This seaside town is home to some of Britain’s strangest attractions - In search of the country’s weirdest corners, Christopher Dorrell finds ghostly apparitions and vengeful fairies in Whitby ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A major landmark in North Yorkshire should not be removed, a town mayor has said.

A beloved grandma who died after falling from cliffs at Whitby took her own life, a coroner has concluded. Joan Blanchon, 69, died on July 31 when her body was found at the bottom of the cliffs at ...

CNN — 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 ...