so was the grief that clung to me after losing my cousin Jim. He had been my favourite cousin, gentle, steady, and kind, even as diabetes and kidney failure stripped him of so much. When the day of his funeral arrived, I knew I had to be there.…
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The rain had been falling sideways all evening, the kind of British weather that felt less like precipitation and more like a personal attack. I was walking home along Sanderstead Road, the streetlights flickering in that irritatingly cinematic way that never bodes well. That’s when I noticed it. A figure standing perfectly still beneath the…
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The idea that Friday the 13th is unlucky is often linked to a real historical event involving the Knights Templar, although the modern superstition developed much later. The Event: Friday, October 13, 1307 On Friday, October 13, 1307, the French king Philip IV of France ordered the mass arrest of the Knights Templar across France.…
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In 1954, the Gorbals district of Glasgow became the unlikely setting for one of the most fascinating episodes of modern urban folklore: the hunt for the so‑called Gorbals Vampire. What began as a rumour among schoolchildren quickly escalated into a full‑scale moral panic, drawing attention from parents, police, politicians, and the press. Although no vampire…
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Irish folklore is rich with supernatural beings, omens, and otherworldly encounters that reflect the island’s long-standing relationship with myth and mystery. Among these figures, the Fetch stands out as one of the most haunting and psychologically intriguing. Often described as a spectral double of a living person, the Fetch occupies a unique place in Ireland’s…
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The legend of the Green Children of Woolpit has lingered for centuries, not because it offers answers, but because it refuses to. It is a story that sits uneasily between history and nightmare, an intrusion of the inexplicable into the quiet rhythms of medieval life. When retold through a darker lens, the tale becomes less…
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A hen party reportedly made a hasty exit after spotting something rather unsettling in one of their photos. The group, who were celebrating a friend’s impending nuptials at an isolated estate in Scotland, were left shaken after taking a series of pictures in quick succession in Argyll and Bute. In one photo, where the friends are…
