This Halloween season, explore some of Britain’s eeriest corners

It’s been a long mile, trudging uphill in the rain, across uninspiring fields, past rickety ruins of long-abandoned farm buildings, mud slowly working its way up my waterproof trousers. Sometimes walk

Some say that the mysterious Dunstanburgh Castle Walk is haunted by a spooky 16th-century knight, Sir Guy the Seeker. His ghost allegedly floats around Dunstanburgh Castle grounds searching for a lost

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

THE sun is blazing down from a cloudless blue sky as I arrive at The Myrtles, a historic plantation in the town of St Francisville, Louisiana, around 30 miles north of the city of Baton Rouge. On such

Britain is one of the last constitutional monarchies in the world, and the king or queen still plays a ceremonial role in the governance of the state. When Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, she was bur