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Ghosts (2019)
8.4/10on IMDb
First aired
The British original makes a crumbling country house into a very awkward shared home. The ghosts' deaths and odd appearances supply spooky detail, but warmth and social embarrassment do most of the work. A severed head is part of the comic imagery, so this is gentle in tone rather than a world without macabre jokes.
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Over the Garden Wall (2014)
8.7/10on IMDb
First aired
Two brothers wander through a forest full of autumnal stories that seem familiar and slightly wrong. The short animated series earns its eeriness through songs, shadows and uncertainty. Some imagery is genuinely disturbing, but the fear comes from fairy-tale suggestion rather than realistic bodily injury.
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The Enfield Haunting (2015)
7.0/10on IMDb
First aired
An ordinary north London house becomes unsettling through noises, strained relationships and events the investigators struggle to interpret. This dramatises reports of a haunting rather than proving them. It offers stronger adult suspense than the gentler picks, with violence and a brief disturbing eye image worth knowing about.
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City of Ghosts (2021)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
A children's Ghost Club interviews spirits around Los Angeles, turning haunting into a way to discover the city's layered history. The animated characters sit within photographed places. It is an unusually calm choice for viewers who like the idea of ghosts and local memory more than being frightened.
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Hilda (2018)
8.6/10on IMDb
First aired
A curious girl's encounters with folklore creatures make the ordinary landscape feel full of hidden lives. The animation has real shadows and peril, but its curiosity usually outweighs hostility. Choose it for a gentle, visually rich route into the uncanny, with some stronger images as the adventures develop.
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Gravity Falls (2012)
8.9/10on IMDb
First aired
A summer in a strange tourist town becomes a mystery worth investigating alongside the twins. The humour and clues make creepy discoveries enjoyable to share. Later threats include grotesque transformations and intense fantasy peril, but its distinctive scares are imaginative and cartoonish rather than realistic gore.
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Ghosts (2021)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
The American adaptation gives the haunted-house arrangement a different ensemble and a brisker sitcom rhythm. A living couple's hospitality plans collide with residents who cannot move out. Pick it for friendly supernatural company, with death-related and sexual jokes rather than sustained horror or graphic injury.
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Julie and the Phantoms (2020)
8.4/10on IMDb
First aired
A grieving teenager makes music with the ghosts of a band whose own plans were cut short. The supernatural premise supports warmth, performance and the awkward pleasure of forming a group. This is a much gentler mood than a haunting thriller, though grief is central and the cancelled series leaves developments unresolved.
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School Spirits (2023)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
A teenager investigates her disappearance while learning how the school's ghosts have lived with their own unfinished stories. The mystery provides an older-teen route into haunting. There are bloody moments and upsetting deaths, so it is a lower-gore option rather than a suitable choice for someone avoiding all visible blood.
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Creeped Out (2017)
6.6/10on IMDb
First aired
A masked collector introduces short tales of strange technology, uncanny encounters and bad bargains. Its younger intended audience keeps the horror centred on an idea or a reversal. The tone and intensity vary by story, making it useful for sampling a compact chill without committing to a much harsher adult series.
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019)
7.1/10on IMDb
First aired
The modern revival follows young groups through curses and unsettling places in self-contained seasonal stories. It offers more sustained suspense than a friendly ghost comedy, with monsters and danger aimed at a younger audience. This is the 2019 version, a good middle step between playful spookiness and adult horror.
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Goosebumps (1995)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
The original television adaptations turn familiar childhood objects and situations into compact supernatural problems. Rubber creatures, odd transformations and twist endings supply the fun. Some episodes are more unsettling than memory suggests, but the period effects and younger perspective make a useful nostalgic route into scares built around ideas.
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The Twilight Zone (1959)
9.0/10on IMDb
First aired
The deliberate older-classic exception uses strange premises and moral reversals to make an ordinary room feel suddenly unsafe. The original black-and-white series generally relies on performance and implication. Individual stories can be bleak or disturbing, but it is an enduring route into uncanny television without modern effects-led splatter.
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Remember Me (2014)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Michael Palin's elderly character brings an apparently ordinary care-home arrival into a much stranger ghost story. Place, water and a recurring song make the unease linger. It has a bloody scene and moderate violence, so choose it for atmospheric adult haunting while allowing for those sharper moments.
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The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
A family's rented country house carries echoes of children who once lived there. The appeal is a traditional haunting linked to a specific building and its history. Child abuse, grief and endangered children make it emotionally harsh, even though elaborate gore is not its main means of frightening the viewer.
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Crooked House (2008)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Mark Gatiss links three ghost stories through a house whose different periods leave uncomfortable traces. The pleasure is in objects, rooms and apparently civil conversation acquiring another meaning. This is the 2008 television ghost story, not the later Christie film, and it offers eerie adult atmosphere with some sharper violent moments.
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Ghostwriter (2019)
5.8/10on IMDb
First aired
A haunted bookshop brings fictional characters into the world and gives a young group a mystery to solve. Its literary play makes the supernatural feel inviting rather than punishing. The 2019 version is a family choice, useful when you want ghostly curiosity and puzzles with a much lighter emotional temperature.
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Secrets of Sulphur Springs (2021)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
A supposedly haunted hotel draws two young investigators into a mystery tied to a girl's disappearance. Jump scares and supernatural peril give it genuine tension within a family-adventure format. Choose it for a continuing ghost puzzle, especially if you like a building's past gradually changing how its present feels.
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The Ghost Bride (2020)
6.4/10on IMDb
First aired
A proposed marriage to a dead man's spirit draws a young woman into an elaborate afterlife mystery in 1890s Malacca. Romance, family obligation and supernatural bureaucracy give the haunting a different texture. It includes peril and violent moments, but the attraction is the fantasy world and investigation rather than a succession of bodily horrors.
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Dead End: Paranormal Park (2022)
7.1/10on IMDb
First aired
A theme-park job places two teenagers, a talking pug and an awkward demon in charge of increasingly supernatural problems. The cartoon comedy keeps the threats lively while the friendships supply warmth. There are grotesque creatures and intense moments, with the unfinished larger story a limitation of its cancelled run.
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