Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

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• Fright Bites: The Transfer Call 03.06.2026 4min

  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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• S08 - EP05 - The Haunting of Clover Cottage 30.05.2026 56min

  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 not only by fear, but by grief, memory, and acknowledgement. A deeply atmospheric account of a home where the past was not simply discovered, but listened to — and where the living and the dead may have found a way to coexist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Fright Bites: Hard Shoulder 27.05.2026 4min

  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 never made it home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Dark Matters: Gef the Talking Mongoose 23.05.2026 18min

  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 animal, a projection of loneliness, or something that still sits uncomfortably between all of those explanations?A strange, atmospheric journey into folklore, psychical research, Manx history, and one of the most peculiar voices ever said to emerge from the dark. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• A New Chapter for Haunted UK Podcast 20.05.2026 1min

  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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Fright Bites: The Third Floor Desk 20.05.2026 5min

  3. Premium episode descriptionAn 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• S08-E04 - A Life of Knowing - Catherine’s Story 16.05.2026 51min

  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. Objects vanishing and reappearing in impossible places. Voices calling from empty rooms. And, perhaps most unsettling of all, a doppelgänger seen by her own son: an exact version of Catherine sitting on her bed, reading, while Catherine herself was miles away.This is a deeply personal witness account of paranormal encounters, family memory, grief, intuition, and the strange possibility that some people don’t simply pass through the unexplained. They live with it.A calm, atmospheric journey into one woman’s lifelong relationship with the unseen — and the question of whether a haunting can follow a person, rather than a place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Fright Bites: The Last Customer 13.05.2026 6min

  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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• The Witness Files - Case 02 - Behind the Black Windows 09.05.2026 21min

  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 traditions, to interfere with and torment human lives.A witness account of intuition ignored, darkness behind glass, and a house that left its mark long after the family escaped it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Fright Bites: It Never Stopped Watching 06.05.2026 7min

  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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• S08-E03 - Sleep Paralysis Experiences Part 1 02.05.2026 40min

  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 somewhere between science, folklore, trauma, stress, sleep disturbance, and the lingering question of why so many people report such similar encounters.Calm, unsettling, and intimate, this episode explores sleep paralysis not as a simple horror story, but as a strange borderland between waking life and dream — a place where the mind may be vulnerable, the body helpless, and the dark beside the bed feels anything but empty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Fright Bites: The Woman on the Stairs 29.04.2026 5min

  A young boy sits alone at the top of the stairs in a quiet family home.The upstairs lights are off. The house is ordinary. Nothing should be there.Then movement comes from the bedroom doorway.In this Fright Bites episode from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares a chilling listener account from Richard, who grew up in a house in a coastal town in the North East of England. One winter evening, after being sent upstairs, he saw the full figure of an older woman glide from his bedroom into his sister’s room — a woman he had never seen before, and one his mother would later admit she had also encountered years earlier.What makes this story linger is its simplicity. No dramatic haunting. No long build-up. Just a clear, unsettling sighting in a family home, witnessed by a child and later echoed by another member of the household. A woman with her hair in a bun, her hands cupped before her, moving silently through the space as though the walls and rooms still belonged to her.Atmospheric, intimate, and quietly unnerving, this short true paranormal story explores memory, childhood fear, family testimony, and the strange possibility that some buildings may hold onto more than just the lives lived inside them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Dark Matters: The Owlman of Mawnan 25.04.2026 12min

  Above an ancient Cornish church, something impossible was said to have appeared.Red eyes. Broad wings. Black claws. A shape too strange to be only a bird… and too vivid to be forgotten.In this opening episode of Dark Matters, Haunted UK Podcast explores the enduring legend of the Owlman of Mawnan — one of Britain’s strangest modern creature stories. Centred around St Mawnan Church in Cornwall, the case draws together alleged witness sightings, local folklore, eerie landscape, and the uncomfortable question of how an unexplained encounter becomes a legend.The story begins with earlier rumours of a large, ferocious bird near the church, before taking shape in 1976, when two young sisters reportedly saw a winged creature above the tower. Later that same year, another account added the sound of hissing from the trees, a strange figure in the darkness, and something lifting into the air before vanishing from sight.But the Owlman is not a simple creature case. Its history is closely tied to Tony “Doc” Shiels — magician, artist, occult showman, trickster, and one of the most colourful figures in British paranormal folklore. Through him, the case becomes harder to separate from performance, mythmaking, misidentification, and the strange power of a story told in exactly the right place.Atmospheric, thoughtful, and quietly unsettling, this episode looks at the Owlman not just as a possible sighting, but as a modern legend: part witness testimony, part folklore, part Cornish mystery, and part shadow cast by the church tower at dusk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Fright Bites: Still Sitting in the Garden 22.04.2026 6min

  A palliative care worker visits the home of a woman she once cared for.The funeral has passed. The house is quiet. The garden is still alive with colour.Then someone steps out of the greenhouse.In this Fright Bites episode from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares a deeply moving listener account from a member of a palliative care team, whose work brought her close to families at the most difficult moments of their lives. After caring for a woman named Doris in her final days, she later returned to check on Doris’s husband — and saw something in the garden that she has never been able to forget.This is not a story built on fear. It is quieter, stranger, and more tender than that. A woman who had passed away appears healthy, vivid, and real, smiling and waving from the garden she loved. Her husband says nothing, but his knowing expression suggests he may understand far more than he lets on.Atmospheric, intimate, and gently unsettling, this short true paranormal story explores end-of-life experiences, grief, love, after-death encounters, and the possibility that some presences remain close to the places — and people — they loved most. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• S08-E02 - The Tudor House and Room Number Nine 18.04.2026 59min

  An abandoned Tudor house in a quiet West Midlands village.A hidden room filled with books.Footsteps on the stairs… when no one should have been inside.In this atmospheric listener account from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares the story of “Tom”, whose strange experiences began as a childhood adventure and ended as something far more unsettling. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, Tom and two friends slipped into an empty historic house that had long fascinated the local children. What began as a secret den soon became a terrifying encounter with footsteps moving through the building, climbing the stairs, and stopping directly outside the room where the boys were hiding.Years later, after moving to Cornwall, Tom found himself living in a block of bedsits where another disturbing mystery began to unfold. Room Number Nine, recently vacated by a former friend, should have been empty. But Tom and his girlfriend heard clear movement inside. No one had entered. No lights had come on. No footsteps had crossed the landing. And yet something seemed to be moving around in the darkness next door.With echoes of residual haunting, haunted buildings, unseen presences, and the strange emotional weight certain rooms can hold, this episode explores two deeply personal paranormal experiences connected by memory, place, and the unnerving feeling that some spaces may not be as empty as they appear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Fright Bites: The Ship on the School Field 15.04.2026 5min

  A quiet school field.A strange dream in the early hours.A vast ship appearing where no ship should ever be.In this first Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares Andrew’s unsettling account of a childhood sleepover in February 1987. After spending the day playing golf on their school field, Andrew’s friend woke suddenly from a vivid and distressing dream. He had seen a huge ferry on the grass, red along the bottom and white above, with people moving on the decks before the vessel began to tip onto its side.Two weeks later, on 6 March 1987, a ferry left Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium and capsized shortly after departure. When Andrew later saw footage of the disaster, the details felt impossible to ignore: the colours, the scale of the ship, the people, and the terrible image of it rolling onto its side.Quiet, eerie, and deeply strange, this short true paranormal story explores premonition, childhood memory, disaster, and the unsettling possibility that some dreams may arrive before the events they seem to show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• The Witness Files - Case 01 - Waiting on the Other Side 11.04.2026 24min

  Some stories aren’t built around fear.They’re built around presence, memory, family, and the quiet hope that love may continue beyond death.In this opening case from The Witness Files, Haunted UK Podcast shares Jenny’s deeply personal account of paranormal experiences spanning several generations. Her story moves from wartime London and whispered voices in a bedroom, to a former Bethnal Green fire station where unseen footsteps, missing objects, and the sound of an unknown man whistling became part of everyday family life.At the heart of the case is Jenny’s father — a London fireman, a husband, a grandfather, and a man whose presence may have continued long after his passing. From a child’s sighting in a cathedral, to an impossible electronic game playing without batteries, to a medium’s message that revealed an old promise made between husband and wife, this is a witness account filled with grief, tenderness, and the possibility of reunion.Atmospheric, intimate, and emotionally powerful, this episode explores family hauntings, after-death communication, inherited sensitivity, wartime memory, and the enduring question of whether those we love may still find ways to reach us from the other side. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Fright Bites: The Woman on the Path 08.04.2026 4min

  A locked botanical garden.A winter evening patrol.An elderly woman walking slowly along the path… where no one should have been.In this Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares Connor Pilling’s unsettling account of an encounter that took place when he was thirteen years old. While helping his father, a security officer at a UK botanical garden, Connor joined the final sweep of the grounds after closing time — checking gates, paths, and clearings to make sure no visitors had been left behind.Then their torchlight caught sight of an elderly woman ahead of them. She didn’t respond when they called out. She continued walking until she reached a bend in the path… and vanished.What makes the account even more disturbing is what Connor learned later. His father and several colleagues had reportedly seen the same figure in the same grounds before. For Connor, the experience changed everything. The darkness he had never feared before suddenly felt occupied, uncertain, and alive with possibilities he could no longer dismiss.Quiet, direct, and deeply unnerving, this short true paranormal story explores a repeated ghost sighting, childhood fear, haunted landscapes, and the moment a single encounter can permanently alter the way someone sees the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• S08-E01 - Near Death Experiences 04.04.2026 1godz 8min

  A tunnel.A brilliant light.A familiar voice saying it isn’t time.For generations, people who have come close to death have returned with stories that seem to follow a strangely familiar pattern — leaving the body, moving toward light, encountering loved ones, and feeling an overwhelming sense of peace.In this first part of Haunted UK Podcast’s exploration of near-death experiences, Steve examines extraordinary accounts from those who stood at the boundary between life and death. From Jeanette Atkinson’s hospital-bed encounter with a grandmother she barely remembered, to neurosurgeon Eben Alexander’s vivid journey during a devastating coma, and Christina Stein’s account of watching surgeons fight to save her life after a catastrophic road accident, these stories raise profound questions about consciousness, memory, survival, and what may wait beyond the final moments of life.The episode also travels to the Cairngorms, where Jackie Greaves endured a brutal mountain survival ordeal after a fall in white-out conditions, guided by strange lights and impossible visions that may have helped keep her alive.Blending witness testimony, medical mystery, scientific theory, and the enduring hope of an afterlife, this atmospheric documentary episode explores whether near-death experiences are the final dream of a dying brain — or a glimpse of something far beyond it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Tour Haunts – Leeds - Part 2 02.04.2026 17min

  A Victorian music hall where figures still linger backstage.An old dispensary where footsteps, children’s voices, and the scent of smoke are said to remain.A ruined abbey where monks, grief, and legend still move through the stone.In this second part of Tour Haunts: Leeds, Haunted UK Podcast continues its atmospheric journey through some of the city’s most haunted and historically charged locations. Beginning at the City Varieties Music Hall, Steve explores stories of the White Lady, a silent man in a bowler hat, unexplained footsteps, strange cold spots, and a darker poltergeist presence said to have disturbed staff, performers, and even renovation workers.The route then moves to the Old Leeds Dispensary, a former medical building shaped by sickness, poverty, and the realities of pre-NHS healthcare. There, accounts speak of a well-dressed figure drifting through corridors, the sounds of unseen children, moving toys, and the unsettling apparition of a nurse linked by witnesses to smoke, heat, and fire.Finally, the tour ends among the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey, where centuries of religious devotion, dissolution, folklore, and ghostly testimony gather around the chapter house, the Sombre Monk, the Mad Monk, and the grieving figure of Mary. With reports of chanting, shadowy forms, strange voices, and the lingering atmosphere of a sacred place disturbed by history, the abbey offers a final, powerful stop on this haunted journey through Leeds.Immersive, historical, and quietly eerie, this episode blends haunted locations, local folklore, paranormal testimony, and architectural history into a cinematic guide to the unexplained side of one of Yorkshire’s great cities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.