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Send us Fan Mail Although Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and the people involved in reporting unexplained phenomena at the rectory and their possible motivations. This is part 2 of the story.

Send us Fan Mail Although Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and the people involved in reporting unexplained phenomena at the rectory and their possible motivations. This is part 1 of the story.

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten podcast. Please listen to Part 1 before listening to this podcast.

Send us Fan Mail Nicolas Van Hoogstraten. Ruthless businessman, narcissistic tycoon, dangerous gangster or pantomime villain. This story is something of a ramble and has a bit of everything, murder, conspiracy, state of the nation concerns. This is part 1 of the Nicholas Van Hoogstraten story.

Send us Fan Mail Two pointless deaths in Brighton carried out by members of the same family in Brighton. The Weaver family who had a reputation and were well known by the police. Murders that happened for no good reason and were accidental in many ways. But macho aggressive behaviour does costs lives.

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 2 of An Adventure. Part 1 of An Adventure, Versailles time slip  tells of  perhaps the best known example of retrocognition. An Adventure was a book telling of the experience of Moberly and Jourdain while at Versailles. This episode tells of the women's theory what had happened to them, a critic of their views and examines other strange experiences some people ha...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1, this describes Perhaps the best known example of retrocognition, ' An Adventure' was a best selling book in 1911 describing the experience of two women that visited Versailles and seemed to have travelled back in time. They told their story and were told that historically they were wrong, they could not have seen what they claimed.  However, these women were dete...

Send us Fan Mail One of the famous English poison  murders happened 100 years ago, an age when George Orwell said the stories of certain murders gave pleasure to the British public. This is one of the poison murders, thought to have started in 1920, the court case was in 1922.  On the Welsh - English border in Hay on Wye, a solicitor Herbert Armstrong decided that the use of arsenic would solve so...

Send us Fan Mail Barbara Gaul was murdered with a shotgun blast in the car park of the Black Lion hotel, which is virtually the first building you come across when entering Brighton on the A23 road from London. Roy and Keith Edgeler from the East End of London were convicted of the murder which was  a contract killing, although the Edgeler brothers were too frightened to say who had organised the...

Send us Fan Mail Three stories, none long enough to justify a full episode, none that unsettling, but all have a certain interest. The first tells of people that had premonitions of the Aberfan disaster in 1966, the second tells of the Ferry Bridge Inn ghost, claimed to be the oldest haunted Inn of England. The third is a curious little story from Newhaven in East Sussex.

Send us Fan Mail Prostitution and vice in London was controlled by Maltese gangsters after World War 2, a trade considered dishonourable at the time by the home grown villains. The Messina family   dominated up until the early 1950s. The police were reluctantly forced to take action against them and in the vacuum left, Bernie Silver came to lead the remnants of the Maltese forming them into the Sy...

Send us Fan Mail This is now a forgotten murder and a possible miscarriage of justice from 1911. It was a famous case of the time and featured in George Orwell's essay 'Decline of the English murder' when everybody seemed to read about and have an opinion of the murder cases of the day.  It was considered that Frederick Seddon would have escaped his sentence if he refused to give ev...

Send us Fan Mail Northern Ireland 1972, a mother of 10 goes missing, she was abducted from her home in front of her 10 children. She was never seen again.  Jean McConville was the widowed mother who was such a threat to the Republican cause that she had to be killed in secret and buried. The IRA admit to killing her. Gerry Adams was the IRA commander who gave the order for the ‘Unknowns’ to make h...

Send us Fan Mail Brighton 2003. Jane Longhurst, music teacher went missing and was later found murdered partly as a result of  internet pornography.  The accused came to think of his desires as normal after discovering material that sexually excited him on the internet; later trying to use the excuse of 'sex gone wrong'.

Send us Fan Mail December 29  2013. A woman was murdered while house sitting with her family. She was murdered during the night while people slept in a wealthy out of the way coastal retreat . It looked like the case was to remain unsolved until information was given from Romania five years later, information given by a wife involved in a bitter divorce. An interesting case where the police worked...

Send us Fan Mail Three ghost stories for Christmas. The first two are cases of retrocognition, The first case at Man Sands beach at South Devon, the second at Boscastle Cornwall. The third story is at Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire and is a tradition haunted house story with perhaps an explanation. It is a well known story aka The Luton ghost and it involves the story of the highwayman Dick Turpin. Th...

Send us Fan Mail The Deghayes family moved to the Brighton area in the late 1980s, a young family with children wanting to make a new start away from the dictatorship of Gaddafi in Libya. The family did not find it easy to integrate. There were  problems with the family for many reasons. There were five sons and three felt the need to fight for Al-Nusra against the Syrian army, in a country that t...

Send us Fan Mail It was the summer of 1946 when the charming but deadly ex RAF playboy Neville Heath shocked the British public with the brutality of his murders. Certainly Heath was a narcissistic character who was addicted to thrills and sex. When Heavy drinking was then added to the mix, Heath who was a deeply flawed fantasist seemed to lose all control. Heath had a magnatism to his personality...

Send us Fan Mail The Morton ghost, later known as the Cheltenham ghost is said to be one of the best records of an apparitional haunting on record. It was first published in the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research in 1892 under the title 'Record of a Haunted House' by R.C.Morton. Morton was actually Rosina Despard who was a teenager when she published her report. As is usua...

Send us Fan Mail A famous case in UK legal history. Edith Thompson a modern young woman, made the mistake of marrying young to her first boyfriend. The new husband was about to be sent to France to fight in the Great War. Fred didn't get to fight in France and the marriage was unhappy.  Edith starts an affair with a younger man who shares some of her interests. This results in a scandal in th...

Send us Fan Mail The country with the highest cocaine use is Albanian with 2.5% of the population using the drug. Scotland is runner up and England and Wales, on 2.25%, just miss out on third place to the United States.  Albanian drug gangs are the major supplier of cocaine to the UK, a relatively recent development that has happened over the past 10 years. The youth of Albanian are leaving their...

Send us Fan Mail Ronald True from troubled childhood to a liability and hinderance during a world war to  an eccentric character to his male friends but a controlling bully to the females he knew. True was a case celebre in 1922 when he was a defendant at the Old Bailey court. Ronald True the founder member of the murderers club at Broadmoor hospital.

Send us Fan Mail Harold Wilson was prime minister for the UK in the 1960/70s. There was a mildly socialist programme that was being implemented. There was plotting against Wilson from inside his own party, the security services and later Right wing groups and private paramilitary armies were ready to step in to take control against labour and Tory governments as it was thought that there was to be...

Send us Fan Mail A podcast looking at different sides to the forensic pathologist Bernard Spilsbury, a brilliant pathologist but maybe lacking in humanity as he was entranced by his image.  We look at two cases showing different aspects of his work, The murder of Emily Kaye at the Crumbles in Eastbourne where he did an excellent job that was praised by the Public Prosecutions Office, which was mos...

Send us Fan Mail Stephen Nicholson an unskilled scratcher / tattooist who preyed on young girls offering them body art in return for sex. He stood trial during June/July 2019 for underage sex and murder in his hometown of Southampton.  This is part 2 of the story of the murder of Lucy McHugh. This podcast was made on the day of Nicholson being sentenced. Nicholson very nearly escaped justice, it w...