Strange Stories UK

Send us Fan Mail This is the first episode of Season 7. I spent a couple of weeks at Winchester Crown Court watching a few cases. There was a murder trial in Court 1, a stabbing on the Isle of Wight, there were a few Organised Crime Gangs ranging from drug smuggling to human trafficking. I found it difficult to accept the description OCG, especially when applied to a 'dodgy' roofer who w...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast has a dog snoring throughout, some cats make an appearance  but dont seem to have any audio affects. The window is open so warning there may be some crow or frog noise. Anyhow,  I remember the story being told during a Christmas with elderly relatives in the 1960s in the city where the murder was committed.   The most cogent memory  in the 1960s is distant relatives g...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Anybody reading this. This podcast is regarding some stories as reported in the Society of Physical Research (SPR) records for 1923. The SPR tended not to report on ghost type stories at this time which were considered old fashioned.  World War 1 had ended in 1918 and this resulted in many unexplained stories. Here are a few as recorded in Proceedings and the Journal of the...

Send us Fan Mail Please don't get too excited by the title of this podcast. By definition, Burkitt was a serial killer whose killing area was Hull, but I think that the nickname 'The King of the Serial Killers' that was given to him by fellow prisoners was perhaps ironic as Burkitt was a rather pathetic human being. I had never heard of this story before but I think it is of some in...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 165:  Reg Calvert was a family man who got involved in the pop music scene in the early 1960s and through chance became involved with Pirate radio. He was a person that made things happen and was on the look out for new projects. He was well liked although he was said to have a temper when he was let down.  I think there was a miscarriage of justice regarding this case. An...

Send us Fan Mail This is a podcast about Cornwall in 1959, a strange and sad double murder that seems to have been forgotten about.  I am thinking that my microphone needs replacing which won't happen until November when I next visit an urban centre and take some advice. So, I my take a break after posting a few more short pods. I will post a Southampton murder and a Pirate radio murder and t...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of the untold Kray stories. This tells of the corruption that resulted from the sexual interests of Ronnie Kray who was a predatory homosexual paedophile who corrupted others including well known politicians of the day at the sex parties he held. The main criticism is on the Conservative and Labour governments of the day that could have stopped the corruption but allowed it...

Send us Fan Mail This is the second part of the podcast about a shoot out and affray at a club in Catford during March 1966. This podcast is not really about the Krays but an incident that finished their main rivals in London, The Richardson gang. The podcast is recorded in one take without editing and are lo-fi. I am not sure how much other kray podcasts can be trusted as many are based on biased...

Send us Fan Mail I have had the intention of doing some podcasts on the Kray gang for some time. As the story has been so well told and so well known I am concentrating on some background and lesser known stories. This is part one of the first Kray podcast. So part one of part one!  I will post part two tomorrow.  This podcast is not really about the Kray gang, but of an incident that gave the Kra...

Send us Fan Mail Four chapters of Hells Angels meet in a Yorkshire pub in Normanton and start drinking heavily. What could possibly go wrong?  The crime is not a mystery and this is more of a period piece of life in the UK in Yorkshire during 1975. This is  a short podcast, probably an unknown story made in a few hours just to post something in August.  I have another podcast to post towards the e...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Anybody reading this,  the first 12 minutes of the podcast is background on Preston Manor, is is quite complicated and listening back I have to concentrate, so maybe you could skip that part although it gives some  context to the story, which could be understood as young rich folks constructing a family ghost story because it amuses them. This podcast has the normal incompet...

Send us Fan Mail This story dates back to August 1965 and events between then and 2014. I have called this episode the Margate Monster referring to Alan Houchin who served  ten years for murder was then released,  still being in denial,  to commit more crime.  I am working on some longer complicated cases at present, one of which will be the next paranormal episode.  I will try to post photos on t...

Send us Fan Mail The Sussex town of Worthing had the misfortune to have Al Watson move there in 1964 after finishing his latest prison sentence. Watson was a delusional and incompetent criminal who was dishonest and cheated everyone, not discriminating amongst friend or foe.  Watson soon met and moved in with wealthy but vulnerable widow Ruby Roberts. The relationship seemed fraught from the begin...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is quite a remarkable story, I said in the pod that  it could have been the plot of an Ian McEwan novel.  We go back to 1961 to examine a double murder at Aldington, Kent. It was quite quickly solved by Detective chief Superintendent John Du Rose, although I call him Detective Inspector in the podcast. Another mistake in the podcast which I knew I was saying it wrong...

Send us Fan Mail This is another short podcast about a story long forgotten. It is a sad story set in Eastbourne, a seaside town in Sussex during 1949.  The story is told in lo-fi.

Send us Fan Mail This is a short, straight forward case of a murder from 1944 taken from Police records. Nobody will remember a case that has faded from memory. I intend to post a few more short forgotten cases before the end of this series. I am also working on some podcasts about the Krays, not so much about the well known stories but the unpublished stories and those at the fringes of their cor...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is dedicated to Megan Finlay Horowitz, a friend of the podcast and a fellow cat lover. The podcast examines a number of alledged paranormal cats and briefly looks at cat folklore. It is something of a ramble into related subjects.  I also realise that I have not posted on the Strange Stories UK group Facebook site for about 18 months. Now I have finished with the webs...

Send us Fan Mail this was a well known case although virtually forgotten today, a prosecution for a conspiracy to corrupt public morals. There were a number of prosecutions for this charge in the 1960s, almost all were found guilty. Usually the cases were for showing 'blue' movies or adverts placed by GAY men in newspapers such as the underground paper International Times (IT). The Oz an...

Send us Fan Mail I suspect that you will not of heard of this case before. It is a tragic case of a mentally unbalanced man trying to kill his family while on a picnic next to the River Adur at Sussex during 1968. It is a real life horror story which is probably part of the reason why the reporting of the case was repressed at  the time and has been largely forgotton now. Recorded in one take, in...

Send us Fan Mail This is part three of the the Ballechin House haunting, known as the most haunted house in Scotland when the story was told in the newspapers in 1897. This case caused a fair amount of embarrassment for  the Society of Psychical Research who tried to distance themselves from the investigation that was led by Ada Goodrich Freer. The past three podcasts have been inspired by Trevor...

Send us Fan Mail This is the  second Ballechin House podcast. This podcast continues the background research on Ada Goodrich Freer's  investigations leading to the Ballechin case. We concentrate on the alleged haunting of Clandon house in Surrey investigated by the Society of Psychical Research. We will get to Ballechin in the next podcast. This subject is niche, going over events of 120 year...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is part 1 of the story of the alleged haunting of Ballechin House, the so called most haunted house in Scotland. Ballechin House was a well known case in the 1890s and 40 years later seemed to be the blue print for the Borley Rectory  case which was known as the most haunted house in England. This podcast tells the lead up to the Ballechin case by explaining who Ada G...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is about a Bournemouth in 1954 and an obsessive Boy Scout became a psychotic murderer. I had not heard of this story until I discovered it in police files in the National Archives. Please be advised it is lo-fi and recorded in one take with no editing.

Send us Fan Mail Those that have listened to the podcast in the past will know what to expect by now, an interesting story based on primary sources but a flawed presentation with me stumbling over words and spluttering into the microphone. The story is generally told in chronological order and sometimes going off piste in a ramble. This is a generally forgotten sad story. A shooting at a fashionab...

Send us Fan Mail I have attempted to give a history of the Ghost Society from 1850/1 which ran until the late 1870s. A very similar club reformed in 1882 calling itself the Ghost Club. This ran until 1936, A similar club reformed in 1938 until 1848, using the same name the 'Ghost Club' then it reformed again existing to the present day. This podcast tries to give some some idea of why an...