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
274 episodes
Strange Stories UK. Manchester and the Bennell blemish
This episode examines the seperate crimes of Ronald Bennell and Barry Bennell, two members of the same family whose offences became part of Manchester’s criminal history. Ronald Bennell was convicted on two separate occasions 15 year...
Strange Stories UK: Deaths in Middlesborough, what are we not being told?
Following events in Middlesborough last weekend, on the lunch time news today, Friday 28 August, it seems that trouble continues. I wanted to understand what was going on so put this short podcast together. This was made in two hours so not a v...
Strange Stories: Music, Misfits and Murder, Chelsea on the eve of the Swinging Sixties
This is a bit of a ramble about Chelsea, London in 1962. Rolling Stones and the Beatles get a mention as does the Kings Road and a murder.
Strange Stories UK: Jason Arday is dead, is anyone to blame?
This is a short podcast after the sad news that Jason Arday was found dead yesterday, Friday 14 August 2026. As I have made a couple of podcasts on the Arday affair, I thought I would make some final comments.This matter is not going to ...
Strange Stories: Jason Arday 2: How was he appointed at Cambridge University?
This is another podcast concerning the Jason Arday affair at Cambridge University. Although so much has been posted on the subject I was concerned that those involved in Arday’s appointment had not been widely made. I thought I would name them ...
Strange Stories UK: Jason Arday and the failure of the University of Cambridge.
I have read this story in the news reports today and felt like making a podcast on it. It concerns a Critical Race theory sociologist who was appointed a professor at the University of Cambridge. The person was Jason Arday and he had not been t...
Strange Stories UK: The Strange Case of Michele Lupo.
The Michele Lupo case is the story of a serial killer and also a window into the mid 1980s London of High Society and High fashion. Also of the London GAY community during the AIDS crisis. The whole story will never be told as some influential ...
Strange Stories : The Peter B's, Fleetwood Mac and the Cobham Apparition
The Peter B's, Fleetwood Mac and the Cobham Apparition explores one of Britain's most unusual ghost stories. In November 1965, four young musicians—including future Fleetwood Mac founders Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood—reported seeing a ...
Strange Stories UK: Tattooing people and Stories from the UK.
Some offbeat stories about tattooing in the UK since the late Victorian period up to the modern day. Told in one take outside in the garden, lo fi and with a replacement microphone.
Strange Stories : Double murder at Cadno Farm, Wales.
Ronnie Harries was in his mid twenties, newly married with a baby girl living in rural South Wales, a member of a community where he had lived all his life. How did he think he could kill relatives he called uncle and auntie and take over their...
Strange Stories: Hanwell, London. A forgotten murder.
This is a case you will not be aware of. A forgotten murder. A marriage dispute where a man kills his wife. What is a surprise is the sentence. Recorded in one take in the garden, with no edit, I do not even listen through after recording, so a...
Strange Stories: Belmont Road, Southampton murder.
Belmont road Southampton. Henry Novak was murdered outside number 68 Belmont Road during May 2026. 66 years before this date, there was another murder at 11 Belmont Road. At that time, the UK was a different country, this is the story.Re...
Strange Stories UK: Melanie Hall, Bath unsolved murder 30 years on.
I wanted to post this podcast on the 30th anniversary of the unsolved murder of Melanie Hall on 9 June 1996. I know Bath well having lived there during the 1980s. This is the story of Melanie Hall's disappearance and murder. The police have the...
Strange Stories UK: The ghosts of the Airship R101.
This podcast is based on Eric Dingwall’s private papers that became available to view by the public during October 2025 at London University. It is about the R101 that crashed in October 1930, and resulting seances and investigations into the c...
Strange Stories UK, Henry Nowak, Southampton Murder.
This case has just made national news headlines. It was not widely reported at the time or when the trial started but police worn body cam footage was reminiscent of the Black Lives Matter case when George Floyd Jr restrained by police said he ...
Strange Stories UK: Windrush Men, Marriage and Murder
Windrush Men, Marriage and Murder” examines a series of domestic homicide cases involving Caribbean and African migrants in postwar Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on police files, psychiatric reports, witness statement...
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.