Strange Stories UK

Send us Fan Mail Episode 6 in the Canning Town Crime and Corruption Series of podcasts. This episode is about the novel Judas Pig by Horace Silver. Published in 2004, it became a cult novel as it told stories about an OCG (organised Crime group / gang) that were believed to have actually taken place.  Some thought it the most realistic description of a ruthless OCG in action. I have tried to match...

Send us Fan Mail Hello,  All Hallows Eve 2021. I am only posting one story this year and it is a pretty standard Haunted House story which was first published in 1902 in the Journal of Psychical Research. I do not know the location of the house as it was kept secret on the request of those who lived there at the time. I am not convinced that it was a haunting but you will have to make your own min...

Send us Fan Mail This is not a podcast to interest everyone. It is about the Burbot, only fish in the UK that has been declared extinct in known history. Please also be warned that this podcast is recorded in one take with no editing and there is a dog snoring in the background. and I stumble over some words and make some mistakes. I make podcasts that interest me and I cannot be bothered to spend...

Send us Fan Mail This is the fifth podcast in the Canning Town Crome & Corruption Series. This involves three unsolved murders in Epping Forest, near London. Terry Gooderham and Maxine Arnold murdered in December 1989 and  the murder of Patricia Parsons in June 1990.          There will be three more podcasts in this series, But the next one or two podcasts will be cases of the paranormal as H...

Send us Fan Mail Three Paranormal cases : The Palm Sunday Case which concerned Arthur Balfour the Conservative Prime Minister and his lost love, his cousin May. I dont think it would be possible today to conceive how well the Balfour family were connected when this case broke in 1930.  They were one of the most important aristocratic families when Britain was considered as perhaps the most powerfu...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast 4 in the Canning Town Crime and corruption series: This episode looks at The Bowers OCG  within the Canning Town Cartel, and those who worked within the crime group. Then we look at some feuds concerning Christopher Pearman. The death of Ronnie Fuller, the death of Rocky Dawson and the death of John Donovan; all of these linked to the Canning Town Cartel. There is also the...

Send us Fan Mail Part 3 of the Canning Town Cartel of organised crime groups. Please listen to parts 1 & 2. Part 3 continues the story.  Canning Town part 2 is about the rise of the cartel in Canning Town, in particular the rise of the Hunt OCG and how Jimmy Holmes, the author of Judas Pig fell out with David Hunt.    I think It is likely that Jimmy Holmes is still alive and that he came to so...

Send us Fan Mail Strange Stories UK. Canning Town, London Organised Crime and Corrupt police. Part 2. Season 4, Episode 2. This podcast tells how some members of the Snipers gang in Canning Town, evolved into the Canning Town Cartel which was a group of organised crime groups. One of which was the Hunt OCG. The podcast also examines the falling out between David Hunt and Jimmy Holmes which caused...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 starts with contemporary Organised Crime in London, there will be four or five linked podcasts on this theme starting with a case that developed in Canning Town, the next few podcasts will flow on from this case including a podcast of the Rettendon aka Essex boys murders. I know this case has been very well covered but  it does tie in with the other podcasts.  For this ca...

Send us Fan Mail This a short episode to end Series 3. Again a rambling story about a possible paranormal incident in a small village (St. Boswells)  in the Borderlands between England and Scotland. The story comes from the Journals of the Society of Physical research. I give the links to these on www.strangestories.uk.com I will not post anything for the next six weeks. I would like to thank you...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of the Hess Enigma. What happened to Hess? Was he murdered? Was it Hess? We also examine the roles of other characters such as Tancred Borenius, the Polish leader Sikorski and others. There is also Anthony Blunt the Soviet spy who carried out dirty business for the Royal family. There are so many secrets and rumours regarding the Hess flight, and he was prevented wi...

Send us Fan Mail   May and June 1941 was the period that Nazi Germany came close to conquering Western Europe. But the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler then  opened  a second Front which was going to cost him the war.  Events during May and June 1941 are  shrouded in mystery, part of the puzzle was Rudolf Hess's (Hitler’s deputy) flight to Scotland during May 1941. Was Hess sent by Hitler to offer Br...

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.