Strange Stories UK

Send us Fan Mail Two stories of reported hauntings in the UK that on closer inspection seem to have other explanations. The UK media being quick to report supposed hauntings without doing much background checking.

Send us Fan Mail January 2023, 34-year-old Hugo Flint Cahan was strangled by fellow patient Rolando Torres-Pena, aged 22, on Topaz Ward at Newham Mental Health Centre in east London. An inquest reported in September 2026 revealed serious failings in patient supervision, including staff sleeping while on duty. Such cases have always happened. This is not a podcast about that event. This is a simila...

Send us Fan Mail The hidden history of a Yorkshire village. A quiet landscape which contains thousands of years of conflict. This podcasts moves from 1138, the battle of the standard to 2026 domestic violence. The central story involves a 1950 murder which seemed unusual on a number of counts. There are paranormal aspects, although Brompton has usually been a peaceful Yorkshire village. BTW, this...

Send us Fan Mail This episode examines the seperate crimes of Ronald Bennell and Barry Bennell, two members of the same family whose offences became part of Manchester’s criminal history. Ronald Bennell was convicted on two separate occasions 15 years apart of rape and murder. Barry Bennell was convicted of numerous sexual offences against boys. Their crimes were their own and there is nothing to...

Send us Fan Mail Following events in Middlesborough last weekend, on the lunch time news today, Friday 28 August, it seems that trouble continues. I wanted to understand what was going on so put this short podcast together. This was made in two hours so not a very polished but it includes all what is known at present. 

Send us Fan Mail This is a bit of a ramble about Chelsea, London in 1962. Rolling Stones and the Beatles get a mention as does the Kings Road and a murder.

Send us Fan Mail This is a short podcast after the sad news that Jason Arday was found dead yesterday, Friday 14 August 2026. As I have made a couple of podcasts on the Arday affair, I thought I would make some final comments. This matter is not going to be forgotten as a result of the many issues raised. The spotlight now falls on John Moores University Liverpool and Cambridge University and othe...

Send us Fan Mail This is another podcast concerning the Jason Arday affair at Cambridge University. Although so much has been posted on the subject I was concerned that those involved in Arday’s appointment had not been widely made. I thought I would name them hopefully in a neutral way.  To make my position clear I will state my political views, in the past I had voted Labour and for the past cou...

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...

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 som...

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 sta...

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.

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 s...

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 pressur...

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...

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.

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 emerge...

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.

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?

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...