Strange Stories UK

Strange Stories UK, Al Watson and Ruby Roberts.

09 Jul 2023

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Send us a textThe Sussex town of Worthing had the misfortune to have Al Watson move there in 1964 after finishing his latest prison sentence. Watson w...

Strange stories UK, A double murder at Aldington, Kent. 1961.

02 Jul 2023

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Send us a textThis 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 19...

Strange Stories UK. A knifing in Eastbourne.

28 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis is another short podcast about a story long forgotten. It is a sad story set in Eastbourne, a seaside town in Sussex during 1949.  ...

Strange stories UK: The Old Curiosity Shop Murder, Arundel, Sussex.

25 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis is a short, straight forward case of a murder from 1944 taken from Police records. Nobody will remember a case that has faded from ...

Strange Stories UK: Ghost Cats.

20 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis podcast is dedicated to Megan Finlay Horowitz, a friend of the podcast and a fellow cat lover.The podcast examines a number of alle...

Strange Stories UK, The Ladies Directory case, Soho, London. 1960

15 Jun 2023

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Send us a textthis was a well known case although virtually forgotten today, a prosecution for a conspiracy to corrupt public morals. There were a num...

Strange Stories UK, Four murdered in a Sussex field, Tragedy at Arundel.

01 Jun 2023

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Send us a textI 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 whi...

Strange stories: Ballechin part 3, The Ballechin House haunting

25 May 2023

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Send us a textThis is part three of the the Ballechin House haunting, known as the most haunted house in Scotland when the story was told in the newsp...

Strange Stories, Ballechin House part 2, The Clandon House Haunting.

16 May 2023

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Send us a textThis is the  second Ballechin House podcast. This podcast continues the background research on Ada Goodrich Freer's  investigatio...

Strange Stories: Ballechin House part 1: The Highland Second Sight Enquiry.

08 May 2023

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Send us a textThis podcast is part 1 of the story of the alleged haunting of Ballechin House, the so called most haunted house in Scotland. Ballechin ...

Strange Stories UK, Psychotic Boy Scout in Bournemouth.

29 Apr 2023

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Send us a textThis podcast is about a Bournemouth in 1954 and an obsessive Boy Scout became a psychotic murderer. I had not heard of this story until ...

Strange Stories Uk: The Brighton Blue Gardenia Club shooting, 1962.

15 Apr 2023

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Send us a textThose 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...

Strange Stories Uk: The Ghost Society & Ghost Club.

07 Apr 2023

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Send us a textI 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...

Strange Stories UK, Red Mini Murder, a Reading murder, part 2

21 Mar 2023

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Send us a textThis 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 com...

Strange Stories UK. Red Mini murder part 1.

19 Mar 2023

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Send us a textThis 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 fo...

Strange Stories UK, Donald Omand, exorcist.

02 Mar 2023

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Send us a textThis 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...

Strange stories uk. Rolling Stones, murder, terror and corruption in Sussex

30 Jan 2023

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Send us a textThis is something of a ramble. After becoming famous, the Rolling Stones developed links with Sussex. Their rock star behaviour upset so...

Strange Stories, Murder in Chichester Harbour

30 Dec 2022

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Send us a textThis story takes place during August 1969. Alec Keen who described himself as a self employed chartered yacht owner was desperate for mo...

Strange Stories, Ghost story for Christmas 2022. Two Yorkshire ghosts?

23 Dec 2022

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

Strange Stories: Kent Serial Killer thwarted part 2.

20 Dec 2022

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Send us a textThis is part 2 of the story of how the police prevented Mark Brown becoming a serial killer of sex workers. Brown killed his mistress Le...

Strange stories : Kent serial killer thwarted. Part 1

08 Dec 2022

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Send us a text  I think it will become obvious that Mark Brown was going to become a serial killer targeting woman who were operating as sex workers....

Strange Stories UK: Halloween 2022, The Story of Bobbie Newlove

31 Oct 2022

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Send us a textThis story was uploaded at 10:00 pm 31 October 2022. Another story from the Journals of the Society of Psychical Research. This story re...

Strange Stories : Delusion and Murder in Worthing, Sussex.

30 Oct 2022

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Send us a textJuly 1 1968 in Worthing UK. The Rolling Stones were top of the singles charts with Jumping Jack Flash. 2001, A Space Odyssey was being s...

Strange stories: The Victorian Book of Ghosts.

24 Oct 2022

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Send us a textThis is a Halloween podcasts for 2022. An attempt by the  British Society of Psychical research (SPR) to explain paranormal activity. ...

Strange Stories: The Teddington / Richmond London murders.

17 Oct 2022

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Send us a textThis 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...

Strange Stories: William Crookes / Florence Cook spiritualism scandal Part 2

09 Oct 2022

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Send us a textThis is Part 2 of a two part story.The William Crookes, Florence Cook affair  was the major scandal regarding spiritualism in the UK. C...

Strange Stories: William Crookes, Florence Cook Spiritualism scandal.Part 1

05 Oct 2022

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Send us a textThis is a well known scandal from the 1870s. Florence Cook one of the best known materialisation mediums of her day had been suspect of ...

Strange Stories: London gangland murder of Jack Buggy.

15 Sep 2022

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Send us a textThis 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 cl...

Strange Stories: Murder at Tarrant Keynston, Dorset. Part 2.

07 Sep 2022

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Send us a textThis is part 2 of the story of the murder at Tarrant Keynston.The podcast is recorded in one take without editing.

Strange Stories : Murder at Tarrant Keynston, Dorset UK. Part 1

06 Sep 2022

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Send us a textThis is an unsolved murder, or perhaps two involved murders that happened in an isolated Dorset village about ninety years ago.  This p...

Strange Stories: Dorset Murder. Edward Reeves.

29 Aug 2022

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Send us a textA 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...

Strange Stories: The Canvey Island Monster

14 Jul 2022

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Send us a textThis is the first Strange Stories podcast (without the UK). Since I started podcasting in June 2018, I wanted to call my podcast 'S...

Strange Stories UK, Clifton Hampden Haunting.

10 Jul 2022

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Send us a textThis case was investigated by the Society of Psychical  Research (SPR) by Frank Podmore in 1885 and published in the Journal for the SP...

Strange Stories UK, Cleft Chin murder at Hammersmith London.

24 Jun 2022

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Send us a textAs 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 ...

Strange Stories UK. Daniel Douglas Home, Victorian physical Medium.

31 May 2022

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Send us a textDaniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886). Perhaps the best known physical medium. He was a contemporary of the Fox sisters, it was their  rappin...

Strange Stories UK : A Portsmouth murder, Harold Loughans

24 May 2022

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Send us a textThis podcast is about a murder/killing that happened in Portsmouth during World War 2. Another case that showed the failings of the Brit...

Strange Stories UK: Scandal and death at Piddletrenthide, Dorset.

03 May 2022

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Send us a textFirst 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 ...

Strange Stories UK: A West Country Haunting.

13 Apr 2022

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Send us a textA West Country Haunted house, as investigated by the SPR during 1887. This would have been one of the cases investigated by Edmund Gurne...

Strange Stories UK: The Rettendon / Essex Boys Murders part 3

31 Mar 2022

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Send us a textThis is part three of the Rettendon / Essex Boys Murders which concludes the Canning Town Crime and corruption series off podcasts. This...

Strange Stories UK: Rettendon 'Essex Boys' murders part 2

22 Mar 2022

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Send us a textIn part 2 of these podcasts we examine the possibility of  it being Corrupt police or Bernard O'Mahoney, or/and Kenneth Noye being...

Strange Stories UK: Rettendon 'Essex Boys' murders part 1

14 Mar 2022

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Send us a textThis is the first of three podcasts on the Rettendon, aka Essex Boys murders which are to finish off the Canning Town Crime and Corrupti...

Strange Stories UK: Murder or Sudden Death? Winchester to Southampton.

25 Feb 2022

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Send us a textThis case dates from May 1979, set in Southampton on the South Coast of the UK. There is an argument between a couple and the woman dies...

Strange Stories UK. Janice Ersser, Garston park, Watford.

15 Feb 2022

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Send us a textA sad and senseless killing of a child crossing her local park after visiting a sweet shop during the school summer holiday . It was a v...

Strange Stories UK : Joan Woodhouse, Murder and cover-up at Arundel part 2

10 Feb 2022

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Send us a textThis is part 2 of the Joan Woodhouse case of murder at Arundel, Sussex.Please be advised that this is recorded in one take without editi...

Strange Stories UK: Joan Woodhouse, Murder and cover up at Arundel, Sussex.(Part 1)

05 Feb 2022

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Send us a textThis podcast examines a murder from 1948. It was a botched investigation and it seems that for a couple of possible reasons,  there was...

Strange Stories UK : The mystery of Michael Maybrick part 2

18 Jan 2022

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Send us a textPart 2 of the Michael Maybrick mystery.  In this episode we examine who Michael Maybrick was and why he was thought to be the 'Rip...

Strange stories UK, The Mystery of Michael Maybrick part 1

17 Jan 2022

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Send us a textThis podcast is a follow up to The Florence Maybrick trial podcast from November 2020. Florence was convicted and sentenced to death for...

Strange Stories UK, Madame Schmeder visits Sussex.

04 Jan 2022

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Send us a textA Femme fatale, Madame Schmeder leaves France, in a hurry,  in her airplane, and crash lands at Selsey in Sussex.  A story that captur...

Strange Stories UK: The Bognor-Gatwick train murder of Patti Woolard

30 Dec 2021

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Send us a textA murder from a long time ago, The Rolling Stones were number 1 in the singles charts with 'I can't get no Satisfaction',...

Strange Stories UK, 2021 Ghost story for Christmas. Tony Cornell investigates three East Anglia cases.

20 Dec 2021

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Send us a textGhost Story for Christmas 2021. Tony Cornell and others, investigate three cases in East Anglia, Hannath Hall during 1957-60, Wisbech sh...

Strange Stories UK, Drug Dealing stories from Portslade (Brighton) during 2011

17 Nov 2021

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Send us a textTwo stories about street drug dealing, both ending in murder ten years ago, during 2011. Both drug dealers lived in Portslade part of th...

Strange Stories UK, Canning Town, Crime & Corruption 6, Judas Pig

09 Nov 2021

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Send us a textEpisode 6 in the Canning Town Crime and Corruption Series of podcasts. This episode is about the novel Judas Pig by Horace Silver. Publi...

Strange Stories UK: SPR investigations into the Haunting of 'M'House.

29 Oct 2021

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Send us a textHello,  All Hallows Eve 2021. I am only posting one story this year and it is a pretty standard Haunted House story which was first pub...

Strange Stories UK, The Burbot fish in the UK, does it still exist?

26 Oct 2021

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Send us a textThis 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....

Strange Stories UK Canning Town Crime & Corruption 5, Epping Forest 3 unsolved murders.

17 Oct 2021

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Send us a textThis is the fifth podcast in the Canning Town Crome & Corruption Series. This involves three unsolved murders in Epping Forest, near...

Strange Stories UK: The Palm Sunday case and SPR investigations in Ramsbury & Askern

06 Oct 2021

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Send us a textThree Paranormal cases : The Palm Sunday Case which concerned Arthur Balfour the Conservative Prime Minister and his lost love, his cous...

Strange Stories UK Canning Town crime & Corruption 4

23 Sep 2021

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Send us a textPodcast 4 in the Canning Town Crime and corruption series: This episode looks at The Bowers OCG  within the Canning Town Cartel, and th...

Strange Stories UK, Canning Town, London, Organised Crime & Corruption. 3

13 Sep 2021

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Send us a textPart 3 of the Canning Town Cartel of organised crime groups. Please listen to parts 1 & 2.Part 3 continues the story. Canning Town ...

Strange Stories UK Canning Town, London. Organised Crime and Corrupt police. part 2

07 Sep 2021

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Send us a textStrange Stories UK. Canning Town, London Organised Crime and Corrupt police. Part 2. Season 4, Episode 2.This podcast tells how some mem...

Strange Stories UK Canning Town, London, Organised Crime and Corrupt police 1.

03 Sep 2021

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Send us a textSeason 4 starts with contemporary Organised Crime in London, there will be four or five linked podcasts on this theme starting with a ca...

Strange Stories UK: St.Boswells haunted road.

18 Jul 2021

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Send us a textThis a short episode to end Series 3. Again a rambling story about a possible paranormal incident in a small village (St.Boswells)  in ...

Strange Stories UK, The Hess Enigma , Part 2

11 Jul 2021

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Send us a textThis 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 su...

Strange Stories UK, The Hess Enigma part 1

10 Jul 2021

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Send us a text May and June 1941 was the period that Nazi Germany came close to conquering Western Europe. But the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler then  op...

Strange Stories UK, John Palmer, Brinks Mat, Time Shares scams and a lot of shootings.

19 Jun 2021

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Send us a textThis is a rambling story based on John 'Goldfinger' Palmer. We find how the Brinks Mat gold bullion robbery was responsible fo...

Strange Stories UK: some considerations on The death of Princess Diana

02 Jun 2021

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Send us a textThere has been recent news items on the interview between the BBC Panorama  programme and Princess Diana in November 1995  and that wa...

Strange Stories UK: The Society of Psychical Research investigate a London ghost

21 May 2021

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Send us a textI thought it time for a paranormal type episode, this one taken from the journals of the Society for Psychical Research. I do my researc...

Strange Stories UK: Colin Wallace, Kincora and Clockwork Orange part 2.

09 May 2021

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Send us a textThis is part 2 of the podcast, the details being the same as for part 1.

Strange Stories UK: Colin Wallace, Kincora and Clockwork Orange part 1

07 May 2021

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Send us a textNorthern Ireland 1970s, MI5, Clockwork Orange, Murder, SAS, paedophiles, IRA, UDA.What could possibly go wrong?Well quite a lot did go w...

Strange Stories UK, Hilda Murrell part 3

18 Apr 2021

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Send us a textThis is part three of the Hilda Murrell murder, please listen to parts one and two.The police continue to insist that the Hilda Murrell ...

Strange Stories UK : Hilda Murrell part 2: Belgrano, Sizewell and other theories.

16 Apr 2021

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Send us a textThis is part two of the Hilda Murrell podcast. Maybe I should think about doing some editing; apologies in this podcast I call Hilda Mu...

Strange Stories UK : The Hilda Murrell murder. 1984

16 Apr 2021

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Send us a textThis is part one of a three part podcast.  21 March 1984. Hilda Murrell was abducted from her home. She was an anti-nuclear campaigner ...

Strange Stories UK. The Brighton University student Janet Muller murder in 2015

02 Apr 2021

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Send us a textThis is another case of a jury getting it wrong.  Janet Muller was murdered by Christopher Jeffrey - Shaw in Sussex in 2015. We do not ...

Strange Stories UK, The Porthole Murder of Gay Gibson.

21 Mar 2021

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

Strange Stories UK : The Thug Life in Ipswich: County Lines.

07 Mar 2021

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Send us a textThe 'Thug life' referred to  in this podcast, refers to street gangs in Ipswich copying the behaviour of street gangs in Amer...

Strange Stories UK, The Fairy Investigation Society 1927 - to present.

16 Feb 2021

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Send us a textThe Fairy Investigation Society (aka FIS), founded in the UK in 1927, exists to report fairy sightings.This podcast attempts to give a b...

Strange Stories UK, Brighton Murder, The tragic death of Suel Dagado

09 Feb 2021

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Send us a textA group of young men decide to spend a Saturday night in Brighton. There is an altercation as they leave a nightclub, a stupid drunken q...

Strange Stories UK The Rise and fall of the Messinas, vice in London 1930-60

31 Jan 2021

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Send us a textPlease be advised that I now have a website where I can be contacted.www.strangestoriesuk.comalso an email address,strangestoriesuk@gmai...

Strange Stories UK, The Lord Janner sexual abuse cover-up.

15 Jan 2021

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Send us a textWell this is a bit of a ramble, but the main story is how a prominent Leicester MP  Greville Janner had credible allegations of sexual ...

Strange Stories UK, Brides in the Bath, George Smith part 2.

08 Jan 2021

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Send us a textPart 2 of the Brides in the Bath Story. 

Strange Stories UK, Brides in the Bath murders. Part 1.

04 Jan 2021

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Send us a textA murder trial at the Old Bailey in 1915 caused much comment. Thousands of soldiers were being killed on a daily basis while a long comp...

Strange Stories UK, Ghost Story for Christmas 2020

19 Dec 2020

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Send us a textTwo stories from the records of the Society of Physical Research (SPR) investigated by Fred Stratton. There are similarities between the...

Strange Stories UK, The murder of Louise Smith at Leigh Park, Havant.

09 Dec 2020

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Send us a textLockdown in the UK during May 2020. Not a good time for teenagers or the young. Imagine being a sixteen year old teenager having  falle...

Strange Stores UK, The extraordinary story of Brian Donald Hume.

06 Dec 2020

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Send us a textBrian Donald Hume, better known as Donald Hume was a smuggler, bank robber, murderer and successful businessman.  His life story is qui...

Strange Stories UK, The Florence Maybrick trial.

22 Nov 2020

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Send us a textThe Florence Maybrick trial which took place in Liverpool during 1889 is a famous case in which a woman was charged with the murder of h...

Strange Stories UK. A Newhaven murder and an Albanian drug dealer's death.

12 Nov 2020

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Send us a textNewhaven, East Sussex, once a booming light manufacturing town on the coast is now in the doldrums. There is not many opportunities for ...

Strange Stories UK, Halloween 2020, The Ardachie case, the crawling woman.

31 Oct 2020

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Send us a textThis is the third story I have uploaded for Halloween 2020. The other two being the Edgar Vandy case and Rougham mirage. This podcast is...

Strange Stories UK, The Dorset Brehmer/Parry killing. Did the jury get this one wrong?

28 Oct 2020

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Send us a textMay 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 ...

Strange Stories UK : Paranormal Suffolk The Rougham mirage and Kersey time-slip

23 Oct 2020

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Send us a textThe second of the Halloween podcasts for 2020, these are both set in the county of Suffolk. The Rougham mirage and the Kersey time-slip....

Strange Stories UK, The Lewes, Sussex murder of Nicola Stevenson in 2019.

19 Oct 2020

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Send us a textNicola Stevenson was a 39 year old mother who was registered as being disabled. She had moved to Lewes in East Sussex in 2018 and was gi...

Strange Stories UK, The mysterious death of Edgar Vandy.

16 Oct 2020

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Send us a textA rather unusual case here which comes from the journals of the Society of Psychical Research. Edgar Vandy drowned while on a day out wi...

Strange Stories UK Hammersmith murders ,London serial killer, Performance 5

13 Oct 2020

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Send us a textPart 5 of the 'Performance' series. An examination of the Police investigation into a serial killer who targeted female sex wo...

Strange Stories UK, Performance 4, Rolling Stones, Police Corruption, Murder?

07 Oct 2020

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Send us a textThis is the fourth podcast in the series about the background to the film 'Performance'. It is about the Rolling Stones contri...

Strange Stories UK, Performance 2, Litvinoff's Swinging London?

22 Sep 2020

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Send us a textLondon in the 1950s & 60s was changing, the media said it was becoming 'Swinging London'? In reality new elites were chall...

Strange Stories UK, Performance 1, Jimmy Evans, Once upon a time in London

15 Sep 2020

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Send us a textThis is part 1 of a series of podcasts that are based on the British Movie Performance. A film which the film historian David Thompson s...

Strange Stories UK, John Bindon, Princess Margaret, Murder and London. Performance 3.

01 Sep 2020

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Send us a textPerformance was the film made in 1968 where it was said that the Underground met the Underworld. In this podcast we examine the life of ...

Strange Stories UK Rattenbury Stoner murder in Bournemouth

31 Aug 2020

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Send us a text1935 True Crime,  Bournemouth, a female muscian unhappily married has an affair with aToy boy, her husband is a famous architect  and ...

Strange Stories UK The Clapham Murder, Steinie Morrison and anarchism

22 Jul 2020

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Send us a textThis is the last episode of Series 2, we are going back to 31st December 1910. A murder of a Jewish immigrant was thought to be associat...

Strange Stories UK, Ronnie Knight, the murder of Alfredo Zomparelli and consequences.

12 Jul 2020

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Send us a textRonnie Knight is in his 80s now, born in poverty in the East End of London to a family that became a well known criminal family with clo...

Strange Stories UK: Dieppe Raid & Queen Mary paranormal incidents?

07 Jul 2020

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Send us a textTwo possible cases of retrocognition are considered in this podcast, the events both occurred in 1942. The Dieppe raid was possibly &apo...

Strange Stories UK, London Gangs and the murders of Jaden Moodie and Corey Davis Jnr.

17 Jun 2020

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Send us a textThis podcast is about the changing nature of London's street gangs, country lines, increasing violence and how young people are rec...