Strange Stories UK
Episodes
Strange Stories UK: Richmond, Surrey. A fatal stabbing, unnoticed during a family argument.
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us Fan MailJuly 1966. A Labour government in trouble, America getting bogged down in a foreign war and England winning a world cup, Are there Par...
Strange Stories UK: Society of Psychical Research investigations 1919-1922.
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us Fan MailA selection of Society of Psychical Research investigations 1919-1922 get a mention and brief analysis.Lord Rayleigh's presidenti...
Strange Stories UK Society of Psychical Research investigations 1917 and 1918.
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us Fan MailSociety of Psychical Research investigations 1917 and 1918.Usual poor narration, warning this is lo-fi, recorded in one take and no ed...
Strange Stories UK. Organised Crime in London 1975, murder of Biddy Gold 2
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textPart 2 of the Biddy Gold murder investigation. Crime gangs, corrupt police, suspicions about Bernie Silvers.Please be advised, recorded in ...
Strange Stories UK. Organised crime in London 1975, murder of Biddy Gold part 1
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send a text1975 was a time of corruption in Central London. There was a power struggle taking place over the vice trade in Soho. The Bernie Silvers le...
Strange Stories UK: The Mystery of Alice Williams and June McKechnie
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThis podcast is about events and a mystery that took place in London during 1950. A very different London than exists today. The story cent...
Strange Stories UK. The Mystery of Sandy Lane, Ham Hill, Somerset.
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThis is a story you have not heard before. It comes from the unpublished papers of Eric Dingwall. It concerns an incident at Ham Hill in So...
Strange Stories UK: Peter Griffiths, Blackburn murderer.
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWarning. This episode is not suitable for children. The police files on this case were released to the public in 1924. It tells of a dre...
Strange Stories UK. Society of Psychical Research investigations during 1915 and 1916
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is another podcast looking at some investigations by the Society of Psychical Research during 1915 and 1916 during World War 1. Â S...
Strange Stories UK: Not a podcast, an announcement about Podcast Bully, Murder Mile.
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPlease be advised that this is not a podcast but an announcement.I feel sorry that I have to make this boring and tedious announcement, ...
Strange Stories UK: A Bloody weekend in Plumstead.
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTwo murders unconnected within a mile and three days of each other in Plumstead, a district in South East London.This podcast is recorde...
Strange Stories UK : Duke of York, Fitzrovia incident and murder.
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPlease be advised that the podcast starts after about six minutes when I share with you an accusation made by another podcaster who has ...
Strange Stories UK :Journal for the Society of Psychical Research, selected stories 1913-14.
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI thought I would try something a little different for the podcast during 2026. Each month (in conjunction with the usual podcast conten...
William Hepper of Chelsea and Brighton. painter, spy, BBC employee and child killer.
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is the last podcast of 2025, calling it William Hepper of Chelsea and Brighton. painter, spy, BBC employee and child killer. A cas...
Strange Stories UK, Ghost story for Christmas 2025, The Sauchie Case.
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPodcast 243 and the number eight Christmas podcast. This case took place in Scotland sixty five years ago over the Christmas period of 1...
Strange Stories : A Forgotten Newcastle Murder.
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a forgotten murder from a different time. 63 years ago, in the city of Newcastle a minor crime of embezzlement led to a murder. ...
Strange Stories UK: Nora and Judy fall out, Chiswick 1971.
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAnother short podcast while I am away. This is a story of a couple of women who breaking up in London in 1971 had a nasty falling out. T...
Strange Stories UK: Soho murder and prison. The life of George Pickering
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI am still out of the country so am posting some shorter podcasts to keep the podcast ticking over. This one concerns a case from 1963 g...
Strange Stories UK: Dorothy Wallis, High Holborn.
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a short podcast just to post something while I am away. Daisy / Dorothy Wallis started a business in High Holborn, central Londo...
Strange Stories UK: Chloe and Josh Bashford, Newhaven, Sussex murders
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textChloe and Josh Bashford lived at Newhaven with their four children. Their lives were ended by a family friend who killed them for no und...
Strange Stories UK : Halloween 2025, BBC live broadcast of Dene Manor haunting.
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis podcast has been produced while I am away, recorded with a borrowed microphone and on a MacBook laptop with which I can't seem...
Strange Stories UK: The Strange Story of John Kealty
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJohn Kealty travelled to Mexico to write a travel guide in the style of a Lonely Planet guide twenty years before they were a thing. It ...
Strange Stories UK: Egon Von Bulow. South London cop killer.
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis case is in living memory. Going back to 1974. Egon Von Bulow's parents came from South America, had him while in the UK, then ...
Strange Stories UK: Where British soldiers sacrificed to appease public opinion? Suez.
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis case happened in Egypt in 1950, so just about in Living memory. It was a difficult time for British-Egyptian relations. When three ...
Strange Stories UK : Ghost Club Chronicles part 1
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA selection of Ghost Club discussion topics 1902-1913. These include : Haunted bottles, Egyptian mummy curses, Mrs Etta Wreight’s sean...
Strange Stories: Stephanie Marie and Nimroy Hendricks cases Crawley West Sussex.
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTwo recent tragic killings from West Sussex. Both preventable, both the result partly of council cuts. These stories are told in one tak...
Strange Stories : The Reverend Davidson of Stiffkey
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe story of Reverend Davidson, the vicar of Stiffkey dominated the newspapers in the early 1930s. This is the story.The Lion and Albert...
Strange Stories, Manchester Airport Attack, Amaaz and Amaad court case.
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text Brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad were tried for assault at Liverpool Crown Court. The case is of interest due to CCTV ...
Strange Stories: Shepherds Bush/Clifton Suspension Bridge suitcase murders.
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a dark and dreadful case, it will be well covered in the news. Told in one take without editing.Â
Strange Stories: Sunderland Grandad shots family for Christmas 1966.
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textYou will not of heard this story before. Christmas Castletown, Sunderland, County Durham. A grandad feeling story for himself and igno...
Strange Stories UK, Nicholas Prosper, Luton murders.
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis shocking case dates from September 2023. Nicholas Prosper aged 18 had an ambition to become known as a spree killer.
Jennifer Abbott, Camden Town murder, June 2025.
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a short podcast about a case that was reported this week. Jennifer Abbott was murdered on around 10 June. Police originally thou...
Strange Stories: John Henry Pull, archaeology and murder in Worthing
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA story that rambles on about the murder of Worthing based amateur archaeologist John Pull on 10 November 1960. He was shot in a bank be...
Strange Stories: A Forgotten murder, Middlesborough December 1972
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA forgotten murder that took place in Middlesborough during December 1972. A vicious murder for the sake of a few pounds so the killer c...
London East End Police Murders 1961
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHello anyone reading or listening to this. Sorry it has been so long since my last pod. This case dates back to 1961 but it is an intere...
Strange Stories UK: The truth about the Helen Duncan seances. Portsmouth UK.
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe Helen Duncan seances at Portsmouth during WW2, allegedly called the spirit of a sailor who died aboard the HMS Barham which had been...
Strange Stories UK: Pathological jealousy, Sandbanks, Dorset murder.
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPathological jealousy, Sandbanks, Dorset murder.This case dates from 1972, it is an unknown case, I can find no information about it onl...
Strange Stories UK : Parricide, murder at Cannock, Staffordshire.
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI am sure nobody listening would have ever heard about this case. The actual case files will not be released until 2057, 100 years plus ...
Strange Stories UK: Somerset 1972, Beware the drunken unstable extrovert.
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAn unpleasnt story, the court case said a sordid murder, so maybe not for all. Ilchester, Somerset 1972. I will post some photographs on...
Strange Stories UK : Swinging London, The Bayswater murders.
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA dreadful story about how three young men in their 20s, fashionable Mods found themselves crossing a line and ruining their lives, Â ki...
Strange Stories UK: Strange stories from the Isle of Wight.
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a disjointed ramble about some stories from the Isle of Wight, mainly from the 1960s. A murder at the Blacksmith's Arms, A ...
Strange Stories UK : Andrew and Dawn Searle, what is known 6 days after the Les Pesquiès incident
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a current case after the bodies of Andrew and Dawn Searle were found in their home in Southern France on Thursday 6 February 202...
Strange Stories UK: Double murder in Greenford, London.
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA story based during World War 2, a double murder committed by a younger male who did nothing to help the war effort who seemed totally ...
Strange Stories UK: Motiveless Double Murder at Edgware, North London.
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA rather strange case, a double murder that shocked the UK in 1949 but is almost forgotten about today. 75 years on, we do not know  th...
Strange Stories UK: Southport Stabbings Cover Up part 2
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is the third and final podcast on the Southport Stabbings from 29 July last year. The most shocking crime committed in the UK that ...
Strange Stories UK: Southport Stabbings Cover up part 1
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis short podcast is part one, about the cover up by the authorities over the Southport Stabbings and murders. I like many others fe...
Strange Stories UK: Hackney (London) and Upper Mayfield (Derbyshire) hauntings
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTwo interesting cases that both went to the law courts in some ways trying to prove that ghosts exist. The first case was in Hackney, Ea...
Strange Stories: Maidenhead, tramping and Murder in 1948.
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA little Social and Economic history and a murder in Maidenhead during 1948.This podcast is told in one take without editing.
Strange Stories: A Double Devon murder, Plymouth 1994
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA case probably long forgotton and not much publicised at the time. The information has been sourced from police records and primary sou...
Strange Stories : Ghost storey for Christmas 2024. Raynham Hall, Norfolk.
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt was at Raynham Hall that what is known as the most famous photograph of a ghost was taken. The background to the photograph being tak...
Strange Stories UK. Bournemouth Beach murder of Amie Gray, part 1
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis case is being heard at Winchester Crown Court during December 2024. Amie Gray was murdered by Nasen Saadi on Bournemouth Beach as h...
Strange Stories UK: Joe Martin, the drunken bully who liked guns.
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textLondon 1960. East London, petty criminals playing with guns.Warning: This podcast is lo-fi without editing. There is animal noise in the...
Strange stories. Halloween 2024: some cases briefly considered, Buried Treasure at Glastonbury Abbey?
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAll Hallows Eve 2024. There is a brief examination of nine cases. These include the cases of Mr Moss and Mr Munnings and the medium Blan...
Strange Stories: Chris Kaba Shooting, London 2022
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis case was heard in court this month, October 2024, the media reported on the case which caused much interest, an unarmed black male ...
Strange Stories : The Sea Serpent part 2, sightings, globsters and possible mistaken creatures.
21 Oct 2024
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Send us a textSea serpents part 2. This podcasts will consider some well known sea serpent sightings and globsters and also consider some creatures th...
Strange Stories : Sea Serpents part 1, setting the scene.
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is the first of three podcasts on sea serpent sightings over the centuries and theories  given for these sightings from a mainly  ...
Strange Stories: Alistair Wilson murder, Nairn, Scotland.
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA well known unsolved murder from 2004 when a 30 year old banker who worked for HBOS, Alistair Wilson was shot on the doorstep of his ho...
Strange Stories: Double murder at Gravesend, Kent.
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis horrific and little known incident which resulted in the death of two 16 year old children who had been been to church in 1961 at G...
Strange Stories: Brilliant Chang, Eddie Manning, Freda Kempton and other stories.
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textBrilliant Chang, Eddie Manning, Freda Kempton and other stories. Moral Panics in the UK after WW1 made these characters well known to th...
White Slavery moral panics and the first celebrity drug death in the UK
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is the second podcast setting the scene to examine crime gangs active in the UK between the two world wars.This rambling podcast is...
Strange Stories: Drugging the UK, how drugs were introduced to the UK.
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is the first of a series of podcasts regarding some incidents in the UK (London) that took place 100 years ago and caused a 'm...
Strange Stories: The Leicester Square Incident August 2024.
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI have put this short podcast together on Wednesday evening, a couple of days since an incident in Leicester Square which saw a young gi...
Strange Stories : The Southport Stabbings. What we know after Day 1.
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a short podcast as a response to the Southport stabbings. What we know after Day 1. Â
Strange Stories : Newcastle, The one Armed Bandit, 'Get Carter' murder
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textQuite a complicated story which I have tried to simplify. This is a well known case in the North East, still just about in living memory...
Strange Stories UK, Jay Slater the first two weeks up until 2 July.
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJay Slater, a teenager has gone missing while on holiday in Tenerife. This is a story that has taken off in the media and social media. ...
Strange Stories UK: The Kennedy murders, Surrey, UK.
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI can't find any mention of these 1971 murders on the internet. The information is taken from police files and as information is sc...
Strange Stories : The Wivelsfield mystery of the Volturno
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a forgotten about story found in a Journal of the Society of Psychical Research. Wivelsfield is a village in Sussex, the Voltur...
Strange Stories : Scandal at Eton College, MI5 investigate Tallulah Bankhead.
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text1920s in the UK the Authorities were worried about the behaviour of some of the young people who were later called 'The Bright Youn...
Strange Stories UK : Madness and murder in Swanage, Dorset.
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI am posting  this short podcast as the podcasts that I have been working on have become rather complicated, I will finish and broadcas...
Strange Stories: The monster of the mere and other huge UK freshwater fish,
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhat is the largest fish caught in British freshwaters and are they dangerous? This episode is about a huge creature that lived in Marti...
Strange Stories UK: Bournemouth drug dealing and murder 2023.
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis case was committed in Boscombe, part of Bournemouth during August 2023. The case has come to Winchester Crown Court this month, sta...
Strange Stories UK: Constance Marten & Mark Gordon 5, Confrontations and closing speeches.
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textConfrontations and Closing Speeches.This is the fifth podcast on the Constance Marten and Mark Gordon trial. This one concentrates on th...
Strange Stories: A Southampton murder 2023.
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPlease be aware, this podcast is recorded in one take without editing. This is a case that was heard at Winchester Crown Court between J...
Strange Stories: Fiona Beal, Nicholas Billingham, the background to the 2024 trial.
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI am posting this before the retrial of the Nicholas Billingham / Fiona Beal case which is due to be heard at the Old Bailey in the la...
Strange Stories : The Lydney murder, Maggots and the downfall of William Brittle.
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA Famous murder of its time in 1964, almost forgotten today. The case was famous for its forensic breakthrough. Recorded as usual in one...
Strange Stories UK: Constance Marten & Mark Gordon part 4
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text This is the fourth podcast of what is proving to be an extraordinary case. I was expecting this to be a one podcast case.T his pod...
Strange Stories UK: The Hawthorn Incident, Portsmouth 1973.
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textRecorded in lo fi without editing. I don't think you would have heard of this story from Portsmouth, UK in March 1973.
Strange Stories UK: Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, Part 3 The Defence.
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI am posting this podcast after week 6 Â of the trial. The case is intriguing with many odd and unexplained aspects . Week 7 is about to...
Strange Stories UK: Constance Marten & Mark Gordon Part 2, 5 weeks of the Old Bailey trial
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is part 2 of the Constance Marten, Mark Gordon trial at the Old Bailey. Some reflections on the first five weeks of the trial. As a...
Strange Stories : Constance Marten & Mark Gordon. Part 1, The background.
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe Constance Marten and Mark Gordon trial is at present being held at the Old Bailey, it started January 2024 and is scheduled to f...
Strange Stories: The Senseless murder of Harrison Tompkins, Crawley, August 2023.
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a short podcast about a totally senseless murder last August in the West Sussex town of Crawley. Condolences to the family of Ha...
Strange Stories: Alf 'Houdini' Hinds & Shirley 'The Greatest Shop lifter in the world' Pitts
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTwo characters with links to the Elephant and Castle area of South London. Alfred Hinds probably unjustly imprisoned in 1953 and determi...
Strange Stories UK : The Cleator moor Incident, August 1974.
24 Jan 2024
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Send us a textCleator Moor is a small town near the East Coast of Cumbria in the North of England on the Eastern edge of the Lake District a few miles...
Strange Stories : Bethnal Green, Victoria Hall, Glen Cinema and Barnsley Hall disasters.
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis started as a podcast on the Bethnal Green Tube disaster in 1943. I was surprised to learn about other crowd crush disasters that I ...
Strange Stories: The Brighton Tragedy of Sue Addis. Lockdown 2021.
10 Jan 2024
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Send us a textIn January 2021 there was news reported that shocked the people of Brighton and Hove. Prominent and popular businesswoman Sue Addis was ...
Strange Stories : Southampton skinhead murder.
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a story that has not really been told with any accuracy before. Feckless youth struggling to find an identity, wanting to prove ...
Strange Stories : Sold for a farthing, a story of a sparrow.
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis a shorter and quirkier podcast than usual. I read a book which moved me and I wanted to make a podcast about it. It is essentiall...
Strange Stories, Ghost Story for Christmas 2023: Hinton Ampner and a couple of Yorkshire hauntings.
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe first haunting considered is that of Hinton Ampner, then the podcast moves onto the East Riding and West ridings of Yorkshire for fu...
Strange Stories UK, Ten Days at Winchester Crown Court, Nov 2023.
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis 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 tria...
Strange Stories UK: The Messiter mystery, a Southampton murder.
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis podcast has a dog snoring throughout, some cats make an appearance but dont seem to have any audio affects. The window is open so...
Strange Stories UK: Halloween 2023, Stories from 1923 Society of Physic research records.
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHello Anybody reading this. This podcast is regarding some stories as reported in the Society of Physical Research (SPR) records for 192...
Strange Stories : William Burkitt, the king of the serial killers.
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPlease don't get too excited by the title of this podcast. By definition, Burkitt was a serial killer whose killing area was Hull, ...
Strange Stories UK: Pirate Radio, Top pop tunes and murder on the North Sea.
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textEpisode 165:Â Reg Calvert was a family man who got involved in the pop music scene in the early 1960s and through chance became involved...
Strange Stories UK: Ladock, Cornwall. Madness and murder
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is a podcast about Cornwall in 1959, a strange and sad double murder that seems to have been forgotten about. I am thinking that m...
Strange Stories UK: Krays 2, Bob Boothby, Ronnie Kray and Bacon Bonce.
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPart 2 of the untold Kray stories. This tells of the corruption that resulted from the sexual interests of Ronnie Kray who was a predato...
Strange Stories UK: The Krays One (part 2) The True Story regarding affray and murder at Catford.
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis 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 ab...
Strange Stories UK: The Krays 1: The true story of affray and murder at Catford. Part One.
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI 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 a...
Strange Stories Uk: Hells Angels fall out in Yorkshire UK during 1975.
14 Aug 2023
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Send us a textFour chapters of Hells Angels meet in a Yorkshire pub in Normanton and start drinking heavily. What could possibly go wrong? Â The crime...
Strange Stories : The Ghosts of Preston Park, Brighton.
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHello Anybody reading this, Â the first 12 minutes of the podcast is background on Preston Manor, is is quite complicated and listening ...
Strange Stories UK: The Monster of Margate.
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis story dates back to August 1965 and events between then and 2014. I have called this episode the Margate Monster referring to Alan ...