Strange Stories UK

Send us Fan Mail Please be advised that I now have a website where I can be contacted. www.strangestoriesuk.com also an email address, strangestoriesuk@gmail.com I will be happy to answer any questions, or receive any opinions or suggestions.  This episode is mainly about five brothers that came to the UK to make their fortune in the only way they knew how, which was in the white slavery trade, kn...

Send us Fan Mail Well this is a bit of a ramble, but the main story is how a prominent Leicester MP  Greville Janner had credible allegations of sexual abuse made against him over a long period of time but was never investigated.  It is suspected that the Security services of MI5 and Special Branch protected him due to his position of being an influential Jewish personality who had a relationship...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of the Brides in the Bath Story. 

Send us Fan Mail A murder trial at the Old Bailey in 1915 caused much comment. Thousands of soldiers were being killed on a daily basis while a long complicated trial was being staged to decide the life of one man.  George Smith was despised and is the most repugnant person I have made a podcast about. He was a misogynist and was prepared to marry and kill for financial gain.  

Send us Fan Mail Two stories from the records of the Society of Physical Research (SPR) investigated by Fred Stratton. There are similarities between the two stories, both classic haunted house stories, both of which were being investigated by Fred during 1913.  One story was published in the journals of the SPR in 1914. Both stories were soon forgotten as a result of World War 1.  When Fred died...

Send us Fan Mail Lockdown in the UK during May 2020. Not a good time for teenagers or the young. Imagine being a sixteen year old teenager having  fallen out with her mother, suffering from anxiety and self harm, with a difficult background staying in a one bedroom flat with your auntie and uncle who do not approve of your life style.  Add into this mix a 30 year old male (Uncle Shane) who acts in...

Send us Fan Mail Brian Donald Hume, better known as Donald Hume was a smuggler, bank robber, murderer and successful businessman.  His life story is quite extraordinary. It is a pity that he allowed his anger get the better of him because he had a lot of ability and could have followed a different path.

Send us Fan Mail The Florence Maybrick trial which took place in Liverpool during 1889 is a famous case in which a woman was charged with the murder of her addict husband as a result of a manipulating Free Mason pulling the strings to ensure a guilty verdict and a death sentence. Although this episode stands by itself, I will return to this trial in a future podcast to investigate ‘Jack the Ripper...

Send us Fan Mail Newhaven, East Sussex, once a booming light manufacturing town on the coast is now in the doldrums. There is not many opportunities for the young some of  whom  are often forced to spend idle days looking for ways to fill their time. Trent Hutchinson was one such teenager who could be considered as having various issues and being out of control with an anger management problem. I ...

Send us Fan Mail This is the third story I have uploaded for Halloween 2020. The other two being the Edgar Vandy case and Rougham mirage. This podcast is the Ardachie Case. Peter McEwan and his family moved to Ardachie Lodge on the banks of Loch Ness, they were aiming to breed pigs. When the McEwan's hired a housekeeper and live stock help the MacDonalds came to stay. Mrs MacDonald was a sens...

Send us Fan Mail May 2020, Policeman Timothy Bremer killed his lover of 10 years Claire Parry , by accident in his car as she sent a message to his wife informing him of their affair.  Did the jury get this one wrong?

Send us Fan Mail The second of the Halloween podcasts for 2020, these are both set in the county of Suffolk. The Rougham mirage and the Kersey time-slip. Both phenomena could be retrocognition or hallucination. Carl Groves goes into much greater detail on the Rougham mirage, search for the Rougham mystery by Carl Groves online for further details.

Send us Fan Mail Nicola Stevenson was a 39 year old mother who was registered as being disabled. She had moved to Lewes in East Sussex in 2018 and was given allocated a council flat by the Lewes Council at Landport Estate in the town. Nicola was prescribed pain relief medication and also used alcohol and class A drugs, Nicola was described as a feisty and positive character who soon made friends i...

Send us Fan Mail A rather unusual case here which comes from the journals of the Society of Psychical Research. Edgar Vandy drowned while on a day out with friends on a Sussex Estate in the summer of 1933. The inquest recorded accidental death but Edgar's brothers were unhappy with the verdict and employed mediums to try to ascertain the truth of what happened that day which seemed to suggest...

Send us Fan Mail Part 5 of the 'Performance' series. An examination of the Police investigation into a serial killer who targeted female sex workers in  1960s London. It is suggested that a well known celebrity of the time could have been responsible but was protected by freemasonry and corrupt police who were blackmailing him. The investigation giving an idea of the time that the film w...

Send us Fan Mail This is the fourth podcast in the series about the background to the film 'Performance'. It is about the Rolling Stones contribution and their situation during the making of the film. How Jagger and Jones became part of the 'Chelsea set'. Police and media collusion and corruption, MI5 and FBI trying to convict the Rolling Stones to prevent them influencing youn...

Send us Fan Mail London in the 1950s & 60s was changing, the media said it was becoming 'Swinging London'? In reality new elites were challenging the old establishment.  David Litvinoff was involved with the Chelsea set and the worlds of music, art and crime. It was his contribution to the film Performance that connected the London Underworld to the London Underground, He knew the Kr...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 1 of a series of podcasts that are based on the British Movie Performance. A film which the film historian David Thompson said that the film was not as good as the stories about it. Well the film has a Rotten tomatoes score of 85% and has had a number of books and articles written about it. It is about London in the late 1960s when the swinging fashionable crowd mixed...

Send us Fan Mail Performance was the film made in 1968 where it was said that the Underground met the Underworld. In this podcast we examine the life of an underworld enforcer who was also an actor, who virtually played himself in the film. John Bindon, a larger than life character who was a violent thug, an associate of the Krays and had the Queen's sister Princess Margaret as a lover.

Send us Fan Mail 1935 True Crime,  Bournemouth, a female muscian unhappily married has an affair with aToy boy, her husband is a famous architect  and everything goes wrong. An unhappy story  with an unhappy ending; in fact a desperately unhappy ending which was not fair. A murder at Bournemouth /Boscombe Manor road. 

Send us Fan Mail This is the last episode of Series 2, we are going back to 31st December 1910. A murder of a Jewish immigrant was thought to be associated with a Jewish secret society wanting a revolution in the UK. What actually resulted was a confused court case eagerly reported by the newspapers where a number of colourful East End characters seemed incapable of telling the truth. The case pla...

Send us Fan Mail Ronnie Knight is in his 80s now, born in poverty in the East End of London to a family that became a well known criminal family with close links to the Kray family, he denies that he was ever a gangster but he was involved in crime, almost as today youngster on estates today are forced into gangs. Ronnie and his brothers were the last of what could be called the 'old school g...

Send us Fan Mail Two possible cases of retrocognition are considered in this podcast, the events both occurred in 1942. The Dieppe raid was possibly 'relived' in an audio hallucination by two woman in 1952. The Queen Mary / Curacao collision was another audio hallucination by marine engineer John Smith in 1971. The 'haunted' Queen Mary liner was investigated by parapsychologist...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is about the changing nature of London's street gangs, country lines, increasing violence and how young people are recruited to the gangs. There is an examination of the gangs of Waltham Forest as an example of the problems faced in one London borough. Some gangs try to concentrate on making money from trading in drugs but with so much competition the gangs have...

Send us Fan Mail Jodie Chesney was a teenager in her last year at sixth form college doing her A levels. It was a Friday night in March 2019, hanging with friends in her local park, a geeky, Gothy group of friends playing rock music on their phones.  Their world was about to clash with small time drug dealers speaking American street gang jive slang and trying to act like big shot gangsters armed...