Strange Stories UK

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of a case that was well publicised in the UK in 1967 but is now virtually forgotten.  The information for the podcast comes from police records and  goes into detail over the investigation. I have dispensed with the strange stories uk website. The domain name for Strange Stories came up for renewal, it was a very low price when I first paid for it but the renewal pr...

Send us Fan Mail This is a case that despite being all over the media at the time in the UK during that psychedelic year of 1967 it seems to be almost forgotten about today. I have told  the story in detail and in chronological order starting with an in depth analysis of the main people involved. The story involves a totally unscrupulous with a strong character who seems to be able to get weak wil...

Send us Fan Mail This is the story of the Reverend Dr. Donald Omand (1903-83). He was said to have been an exorcist and the cleanser of malignant zones on roads where there have been multiple accidents. Omand has been in a number of news stories during the 1970s for trying to exorcise the Bermuda Triangle and Loch Ness amongst other places. I am not sure that I can believe everything that Donald O...

Send us Fan Mail This is something of a ramble. After becoming famous, the Rolling Stones developed links with Sussex. Their rock star behaviour upset some people who seemed determined to have them sent to jail, this did not end as expected, one drug raid pushing up the sales of Mars bars by 8% after claims it was used as a sex toy.  Others were trying to steal from the Rolling Stones. Brian Jones...

Send us Fan Mail This story takes place during August 1969. Alec Keen who described himself as a self employed chartered yacht owner was desperate for money and claiming that he found it impossible to have a relationship with anybody over the age of 27.  Keen told police his wife was missing from the yacht they were staying on while he had taken a dinghy to go to the local pub, The ship Inn at Wes...

Send us Fan Mail Two stories from Yorkshire, one from Leeds from the 1880s and one from York from 1950s, both investigated by Trevor H.Hall. 

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of the story of how the police prevented Mark Brown becoming a serial killer of sex workers. Brown killed his mistress Leah Ware whose body was never found. There is a mistake in the title as Mark Brown lived in East Sussex although the Kent police were involved in the case from the beginning. Please be advised that this podcast is recorded in one take with no editi...

Send us Fan Mail   I think it will become obvious that Mark Brown was going to become a serial killer targeting woman who were operating as sex workers. He was going to be detected by automatic number plate recognition and cell phone tracking and the like, to allow the police to build a case against him. Brown's mind seemed to have been turned by a combination of the death of his parents, vio...

Send us Fan Mail This story was uploaded at 10:00 pm 31 October 2022. Another story from the Journals of the Society of Psychical Research. This story regards the death of a young boy, Bobby Newlove,  who was said to communicate through the medium Gladys Osborne Leonard. Nothing much happens and  hardly a story to scare or excite but one to think about. But it was known as 'The problem of the...

Send us Fan Mail July 1 1968 in Worthing UK. The Rolling Stones were top of the singles charts with Jumping Jack Flash. 2001, A Space Odyssey was being seen in the cinemas. Manchester United had recently won the European Cup. Harold Wilson’s Labour government were struggling since a recent devaluation of the pound. There was a heatwave on the South Coast on 1 July about to break out in violent sto...

Send us Fan Mail This is a Halloween podcasts for 2022. An attempt by the  British Society of Psychical research (SPR) to explain paranormal activity.  Phantasms of the Living was to be the book published by the SPR that was to explain the reasons for people seeing ghosts. 700 case studies were given to try to prove that thought transference, called later telepathy was the reason for people seeing...

Send us Fan Mail This is a true life horror story on the banks of the river Thames;  set in the days just before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned queen in June 1953. Two teenage girls were murdered as they made their way home on the last day of May 1953. The police files were said to be closed until 2049 but for some reason the files were made available to be examined by the public in 2006. The stor...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 2 of a two part story. The William Crookes, Florence Cook affair  was the major scandal regarding spiritualism in the UK. Cook was a fraudulent medium, trained by her family to make money from spiritualism. For a number of reasons Spiritualism had proved very popular in the English speaking world since the mid 19th century. The spirit guide/control that Florence Cook...

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...