Strange Stories UK

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...

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'