Strange Stories UK

Send us Fan Mail This is a rambling story based on John 'Goldfinger' Palmer. We find how the Brinks Mat gold bullion robbery was responsible for a lot of criminal enterprises as these were funded by the proceeds of Brinks Mat gold. John Palmer was an interesting character, a key figure in disposing of the Brinks Mat gold. Palmer managed to avoid prosecution and started a huge Timeshare f...

Send us Fan Mail There has been recent news items on the interview between the BBC Panorama  programme and Princess Diana in November 1995  and that was the inspiration for this podcast.  I have not attempted a full story of the car crash that killed Princess Diana, in chronological order, as the story is quite well known. I have focussed in on some areas. There have been suggestions that Diana wa...

Send us Fan Mail I thought it time for a paranormal type episode, this one taken from the journals of the Society for Psychical Research. I do my research in the British Library for these podcasts, this one comes from the 1949 journal. I like to do a paranormal podcast during the month of May, This story was published in the 1949 Journal of the Society of Psychical Research and was called 'Th...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of the podcast, the details being the same as for part 1.

Send us Fan Mail Northern Ireland 1970s, MI5, Clockwork Orange, Murder, SAS, paedophiles, IRA, UDA. What could possibly go wrong? Well quite a lot did go wrong. This is part one of a story that few people come out of very well. Colin Wallace had a questionable job peddling black propaganda. But you have to accept the position he was in, his background in Northern Ireland and the fact that he thoug...

Send us Fan Mail This is part three of the Hilda Murrell murder, please listen to parts one and two. The police continue to insist that the Hilda Murrell murder was a burglary gone wrong despite evidence mounting up that there was more involved. Were the police chiefs being told to follow this line? More evidence comes forward that a gang abducted Hilda before killing her. The police arrest somebo...

Send us Fan Mail This is part two of the Hilda Murrell podcast.  Maybe I should think about doing some editing; apologies in this podcast I call Hilda Murrell, Hilda Murray a few times and have difficulty in conjugating a verb, sank or sunk? On consideration I am happy leaving in a few mistakes in order to concentrate on more stories. Anyhow in this episode we examine some aspects of the Falklands...

Send us Fan Mail This is part one of a three part podcast.  21 March 1984. Hilda Murrell was abducted from her home. She was an anti-nuclear campaigner who had just gained approval to present a paper on the problems of nuclear waste at the Sizewell planning  inquiry. Hildfa's body was found three days later. The police thought that a lone panicking burglar was responsible. It seemed more prob...

Send us Fan Mail This is another case of a jury getting it wrong.  Janet Muller was murdered by Christopher Jeffrey - Shaw in Sussex in 2015. We do not know the whole story, there are gaps in our understanding of it.  What is clear is that Jeffrey-Shaw murdered a vulnerable student from Brighton University who was having psychotic episodes and in the care of the NHS Mill View hospital in Hove. Jef...

Send us Fan Mail A promising 21 year old actress who lived as she wished, not to the conventions of the day, goes missing on a cruise ship. 

Send us Fan Mail The 'Thug life' referred to  in this podcast, refers to street gangs in Ipswich copying the behaviour of street gangs in America. The American rapper Tupac came up with a phrase that makes the acronym. The hate U Give,  Little Infants Fucks Everything. Tupac was trying to argue that life on the streets is hard for those people who society oppresses (the poor and uneducat...

Send us Fan Mail The Fairy Investigation Society (aka FIS), founded in the UK in 1927, exists to report fairy sightings. This podcast attempts to give a brief history of fairies in the UK (zero to 10 minutes). Then examines the beginnings of FIS (10 -21 minutes). then it examines the ideas of Quentin Craufurd (the inspiration for FIS), who explains what is required to view fairies. Then we continu...

Send us Fan Mail A group of young men decide to spend a Saturday night in Brighton. There is an altercation as they leave a nightclub, a stupid drunken quarrel and macho posturing  leads to a tragic and pointless death and life changing injuries for others. Any queries or comments please go to www.strangestoriesuk.com I am now including a transcript of the podcast.

Send us Fan Mail Please be advised that I now have a website where I can be contacted. www.strangestoriesuk.com also an email address, strangestoriesuk@gmail.com I will be happy to answer any questions, or receive any opinions or suggestions.  This episode is mainly about five brothers that came to the UK to make their fortune in the only way they knew how, which was in the white slavery trade, kn...

Send us Fan Mail Well this is a bit of a ramble, but the main story is how a prominent Leicester MP  Greville Janner had credible allegations of sexual abuse made against him over a long period of time but was never investigated.  It is suspected that the Security services of MI5 and Special Branch protected him due to his position of being an influential Jewish personality who had a relationship...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of the Brides in the Bath Story. 

Send us Fan Mail A murder trial at the Old Bailey in 1915 caused much comment. Thousands of soldiers were being killed on a daily basis while a long complicated trial was being staged to decide the life of one man.  George Smith was despised and is the most repugnant person I have made a podcast about. He was a misogynist and was prepared to marry and kill for financial gain.  

Send us Fan Mail Two stories from the records of the Society of Physical Research (SPR) investigated by Fred Stratton. There are similarities between the two stories, both classic haunted house stories, both of which were being investigated by Fred during 1913.  One story was published in the journals of the SPR in 1914. Both stories were soon forgotten as a result of World War 1.  When Fred died...

Send us Fan Mail Lockdown in the UK during May 2020. Not a good time for teenagers or the young. Imagine being a sixteen year old teenager having  fallen out with her mother, suffering from anxiety and self harm, with a difficult background staying in a one bedroom flat with your auntie and uncle who do not approve of your life style.  Add into this mix a 30 year old male (Uncle Shane) who acts in...

Send us Fan Mail Brian Donald Hume, better known as Donald Hume was a smuggler, bank robber, murderer and successful businessman.  His life story is quite extraordinary. It is a pity that he allowed his anger get the better of him because he had a lot of ability and could have followed a different path.

Send us Fan Mail The Florence Maybrick trial which took place in Liverpool during 1889 is a famous case in which a woman was charged with the murder of her addict husband as a result of a manipulating Free Mason pulling the strings to ensure a guilty verdict and a death sentence. Although this episode stands by itself, I will return to this trial in a future podcast to investigate ‘Jack the Ripper...

Send us Fan Mail Newhaven, East Sussex, once a booming light manufacturing town on the coast is now in the doldrums. There is not many opportunities for the young some of  whom  are often forced to spend idle days looking for ways to fill their time. Trent Hutchinson was one such teenager who could be considered as having various issues and being out of control with an anger management problem. I ...

Send us Fan Mail This is the third story I have uploaded for Halloween 2020. The other two being the Edgar Vandy case and Rougham mirage. This podcast is the Ardachie Case. Peter McEwan and his family moved to Ardachie Lodge on the banks of Loch Ness, they were aiming to breed pigs. When the McEwan's hired a housekeeper and live stock help the MacDonalds came to stay. Mrs MacDonald was a sens...

Send us Fan Mail May 2020, Policeman Timothy Bremer killed his lover of 10 years Claire Parry , by accident in his car as she sent a message to his wife informing him of their affair.  Did the jury get this one wrong?

Send us Fan Mail The second of the Halloween podcasts for 2020, these are both set in the county of Suffolk. The Rougham mirage and the Kersey time-slip. Both phenomena could be retrocognition or hallucination. Carl Groves goes into much greater detail on the Rougham mirage, search for the Rougham mystery by Carl Groves online for further details.