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
258 episodes
Strange Stories : Eva C, Margery and Stella C séances & scandals investigated by the SPR
This podcast will be niche. It is an in depth assessment about the Society of Psychical Research’s investigations into three famous mediums of the 1920s. Eva C., also known as Marthe Béraud or Eva Carrière, and Mina Crandon, better known as Mar...
Strange Stories UK. The 2025 murder of Karen Carter in the Dordogne.
Something a little different in this podcast, an unsolved murder in the Dordogne. Karen Carter was murdered in April 2025 at her home in a small French village. A couple of months earlier a British couple were killed about 100n kms away and the...
Strange Stories UK : The Wimbledon car crash of 6 July 2023 mystery.
This is a curious case. July 2023, a car mounts a pavement and crashes into a school injuring a number of people and killing two 8 year old girls who were all standing on a lawn in the school grounds. There seems to be a news blackout after ini...
Strange Stories UK: The missing boys of South London. What happened to Kevin Hicks?.
During the 1980s there were at least 10 pre-teenage and teenage boys that went missing from South London. This podcast is a reflection on what may have happened to them, the focal point is the case of Kevin Hicks who went missing on Sunda...
Strange Stories UK: Richmond, Surrey. A fatal stabbing, unnoticed during a family argument.
July 1966. A Labour government in trouble, America getting bogged down in a foreign war and England winning a world cup, Are there Parallels with July 2026? This case is long forgotten today from Richmond, Surrey. The sons from the ...
Strange Stories UK: Society of Psychical Research investigations 1919-1922.
A selection of Society of Psychical Research investigations 1919-1922 get a mention and brief analysis.Lord Rayleigh's presidential address. Arthur Conan Doyle, Veronica Laparelli, Hereward Carrington, The Swanton Novers poltergeis...
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...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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 ?
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...
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 ...