Strange Stories UK

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  Strange Stories UK: Jason Arday and the failure of the University of Cambridge. 06.08.2026 33min

  Send us Fan Mail I have read this story in the news reports today and felt like making a podcast on it. It concerns a Critical Race theory sociologist who was appointed a professor at the University of Cambridge. The person was Jason Arday and he had not been truthful in his claims and should never of been given the appointment. The blame lies with the University of Cambridge for not carrying out due diligence on the appointment. Although Arday did not accept that he was delusional blam...
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  Strange Stories UK: The Strange Case of Michele Lupo. 02.08.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail The Michele Lupo case is the story of a serial killer and also a window into the mid 1980s London of High Society and High fashion. Also of the London GAY community during the AIDS crisis. The whole story will never be told as some influential characters involved thought it best for them to keep quiet. The story is loft, told in one take with no editing. I know I stumble over some words. For a more detailed examination of the case, I would recommend the podcast: AIDS: T...
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  Strange Stories : The Peter B's, Fleetwood Mac and the Cobham Apparition 22.07.2026 28min

  Send us Fan Mail The Peter B's, Fleetwood Mac and the Cobham Apparition explores one of Britain's most unusual ghost stories. In November 1965, four young musicians—including future Fleetwood Mac founders Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood—reported seeing a mysterious figure beside the A3 near Cobham, Surrey, while driving home from a rhythm-and-blues gig. Drawing on contemporary witness statements, Dr A. R. G. Owen's scientific investigation, newspaper reports, and the history of Cobham's ghost ...
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  Strange Stories UK: Tattooing people and Stories from the UK. 10.07.2026 49min

  Send us Fan Mail Some offbeat stories about tattooing in the UK since the late Victorian period up to the modern day. Told in one take outside in the garden, lo fi and with a replacement microphone.
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  Strange Stories : Double murder at Cadno Farm, Wales. 04.07.2026 47min

  Send us Fan Mail Ronnie Harries was in his mid twenties, newly married with a baby girl living in rural South Wales, a member of a community where he had lived all his life. How did he think he could kill relatives he called uncle and auntie and take over their farm without anyone asking where they were and what was going on? Recorded in one take with the usual shortcomings. The description says send fan mail, I am not asking this, it comes up automatically and I cannot delete the request.
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  Strange Stories: Hanwell, London. A forgotten murder. 26.06.2026 27min

  Send us Fan Mail This is a case you will not be aware of. A forgotten murder. A marriage dispute where a man kills his wife. What is a surprise is the sentence. Recorded in one take in the garden, with no edit, I do not even listen through after recording, so apologies for any mistakes.
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  Strange Stories: Belmont Road, Southampton murder. 15.06.2026 40min

  Send us Fan Mail Belmont road Southampton. Henry Novak was murdered outside number 68 Belmont Road during May 2026. 66 years before this date, there was another murder at 11 Belmont Road. At that time, the UK was a different country, this is the story. Recorded in one take, without editing.
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  Strange Stories UK: Melanie Hall, Bath unsolved murder 30 years on. 09.06.2026 32min

  Send us Fan Mail I wanted to post this podcast on the 30th anniversary of the unsolved murder of Melanie Hall on 9 June 1996. I know Bath well having lived there during the 1980s. This is the story of Melanie Hall's disappearance and murder. The police have the case open and are asking for help in solving the crime. Told in one take without editing with all the usual faults.
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  Strange Stories UK: The ghosts of the Airship R101. 07.06.2026 50min

  Send us Fan Mail This podcast is based on Eric Dingwall’s private papers that became available to view by the public during October 2025 at London University. It is about the R101 that crashed in October 1930, and resulting seances and investigations into the crash and the resulting Official report. This podcast is recorded in one take, (in the garden) without edit and is a lo-fi production.
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  Strange Stories UK, Henry Nowak, Southampton Murder. 02.06.2026 25min

  Send us Fan Mail This case has just made national news headlines. It was not widely reported at the time or when the trial started but police worn body cam footage was reminiscent of the Black Lives Matter case when George Floyd Jr restrained by police said he could not breath and was ignored by police. In this case Henry Nowak a Southampton University Fresher was the victim.
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  Strange Stories UK: Windrush Men, Marriage and Murder 20.05.2026 44min

  Send us Fan Mail Windrush Men, Marriage and Murder” examines a series of domestic homicide cases involving Caribbean and African migrants in postwar Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on police files, psychiatric reports, witness statements and court records, it explores how jealousy, marital breakdown, sexual insecurity and fears of abandonment were understood within the social pressures of migration and the Windrush era. The cases reveal recurring themes of emotional depende...
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  Strange Stories : Eva C, Margery and Stella C séances & scandals investigated by the SPR 07.05.2026 1h 10min

  Send us Fan Mail This podcast will be niche. It is an in depth assessment about the Society of Psychical Research’s investigations into three famous mediums of the 1920s. Eva C., also known as Marthe Béraud or Eva Carrière, and Mina Crandon, better known as Margery and Dorothy Stella Cranshaw, aka Stella C. Most people will find it dull, although quite shocking in places; but I enjoyed researching it. This podcast is recorded in one take with no editing. I probably mispronounce some words. Th...
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  Strange Stories UK. The 2025 murder of Karen Carter in the Dordogne. 29.04.2026 31min

  Send us Fan Mail Something a little different in this podcast, an unsolved murder in the Dordogne. Karen Carter was murdered in April 2025 at her home in a small French village. A couple of months earlier a British couple were killed about 100n kms away and there were similarities. This was also an officially unsolved murder.
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  Strange Stories UK : The Wimbledon car crash of 6 July 2023 mystery. 15.04.2026 29min

  Send us Fan Mail This is a curious case. July 2023, a car mounts a pavement and crashes into a school injuring a number of people and killing two 8 year old girls who were all standing on a lawn in the school grounds. There seems to be a news blackout after initial reports. A year later, 2024, The Crown Prosecution Service says there will be no further action as it was a result of a medical emergency. There was public puzzlement, two girls killed, ten people injured, no-one held responsible? ...
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  Strange Stories UK: The missing boys of South London. What happened to Kevin Hicks?. 12.04.2026 36min

  Send us Fan Mail During the 1980s there were at least 10 pre-teenage and teenage boys that went missing from South London. This podcast is a reflection on what may have happened to them, the focal point is the case of Kevin Hicks who went missing on Sunday 2 march 1986 from Croydon.
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  Strange Stories UK: Richmond, Surrey. A fatal stabbing, unnoticed during a family argument. 03.04.2026 28min

  Send us Fan Mail July 1966. A Labour government in trouble, America getting bogged down in a foreign war and England winning a world cup, Are there Parallels with July 2026? This case is long forgotten today from Richmond, Surrey. The sons from the dysfunctional Brown family fight in the living room. A rather strange story unfolds, how can a fatal injury go unnoticed during a family fight?
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  Strange Stories UK: Society of Psychical Research investigations 1919-1922. 30.03.2026 43min

  Send us Fan Mail A selection of Society of Psychical Research investigations 1919-1922 get a mention and brief analysis. Lord Rayleigh's presidential address. Arthur Conan Doyle, Veronica Laparelli, Hereward Carrington, The Swanton Novers poltergeist, The Woods family tradition, book review about by Bligh Bond,. Martha Beraud, aka Eva C, Charles Richet, Gustave Geley, Mr Hope's psychic photographs and fraud in spirit photography, Fairies, the Abraham Florentine case, Harry P...
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  Strange Stories UK Society of Psychical Research investigations 1917 and 1918. 19.03.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Society of Psychical Research investigations 1917 and 1918. Usual poor narration, warning this is lo-fi, recorded in one take and no editing. There are also mistakes. I call Oliver lodge a physicist when he was a physician. I was conscious of this mistake at the time but there may be more. I am not a professional podcaster, I just enjoy making them rather than watching tv or scrolling through social media. I have full time work and am trying to rewild the farmland aroun...
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  Strange Stories UK: Not a podcast, an announcement about Podcast Bully, Murder Mile. 19.03.2026 14min

  Send us Fan Mail Please be advised that this is not a podcast but an announcement. I feel sorry that I have to make this boring and tedious announcement, but I feel I have to stand up to a fellow podcaster who I find an arrogant bully.
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  Strange Stories UK. Organised Crime in London 1975, murder of Biddy Gold 2 15.03.2026 31min

  Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of the Biddy Gold murder investigation. Crime gangs, corrupt police, suspicions about Bernie Silvers. Please be advised, recorded in one take without editing.