Strange Stories UK

Send us Fan Mail This is a trial taking place now. June/July 2019. the trial is perhaps half way through. It is claimed that less than 5% of males are peadophiles, that is interested in young teenage girls, not including males interested in boys.   Lucy McHugh was 12 years of age living in Southampton who started a relationship with a 24 year old lodger that seemed to end in her murder when she cl...

Send us Fan Mail It is June 2019. There is a rape trial being held at Hove Crown Court. A rape having taken place in the January of that year by a plastic gangster on a woman he had been giving alcohol to all night as they wandered around Brighton City Centre. When the case came to court it seems that the Brighton Police Safeguarding team were a little heavy handed in their approach to those atten...

Send us Fan Mail Are you being spied on by the UK Undercover police? You may think because you have no police record that this could not be the case, but think again. If you care about the environment or your fellow citizens you may be targeted. Since 1968 there have been undercover police who have had relationships with environmentalists and have fathered children before disappearing from their l...

Send us Fan Mail Allan Chappelow, a forgotten author who had no close family or friends was found dead under a pile of paper at his crumbling house at Hampstead London in 2006. Who killed him? Was it Chinese identity thieves? Was the person convicted of his murder set up by the security services? Was it a serial killer of elderly gay men who frequented Hampstead Heath? Why was the murder trial hel...

Send us Fan Mail The Ghost Club and The Society for Psychical Research were organisations that started in the same year 1882 in London. They were both created in a response to the great interest that British society had in the spirit world and the paranormal in the Victorian period. this podcast attempts to explain the differences in the organisations by giving some case histories examined by the...

Send us Fan Mail Spring 2018, Crawley UK. A young woman found murdered in a flat she was looking after for a friend. A secret life emerged to friends and family as the police investigated, she was an escort girl. The person convicted of the murder was a well paid city worker who had a secret life of sex clubs and escorts. Modern Britain with its instant communications allows some people live out a...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of paedophilic activity in London. We concentrate here on three main strands. The activities of Roger Gleaves and Sidney Cooke who seemed to corrupt youngsters from the 1960/70/80/90s without too much hinderance from the law, they seem to have been involved in the rape and murder of underage boys during this period. They both seem to have connections to strand three which i...

Send us Fan Mail This episode has been inspired by the book by Anthony Daly, 'Playland' secrets of a forgotten scandal. Playland refers to a homosexual/rent boy vice ring centring on the Playland amusement arcade in Piccadilly during the mid 1970s. To understand how it operated, the problem of police corruption in the area is examined. As a related side topic we also look at a homosexual...

Send us Fan Mail 21 Sept 2001, a torso of a young boy found in the Thames caused an investigation into the hidden world of African witchcraft taking place in London, which revealed possible human sacrifice to aid human trafficking from Africa to Europe and in particular London. An examination of witchcraft practices taking place in London by people of Nigerian and Congolese origin that the authori...

Send us Fan Mail Aimee Spencer was a larger than life character, a modern woman who took on the world on her terms. One of her friends was Daniel Lewis, a spoilt rich kid from a newly wealthy family who had a lot of influence. Daniel was a high end drug dealer. At a party at his flat in Brighton in 2016,  Aimee plunged to her death from his flat, probably an accident.  Daniel faced court for his d...

Send us Fan Mail An examination of some aspects of the  history of the rat in Britain according to Frank Buckland and Henry Mayhew, Victorian scientists. Not a normal episode but more of an interesting ramble on some bizarre and interesting facts in order to post a podcast while I am away for a couple of weeks. 

Send us Fan Mail A sideways look at the Loch Ness Mystery, an examination of some of the characters  involved in the story and some possible candidates for the sightings. A realisation that Loch Ness is an unusual place  and strange things have been seen to happen there. This podcast examines some of the characters involved and some possible candidates for the 'monster'

Send us Fan Mail Shana Grice was a teenager living independently in Brighton. A work colleague became infatuated by her and started stalking. Shana asked the police for protection, but they gave her a fixed penalty notice for wasting their time. Within six months Shana was murdered in her own home.

Send us Fan Mail Drunken domestic violence in Worthing West Sussex. Robert Trigg played the dating game but was the date you did not want. Charming company when sober but a violent jealous drunk. Robert killed two of his girlfriends claiming they had died accidentally when he rolled on them while asleep. Sussex Police accepted his story but his second victims parents did not  and spent their savin...

Send us Fan Mail Edward Prince of Wales is staying at Tranby Croft while attending the horse racing at Doncaster during September 1890. His entourage are enjoying the hospitality of a shipping magnate Mr Wilson. A game of baccarat results in allegations of cheating and a court case that was talked of around the world. Was sexual jealously behind the allegations and was the court case biased?

Send us Fan Mail London 1930. A man who had many lovers decides to disappear. He chooses  a victim to kill as if it himself that has died in order to end his problems. A case that intrigued the British press in 1931. 

Send us Fan Mail Gaia Pope was a talented teenager from a loving family who lived in a quiet Dorset village. She became a victim of a sexual pervert she met at college, incompetent policing , austerity cuts  and a lack of provision from social services in rural Dorset. Despite a huge community effort to find her, it was too late. As her family said, this is not a story just about Gaia, but all you...

Send us Fan Mail John Bodkin Adams was accused of being one of the greatest mass murderers in history. Was this doctor practicing in the South coast town of Eastbourne wrongly accused by small town gossip or was he cleared by a Masonic conspiracy? Did Adams plan to kill elderly patients with heroin and morphine after he persuaded them to change their wills in his favour, or did he have their best...

Send us Fan Mail Strange Stories UK. Two Ghost stories, one I experienced and another told to me. These are not Hammer Horror stories and probably have a rational explanation. However it is Christmas and there is time to examine such stories.

Send us Fan Mail October 1986 two nine year old girls are found murdered in a wooded park in Brighton, UK. There is a suspect who is charged but found not guilty. People in Brighton are still suspicious that the person acquitted was the murderer. There is a law change which allows the suspect who is serving a long sentence for a sexual offence against a seven year old, is to be tried again. The tr...

Send us Fan Mail Why did a scientist die in a wood in Oxfordshire? Was it suicide or was he murdered? I seems certain that secret police were involved and that the scientist knew of secrets that caused a war.  We examine the life of that scientist David Kelly who died in July 2003 to try to discover the reasons for his death.

Send us Fan Mail Brighton, a GAY friendly party town in the 1980s where some sexual predators took advantage of vulnerable young men.

Send us Fan Mail There was a Satanism scare in Britain during the late 1970s and 1980s. This is an aspect of what was happening in Sussex during the 1980s ending in a trial that could be seen as part Dennis Wheatley and part a dark 'Carry On' comedy.

Send us Fan Mail Spring 1973, an unsolved murder case that caused no end of speculation, criticism of the French police and diplomatic manoeuvring to fudge the differences of French and British law. Was it organised crime or a  a political execution or a family squabble?

Send us Fan Mail Max and Ace, young and inexperienced, thought they would make some easy money moving from South London to sell drugs in the Sussex market town of Horsham. Things went wrong quite quickly.