Don't Scare Claire
'Don't Scare Claire' is a YouTube channel dedicated to finding the true history behind paranormal happenings. Run by the channel's host, Claire, each video shows Claire sitting in a dark room and regaling the stories and history of haunted locations and objects. She also discusses the real tragedies which have happened that could have led to the rumoured hauntings. Claire strives for accuracy, but she doesn't definitively say if a place is or isn't haunted; instead, she leaves it to the viewer to decide their own thoughts after she has provided the information. The first videos on the channel date back to 2023, and since then Claire has also been featured on podcasts.
History
Claire Glover was born on the 18th of May 1996, making her 28 years old at the time of this article being published. Although her full name is 'Claire Glover', she prefers to be referred to as either 'Claire' or by her channel name of 'Don't Scare Claire'. Claire was first introduced to the paranormal through various media such as books and TV programmes like 'Most Haunted'. She remembers that her local library only carried very general encyclopedias on ghosts along with books on Borley Rectory which she read. As Claire grew older, she also watched 'Ghost Adventures' on TV. Although she had become aware of the paranormal from a very young age, she has never had an experience when she was younger that she couldn't explain and so can't claim things such as having once lived in a haunted house.
Despite not having an experience of her own, Claire classes herself as a skeptical believer in the paranormal. She has said that she really wants to believe it exists and does think that there is something going on, but has never had an experience which has been compelling enough to absolutely believe. She has said that, for her, she would likely need a ghost to walk up to her and wave in her face to fully believe. Regardless of her own beliefs, she has said that she never discounts other people's experiences because as she wasn't there then she doesn't know; however, she will also not just take people's word for it. When asked if she's had any paranormal experiences, Claire has said that she has had weird experiences, but nothing absolutely paranormal. She has provided a quote below which describes one of these weird experiences:
"The most interesting one that always springs to mind is what happened while I was on a ghost tour at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham. It was very atmospheric, the whole tour was lit only using little LED candles, so it was pretty dark. We had just sat down on the wooden benches in their courtroom, and the guide was telling us about what the courtroom had been used for in the past, and what paranormal phenomena had been experienced in there, when all of a sudden I felt a cracking migraine coming on.
I get migraines anyway, so it was the familiar pain behind the eyes, but all I could think was this cannot happen now, I'm here on this ghost tour to do research for my video on the museum, I need to be able to focus! I was looking down at the floor as this pain was just getting worse and worse; this was going to be a really bad migraine where I just needed to curl up in bed for a few hours. I just looked up towards the guide again and out of the right side of my vision, a HUGE lightning bolt just tore through. At this point, I was a bit weirded out, I get aura migraines, but my vision goes more like a kaleidoscope, I'd never had this before!
As part of the orientation before the tour started, the guide had told us that at any point, if we feel we're being affected by the energy or whatnot, we can just ground ourselves, and move away from the area. I wasn't about to get up and walk away in front of the tour group, but I thought I had nothing to lose by just trying to ground myself at least.
I planted my feet firmly into the floor, took a deep breath and just told myself, "this isn't happening. I'm not doing this". When I tell you, it was like someone just flipped a switch in my brain — that migraine was GONE! I've never had a migraine leave so suddenly like that, and I was completely fine for the rest of the tour.
It could very well have just been weird body things, maybe the deep breaths and the relaxing just relaxed my brain and that helped the migraine or whatever, but I do still think it was very weird how it just disappeared so suddenly, in what is supposedly a very haunted room!"
Regarding why Claire decided to start her channel, the reason is linked to her having once been an avid fan of the TV programmes such as 'Most Haunted' and 'Ghost Adventures'. One of her favourite date nights with her husband, Mr. DSC, used to be eating a takeaway while binge-watching episodes of Aaron Goodwin being locked in a room alone against his will while Zak Bagans did a voice over. As both Claire and her husband had little money at the time, they couldn't go out on normal dates and so they indulged in TV and food instead. It was during one of these binge-watching sessions that Claire noticed she was engaged during the parts at the start where they set the scene, interviewed witnesses, and tell the history. She also noticed she mentally switched off once the night vision cameras and investigating started.
One day, she saw an episode which discussed a location she already knew a bit of information about. She noticed that they mentioned something which wasn't accurate, and she also noticed the history, sometimes in large chunks, was being left out of the episodes. These realisations made Claire think that she could do a better job, and so she set out to create her channel 'Don't Scare Claire'. Her aim with this channel was to create well-researched content which would question the common misconceptions about haunted locations, especially as there is so much misinformation out there. She also wanted to create something she would want to watch that presented all of the facts and the ghost stories but then left it to the viewer to decide if the location was haunted.
Claire had first started work on her channel during the January of 2023 as she had a plan for a big October launch where she wanted to post a video every day, but she forgot the detail that she was getting married to Mr. DSC towards the end of October 2023, and so things didn't quite go to plan. Claire's first video, titled 'Ready to Get Scary?', was uploaded on the 31st of August 2023 and currently has 3.9k views. This first video was introductory so people knew there would be paranormal history videos coming and it was filled with blooper-esque material to promote, not only the new channel, but Claire's personality too.
The second video, which is the first 'proper' video, was uploaded on the 1st of October 2023. This video was called 'HORROR At The Pleasure Beach?! Blackpool's Haunted Amusement Park' and it currently has 5.1k views. This was the first of many videos to come, and it discussed Blackpool Pleasure Beach's history and hauntings. Since this video, Claire has covered a great number of locations and haunted topics on her channel. These include Disneyland, Windsor Castle, Robert the Doll, the Tower of London, the Ostrich Inn, the Crying Boy paintings, Ouija boards, Alton Towers, the Cecil Hotel, Jamaica Inn, Wookey Hole, Tamworth Castle, and 30 East Drive.
As of writing this article, Claire's channel has 22.7k subscribers and 96 videos uploaded to it. Her latest video, 'Royal Family Ghosts HAUNTING Windsor Castle' was uploaded on the 29th of April 2025 and currently has 15k views. Her most viewed video, as of writing this, is titled 'The Royal Family Have Seen GHOSTS'. This video was uploaded on the 16th of February 2025 and currently has 152k views. Before creating her channel, Claire used to be a social media consultant for small businesses and she still helps to run a marketing company with her husband. She isn't full-time with her YouTube channel yet, but she has been able to scale back her client work in order to focus more on YouTube in the last few months. She has said that she hopes to work full-time with her YouTube channel very soon.
It takes Claire roughly 20 hours of research, including writing a script, which is split over a week to make her videos. She then records an episode and edits out all of the silences and mistakes; a portion of the work which takes her a full day to complete. She used to do all of the editing on top of that, which would take her two or three days, but she now has Eulogy Media who has taken over the editing for her. Due to this, Claire only has to research, write the script, record herself, and edit the silences before passing it onto Eulogy for him to complete by adding photos and footage. It seems Eulogy Media is a massive help to the channel as she has said that she really couldn't do it without him. Claire does openly admit that, even though she strives for accuracy, she gets things wrong too. She has said she is always coming across new information in the later stages of research for her videos that contradicts things she has previously mentioned in the script. Due to this she is certain that errors do make it through into the final video without her realising.
Claire has also worked with Eulogy Media on a video titled 'The Ghosts Of Epping Forest'. This video was uploaded on the 1st of October 2024 and currently has 61k views. This video was a special episode as it was Claire's first on-location episode. This meant it showed Claire walking through the forest while providing narration on the history and hauntings instead of her filming in her studio as usual. The video also featured her two golden retrievers, Ivy and Ernie. Claire has said that this video was the hardest video of hers to make, although most of the hard work was not done by her. She's described the making of the video as being a long day of filming while walking and talking through a boggy forest on an April afternoon.
Claire has said this Epping Forest video is her favourite video on the channel so far, and she is hoping to do a lot more on-location episodes through the year which she is very excited about. It was also the Epping Forest special that kicked off Claire's ambitious aim of positing a full-length story to her channel every other day through the october of 2024. She managed to do this successfully, but in order to do so she didn't take a day off from roughly April onwards. As her schedule is so busy with YouTube videos, Claire does not have chance to do much outside of her paranormal work.
Claire's favourite period of history is around the Victorian era which occured during the 19th century, also known as the 1800s. Lots of this favouritism has to do with the fact people could read and write back then, plus there was mass printing, and so there are primary sources which can be looked at when researching for videos about this time period; something which makes Claire's life much easier. Claire enjoys researching airports and theme parks because they're the least expected locations to be haunted. She has said that she believes the best accounts are not when you've got night vision cameras and are out on an investigation, but they are instead when you walk into a room and randomly see a victorian lady standing there with nothing else happening. She's emphasised this by saying the most profound encounters are when you aren't expecting it.
Claire's favourite location to have researched is Disneyland in California. When she first started researching Disneyland, she had no idea about the scale of hauntings which have been claimed through the park and so she has turned it into a semi-regular series on her channel which she wants to go back to every now and then. She loves it when people pass through places like theme parks and they have no idea it's haunted, and so it's this detail which makes the research enjoyable for her. She has said haunted castles and stately homes are her bread and butter, but it's these unexpected locations which she really enjoys researching.
Claire's favourite haunting to have researched, purely because she recently released the video at the time of me asking her questions, is that of flight 401. Regarding this haunting, and why it's so interesting to her, she has provided the following quote:
"For so many people who are traditionally a reliable witness, like flight crew, to go against their employers and come forward with a paranormal story about seeing their colleagues from a fatal crash on another flight? Super compelling. Add in the fact that in some cases, the ghostly encounter accurately warned them of potentially catastrophic issues with the plane? It just seems to be on another level. A very interesting haunting, which I thoroughly enjoyed researching, despite the crash being such a harrowing tragedy where so many people lost their lives."
Claire doesn't really put much stock into investigative equipment, and this is especially the case when it comes to phone apps. She thinks some devices can document changes in the environment, but she thinks their readings alone aren't enough to prove a 'ghost'. Claire also doesn't think we're anywhere near to proving the afterlife just yet, but does think it would be amazing if we could know for sure and so remains cautiously optimistic that one day we will have answers. She is also yet to be convinced by any TV programme, especially as most have a disclaimer at the start saying they are for entertainment purposes only. However, she doesn't blame paranormal TV for manufacturing fake situations to add excitement into the episodes as TV tries to appeal to a mass audience which probably wouldn't have the patience to sit and watch a team sit in the dark and talk to themselves for forty minutes with nothing happening. Due to this, Claire definitely doesn't look for proof of the paranormal in any paranormal TV programmes.
When asked about compelling evidence, Claire said she is very difficult to impress when it comes to evidence others have gathered. She said she will never rain on someone's parade if they're convinced they had an encounter because she wasn't there to know for sure, but she will also be skeptical because she wasn't there. She's acknowledged that other than taking the person's word for it, she wouldn't know things such as the weather, if there were creaky floorboards, if there was a road outside, or if there was a guy standing behind a door knocking on command. Due to this, she finds the best pieces of evidence aren't evidence; they're the stories from people she trusts who she knows are incredibly level-headed about the paranormal. An example of this which she gave was Justin from the Paranormal Monkey Podcast as he had an incredible experience at 30 East Drive. She also gave a second example of Paul from Ghosts on Trent as he had a terrifying encounter when he was younger. When asked about theories and how she thinks the paranormal operates, if it did exist, Claire said the following:
"I'm very open-minded when it comes to people's theories and beliefs about the paranormal, but the theory that makes the most sense to me (because I do want to believe that it actually does exist!), is that when we die, our energies move onto another plane of existence, that's there all around us, but we living folk just can't really see it. I feel like that could explain why people feel the presence of loved ones who have passed away around them every now and then, why people seem to hang around somewhere they loved in life, etc. It's quite a comforting view of the paranormal to me, and who wouldn't want to believe that their favourite people are still around them after they've died!
I do however think that there is another side to the paranormal too, with residual hauntings — and that these aren't actual people coming back, they are replays of some moment in time that has been captured and plays back. But how that works, I have no idea — I have so many unanswered questions around that one!"
Claire has referred to herself as a girl with an unhealthy addiction to ghost books, but she does think the term 'paranormal researcher' fits quite nicely too because she loves researching the history behind an allegedly haunted location and getting to the bottom of ghost stories which have been said to occur. When asked about the most compelling argument she has heard against the paranormal, Claire said the following:
"It's got to be the lack of empirical, scientific evidence. How many hundreds of thousands of hours have been spent investigating allegedly haunted locations, and how often does something truly unexplainable happen?
And by extension of that, there will always be people who will never be convinced that the paranormal exists, with the technology and the understanding that we have now. Repeatability under controlled conditions is a huge deal to proving a scientific theory, and as any paranormal investigator can attest, that just isn't possible with hauntings. You can capture the most incredible evidence that you just can't explain one day, but go and investigate at the same location the week after and capture nothing!"
And by extension of that, there will always be people who will never be convinced that the paranormal exists, with the technology and the understanding that we have now. Repeatability under controlled conditions is a huge deal to proving a scientific theory, and as any paranormal investigator can attest, that just isn't possible with hauntings. You can capture the most incredible evidence that you just can't explain one day, but go and investigate at the same location the week after and capture nothing!"
Aside from her YouTube channel, Claire has been featured on a few other channels and podcasts. She appeared on the 'Para-letic Activities Podcast' on the 24th of July 2024, and then she was featured on the 'Haunted Histories with Penny Griffiths-Morgan' podcast on the 4th of October 2024. Claire has also appeared on the YouTube channels 'Dead Cold Tales', during a livestream which occured on the 8th of October 2024, and 'The Paranormal Monkey Podcast', during a livestream which occured on the 11th of November 2024.
Ironically, Claire is scared of the dark and so she describes herself as a 'professional scaredy-cat' in her instagram bio. Through 2025, Claire is trying to add more balance to her workload and so is focusing more on her interests outside of Youtube through the year, however she is still continuing to expand the channel as she is in the process of creating a website which will be used for merchandise sales and uploading written content. As Claire loves the gym, she is choosing to prioratise that; however, she also adores gaming. She is currently trying to get the 100% completion achievement on Red Dead Redemption 2, and she also enjoys playing Project Zomboid despite finding it difficult but addictive. Claire also enjoys visiting places with history, such as museums. For her Honeymoon, she went to Somerset and visited Cheddar Gorge, Wookey Hole, and the S.S. Great Britain.
My Thoughts
Firstly, an important detail about this article to mention is that most of the information detailed came directly from Claire. To prepare for this article, I sent her an email with a few questions and she was kind enough to answer them all. So, my thoughts on her are going to be biased due to our communications, but I will still try to be neutral where possible. I will say though that she was extremely communicative and was a great help for this article. I have reached out to people in the past to try and gather information for articles, but typically I receive no response at all. I feel Claire's willingness to reply really highlights one of my own beliefs about working in the paranormal field; this being that we can only progress our knowledge and understanding by talking to one another and by displaying a willingness to work with one another so that the field as a whole may progress. So, I cannot thank Claire enough for the information she has provided.
Looking at her channel and work, I see it as extremely similar to what I do with this database; and this is amazing. I do think that the paranormal has become all about the investigation, and so history, experiences, and analysing results have been commonly cast aside. So, I think that it's amazing for Claire to be creating well-made video content which is dedicated to finding the accurate history behind the hauntings. Having done research myself, I know how common it is for sources to get things wrong with names, dates, and details on the hauntings; so it's fantastic that someone is discussing these inaccuracies and correcting them in a video format. Promoting the true history behind locations and events is a huge help to progressing the paranormal field.
It's also great to have another paranormal researcher in the public eye. I believe the paranormal field can be broken down into four key roles: researcher, investigator, debunker, and analyst. A researcher looks into the information side of things, so the true history along with the hauntings and artifacts etc. An investigator goes to the location and gathers daya through video footage, sound recordings, randomly generated word lists, and other means of gathering data. A debunker looks at the footage and provides logical explanations for anything explainable. Then, finally, the analyst would try to identify patterns and trends amongst the unexplainable data collected.
I do believe the analyst and debunker roles have overlap though as the analyst could potentially use statistics to identify data which could possibly be false. A good example of this is the article I wrote a while back discussing the legitimacy of the 'Most Haunted' team. This article used statistics to identify that two particular team members were experiencing extremely high amounts of activity for no identified reason. This kind of trend, especially as other team members did not experience anywhere near as much, was a strong indication to the two team members potentially faking activity.
To have another paranormal researcher in the public eye is fantastic because it means the history side, along with the truth of that, is being promoted. Claire's work being in a video format on YouTube, along with being as a podcast in various places, is also fantastic because it will likely reach a wider audience than the articles on this database. It seems like her videos are well made, well researched, and lots of time and effort definitely goes into them. I really hope that, through her videos, she can inspire others to focus more on the truth and the history behind the paranormal instead of going purely for the investigation side of things. I also hope that others who work in the paranormal learn from her kindness and willingness to work with others. After all, we are all working towards the same goal: the truth.
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