Strange Stories UK
true crime, mysteries, strange stories, stories,paranormal, UK, I try to be factual and not give too many opinions. Podcasts are 'low fi' with out any editing.
Episodes
252 episodes
Strange Stories UK Society of Psychical Research investigations 1917 and 1918.
Society of Psychical Research investigations 1917 and 1918.Usual poor narration, warning this is lo-fi, recorded in one take and no editing. There are also mistakes. I call Oliver lodge a physicist when he was a physician. I was consciou...
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Season 9
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Episode 25
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38:00
Strange Stories UK: Not a podcast, an announcement about Podcast Bully, Murder Mile.
Please be advised that this is not a podcast but an announcement.I feel sorry that I have to make this boring and tedious announcement, but I feel I have to stand up to a fellow podcaster who I find an arrogant bully.
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Season 9
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Episode 19
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14:50
Strange Stories UK. Organised Crime in London 1975, murder of Biddy Gold 2
Part 2 of the Biddy Gold murder investigation. Crime gangs, corrupt police, suspicions about Bernie Silvers.Please be advised, recorded in one take without editing.
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Season 9
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Episode 24
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31:08
Strange Stories UK. Organised crime in London 1975, murder of Biddy Gold part 1
1975 was a time of corruption in Central London. There was a power struggle taking place over the vice trade in Soho. The Bernie Silvers led Syndicate was losing control of the area after investigations into corruption had exposed it. Although ...
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Season 9
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Episode 23
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34:36
Strange Stories UK: The Mystery of Alice Williams and June McKechnie
This podcast is about events and a mystery that took place in London during 1950. A very different London than exists today. The story centres on a small cafe in Paddington. Told in one take and without editing.
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Season 9
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Episode 22
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32:47
Strange Stories UK. The Mystery of Sandy Lane, Ham Hill, Somerset.
This 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 Somerset that was investigated by Dingwall. Not much happens and not much is resolved but it has some inter...
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Season 9
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Episode 21
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35:28
Strange Stories UK: Peter Griffiths, Blackburn murderer.
Warning. This episode is not suitable for children. The police files on this case were released to the public in 1924. It tells of a dreadful event in Blackburn during 1948.The podcast is recorded in one take and has no...
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Season 9
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Episode 20
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31:15
Strange Stories UK. Society of Psychical Research investigations during 1915 and 1916
This is another podcast looking at some investigations by the Society of Psychical Research during 1915 and 1916 during World War 1. So not a podcast to interest everyone.This podcast examines some premonition and myt...
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Season 9
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Episode 18
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32:55
Strange Stories UK: A Bloody weekend in Plumstead.
Two murders unconnected within a mile and three days of each other in Plumstead, a district in South East London.This podcast is recorded in one take without editing.
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Season 9
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Episode 17
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37:49
Strange Stories UK : Duke of York, Fitzrovia incident and murder.
Please be advised that the podcast starts after about six minutes when I share with you an accusation made by another podcaster who has called me a disgusting plagiarist.The story when it starts, is a forgotton story about an...
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Season 9
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Episode 16
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35:29
Strange Stories UK :Journal for the Society of Psychical Research, selected stories 1913-14.
I thought I would try something a little different for the podcast during 2026. Each month (in conjunction with the usual podcast content) I shall broadcast a podcast giving selected stories from SPR’s journal as they have been bound together (...
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Season 9
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Episode 15
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40:37
William Hepper of Chelsea and Brighton. painter, spy, BBC employee and child killer.
This is the last podcast of 2025, calling it William Hepper of Chelsea and Brighton. painter, spy, BBC employee and child killer. A case you are unlikely to have ever known about. An unpleasant story, I try not to comment, ple...
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Season 9
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Episode 14
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55:58
Strange Stories UK, Ghost story for Christmas 2025, The Sauchie Case.
Podcast 243 and the number eight Christmas podcast. This case took place in Scotland sixty five years ago over the Christmas period of 1960 in Sauchi, Scotland. Skeptics that studied the case concluded that some of the phenomena reported was ge...
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Season 9
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Episode 13
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56:07
Strange Stories : A Forgotten Newcastle Murder.
This 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. Not so much an exciting story but more of a reflection of the time. Told in one take without editing.
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Season 9
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Episode 12
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29:59
Strange Stories UK: Nora and Judy fall out, Chiswick 1971.
Another 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. Told in one take without editing.
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Season 9
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Episode 11
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30:24
Strange Stories UK: Soho murder and prison. The life of George Pickering
I 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 going on to 1967. The podcast is recorded in a studio that is soundproofed but visited by various cats and do...
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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26:21
Strange Stories UK: Dorothy Wallis, High Holborn.
This is a short podcast just to post something while I am away. Daisy / Dorothy Wallis started a business in High Holborn, central London. She lived a quiet home life with her parents, one wonders who would have wished her harm ?
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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21:08
Strange Stories UK: Chloe and Josh Bashford, Newhaven, Sussex murders
Chloe and Josh Bashford lived at Newhaven with their four children. Their lives were ended by a family friend who killed them for no understandable reason and then claimed diminished responsibility. The killer will be sentenced on 6 Novem...
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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30:16
Strange Stories UK : Halloween 2025, BBC live broadcast of Dene Manor haunting.
This podcast has been produced while I am away, recorded with a borrowed microphone and on a MacBook laptop with which I can't seem to upload any background music. Recorded in one take without editing this is the story off the BBC's first live ...
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Season 9
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Episode 8
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34:09
Strange Stories UK: The Strange Story of John Kealty
John 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 did not end well.
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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30:01
Strange Stories UK: Egon Von Bulow. South London cop killer.
This 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 left him when they went back home. Not an ideal start for him. He grew up anti authoritarian. He shot three...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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33:16
Strange Stories UK: Where British soldiers sacrificed to appease public opinion? Suez.
This case happened in Egypt in 1950, so just about in Living memory. It was a difficult time for British-Egyptian relations. When three soldiers were involved in a murder and tried by a British Court Martial, all politicians tried not to get in...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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28:14
Strange Stories UK : Ghost Club Chronicles part 1
A selection of Ghost Club discussion topics 1902-1913. These include : Haunted bottles, Egyptian mummy curses, Mrs Etta Wreight’s seances, The Glastonbury Cup, Whymper’s pony, The Pickwick mystery and the Dorchester incident. My narration i...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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49:25
Strange Stories: Stephanie Marie and Nimroy Hendricks cases Crawley West Sussex.
Two recent tragic killings from West Sussex. Both preventable, both the result partly of council cuts. These stories are told in one take in lo-fi. Here are the end stories of Stephanie Marie and Nimroy Hendricks, their lives ending just as the...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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31:36
Strange Stories : The Reverend Davidson of Stiffkey
The story of Reverend Davidson, the vicar of Stiffkey dominated the newspapers in the early 1930s. This is the story.The Lion and Albert, By Stanley Holloway was a comic monologue inspired by actual events they had heard about ...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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39:13