Strange Stories UK

Send us Fan Mail This is a well known scandal from the 1870s. Florence Cook one of the best known materialisation mediums of her day had been suspect of fraudulent behaviour (not being genuine). To restore her reputation she tried to get the famous scientist William Crookes to investigate her and prove her genuine.  Crookes had already investigated D.D.Home and found that he had powers unknown to...

Send us Fan Mail This is an unsolved murder from May 1967, a shooting in Mayfair, London at a gambling club. No one was convicted but it was to become clear that a fellow gangster was responsible for the shooting, the shooting of a gangster probably employed by the Kray gang, Jack Buggy. By the end of the podcast you will know who the murderer was. I lived on the Sussex coast in the past and had h...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of the story of the murder at Tarrant Keynston. The podcast is recorded in one take without editing.

Send us Fan Mail This is an unsolved murder, or perhaps two involved murders that happened in an isolated Dorset village about ninety years ago.  This podcast is part one, part two will be uploaded within a couple of days. There are some unexplained aspects to this case and a village that was accused on not cooperating fully with the police investigation. It was suggested that villagers wanted an...

Send us Fan Mail A Recent case from 2022. I am not sure if  it is county lines but young people and drugs are involved in the murder of a young man in a sleepy Dorset town. The story is a ramble, as all the best are. I remember some years back being in Christchurch in late August after GCSE results and the teenagers celebrating at the beach. It seemed a happy place, parties on the beach. At the ti...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first Strange Stories podcast (without the UK). Since I started podcasting in June 2018, I wanted to call my podcast 'Strange Stories'but the name was taken at that time. I think it is available now, so welcome to Strange Stories. This is a short one, cryptozoology, so doomed to a low download, but I hope you enjoy it. This is the last podcast of series 4, I...

Send us Fan Mail This case was investigated by the Society of Psychical  Research (SPR) by Frank Podmore in 1885 and published in the Journal for the SPR in September 1886. It was one of the cases that was being investigated for the book to be published by the SPR 'Phantasms of the Living'. The story wasn't considered strong enough for inclusion. The SPR investigated and reported wh...

Send us Fan Mail As it has been three weeks since I posted, I decided to make a podcast, write it and post it as quickly as I could. I did not know what story to make a podcast about but I had some photographs of documents that I had taken at the National Archives and choose the shortest one, the one with least photos  to see how quickly I could write and post. The storey I chose, I original thoug...

Send us Fan Mail Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886). Perhaps the best known physical medium. He was a contemporary of the Fox sisters, it was their  rappings that caused the explanation that they were communicating with the spirits of the dead and started the Spiritualist movement.  During the mid Victorian period most middle and upper class homes tried to communicate with dead friends and family, it...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is about a murder/killing that happened in Portsmouth during World War 2. Another case that showed the failings of the British legal system. I try to make podcasts about unusual and unknown cases. They are low-fi and there is no editing, such as an ‘old time radio shows’. I am not a natural radio speaker, I stumble over certain words, for example in this podcast I say...

Send us Fan Mail First of all, I would like to say that although I am still intending putting out a couple of podcasts each month, I am cutting back on  producing podcasts for the next six months as I am working on another project. I am intending to put out a paranormal podcast every third podcast. This podcast is a strange story set in rural Dorset during World War 2. Piddletrenthide is a village...

Send us Fan Mail A West Country Haunted house, as investigated by the SPR during 1887. This would have been one of the cases investigated by Edmund Gurney and others who were working on a book ‘Phantasms of the living’ (published 1886) which listed and described, briefly, hundreds of hauntings trying to prove that ghosts were the results of telepathy. This is the first of a number of cases that I...

Send us Fan Mail This is part three of the Rettendon / Essex Boys Murders which concludes the Canning Town Crime and corruption series off podcasts. This podcast considers the possible Canning Town connection.

Send us Fan Mail In part 2 of these podcasts we examine the possibility of  it being Corrupt police or Bernard O'Mahoney, or/and Kenneth Noye being involved in the murders of TTR (Tucker, Tate and Rolfe. I will post part 3 within the week,

Send us Fan Mail This is the first of three podcasts on the Rettendon, aka Essex Boys murders which are to finish off the Canning Town Crime and Corruption series of podcasts. I go straight into the story so to aid understanding, The three men that were shot were called Tony Tucker, Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe (TTR) who ran a criminal gang in Basildon, Essex. They supplied an ecstasy tablet which was...

Send us Fan Mail This case dates from May 1979, set in Southampton on the South Coast of the UK. There is an argument between a couple and the woman dies supposedly of strangulation.,  In this case there was an argument for vagal inhibition. I am hoping that you will listen and make up your own minds what was going on here. Alan Gardner head of accounts at Southern Television and his partner Sheil...

Send us Fan Mail A sad and senseless killing of a child crossing her local park after visiting a sweet shop during the school summer holiday . It was a violent and sexual killing. The  seemed totally unplanned and senseless. The killer seemed able to shut it out of his mind, acting normally to all around him. The other mystery to the case is what happened to the killer after conviction? How long d...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of the Joan Woodhouse case of murder at Arundel, Sussex. Please be advised that this is recorded in one take without editing and there are a couple of intrusive coughs.

Send us Fan Mail This podcast examines a murder from 1948. It was a botched investigation and it seems that for a couple of possible reasons,  there was a conspiracy to prevent the case going to trial. This is part 1 of the podcast, I will post part 2 in four days time. Information for this podcast comes from a variety of sources primarily from files held at the National Archives at London. and th...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of the Michael Maybrick mystery.  In this episode we examine who Michael Maybrick was and why he was thought to be the 'Ripper'. Again just a warning that this is a lo-fi production, I splutter, I forget words and there is a sleeping dog in the room. Despite accusations, I am not eating and only occasionally have a sip of water. I have used too many sources to men...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is a follow up to The Florence Maybrick trial podcast from November 2020. Florence was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering her husband. who seems to have actually been killed by 'his brother Michael Maybrick and Florence was framed by him for the murder.  The inspiration for this podcast is a book by Bruce Robinson called 'They all love Jack-Busti...

Send us Fan Mail A Femme fatale, Madame Schmeder leaves France, in a hurry,  in her airplane, and crash lands at Selsey in Sussex.  A story that captured the imagination of the world in 1936 but is now virtually forgotten.  This story told in one take and without editing with information from the British Archives, La Bibliothèque nationale de France and various newspaper reports. 

Send us Fan Mail A murder from a long time ago, The Rolling Stones were number 1 in the singles charts with 'I can't get no Satisfaction', this podcast tells of a story from September 1965 when a woman who had just finished her Teacher Training was murdered by a person who had had no positive impact on life having failed at everything and blamed his failure on others. Nevertheless,...

Send us Fan Mail Ghost Story for Christmas 2021. Tony Cornell and others, investigate three cases in East Anglia, Hannath Hall during 1957-60, Wisbech shoe shop 1965-66 and Old Morley Hall 1964. All of these cases as published by the Society of Psychical Research.

Send us Fan Mail Two stories about street drug dealing, both ending in murder ten years ago, during 2011. Both drug dealers lived in Portslade part of the conurbation of Brighton and Hove.  Gary ‘Hammer’ Hampsen was a flawed character who moved from Bootle, Liverpool to Brighton and became a street drug dealer. He seemed to have a loving family but was capable of violence, keeping a hammer for per...