Don’t Scare Claire

Looking for paranormal stories, ghostly encounters, and grisly tales from history? Hi! I’m Claire, come sit with me to chat about all things morbid, mysterious and macabre… If you love to get your learnin’ on and prefer the stories behind history’s most chilling paranormal legends, we’re going to be best friends. We’ll get into everything from dark history and real-life haunted houses, to creepy urban legends and the best kinds of bedtime stories - ghost stories.

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5 days ago

Highgate Cemetery in London is one of the UK's most haunted graveyards, known not only for the famous people buried there, but also the ghosts said to haunt the burial ground. But in the 1970s, Highgate became the centre of a media storm... because supposedly, there was a vampire on the loose. SOURCES📚 The Highgate Cemetery Vampire Hunt: The Anglo-American Connection in Satanic Cult Lore, by Bill Ellis📚 Haunted Highgate, by Della Farrant📚 Beyond The Highgate Vampire, by David Farrant📚 The Highgate Vampire, by Seán Manchester💻 https://davidfarrant.org/ 💻 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol17/pt1/pp54-62 💻 https://vamped.org/2015/02/27/5-reasons-why-a-wampyr-didnt-walk-in-highgate-cemetery/ 📺 The Curse Of The Highgate Vampire, first aired on Discovery+ 2021📺 One Hour With Jonothan Ross, first aired 1990COME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Friday Oct 31, 2025

The desecrated church in Clophill became a magnet for vandals, morbid thrill-seekers, and possibly even devil worshippers.But decades later, strange lights, ghostly figures, and an oppressive energy still leave many explorers running for their car.Are the ghost stories proof of something darker still haunting Clophill, or are they just a product of the satanic panic that overtook the area in the 60s?SOURCES📚 Ghosts of Bedfordshire by Betty Puttick📚 Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, By Bill Ellis📚 The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill, by Kevin Gates📚 Devil Worship In Britain, by A.V.Sellwood and Peter Haining💻 https://www.clophillecolodges.co.uk/st-mary-s-old-church 💻 https://metro.co.uk/2016/02/19/does-this-video-show-a-hooded-monk-ghost-creeping-around-a-church-5706153/ 💻 https://clophillhistory.mooncarrot.org.uk/ 💻 http://clophill-lodge.co.uk 💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45736101 📰 Bedfordshire on Sunday, 1985COME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Tuesday Oct 21, 2025

In the quiet Bedfordshire village of Clophill sits the ruins of a desecrated church that looks unassuming nowadays, but it has a terrifying past. In the 1960s and 70s, rumours of devil worship, black magic rituals, and grave desecration spiralled into a full-blown satanic panic that almost destroyed the village rector.But was it all just bored teenagers and mindless vandals tormenting the village of Clophill, or was something truly evil going on here?⚠️ This one is very dark, with some pretty graphic descriptions involving animals, as well as mentions of sexual assault and murder. If that’s not your thing, maybe give this one a miss. Look after yourselves 🖤SOURCES📚 Ghosts of Bedfordshire by Betty Puttick📚 Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, By Bill Ellis📚 The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill, by Kevin Gates📚 Devil Worship In Britain, by A.V.Sellwood and Peter Haining💻 https://www.clophillecolodges.co.uk/st-mary-s-old-church 💻 https://metro.co.uk/2016/02/19/does-this-video-show-a-hooded-monk-ghost-creeping-around-a-church-5706153/ 💻 https://clophillhistory.mooncarrot.org.uk/ 💻 http://clophill-lodge.co.uk 💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45736101 📰 Bedfordshire on Sunday, 1985COME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Tuesday Oct 14, 2025

Is RAF East Kirkby one of the most haunted WW2 airfields in Britain?From eerie footsteps in the old control tower to the ghosts of Bomber Command who never came home, the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, some believe so. SOURCES📚 Lancaster At War: 5, by Mike Garbett and Brian Goulding📚 Shadows In The Sky: The Haunted Airways Of Britain, by Neil Arnold📚 Ghosthunter, by Eddie Burks and Gillian Cribbs📚 Ghost Stations (multiple in the series), by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny💻 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/8863954/Guy-Gibson-ghost-of-Dambusters-dog-found-at-airbase.html💻 https://hauntedhistoryoflincolnshire.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/ 💻 https://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5234 💻 https://www.wartimememories.co.uk/airfields/eastkirkby.html 💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/asop/people/pw_fred_020605.shtml#text 💻 https://www.bcar.org.uk/east-kirkby-history 💻 https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/ 💻 https://www.key.aero/article/amazing-story-lancaster-just-janes-flight-australia-uk 💻 https://raffeaea.com/home/stories/po-christopher-witton-panton/ 💻 https://www.key.aero/article/aeroplane-meets-andrew-panton 💻 https://www.strullendorf.de/HKV/cms/core/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112:der-flugzeugabsturz-vom-31-maerz-1944-auf-dem-plateau-der-friesener-warte&catid=40:publikationen&Itemid=57 💻 https://repository.lincoln.ac.uk/articles/event/Where_they_fell_The_164_Lancasters_lost_from_East_Kirkby/25160105?file=44442545 📺 Most Haunted Season 3 Episode 1, first aired 2003📺 The Watchtower: Guardian of the Bomber Legend, first aired 1986COME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Episode 111: Denbigh Castle

Monday Oct 06, 2025

Monday Oct 06, 2025

Denbigh Castle in North Wales has seen centuries of rebellion, brutal sieges, executions… and if local legend is to be believed, even a fire-breathing dragon?!And with a history like Denbigh’s, it’s no surprise that people report tragic ghost sightings and eerie paranormal encounters.But are its hauntings just part of the legend of Denbigh Castle, or is something still lingering within its walls?SOURCES📚 Notes On The Folk-Lore Of The Northern Countries Of England And The Borders by William Henderson📚 Haunted Castles of Britain & Ireland, by Richard Jones💻 https://www.castlewales.com/denbigh.html 💻 https://www.ruthinhistoryhanesrhuthun.org/broadsheet-no-25 💻 https://www.ruthinhistoryhanesrhuthun.org/broadsheet-no-25 COME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Tuesday Sep 30, 2025

Once a place of "restorative treatment", Denbigh Asylum (also known as the North Wales Mental Hospital) has now been left in ruins.But why do so many believe that this once-grand Victorian building is one of the most haunted places in Wales?SOURCES📚 Psychiatry in Medical Practice by W. Lindsay Neustatter📚 North Wales Hospital, Denbigh 1842 - 1995 by Clwyd Wynne📚 Ghost Stories From North Wales Asylum by Peter Glynn📓 Michael, Pamela, and David Hirst. "Recording the many faces of death at the Denbigh Asylum, 1848–1938." History of Psychiatry 23.1 (2012): 40-51.💻 https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/outrage-over-most-haunted-tv-2810932 💻 https://www.iwa.wales/agenda/2023/11/denbigh-asylym-north-wales/ 💻 https://madnessofnorthwales.com/the-role-of-mercury-in-the-treatment-of-syphilis/ 💻 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7744477.stm💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-43652268 💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-38887938 💻 ​https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5165789/Student-snaps-image-ghost-caretaker-abandoned-asylum.html 💻 ​https://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/25488360.denbigh-asbestos-roosting-bats-slow-progress-hospital-site/ 📺 Most Haunted Live: Village Of The Damned, first aired 2008COME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Thursday Sep 25, 2025

The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, has stood for over a century, famous for its bizarre architecture, chilling ghost stories, and enduring legend of Sarah Winchester.But now, it’s known as one of America’s most haunted houses, where paranormal activity, ghost sightings, and eerie legends refuse to die.But is there any truth to the ghostly legends? SOURCES📚 Haunting America: The Truth Behind Some of America's "Most Haunted" Places by Karen Stollznow📚 Sarah Winchester: Beyond the Mystery by Bennett Jacobstein and Fran Galt📚 Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester by Mary Jo Ignoffo💻 https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/ 💻 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/ghost-stories-tv-ghost-hunter-and-sj-native-weighs-silicon-valleys-most-famous-haunts/ COME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Wednesday Sep 17, 2025

The London Underground is said to be extremely haunted, and the Northern Line has stories of ghosts spanning up and down the city.From ghostly echoes of past tragedies, to urban legends involving the devil himself, you might want to mind more than just the gap on the London Tube… SOURCES📚 London Underground Ghost Stories by Jill Armitage📚 Haunted London Underground by David Brandon & Alan Brooke💻 https://www.walks.com/blog/ghosts-of-the-london-underground/ 💻 http://www.nickcooper.org.uk/subterra/lu/tuawcafa.htm#balham 💻 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/balham-tube-station-german-air-raid-1940/ 💻 https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/london-fire-brigade-history-and-stories/fires-and-incidents-that-changed-history/the-kings-cross-fire-1987/ 💻 https://www.davidcastleton.net/mother-damnable-witch-camden-town-london-mother-red-cap-black-cap/ 💻 https://www.spookyisles.com/moorgate-station-ghost/ 💻 https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/underground.php 💻 https://www.wrightstyle.co.uk/remembering-kings-cross-disaster/ 💻 https://content.tfl.gov.uk/research-guide-no-36-kennington-station.pdf 📺 Ghosts On The Underground, first aired 2005📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSEvGR1tK4A&ab_channel=Channel4Documentaries COME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Episode 107: Heol Fanog Part 2

Thursday Sep 04, 2025

Thursday Sep 04, 2025

It’s Part 2 of the story of Heol Fanog, one of the most haunted houses in Wales, where Bill Rich, his wife Liz, and their children are desperately seeking answers about what could be going on.But is this a poltergeist case, something darker, or something not even paranormal at all?SOURCES📚 Testimony, by Mark Chadbourn💻 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/true-horror-heol-fanog-really-happened-welsh-amityville/ 📺 True Horror Season 1 Episode 1, first aired 2018🎙️ The Witch Farm, BBCCOME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

Episode 106: Heol Fanog Part 1

Tuesday Aug 26, 2025

Tuesday Aug 26, 2025

Heol Fanog, sometimes known as The Witch Farm, has allegedly earned the title of the most exorcised house in Britain.And when you hear about all the terrifying paranormal activity that the Rich family endured over 6 years, you can start to understand why.SOURCES📚 Testimony, by Mark Chadbourn💻 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/true-horror-heol-fanog-really-happened-welsh-amityville/ 📺 True Horror Season 1 Episode 1, first aired 2018🎙️ The Witch Farm, BBCCOME SAY HI!Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/THE LEGAL STUFFI don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!

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