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Folk horror stories & ghostly goings-on for the solstice.
23 Items
Summer Specials
Uncanny: The Torrelaguna House Part 1
Sinister events in Spain in a new Uncanny Summer Special.
27 mins
A Belfast Haunting
Episode 1: The House
Summer, 1989 – rumours spread about strange events in a terraced house in West Belfast.
19 Oct 2024,·13 mins
Shard
Atmospheric folk horror about communes, nature and the price that must be paid.
10 Jul 2023,·44 mins
1: The Barrowbeck Survey
Maxine Peake kicks off ten chilling strange tales from the folk-horror author of The Loney
30 Oct 2022,·14 mins
Exploring the darker side of the landscape and the revival of Folk Horror in the arts.
31 Oct 2019,·28 mins
Inexplicable moods and smells mar a friendly reunion. What can it mean? Read by Brian Gear
23 Sep 1993,·15 mins
Witch: 1. The Spark in the Fire
India Rakusen finds out what it means to call yourself a witch today.
1. BETHLEHEM
Unable to move or speak, you listen as your fate is determined by petty bureaucrats.
21 mins
England's Darkest Folklore
Dark folk tales from England: from misty peaks, to dark roads, and rough waters.
28 Apr 2025,·39 mins
Episode 1
Maya thinks they've got a ghost. Written by Timothy X Atack; read by Amanda Lawrence.
10 Feb 2025,·14 mins
Episode 1: 63 Wycliffe Road
Strange events start at an ordinary house in South London. Is it a poltergeist?
21 Jan 2021,·28 mins
Old Mother Leakey: the ghost of Minehead
A ghost, a bishop and mysterious shipwrecks around Minehead harbour.
21 Aug 2024,·10 mins
Four Hauntings and a Phoney Funeral
Exploring the spooky tales of Scotney Castle.
29 Oct 2024,·9 mins
Ghost Stories by HG Wells
The Stolen Body
When a researcher experiments with astral projection, an interested party intervenes.
30 Jun 2017,·15 mins
Chapter 1
Henry James’ chilling novella about a governess and two children on a haunted estate.
01 Nov 2019,·10 mins
Briony
Daisy Johnson's darkly haunting ghost story set in an isolated hotel.
22 Nov 2020,·14 mins
Series 3
Night Terrors by Lizzie Nunnery
Victoria can't sleep at night. Then bad dreams haunt her waking hours.
29 Dec 2011,·30 mins
A Warning To The Curious by M.R. James
Alex Jennings reads M.R. James' ghost story set on the windswept coast of East Anglia.
13 Jun 2011,·20 mins
The Wicker Man: Learning to love the film that broke us
Robin Hardy’s obsessive quest to make this iconic horror movie would devastate his family
29 Apr 2024,·40 mins
The Wicker Man Verb
Ian McMillan presents The Wicker Man Verb - marking 50 years of the iconic film.
26 May 2023,·44 mins
Folk Horror
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore folk horror on screen.
06 Jan 2023,·45 mins
A spooky tree where skeletons dance
Broadwater's 300-year-old tree where skeletons come out to play on Midsummer's Eve.
16 May 2024,·4 mins
Strange goings-on at Chanctonbury Ring
Chilling tales and paranormal activity at the most haunted site in the South Downs.
24 Jan 2025,·4 mins
