Strange Stories UK
Episodes
Strange Stories UK, The Murder of Jodie Chesney
01 Jun 2020
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Send us a textJodie Chesney was a teenager in her last year at sixth form college doing her A levels. It was a Friday night in March 2019, hanging wit...
Strange Stories UK. The truth of Borley rectory and Harry Price part 2
15 May 2020
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Send us a textAlthough Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and t...
Strange Stories UK The truth of Borley rectory and Harry Price. Part 1.
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAlthough Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and t...
Strange Stories UK, Nicholas Van Hoogstraten Part 2
05 May 2020
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Send us a textPart 2 of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten podcast. Please listen to Part 1 before listening to this podcast.
Strange Stories UK, Nicholas Van Hoogstraten Part 1
04 May 2020
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Send us a textNicolas Van Hoogstraten. Ruthless businessman, narcissistic tycoon, dangerous gangster or pantomime villain. This story is something of ...
Strange Stories UK, Two Brighton Murders, pointless and for no reason.
17 Apr 2020
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Send us a textTwo pointless deaths in Brighton carried out by members of the same family in Brighton. The Weaver family who had a reputation and were ...
Strange Stories UK, An Adventure, Versailles time, slip part 2
07 Apr 2020
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Send us a textThis is Part 2 of An Adventure. Part 1 of An Adventure, Versailles time slip tells of perhaps the best known example of retrocogniti...
Strange Stories UK, An Adventure, Versailles time slip, part 1
02 Apr 2020
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Send us a textPart 1, this describes Perhaps the best known example of retrocognition, ' An Adventure' was a best selling book in 1911 descr...
Strange Stories Uk , Herbert Armstrong.Hay on Wye poisoner
24 Mar 2020
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Send us a textOne of the famous English poison murders happened 100 years ago, an age when George Orwell said the stories of certain murders gave pl...
Strange Stories UK, The murder of Barbara Gaul.
10 Mar 2020
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Send us a textBarbara Gaul was murdered with a shotgun blast in the car park of the Black Lion hotel, which is virtually the first building you come a...
Strange Stories UK Paranormal episode: Aberfan, St Ives and Newhaven (East Sussex)
02 Mar 2020
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Send us a textThree stories, none long enough to justify a full episode, none that unsettling, but all have a certain interest. The first tells of peo...
Strange Stories UK Bernie Silver, The 'Epsom salts' and the murder of Tommy Smithson
26 Feb 2020
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Send us a textProstitution and vice in London was controlled by Maltese gangsters after World War 2, a trade considered dishonourable at the time by t...
Strange Stories UK , Frederick Seddon of Finsbury Park, London.
16 Feb 2020
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Send us a textThis is now a forgotten murder and a possible miscarriage of justice from 1911. It was a famous case of the time and featured in George ...
Strange Stories UK. Jean McConville, The ‘Unknowns’ and Gerry Adams
25 Jan 2020
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Send us a textNorthern Ireland 1972, a mother of 10 goes missing, she was abducted from her home in front of her 10 children. She was never seen again...
Strange Stories UK Jane Longhurst murder and the dangers of internet pornography
13 Jan 2020
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Send us a textBrighton 2003. Jane Longhurst, music teacher went missing and was later found murdered partly as a result of internet pornography. T...
Strange Stories UK Midsomer murder at Bosham, Valerie Graves Murder.
05 Jan 2020
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Send us a textDecember 29 2013. A woman was murdered while house sitting with her family. She was murdered during the night while people slept in a ...
Strange Stories UK , Ghost Story for Christmas 2019
20 Dec 2019
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Send us a textThree ghost stories for Christmas. The first two are cases of retrocognition, The first case at Man Sands beach at South Devon, the seco...
Strange Stories UK The Abdul Deghayes story, extremism and death in Brighton.
11 Dec 2019
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Send us a textThe Deghayes family moved to the Brighton area in the late 1980s, a young family with children wanting to make a new start away from the...
Strange Stories UK, Neville Heath, deadly ex RAF playboy.
19 Nov 2019
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Send us a textIt was the summer of 1946 when the charming but deadly ex RAF playboy Neville Heath shocked the British public with the brutality of his...
Strange Stories UK, The Cheltenham ghost aka The Morton hauntings.
30 Oct 2019
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Send us a textThe Morton ghost, later known as the Cheltenham ghost is said to be one of the best records of an apparitional haunting on record. It wa...
Strange Stories UK, Fred Bywaters & Edith Thompson. The Ilford murder.
20 Oct 2019
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Send us a textA famous case in UK legal history. Edith Thompson a modern young woman, made the mistake of marrying young to her first boyfriend. The n...
Strange Stories UK Albanian drug gangs in Brighton and the UK.
07 Oct 2019
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Send us a textThe country with the highest cocaine use is Albanian with 2.5% of the population using the drug. Scotland is runner up and England and W...
Strange Stories UK , The adventures of the unfortunate Ronald True.
22 Sep 2019
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Send us a textRonald True from troubled childhood to a liability and hinderance during a world war to an eccentric character to his male friends but...
Strange Stories UK, Harold Wilson plots to overthrow his government
07 Sep 2019
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Send us a textHarold Wilson was prime minister for the UK in the 1960/70s. There was a mildly socialist programme that was being implemented. There wa...
Strange Stories UK Bernard Spilsbury, the Sussex murders The Crumbles and Crowborough.
31 Jul 2019
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Send us a textA podcast looking at different sides to the forensic pathologist Bernard Spilsbury, a brilliant pathologist but maybe lacking in humanit...
Strange Stories UK Lucy McHugh murder part 2
20 Jul 2019
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Send us a textStephen Nicholson an unskilled scratcher / tattooist who preyed on young girls offering them body art in return for sex. He stood trial ...
Strange Stories UK Lucy McHugh murder part 1
03 Jul 2019
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Send us a textThis is a trial taking place now. June/July 2019. the trial is perhaps half way through. It is claimed that less than 5% of males are pe...
Strange Stories UK, Hove Crown Court Incident
25 Jun 2019
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Send us a textIt is June 2019. There is a rape trial being held at Hove Crown Court. A rape having taken place in the January of that year by a plasti...
Strange Stories Uk Undercover Police UK
05 Jun 2019
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Send us a textAre you being spied on by the UK Undercover police? You may think because you have no police record that this could not be the case, but...
Strange Stories UK , The murder of Allan Chappelow
20 May 2019
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Send us a textAllan Chappelow, a forgotten author who had no close family or friends was found dead under a pile of paper at his crumbling house at Ha...
Strange Stories UK, The Ghost Club and the Society for Psychical Research.
08 May 2019
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Send us a textThe Ghost Club and The Society for Psychical Research were organisations that started in the same year 1882 in London. They were both cr...
Strange Stories UK , Sex games gone wrong, the Christina Abbotts murder.
30 Apr 2019
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Send us a textSpring 2018, Crawley UK. A young woman found murdered in a flat she was looking after for a friend. A secret life emerged to friends and...
Corrupt London part 2 paedophilic activity
21 Apr 2019
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Send us a textPart 2 of paedophilic activity in London. We concentrate here on three main strands. The activities of Roger Gleaves and Sidney Cooke wh...
Strange Stories UK, Corruption in London, part 1
06 Apr 2019
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Send us a textThis episode has been inspired by the book by Anthony Daly, 'Playland' secrets of a forgotten scandal. Playland refers to a ho...
Strange Stories UK, Witchcraft, human sacrifice and child trafficking in London, today
26 Mar 2019
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Send us a text21 Sept 2001, a torso of a young boy found in the Thames caused an investigation into the hidden world of African witchcraft taking plac...
Strange Stories UK Aimee Spencer podcast
15 Mar 2019
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Send us a textAimee Spencer was a larger than life character, a modern woman who took on the world on her terms. One of her friends was Daniel Lewis, ...
Strange Stories UK, Rats in Britain according to Buckland and Mayhew
27 Feb 2019
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Send us a textAn examination of some aspects of the history of the rat in Britain according to Frank Buckland and Henry Mayhew, Victorian scientists...
Loch Ness podcast
21 Feb 2019
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Send us a textA sideways look at the Loch Ness Mystery, an examination of some of the characters involved in the story and some possible candidates ...
Shana Grice A Sussex stalking story
09 Feb 2019
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Send us a textShana Grice was a teenager living independently in Brighton. A work colleague became infatuated by her and started stalking. Shana asked...
Strange Stories UK Robert Trigg from Worthing
30 Jan 2019
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Send us a textDrunken domestic violence in Worthing West Sussex. Robert Trigg played the dating game but was the date you did not want. Charming compa...
Strange Stories UK The Baccarat scandal
25 Jan 2019
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Send us a textEdward Prince of Wales is staying at Tranby Croft while attending the horse racing at Doncaster during September 1890. His entourage are...
Strange Stories UK Alfred Rouse The burning car murder.
17 Jan 2019
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Send us a textLondon 1930. A man who had many lovers decides to disappear. He chooses a victim to kill as if it himself that has died in order to en...
Strange Stories UK, Gaia Pope
07 Jan 2019
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Send us a textGaia Pope was a talented teenager from a loving family who lived in a quiet Dorset village. She became a victim of a sexual pervert she ...
Strange Stories UK , Dr. Bodkin Adams.
02 Jan 2019
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Send us a textJohn Bodkin Adams was accused of being one of the greatest mass murderers in history. Was this doctor practicing in the South coast town...
Strange Stories UK , A Christmas Ghost story 2018.
23 Dec 2018
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Send us a textStrange Stories UK. Two Ghost stories, one I experienced and another told to me. These are not Hammer Horror stories and probably have a...
Strange Stories UK, Babes in the Brighton wood murder
19 Dec 2018
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Send us a textOctober 1986 two nine year old girls are found murdered in a wooded park in Brighton, UK. There is a suspect who is charged but found no...
Strange Stories UK David Kelly's strange death and reasons for the invasion of Iraq.
13 Dec 2018
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Send us a textWhy did a scientist die in a wood in Oxfordshire? Was it suicide or was he murdered? I seems certain that secret police were involved an...
Strange Stories UK Historic Sex Crimes in Brighton.
28 Nov 2018
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Send us a textBrighton, a GAY friendly party town in the 1980s where some sexual predators took advantage of vulnerable young men.
Strange Stories UK, Satanism in Sussex
21 Nov 2018
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Send us a textThere was a Satanism scare in Britain during the late 1970s and 1980s. This is an aspect of what was happening in Sussex during the 1980...
Strange Stories UK, The Cartland murder
13 Nov 2018
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Send us a textSpring 1973, an unsolved murder case that caused no end of speculation, criticism of the French police and diplomatic manoeuvring to fud...
Strange Stories UK , When country lines goes wrong.
29 Oct 2018
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Send us a textMax and Ace, young and inexperienced, thought they would make some easy money moving from South London to sell drugs in the Sussex marke...
Strange Stories UK Piltdown man and Charles Dawson
23 Oct 2018
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Send us a textThe most famous fossil forgery and archaeological fraud was Piltdown man, this is an examination into Charles Dawson who I think was res...
Strange Stories UK, Folkestone Poltergeist
15 Oct 2018
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Send us a textA true story set during world war 1 on the Kent coastline where poltergeist activity was thought to be taking place. The army commisio...
Strange Stories UK, Midlife crisis, UK true crime.
08 Oct 2018
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Send us a textUK true crime case from 2016. A story involving infatuation and murder on the South coast of Sussex.