Top Horror YouTube Channels in 2026 from Ireland

Horror channels deliver scares in many forms: paranormal investigations, true scary stories, horror game playthroughs, and analysis of films and urban legends. Creators explore haunted locations, share listener-submitted tales, and react to horror media. You'll find narrated creepypastas, documentary-style deep dives into horror cinema, and live gameplay of survival and psychological horror games.

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Content includes ghost hunting and overnight challenges, horror movie reviews and kill counts, horror music and ambience, and indie horror game coverage. From long-form storytime channels to short-form scary clips and reaction videos, this category caters to fans who enjoy being frightened. Whether you prefer true crime-adjacent horror, supernatural lore, or fictional nightmares, these channels provide a steady stream of chills.

Channels

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Deburke321

@deburke321

I talk about the disturbing and alternative side of art and musicProfile Picture and Banner is by Gaho (Instagram: gahochucreatixns)

Ireland
Subscribers
684k
Total Views
154.6M
Videos
202
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The Insane Story of Seth Putnam

88.3K views13-Mar-2025

Deburke321 is an Irish creator who explores the darkest corners of art, music and performance, delivering long-form, research-heavy videos about disturbing artists, banned media and true-crime musicians. With a calm, documentary voice and meticulous sourcing, he unpacks shock art, horror comics, controversial musicians and macabre performances for an audience hungry for well-narrated deep-dives. Expect 20–30-minute (sometimes 3-hour) essays on everything from Hitler’s paintings to Nine Inch Nails’ banned music videos, all framed as cultural analysis rather than cheap shock. The channel’s value lies in contextualizing the most unsettling creative works without sensationalism, making even the most extreme topics feel educational and binge-worthy.

What Makes This Channel Unique

Combines library-level research with a soothing Irish narration to turn the most extreme, often-censored art and music into educational, bingeable essays without sensationalism.

Monthly
English
Target Audience

18-45, English-speaking horror fans, alternative music lovers, art-history geeks, true-crime viewers who appreciate researched, calm narration over jump scares

Content Formats
Documentary essaysDeep-dive narrationsCompilation supercutsCultural analysisStorytelling videos
Primary Topics
Disturbing art and artistsBanned or extreme musicDark performance and shock artMacabre true-crime storiesCensored media and underground culture
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Billy Styler

@BillyStyler

I don’t tell scary stories. I exhume them.

Ireland
Subscribers
290k
Total Views
37.0M
Videos
73
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What Happened to Siren Head?

116.3K views13-Mar-2025

Billy Styler is a slow-burn horror essayist who dissects the creepiest corners of gaming, internet lore and liminal-space fiction. Blending deep-dive research with atmospheric storytelling, he exhumes forgotten ROM hacks, SCPs, Trevor Henderson cryptids and childhood-curio creepypastas, revealing why they still haunt us decades later. Each 5-to-47-minute film is a meticulously crafted campfire tale—equal parts documentary, nostalgia autopsy and psychological horror—that rewards patient viewers with cathartic chills. With only 73 videos since 2021, the channel trades quantity for lasting impact, turning obscure media into enduring nightmares. Expect polished narration, eerie sound design and a creator who stares at cursed images so you don’t have to.

What Makes This Channel Unique

Marries the production polish of a Netflix true-crime doc with the intimacy of a late-night IRC campfire, delivering scholarly research on meme-age horror while preserving the primal dread that made the originals viral.

Monthly or less
English
Target Audience

Millennial & Gen-Z horror fans (18-34) who grew up with creepypasta forums, retro games, SCP Wiki and YouTube analog horror; no prior lore knowledge required—stories are self-contained.

Content Formats
Video EssaysDocumentary-style NarrativesDeep-dive AnalysisStorytellingInvestigative Horror
Primary Topics
Creepypasta RetrospectivesSCP Foundation Case FilesTrevor Henderson Monster LoreRetro Gaming Horror MysteriesLiminal & Analog Horror Analysis
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P.B. Horror Gaming

@PBHorrorGaming

Welcome to PIXEL BASTARDO's HORROR GAMING!. Enter SURVIVAL HORROR!This channel is dedicated to the Horror Genre. Immersive cinematic walkthroughs, No deaths....

Ireland
Subscribers
157k
Total Views
53.7M
Videos
583
STYGIAN : Outer Gods | FULL GAME | Longplay Gameplay Walkthrough No Commentary 4K 60FPS thumbnail
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STYGIAN : Outer Gods | FULL GAME | Longplay Gameplay Walkthrough No Commentary 4K 60FPS

10.0K views7-Feb-2026
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tangomushi

@tango2shi

Video essays, retrospectives and reviews on video games, with a big focus on horror and Japan-only media. I often find something to like even in the "worst"...

Ireland
Subscribers
124k
Total Views
6.2M
Videos
23
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How Clock Tower Became my Favourite Horror Game

251.6K views10-Sep-2025
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Mr. E Macheen

@MrEMacheen

Weekly Videos on forgotten older gamesPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrEMacheenJoin the premieres Friday 8pm GMT+1

Ireland
Subscribers
8.11k
Total Views
610.4K
Videos
98
EVIL DEAD: Hail to the King - The 2000 horror game you probably should forget thumbnail
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EVIL DEAD: Hail to the King - The 2000 horror game you probably should forget

6.4K views9-Nov-2025