Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

In the summer of 1988, a small South Carolina town found itself chasing a seven foot, scaled creature with red eyes, and the strangest part of the whole case is that the only real evidence anyone ever produced was a terrified seventeen year old boy who passed a police polygraph test. This episode of Dark Matters heads to Scape Ore Swamp, near Bishopville in Lee County, for the story of the Lizard Man. After a couple's car turned up mysteriously damaged in the swamp overnight, Christopher Davis reported being chased by something out of the trees while changing a flat tyre on a lonely back road. Deputies cast three toed footprints, a cryptid researcher blamed Bigfoot, a fake evidence claim collapsed within days, and the story went national, turning a quiet cotton town into a media circus complete with lizard themed merchandise and a million dollar reward nobody ever claimed. More than three decades on, the case is still unresolved, tangled up with a dying sheriff who never stopped believing, a witness whose…

Jonathan Frank Tate spent years patrolling Newborough Forest on Anglesey as Warden, and it's one of his own recorded accounts, unaltered from his book Factual Supernatural, now out on Amazon, that gives this episode of the Haunted UK Podcast its material. Walking a quiet forest path late one still night, he sees a warm, lantern-like glow moving through the trees on a parallel track, gliding steadily towards him with no footsteps and no figure carrying it. The light draws level, bright enough to catch the branches around it, then stops directly opposite where he's standing, as though it's noticed him too. There's no hand holding it, no shadow, no sound at all, just the glow, motionless in the dark a few metres away, until he forces himself to walk on. When he finally looks back, it's vanished completely, with nothing left to explain where it went. Hear the full account, exactly as Jonathan wrote it, in this episode. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show…

On her very first day working at Dover Castle, Cecilia looked up at an enormous building beside the car park and saw a woman in a dark, hooded cloak staring down at her from a second-floor window. In this real Witness Files account, that single glance sets off a chain of events that leaves two experienced colleagues just as unsettled as she was. The building turns out to be the Officer's Mess, a 19th-century addition to Dover Castle that's been closed to staff and visitors for years. When Cecilia mentions the figure she saw on her first day, her colleagues insist she couldn't have seen anyone there at all, and take her inside to prove it. What she finds is a gutted shell with no floor on the level where the woman had been standing. Her manager has an explanation of her own: Dover Castle's long-reported Grey Lady, a spirit tied to this exact building, said to have appeared decades earlier during a party to warn staff of a fire, then vanished with no guest matching her description ever found. Hear Cecilia's…

Jonathan Frank Tate spent years patrolling Newborough Forest on Anglesey as Warden, and it's one of his own recorded accounts, unaltered from his book Factual Supernatural, now out on Amazon, that gives this episode of the Haunted UK Podcast its material. Sitting on a quiet hillock above a forest track on a calm summer afternoon, he hears what sounds like hundreds, maybe thousands, of feet running along the path directly below him. When he looks down, the track is completely empty. The sound doesn't fade or explain itself. It builds into what he describes as a stampede's worth of footsteps, rushing and overlapping, with no voices and no visible cause, while sunlight falls undisturbed across an empty path and the ferns beside it don't so much as move. It lasts several long minutes before receding into the trees, leaving the forest to settle back into ordinary birdsong as though nothing had happened at all. Hear the full account, exactly as Jonathan wrote it, in this episode. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe,…

A man sitting alone in a rural train station shelter gets up, walks into the dark at the end of the platform, and vanishes completely: no footprints, no sound, nowhere he could have gone. Then the footsteps start again, coming from behind him. This episode of Fright Bites packs in four real, unexplained encounters, including one told for the first time in the listener's own voice. Alongside it: a lifetime of unexplained incidents in one family home, from toys thrown by nobody to a heating system that kept getting turned up while the house sat empty, and two brothers, years apart, who each described the exact same imaginary friend. A night of relentless knocking at a Welsh holiday cottage turns out to have happened to every guest who's ever stayed there. And a ten year old, wide awake in bed, comes face to face with a tall, snarling, black clad figure she was certain, even then, was a vampire. Listen to all four accounts now, and if you've had an encounter of your own, get in touch, it could be the next…

Jonathan Frank Tate spent years in security operations, the military, and private contracting, but it's his time as Warden for Newborough and Llanddwyn on Anglesey that gives this account its material. His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered. In broad daylight, on a coastal path between the dunes and the forest, Tate sees a girl sitting perfectly still beside the track. He looks away for only a few seconds. When he looks back, she is gone, with no tracks in the sand and no sound in the trees to explain how. This is Red Head. Tate spent years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn, walking coastal paths caught between dune and forest, in a landscape shaped by wind, tide, and centuries of storms that buried a royal court beneath the sand. Walking that same path for hours, losing track of time and distance in the silence, he notices the girl sitting just off the track, her pale hair lifting in the wind, and steps behind a…

A woman who died almost eight hundred years ago is still, by more than one account, walking a stretch of road in Leicestershire. In this Dark Matters case, a bus once pulled in for her at a shelter opposite Grace Dieu Priory, the doors opened, and nobody got on, because by the time the driver looked, she'd already gone. The White Lady has been seen at the same forty yards of road across decades: a family in a horse-drawn carriage in 1926, an off-duty police constable in 1981, a family driving home in 1990, and, more than once, officers who say a hooded figure simply appeared in the back seat of a parked patrol car. The ruins themselves, all that's left of a strict thirteenth-century nunnery founded by the formidable Rohese de Verdun, sit on a real geological fault line, and a darker local legend claims a prioress was bricked up alive after her baby was drowned in the priory fishpond. Ghost hunters have picked up the same details independently on separate visits years apart, from a ghost box insisting eight…

Jonathan Frank Tate spent years in security operations, the military, and private contracting, but it's his time as Warden for Newborough and Llanddwyn on Anglesey that gives this new limited series its material. His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered. There's no figure in the trees, no scream, no glowing eyes, just a voice, low and mumbling, moving through the undergrowth toward a path with nobody speaking it. This is The Mumbler. Tate spent years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn after dark, walking paths shaped by animals rather than people, in a landscape where centuries-old storms buried a royal court beneath the dunes. On one warm summer night, he hears something moving parallel to him through the bracken, a voice mumbling continuously in no language he can place. It draws level, crosses the path directly in front of him, and there's nothing there. No footsteps. No shadow. No source. Hear the full account…

A mother tucks her daughter in for the night in their Niagara Falls apartment, certain she'd just watched her standing silent in the bedroom doorway wearing a nightgown she doesn't own. In this Witness Files case, the ten-year-old explains it the next morning without missing a beat: "That's just Abigail. She used to live here when it was a farm." It's the first of several accounts from the same witness, spanning a decade and two countries. A slammed car door and running footsteps with no explanation, on the same afternoon her father dies in a road accident miles away. Unexplained footsteps outside a locked hotel room during a Highland dance trip to Glasgow. And, more recently, years of activity across a run of interconnected shops in Ontario, all built on the same patch of land: motion-activated toys switching themselves on one by one, a glass ornament hurled across an empty room, and a mezzanine floor no member of staff will go near alone. Hear the full witness statement, and find out how to submit your own…

In Part Two of this Haunted UK Podcast: On the Road interview, Jamie Corstorphine of City of the Dead Tours picks up right where Part One left off, 1679, and the aftermath of the Battle of Bothwell Brig, when captured Covenanter prisoners were brought to Edinburgh and held in the conditions that built Greyfriars Kirkyard's grim reputation. From there, Jamie takes us into one of Britain's most infamous paranormal cases: the Mackenzie Poltergeist, the story behind the scratches, faintings, and unexplained encounters reported around one particular mausoleum in the kirkyard, and clears up some of the misinformation that's built up around the case over the years. The conversation then heads underground into the South Bridge Vaults, the network of chambers beneath Edinburgh's Old Town once home to illegal taverns and the city's poorest residents, now known for a very different kind of reputation. Jamie also shares what it's really like running haunted tours through these spaces night after night, and gives us his…

On his very first shift as a security officer at a fire station in South Wales, Dorian was asked the same question by three different firefighters before lunch: have you seen the ghosts yet? In this Witness Files case, the joke stops being a joke fast, once he learns exactly what the station was built on top of. The station sits directly on the site of a Victorian colliery, where an explosion in 1878 trapped over three hundred men and boys underground and ultimately killed 268 of them, many by drowning when the pit was flooded to control the fire. Firefighters posted there over the years describe knocking on doors with nobody behind them, appliance bay lights and doors found open on empty patrols, and crews who refuse to linger once the sun goes down. One colleague who dismissed it all as nonsense changed his mind within a single night shift, after seeing three figures crossing the mess room that he could only describe as looking like miners. Hear Dorian's full witness statement, and find out how to submit…

Beneath Edinburgh's Old Town lie underground vaults and graveyards where visitors say they've encountered something they can't explain. In Part One of this two-part Haunted UK Podcast: On the Road interview, we sit down with Jamie Corstorphine, manager of City of the Dead Tours, to find out why Edinburgh has earned its reputation as one of Britain's most haunted cities. Jamie has spent years guiding visitors through Edinburgh's darkest corners, and here he takes us into the history of Greyfriars Kirkyard, one of Scotland's most famous graveyards, shaped by centuries of plague, poverty, and public execution. We hear about the Covenanters' Prison hidden within its walls, an unexpected piece of Greyfriars trivia involving a flag once flown over the White House, and Jamie's own take on why some visitors arrive as sceptics and leave convinced something strange is going on. Part One ends right on the edge of Greyfriars' darkest chapter, as Jamie takes us back to 1679 and the aftermath of the Battle of Bothwell…

A lonely road cuts through the darkened landscapes of East Anglia, passing heathland, forest, ancient trackways and places long associated with folklore. But along the A1075, witnesses have reported something far stranger than shadows at the roadside. In this atmospheric investigation, Haunted UK Podcast travels into the eerie borderlands of Norfolk and Suffolk to explore a series of unsettling encounters with large, hair-covered creatures seen near Thetford Forest, Wayland Wood, Peddars Way and the surrounding countryside. From a towering ape-like figure said to have drifted across the road in front of a startled driver, to reports of grey, long-snouted beasts, silent woodland apparitions, and a possible encounter with the legendary Black Shuck, these accounts form a strange and persistent pattern across decades. Rooted in local history, ancient routes, East Anglian folklore and modern witness testimony, this episode examines the stories of those who saw something they could not easily explain - and the…

A bonus episode arrives ahead of the Season 8 finale, which heads into eastern England's A1075 for years of reported beast sightings there. It got us thinking that cryptids aren't just a British story, so this one leaves the UK behind for one of the best documented cryptid cases anywhere: The Mothman of Point Pleasant. Four young people described it first, on a freezing night in November 1966: six or seven feet tall, grey, wings folded against its back, and eyes that didn't reflect the light but burned. It made the front page of their local paper by the next morning, and what followed over the next year ended in tragedy, inspired a Hollywood film, and left a small town on the Ohio River with a legend it's never shaken. Two young couples driving past an abandoned wartime munitions site watched the creature rise vertically off the ground and keep pace above their car at over a hundred miles an hour. Within two days, two more separate groups nearby described the same grey, winged, red eyed figure, including one…

An empty college corridor. A supermarket aisle at 2:30 a.m. The top floor of a tired high-rise. A village pub just before closing. In this Fright Bites collection, four listeners share short accounts from ordinary places after dark - the moments when work, routine and familiarity give way to something harder to explain. A teacher sees a silent girl standing at the windows during a sixth form open evening. A night-shift worker finds a customer trolley where no trolley should be. A tenant on the twenty-second floor hears footsteps passing a door with nowhere to go. And in a village pub, a stranger arrives for last orders, takes his usual seat, and leaves behind a full pint. Compact, personal and quietly unsettling, these are brief encounters from the Haunted UK Podcast archive - stories where the ordinary world feels almost unchanged, except for one detail that refuses to fit. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to…

Power leaves its mark on the places that hold it. Across royal palaces, castles, chapels, staircases and private chambers, stories have endured of monarchs, queens, servants, soldiers and courtiers who seem unable to leave the world behind. This episode explores some of the most atmospheric royal hauntings from Britain and beyond, from Anne Boleyn’s ghost at the Tower of London, Blickling Hall, Hever Castle and Windsor, to the haunted galleries of Hampton Court Palace, where Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Sybil Penn are said to remain. The journey moves through the darker edges of royal history: the Princes in the Tower, the murder of David Rizzio at Holyroodhouse, the restless spirits of Glamis Castle, the Romanov tragedy, the haunted legacy of Versailles, and ghostly accounts connected to palaces in France, Mexico, China, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and Austria. Blending historical storytelling with witness accounts and enduring folklore, this documentary-style episode asks why royal residences so often…

Forty grown men, standing in the dark below a ruined tower in Staffordshire, looked up and saw a woman in a pure white Elizabethan gown staring straight back down at them... and every one of them knew instantly it couldn't be a member of staff. This is the story of Tutbury Castle, one of Britain's most haunted locations, and the strange, decades-spanning case for what's still walking its grounds. Tutbury held Mary, Queen of Scots prisoner across four separate stays, and she's said to haunt it still, seen sprinting across open grass at impossible speed by an off-duty Royal Marine in 1984, spotted by archaeologists mid-dig, and glimpsed by the castle's own most sceptical staff. Then there's Ellie, a child spirit in the King's Bedroom who tugs at visitors' fingers one by one, and the Keeper, an armoured figure at John of Gaunt's Gateway still telling people to "get thee hence." Over 250 sightings have been logged since 2000. Now, with the castle closed and its long-serving curator retired, there's nobody left…

An empty hotel bar after a wedding. A man in a bowler hat with a sherry glass. And a second apparition seen months later by a guest with no knowledge of the first. When Rob began working at Graythwaite Manor in Grange-over-Sands, he knew little of the hotel’s history. One night, while closing the bar after a wedding, he glanced across the room and saw a man seated in the bay window — calm, silent, and dressed in a bowler hat. Seconds later, the figure was gone. What might have been dismissed as a fleeting mistake became harder to explain when the hotel’s owner revealed a detail from its past: the bar had once been the drawing room of the manor’s original owner, a retired banker from Bradford known locally for wearing a bowler hat. Months later, another wedding brought another sighting. This time, a bridesmaid at breakfast saw what appeared to be a maid in traditional dress approaching the dining room — only for her to vanish before the order could be taken. In this case from The Witness Files, one former…

The host walks into a lift, and the lift promptly breaks it. What follows is a very overdue apology: months, in some cases the better part of a year, of Patreon and Ko-fi support that's never been properly thanked out loud, on the show, until now. Trapped between floors with nothing but tinny elevator music playing, the host works through every tier of supporter, by name, from the Totally Tormented tier all the way down to the fleeting Apparition tier. Dozens of names get read aloud, several with their own running jokes, as thanks for keeping a small independent paranormal show on the air. If you've ever wondered whether your support actually gets noticed, this is the answer. Press play to hear your name, and find out how to end up in the lift next time. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram…

Big news from Haunted UK Podcast. Steve has left full time employment, working his last day on Friday 31st July, and the show he started back in June 2021 is now officially his full time job. In this short episode, Steve reflects on the leap from part time passion project to full time career, what it means for the show going forward, and thanks the listeners, colleagues, and supporters who helped get him here. Expect more time, more focus, and more energy going into every future episode. Listen to the full announcement now. Patreon: Haunted UK Podcast Patreon Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Instagram: Haunted UK Podcast Twitter/X: @hauntedukpod Tik-Tok: Tik-Tok Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast…

There are moments when the body sleeps, but the mind remains awake. A room becomes unfamiliar. A presence gathers in the dark. And something unseen waits at the edge of waking. In this deeply personal account, Ashleigh shares a lifetime of night-time experiences shaped by sleep paralysis, grief, strange intuition, and encounters that seem to blur the boundary between dream and reality. From a childhood episode marked by the smell of brandy and a devastating phone call the next morning, to military accommodation built on the site of an old priory, this story moves through fear, protection, and the lingering sense that some places — and some people — may be watched over. Alongside Ashleigh’s own experiences, Jake’s unsettling childhood encounters, shared sensations, and the recurring figure of the Man in the Hat deepen the mystery. This is not presented as proof, but as lived experience: a story of shadow figures, guardian presences, grief, messages from beyond, and the uneasy question of what may be waiting…

A breath beside an empty shoulder. A hand on the stairs. A child giggling in the night… and a shadow seen by two witnesses at once. In this collection of Fright Bites, four listener accounts explore brief, personal moments where the ordinary world seems to shift. At Dudley Castle, a visitor studying old graffiti hears a long exhale close to his ear, only to find himself completely alone. In a friend’s house, a strange presence appears on the landing before offering an unsettling, physical touch on the stairs. In rural North Essex, a baby’s unexplained laughter raises a deeply personal question about whether a lost grandfather came back to visit. And on a first holiday abroad in Magaluf, two friends realise they both saw the same dark figure standing at the end of the bed. Short, intimate, and witness-led, these accounts don’t rely on grand spectacle. They linger because they are small, close, and difficult to dismiss - the kind of moments that leave people wondering what was really beside them in the dark.…

Beneath Atlanta’s glass towers and Southern charm lies a city shaped by fire, loss, reinvention, legends, and hauntings that would keep the bravest of us up at night. As the World Cup journey brings us to Atlanta, we explore a city built on destruction, ambition, and survival. From historic cemeteries and haunted theatres to hotel tragedies, battlefield echoes, and Southern folklore, Atlanta reveals a darker side beneath its modern skyline, one where the past still speaks through fire, music, memory, and the shadows of the old South. EPISODE CREDITS: Written by: Melissa West Narrated by: Steven Holloway Produced by: Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by…

A dark shape at the foot of the bed. A voice in an unknown language. A mirror reflection that refuses to wake. In this second part of our exploration of sleep paralysis, listeners share deeply personal accounts of becoming trapped between sleep and waking — aware, afraid, and unable to move. These experiences range from shadow figures, strange voices and the sensation of being watched, to vivid dream states that seem to blur into something harder to explain. Some accounts sit firmly within the unsettling world of sleep paralysis; others leave behind questions that feel less easily answered. Featuring listener stories connected to Dr Emma Barkus’ sleep paralysis research study at Northumbria University, this episode of The Haunted UK Podcast returns to one of the most disturbing and mysterious states of human consciousness: the moment when the mind wakes before the body does. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to…

Huge thanks to Melissa set for turning this episode around so quickly 🙏. Beyond the beaches and neon lights of Miami lies a darker world of shipwrecks, restless spirits, and mysteries carried in on the tide. Known for its sunshine, nightlife, and palm-lined beaches, Miami has become one of America's most iconic cities. Yet beyond the glamour lies a landscape shaped by shipwrecks, pirate legends, haunted landmarks, Caribbean folklore, and some of the world's most enduring mysteries. Join us as we explore the haunted history of Miami, where ghostly encounters, unexplained disappearances, and centuries of maritime legend continue to blur the line between history and the supernatural. EPISODE CREDITS: Written by: Melissa West Narrated by: Steven Holloway Produced by: Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi…

A plain wooden chair. A Yorkshire murder. And a warning that has followed one object for generations. In North Yorkshire, inside Thirsk Museum, a chair hangs suspended safely out of reach. According to local legend, anyone who sits in it will meet a sudden and untimely death. Its story is tied to Thomas Busby, a man executed in 1702 for the murder of his father-in-law, Daniel Auty, near Sandhutton crossroads. For years, the chair was kept at the Busby Stoop Inn, where locals, travellers, and sceptics could see it for themselves. Around it grew stories of dares, accidents, wartime deaths, strange coincidences, and warnings too persistent to ignore. Some accounts are rooted firmly in history. Others live in that darker space between folklore, pub memory, and local dread. In this episode of Dark Matters, we examine the real murder behind the legend, the cursed reputation of Busby’s chair, its removal to Thirsk Museum, and the uncomfortable question at the centre of every cursed object story: when does ordinary…

A family home in Lancashire. A dark hallway no one wants to face. And a presence that seems to move through the rooms as if it still belongs there. When Klare’s family moved into a smart semi-detached dormer bungalow in 1988, the house seemed like a fresh start. But before long, the upstairs landing, the entrance hall, and the quiet hours of the night began to carry an atmosphere none of them could easily dismiss. There were sounds from empty rooms. Footsteps, plugs, voices, unexplained music, and the feeling of being watched from the dark. Then came the sightings: a shadow-like man at the foot of the stairs, a figure groaning at the end of a bed, someone passing outside a bathroom window where no one should have been, and later, stranger moments still — including a woman seated silently in the bedroom, dogs reacting to something unseen, and a baby monitor that seemed to record an event that never physically happened. In this case from The Witness Files, one family’s long-running experience asks what happens…

Inside the atmospheric rooms of Himley Hall, an unusual evening unfolds - part paranormal investigation, part public vigil, and part live demonstration of mediumship. Joined by The Wright Paranormal team, spiritual medium and psychic artist Emily Baker, and fifty members of the public, this episode captures a more intimate side of the unexplained: not simply the history of a haunted location, but the personal moments people take away from it. Throughout the night, guests share the messages they felt they received, ranging from humorous and unexpected details to deeply emotional experiences connected with grief, memory, family, and comfort. Erin reflects on a message that seemed to speak to her relationship with her mother. Tommy recalls a lighter moment involving his driving lessons. Sam shares a personal and funny exchange that stayed with her. Gail speaks about an experience that brought her a sense of peace. The episode also features a conversation with Emily Baker about her work as a spiritual medium and…

Beneath the mountains of northern Mexico, legends of witches, spirits, and haunted places still linger after dark. Known for its dramatic mountains and modern skyline, Monterrey is one of Mexico's most important cities. Yet beyond the bustling streets lies a darker history filled with haunted mansions, mysterious legends, supernatural folklore, and stories passed down through generations. Join us as we explore the haunted history and folklore of Monterrey, uncovering the shadows that still linger beneath the mountains of northern Mexico. EPISODE CREDITS: Written by: Melissa West Narrated by: Steven Holloway Produced by: Pink Flamingo Home Studio Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced…

Some hauntings seem to come from outside us. A figure in a room. A voice in the dark. A presence moving through a house. But for Asher, the most unsettling presence in her life may have been something far more intimate — a former version of herself. From childhood, Asher experienced strange dreams, disturbing images, powerful instincts, and an unexplained pull towards places, symbols, and behaviours she couldn’t understand. Years later, during a past life regression she entered with deep scepticism, she found herself inside another life: a woman of power, isolation, duty, grief, and loss. What emerged was a story that seemed to echo through Asher’s own life in startling ways. A medieval setting. A royal identity. A life connected to Poland. A deep loneliness. A fear of childbirth. A recurring sense of inherited duty. And afterwards, research that appeared to lead her towards Queen Jadwiga, a historical figure whose life carried strange parallels with the memories uncovered under hypnosis. But this account…

Beyond the jazz clubs and barbecue smoke lies a darker side of the American heartland, one shaped by frontier violence, ghost stories, and enduring legends. Kansas City is often known for its jazz, railroads, and rich frontier history, but beneath the surface lies a city filled with ghost stories, urban legends, and echoes of a turbulent past. Join us as we explore the hauntings, folklore, and hidden history of Kansas City, from Civil War violence and historic theatres to infamous haunted locations and some of the American Midwest's most enduring supernatural legends. EPISODE CREDITS Written by – Melissa West Narrated by – Steven Holloway Produced by – Pink Flamingo Home Studio Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website:…

A shape forming in an old refectory. A drinks can struck by something that wasn’t there. A blistered figure in a West Witton bedroom… and a white lady drifting through the walls of an Elizabethan manor. In this collection of Fright Bites, four listener accounts bring together fleeting but unforgettable moments of the unexplained. A volunteer in a historic house sees white smoke gather into something almost human, before a later joke is answered by an icy touch to the face. On a quiet Essex road in the 1990s, an empty can shoots from beneath a parked car with no visible cause. A holiday cottage in West Witton becomes the setting for a series of disturbing night-time encounters connected to the legend of Owd Bartle. And at a Wiltshire manor, a witness recalls the white lady, the children who came and went, and other apparitions tied to old buildings and older memories. Short, intimate, and witness-led, these are the kinds of experiences that leave no easy explanation - only the lasting sense that something…

Hospitals are places where life and death sit closer than most of us ever see. For one nurse, the unexplained began long before her career in intensive care. As a child, she saw shadows, sensed presences, and experienced strange figures in the family home. Later, in an old farm cottage, lights switched on by themselves, kettles boiled without touch, footsteps moved through empty rooms, and even the family dog seemed to follow someone no one else could see. But it was during her years working in ICU that those experiences took on a deeper and more unsettling meaning. Across night shifts, COVID wards, closed bays, and quiet corridors, she and her colleagues witnessed shadows moving past doorways, equipment shifting on its own, sudden changes in temperature, unseen hands, disembodied voices, and the shape of a person standing behind a patient’s curtain where no one should have been. Most moving of all are the accounts from patients nearing the end of life — many of them describing visits from loved ones who had…

Ancient graveyards. Revolutionary ghosts. Phantom ships in the Atlantic fog. Tonight, we journey to one of America's most haunted cities. Boston is one of America's oldest cities, a place where centuries of history linger around every corner. From ancient burial grounds and Revolutionary legends to haunted hotels and ghostly encounters, some believe the city's past has never truly left. In this episode of Haunted UK Abroad, we explore the folklore, hauntings, and dark history of Boston and the Massachusetts coast, including King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston Common, Beacon Hill, the Omni Parker House, the legend of the Gloucester Ghost Ship, and the enduring shadow of the Salem Witch Trials. Because in Boston, history is never far away... and some believe neither are the dead. EPISODE CREDITS: Written by: Melissa West Narrated by: Steven Holloway Produced by: Pink Flamingo Home Studio Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's…

Helicopters over dark fields. Controlled blasts in the early hours. And one witness who believed something far larger was moving above Pentyrch. In February 2016, the quiet Welsh village of Pentyrch became the centre of one of the UK’s most disputed modern UFO cases. The Ministry of Defence acknowledged that a military exercise took place in the area, with simulated munitions, aircraft activity, and later explanations involving an Apache helicopter diversion. But for those who believe something extraordinary happened that night, the official record only deepens the mystery. This episode of Dark Matters examines the documented military activity, the FOI responses, the withheld details, the Exercise Chameleon NOTAMs, and the witness account at the heart of the case: a huge pyramid of light over the fields, smaller objects moving around it, and the sense that what unfolded was more than a routine exercise. Pentyrch remains unsettling because it is not built on silence or rumour alone. The aircraft were real.…

The investigation continues beneath the surface of Hack Green Nuclear Bunker. After exploring the bunker’s Cold War history and after-hours atmosphere, the second part moves deeper into the experiences connected to the site: the strange sensations, unexplained encounters, and witness accounts that have become part of Hack Green’s modern identity. This is not simply a story of concrete corridors and preserved military rooms. It is a story about what remains in a place shaped by secrecy, isolation, and the constant shadow of catastrophe. As Bryony and Emma continue their conversation with Steve, the bunker begins to feel less like a museum and more like a building still holding onto something. Part 2 brings together witness testimony, paranormal discussion, and the lingering emotional weight of a location designed for the end of the world - asking whether places built around fear can absorb it, preserve it, and perhaps even echo it back. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It…

After the doors close and the visitors leave, Hack Green Nuclear Bunker becomes something else entirely. Deep beneath the Cheshire countryside, this once-secret Cold War site was built for a future everyone feared, but hoped would never come. Concrete corridors, steel doors, preserved rooms, and the weight of nuclear history all remain — quiet, watchful, and strangely alive in the darkness. With exclusive after-hours access, Steve explores Hack Green once the public noise has faded, beginning with a personal tour of the bunker before speaking with Bryony and Emma about the site’s history and the unexplained experiences reported within its walls. This first part sets the scene: the Cold War context, the atmosphere of the bunker, and the strange tension that seems to gather in places built around secrecy, fear, and survival. A documentary-style journey into one of the UK’s most unusual historic locations - and the beginning of a deeper paranormal investigation. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a…

An old Victorian primary school in London’s East End. A rarely used rooftop playground. And, on one ordinary school day, a set of toilets that should have been empty. When Jeff was eight or nine years old, a plumbing problem meant the only working toilets were on the roof. Mid-lesson, he was sent upstairs alone. Inside, the room felt strangely quiet, the kind of silence that makes a child pause before they understand why. Then he heard it: the clear laughter of a young girl. Assuming someone else was inside, he called out. No answer came. One by one, he checked the cubicles, expecting to find another pupil hiding there. But every door opened onto nothing. No child. No movement. No way out except the one he had come through. A short, chilling Fright Bites account of childhood fear, old school buildings, and the kind of unexplained sound that stays with someone long after they’ve run back to class. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more…

A cold January night. A quiet factory. A cleaner finishing her shift and heading home as usual. But behind the building, beside the bike sheds, something stopped her from leaving. At first, it felt like the bike had snagged on the rack. Then it pulled backwards. Moments later, her high-vis vest was violently tugged by something she couldn’t see. Alone in the car park, terrified and trying to run, she had no way of knowing that someone else had seen it happen: the security guard, watching the whole encounter unfold on CCTV. What followed only deepened the mystery. A white lab-coat style jacket was later seen floating above the factory floor before dropping to the ground. Stories began to surface about the land beneath the building: a former Army engineer barracks, a fatal accident involving a tank, and later accounts of sudden deaths in cars on the same site. This Witness Files case brings together first-hand family testimony, CCTV corroboration, workplace folklore, and the unsettling possibility that some…

In the quiet hours of a hospital night shift, routine can feel strangely fragile. A porter receives a transfer call just after three in the morning. No patient name. Only a ward number. The ward is in an older part of the hospital, half-empty and dimly lit, with beds left behind like the last traces of a forgotten shift. One bed is occupied. The patient lies completely still beneath the sheet. There is no nurse waiting, no name on the board, and no explanation for where the patient is meant to go. Then the call bell lights up above the bed, and a quiet voice says one word: “Sorry.” The transfer begins as normal. The bed moves through the corridors and down to the lifts. But when the doors open on the lower floor, the bed is empty. A short, unsettling Fright Bites account from a hospital night worker, where the ordinary machinery of care — wards, call bells, transfer requests, and silent corridors — becomes the setting for something impossible to explain. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and…

Clover Cottage was meant to be a new beginning. A quiet home near Ross-on-Wye. A place to rebuild, settle down, and finally create the kind of life that feels permanent. But almost from the moment the couple moved in, the house began to behave as though it already belonged to someone else. A swing moves violently beneath the old oak tree when there is barely any wind. Tapping comes at the kitchen window in the dead of night. Small handprints appear on the bedroom glass. A hidden space beneath the pantry floor reveals old steps leading down into darkness. Then, during a dinner party, a guest sees a young girl standing at an upstairs window… watching from inside a house where no child lives. As the disturbances grow, the history of the land begins to surface. Long before Clover Cottage was built, another house stood there. A house connected to the Flynn family, a devastating fire in the 1930s, and a young girl named Lucy whose story had been half-buried in local memory for decades. This is a haunting shaped…

A late-night drive on an almost empty stretch of the M6 should have been uneventful. But just past Wigan, one driver noticed a woman standing alone on the hard shoulder. No broken-down car. No hazard lights. No attempt to wave for help. Just a still figure in a light-coloured coat, facing the road as traffic passed in the dark. As the car drew level, she turned and looked directly at the driver - not frightened, not pleading, but waiting. A moment later, she was gone. No movement. No trace. Nothing visible in the mirror but the empty hard shoulder behind. In this short Fright Bites encounter, a seemingly ordinary motorway sighting becomes something far harder to explain, especially when a colleague later mentions the stories attached to that same stretch of road: reports of a woman seen near the place where a fatal accident was said to have happened years before. A quiet, chilling account of late-night roads, roadside ghosts, and the unnerving feeling that some places hold onto the final moments of those who…

On a remote hillside on the Isle of Man, a lonely farmhouse became the centre of one of the strangest cases in British paranormal history. The house was Doarlish Cashen. The family were the Irvings. And the voice inside the walls claimed to belong to Gef — an “extra, extra clever mongoose” that sang, shouted, insulted visitors, mimicked animals, and spoke from hidden spaces no one could fully reach. At first, the story sounds almost absurd. A talking mongoose in a remote Manx farmhouse. But beneath the oddity lies something far more unsettling: a family living in deep isolation, strange noises moving through the walls, a presence that seemed to watch and answer back, and investigators who could never quite agree on what was really happening. This episode of Dark Matters explores the case through the people who tried to explain it, from Harry Price and the National Laboratory of Psychical Research to Nandor Fodor’s more psychological interpretation of the haunting. Was Gef a hoax, a poltergeist, an unusual…

Haunted UK Podcast has officially moved to Acast. In this short update, Steve shares what the move means for the future of the show, reflects on how far Haunted UK has come over the past five years, and looks ahead to more history, hauntings, witness accounts, location episodes, and unexplained stories still to come. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

3. Premium episode description An overnight security guard patrols an almost abandoned office block where little ever changes. Empty corridors. Silent lifts. Rows of stripped-back offices left frozen in time. But on the third floor, one desk remains. At first, it’s easy to dismiss the strange activity as faulty equipment and exhaustion. A lift opening on its own. The sound of typing echoing through empty rooms. A chair inexplicably pulled back from a desk no one should be using. Then the CCTV begins to capture something impossible. In this Fright Bites episode, we hear the unsettling account of a night worker who came face to face with the lingering presence of a former employee… a man said to have died alone at his desk years earlier, unnoticed for days inside the silent building. A short-form paranormal encounter rooted in isolation, empty workplaces, late-night patrols, and the unnerving feeling that some places never truly empty out. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review.…

Some people experience the unexplained once, and spend the rest of their lives trying to understand it. For Catherine Jackson, it has never been just one moment. It has been a lifetime of knowing things before they happened, sensing presences in empty rooms, hearing voices with no visible source, and living alongside something that seems to follow from house to house. From childhood in Western Australia, Catherine carried a quiet certainty about events before they unfolded. She knew when her grandmother was about to arrive. She sensed the death of her father before the news reached her. Years later, she would hear a radio report of a well-known entertainer’s death a full week before it was officially announced. But Catherine’s story reaches far beyond premonition. Across decades, homes, relationships, and generations, strange activity has continued around her and her family. A hand stopping her from stepping into traffic. A shadow figure standing beside the bed. A child seen in the kitchen and then gone.…

After closing time in a Somerset social club, the music had stopped, the guests had gone, and the building should have been empty. But as Helen cleaned behind the bar, she saw an elderly woman walking slowly across the dance floor towards the toilets. She hadn’t heard anyone enter. The doors hadn’t opened. And when Helen and her colleague went to check, there was no one there. In this Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, a listener recalls a quiet Saturday night shift that turned into something far stranger: a vanishing figure, a locked escape route, an empty toilet block, and the sudden sound of furniture scraping across the floor. What follows is a short but deeply unsettling true paranormal experience from Somerset, where an ordinary social club seems to hold the echo of a presence that had appeared before — and left behind the same impossible detail. A ghostly woman. A single chair. And a building that may not have been as empty as it seemed. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and…

A family searching for more space finds a beautiful house in Tunis, set behind metal gates, surrounded by fruit trees, heat, and blinding North African sun. But from the moment Emma first sees the property, something feels wrong. The windows are open, the day is bright, and yet the glass shows nothing but blackness. In this Witness Files case from Haunted UK Podcast, Emma shares the deeply unsettling account of the six months she and her family spent inside a house that seemed to resist them from the beginning. What starts as unease soon becomes something far harder to dismiss: dark figures moving through rooms, freezing cold in the middle of a Tunisian summer, pulsing lights, oppressive presences, and the terrifying moment another witness sees what Emma had been trying to explain. Rooted in first-hand testimony, this case explores the fear of living in a place that feels occupied by something unseen, the emotional strain of not being believed, and the cultural shadow of the Jinn — spirits said, in some…

A teenage boy sees a black figure standing motionless in the upper window of an abandoned school building. It doesn’t move. It doesn’t speak. It simply watches. Years later, the same kind of shadow appears again — not in the old school, but behind him. In this Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, listener Jack Henderson shares a deeply unsettling account of a presence that seemed to appear at different points across his life. From a former school near Strawberry Field, to a locked workshop, to the quiet darkness of a newly bought house, the encounters form a pattern that’s difficult to dismiss. This short true paranormal story explores the fear of being watched, the strangeness of shadow figure sightings, and the lingering question of whether some encounters are tied to places… or to people. A figure in a window. A witness frozen in fear. And a darkness that may never have fully let go. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners.…

There are moments in the dark when the body refuses to move, the voice disappears, and the room begins to feel occupied by something unseen. For some, it is a pressure on the chest. For others, footsteps beside the bed, figures in the doorway, hands around the ankles, or the unmistakable sense that something is waiting just out of sight. In this first part of a listener-led exploration of sleep paralysis, Haunted UK Podcast gathers real accounts from people who have experienced one of the most frightening states of the sleeping mind. Some describe the classic terror of being unable to move or cry out. Others speak of shadow figures, insect-like entities, green-tinged rooms, dragging sensations, dark masses, strange lights, and the chilling figure known by many as the Hat Man. The episode also touches on the research of Dr Emma Barkus at Northumbria University, whose work into sleep paralysis helped prompt listeners to share their own experiences. What emerges is a deeply human collection of stories, sitting…