Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
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- Nov 14, 2026
About the podcast
Haunted UK Podcast explores the history, hauntings, folklore, and unexplained events tied to some of the world’s most fascinating places and mysteries.
From ancient castles and forgotten tunnels to chilling paranormal encounters, UFO sightings, mysterious disappearances, and strange local legends, each episode blends atmospheric storytelling with real history, eyewitness testimony, and immersive documentary-style narration.
Through in-depth research, location visits, interviews with historians, paranormal investigators, and members of staff connected to these remarkable places, Haunted UK Podcast uncovers the stories that continue to linger long after the events themselves have passed into history.
Whether standing inside a centuries-old fortress, walking through abandoned underground passageways, or listening to the testimony of someone who experienced something they still can’t explain, every episode asks the same question:
What remains behind in certain places… and why do some stories refuse to disappear?
So if you ever find yourself visiting one of the locations featured in these episodes, pause for a moment and look around carefully.
Because the next unexplained experience… could be yours.
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Episodes 241
Dark Matters - EP08 - The Erdington Murders
Two young women from Erdington, both twenty years old, both walking home after a bank holiday dance at the end of May. Both were killed on the same patch of ground in north Birmingham, both on or around the …
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Two young women from Erdington, both twenty years old, both walking home after a bank holiday dance at the end of May. Both were killed on the same patch of ground in north Birmingham, both on or around the 27th of May, and in both cases the man tried for the murder was called Thornton. The two deaths were 157 years apart. This episode of Dark Matters looks at the strange connection between Mary Ashford in 1817 and Barbara Forrest in 1974.
Mary’s case led to one of the most extraordinary trials in English legal history. Abraham Thornton was acquitted, and when her brother brought a private appeal, Thornton threw down a leather gauntlet in Westminster Hall and claimed his right to trial by battle. Barbara’s case is still officially unsolved. A man named Michael Thornton, no relation, was charged and then acquitted on the judge’s direction.
Both women are said to have had a premonition in the days before they died. Since then, people have reported a young woman in an old-fashioned dress hurrying along Penns Lane and drifting through Pype Hayes Park.
Listen to the full case now, and email the show if there’s a strange or unexplained story you’d like Dark Matters to look into.
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Factual Supernatural - EP09 - Gallop (Bonus Episode)
A scream cuts through an unusually calm night in Newborough Forest, followed by a low, ancient-sounding horn blast, and then a full gallop of hooves closing in fast along the track, in this bonus episode of …
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A scream cuts through an unusually calm night in Newborough Forest, followed by a low, ancient-sounding horn blast, and then a full gallop of hooves closing in fast along the track, in this bonus episode of Factual Supernatural.
Jonathan Frank Tate, Warden for Newborough and Llanddwyn on Anglesey, presses himself into the trees as the gallop thunders past at close range: hooves striking the ground, harness shifting, breath audible, every detail present and fully convincing. There is no horse. No rider. Nothing to see at all, only sound, receding back into the dark the way it came.
Gallop doesn’t appear in Tate’s book, making it a true bonus account, and it’s also the final episode in this current run of the podcast series, with a second volume, Factual Supernatural 2, already on the way.
Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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Faded Footsteps and Stanford House - The Ghosts on Castle Gate
Some people who visit Stanford House on Castle Gate in Nottingham say they’ve seen shadowy figures waiting silently by the doorways, like servants who never finished their shift. In this episode, the Haunted UK …
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Some people who visit Stanford House on Castle Gate in Nottingham say they’ve seen shadowy figures waiting silently by the doorways, like servants who never finished their shift. In this episode, the Haunted UK Podcast goes inside the Grade II* listed Georgian townhouse to talk to Mitch and Tanya about its history and the strange things reported there.
The house was remodelled in 1775 by the wealthy silk merchant William Stanford, on the site of the older Howe House, which had links to Admiral Richard Howe and General William Howe. Since then it has been a family home, a girls’ boarding school, a centre for muslin embroidery, a solicitors’ office and, today, modern workspace. People have reported footsteps in empty rooms, and taps and knocks that seem to answer classical music. One room with a small safe leaves people feeling pressure and unease. In the toilets, some visitors say something has touched them on the arm.
The episode looks at what all those different lives have left behind, and finishes with a walkaround of the house itself.
Listen to the full interview now, and step inside one of Nottingham’s most haunted historic buildings.
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Factual Supernatural - EP08 - Spaceman
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 setting.His book …
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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 setting.
His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered.
Good light, clear eyes, and a shape standing close enough to touch, yet Tate's eyes won't resolve it into anything solid, and it casts no shadow at all. This is Spaceman.
Tate's years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn before dawn meant learning a landscape of shifting dunes and wind-twisted pine, built over the buried ruins of a medieval Welsh royal court.
Walking a grassy track in the last hour before dawn, Tate spots a motionless silhouette near the crest of a hill path. Despite the growing daylight, its outline won't settle into anything he can trust, though it's plainly human in shape: head, shoulders, upright posture. He chooses not to approach it directly and carries on along a lower track instead. Minutes later, a second figure appears less than a metre from him beside a bush: upright, silent, casting no shadow, and giving no reaction at all to his presence even at that distance. He steps backward slowly, and when he looks back toward the hill, the first figure is gone entirely. Two unexplained shapes within minutes, neither one aware, or willing to show it, that he was ever there.
Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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Tamworth Castle - Staffordshire's Most Haunted Historic Site?
In all the interviews I've recorded for this show, nothing has quite matched what one member of staff at Tamworth Castle told me: a full, complete apparition, seen face to face inside the building. In this …
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In all the interviews I've recorded for this show, nothing has quite matched what one member of staff at Tamworth Castle told me: a full, complete apparition, seen face to face inside the building. In this episode of the Haunted UK Podcast, I sit down with two of Tamworth Castle's own staff, Leigh and Hollie, to explore one of Staffordshire's most historic sites, and the ghost stories that have grown up around it.
Long before the Norman castle that still stands above the town, Tamworth was a seat of power in Anglo-Saxon Mercia. Leigh and Hollie gave me a personal tour of the castle before we sat down to record, then walked me back through it, room by room, once the microphones were on, along with the castle's long-running Black Lady and White Lady legends. Leigh saves the strangest of it for last: two separate sightings, the second a complete, unmistakable apparition unlike anything I've heard in any interview before it.
Hear Leigh and Hollie's full accounts in this episode.
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The Midnight Reel - Halloween 1978
The most frightening face in horror is a $1.98 Captain Kirk mask from a magic shop on Hollywood Boulevard, with the eye holes cut wider and the face sprayed white. In the very first episode of The Midnight …
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The most frightening face in horror is a $1.98 Captain Kirk mask from a magic shop on Hollywood Boulevard, with the eye holes cut wider and the face sprayed white. In the very first episode of The Midnight Reel, Steve from the Haunted UK Podcast and Melissa from Haunted UK Fiction review John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the film that started the modern slasher.
Before the review, the episode goes behind the scenes of a horror classic made for around $300,000 in about three weeks. Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first feature film, bought Laurie Strode’s whole wardrobe at JC Penney for under $100. Donald Pleasence took the part of Dr Loomis after Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee both turned it down. Nick Castle got $25 a day to play The Shape. Paper autumn leaves were painted and reused in a South Pasadena spring, and Carpenter made one of the most famous theme tunes in film history on synthesisers, with hardly any money.
Then Steve and Melissa give their honest verdict on Michael Myers’ first night home in Haddonfield.
Watch or listen now, leave your own verdict in the comments, and vote in the poll for next month’s film.
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Factual Supernatural - EP07 - Bolt Drop
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 setting.His book …
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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 setting.
His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered.
No hole in the ceiling, no vibration, no explanation, just a metal bolt hitting the cabin floor two seconds after Tate dares whatever's out there to prove itself.
This is Bolt Drop.
Tate's years as Warden meant long nights alone in Newborough and Llanddwyn, working paths shaped more by animals than people, in a forest built over the sand-buried ruins of a medieval royal court.
Watching over film equipment overnight in an isolated welfare cabin deep in the forest, Tate and a friend fall into a conversation about ghosts. His friend believes; Tate doesn't, and says so flatly, then half-jokingly challenges whatever might be listening outside to "do something" if it's really there. The cabin goes unnaturally quiet for a couple of seconds. Then comes a sharp, sudden bang: a metal bolt has landed on the floorboards a few feet away. They check the ceiling above it. It's solid, panelled, with no holes and no loose fittings, and nothing nearby that could have shaken it loose. There's no way to explain how it got there, only the fact that it fell straight down, moments after the challenge was spoken aloud.
Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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Fright Bites - EP14 - Jokes Over & Other Encounters
A recurring childhood nightmare about a huge, fur covered creature chasing him down a hallway ends the one way it never should: three real claw marks appear on his body in the exact place it bit him in the …
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A recurring childhood nightmare about a huge, fur covered creature chasing him down a hallway ends the one way it never should: three real claw marks appear on his body in the exact place it bit him in the dream. That's the story behind "The Creature in the Hallway," just one of four real listener submissions in this episode of Fright Bites, the Haunted UK Podcast's short, sharp true paranormal series.
Elsewhere in the collection, a woman getting ready in a hotel room in Virginia Water watches a pair of fishnet tights rearrange themselves into an impossible arc after she's already told the room the joke's over, a nurse wakes from a nap on a hospital ward to find something "blacker than black" looming directly over her, and a man returns downstairs to find a cold glass of milk moved, and mysteriously warm, in an empty house.
Four short, unfiltered encounters straight from the show's own listeners, no filler, no distractions. Press play, and see which one stays with you.
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Factual Supernatural - EP06 - Chair Spin
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 setting.His book …
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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 setting.
His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered.
No one touches the chair, no one is ever there, but Tate falls asleep in an old chair inside an abandoned caravan deep in the forest, dreams that something unseen is turning it slowly beneath him, and wakes to find it still spinning exactly as it was in the dream. This is Chair Spin.
Tate's years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn meant long, solitary hours in a forest that has spent centuries quietly reclaiming everything left inside it, from animal paths to a royal court buried beneath the dunes by ancient storms.
Exhausted after hours of walking before dawn, Tate steps inside an old caravan he had always found unsettling but never entered, and sits down in a swivel office chair that looks strangely well kept compared to everything decaying around it. He falls asleep almost instantly and dreams he is still in the chair, being turned slowly and deliberately by someone standing just out of sight. He tries to plant his feet and stop it, but his body will not respond. Then, in one sudden movement, he is awake, and the chair is still turning, slowing down as though whatever had been pushing it had only just let go. Outside, the forest stays completely silent: no footsteps, no movement, nothing to explain what just happened.
Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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The Witness Files - Case 10 - The Return of Charlie
On the same night an old family friend died in a car crash hundreds of miles away, a teenager staying overnight at that friend's own house in Melbourne, south Derbyshire, watched a silent, jet black figure the …
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On the same night an old family friend died in a car crash hundreds of miles away, a teenager staying overnight at that friend's own house in Melbourne, south Derbyshire, watched a silent, jet black figure the exact shape of the man standing in the hallway. In this real Witness Files account, Ash describes an encounter with what may have been a final visit home.
Seventeen at the time, Ash was staying the night at the house Charlie and his wife Amy lent his grandparents every Christmas while they skied in Austria. Walking back from the kitchen late one December night, he found the hallway blocked by a tall, dark, featureless shape wearing what looked exactly like Charlie's coat and flat cap. It didn't answer when he spoke, and when he stepped closer, it vanished into the room beside him, leaving nothing behind.
The next morning, Ash's grandparents delivered the news: Charlie had died in a car crash in Austria the evening before, at almost exactly the moment of the sighting, and his wife was fighting for her life in intensive care.
Hear Ash's full witness statement, and find out how to submit your own story to The Witness Files, in this episode.
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Factual Supernatural - EP05 - Mandy
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 setting.His book …
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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 setting.
His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered.
No footsteps, no growl, no chase, just a small, familiar dog trotting happily through the pines at midnight, exactly as she'd always looked, hundreds of miles from the house where she should have been sleeping.
This is Mandy.
Tate spent years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn after dark, along paths worn by animals rather than people, in a landscape where centuries-old storms buried a royal court beneath the dunes.
On a calm, clear night deep in the forest, Tate spots movement among the trees: a small spaniel with reddish fur, moving happily through the undergrowth. He recognises her at once as Mandy, his grandmother's dog, a dog he hadn't seen in months while working in North Wales, hundreds of miles from her home in London. She looks exactly as she always had, relaxed and pleased, moving with total confidence through a forest she has no business being in. She glances back at him once, then carries on between the trees until the dark swallows her completely. The next day, Tate learns that Mandy died peacefully at his grandparents' house in London during the night, at almost exactly the same time he saw her.
Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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Dark Matters - EP07 - The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
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 …
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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 life was upended by that one night, and a local rumour involving a butterbean farmer that's never been confirmed or denied.
Hear the full story, and the competing theories behind it, in this episode of Dark Matters.
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Factual Supernatural - EP04 - Lantern
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 …
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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.
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The Witness Files - Case 09 - The Woman in the Window
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 …
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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 full witness statement, and find out how to submit your own story to The Witness Files, in this episode.
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Factual Supernatural - EP03 - Runners
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 …
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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.
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Fright Bites - EP13 - Frozen Ghosts & Other Encounters
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 …
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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 Fright Bite.
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Factual Supernatural - EP02 - Red Head
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 …
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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 tree out of reflex before letting himself be seen. When he steps back onto the path moments later, she has vanished completely: the sand around her lies undisturbed, nothing moves in the trees, and there is nowhere she could have gone without being seen or heard.
Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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Dark Matters - EP06 - The White Lady of Grace Dieu Priory
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 …
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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 spirits are present to a photograph that looks unmistakably like a hooded figure caught in mist.
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Factual Supernatural - EP01 - The Mumbler
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 …
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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 in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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The Witness Files - Case 08 - Abigail in the Dark
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 …
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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 story to The Witness Files, in this episode.
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City of the Dead Tours - Greyfriars Kirkyard - Part 2
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 …
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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 own quick-fire answers on Edinburgh's most haunted spot.
Listen to the conclusion of our interview with Jamie Corstorphine now, and find out where to book a City of the Dead Tours night out in Edinburgh.
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The Witness Files - Case 07 - The Station That Never Slept
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 …
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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 your own account to The Witness Files archive, in this episode.
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City of the Dead Tours - Greyfriars Kirkyard - Part 1
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 …
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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 Brig.
Listen to Part One now, and join us for Part Two as we head underground into the Mackenzie Poltergeist and the South Bridge Vaults.
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Episode 80 - The Beast of the A1075
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 …
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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 lasting fear, confusion and fascination that followed.
Featuring research compiled by Edward Oliver, with witness reports edited and inserted by Lucy Spirit, these accounts are presented with permission on behalf of those who came forward to share their experiences.
Whether these sightings are misidentified animals, the influence of folklore on lonely night journeys, or something more difficult to define, the mystery of the Beast of the A1075 remains one of East Anglia’s most intriguing roadside legends.
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Bonus Episode - The Mothman of Point Pleasant
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 …
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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 that followed a young mother onto her porch. A local reporter took five hundred phone calls in a single weekend, and thirteen months later, tragedy struck the town in a way nobody has ever fully explained.
The episode follows the sightings, the writer whose own life turned strange while chasing the story, and the folklore, including the legends wrongly attached to Chernobyl, that grew up around Point Pleasant afterwards. A bonus episode to hold you over before Season 8's last case drops. Listen now.
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Fright Bites - EP12 - Open Evening & Other Encounters
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 …
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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.
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S08 - EP09 - Royal Ghosts and Haunted Royals
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 …
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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 become places of haunting. Are these apparitions echoes of trauma, glimpses into the past, or something more personal - a final trace of those who lived, ruled, suffered and died behind palace walls?
Episode Written by Melissa West
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Dark Matters – EP05 – The Ghosts of Tutbury Castle
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 …
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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 walking those grounds after dark to report back on what's still there.
Hear the full case for yourself in this episode of Dark Matters.
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The Witness Files - Case 06 - The Graythwaite Apparitions
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 …
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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 hotel worker recalls two quiet but striking apparitions inside a Cumbrian manor house: encounters that suggest some buildings remain occupied long after their guests have gone.
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Stuck in the Elevator - A Patreon and Kofi Round Up
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 …
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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.
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