Britain's Twilight Zones

By Tina Lofthouse

Britain is a hotbed of the paranormal, according to a recent guide, with Birmingham leading the field in freakishness

Mince pie-eating Martians, frogs falling out of the sky and cats with wings are just a few of the weird and wonderful phenomena people are claiming to have seen.

Enter If You Dare, a spooky guide compiled by the editor of paranormal journal Fortean Times to mark the opening of the Twilight Zone Tower Of Terror at Disneyland Paris, pinpoints the UK’s paranormal hotspots where you’re most likely to “unlock the door to another dimension”.

Mysteriously moving objects, ghostly apparitions, electric people and alien lifeforms – if you fancy a close encounter, we round up Britain’s top 10 places to do it.