In search of the country's weirdest corners, Christopher Dorrell finds ghostly apparitions and vengeful fairies in Whitby ...

This North Yorkshire coastal town has a history of being named the top place for a winter getaway and its appeal is hard to look past.

Whitby is a small seaside town on the Yorkshire coast. As with many such British towns, during the Easter bank holiday weekend it is thronged with day-trippers and holiday-makers. On a recent visit ...

The Gothic ruins that inspired “Dracula” are inviting in the world’s largest gathering of vampires – or just people dressed as them – to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the iconic horror novel’s ...

In the seaside town that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula, strange goings-on are nothing new. Every Halloween sees Whitby invaded by hundreds of goths walking the streets dressed as everything from ...

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Yesterday, in a communal effort to find a reason to wear black capes and corpse paint on a pleasant late spring evening, nearly 1,400 people defied proper vampire logic and flocked to a house of God ...

A major landmark in North Yorkshire should not be removed, a town mayor has said. The future of one of Whitby 's "most ...

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