Astonishing
Astonishing is a UK-based podcast which tells incredible and peculiar stories on a bi-weekly schedule. What happened to a famous crime author when she disappeared for 11 days? What terrorised Victorian society on the dark and foggy streets of London? How did the testimony of one little girl change the meaning of the word 'witch' forever? In each episode we will dive into a new story which will have you questioning 'Is life stranger than fiction?'
Produced and presented by Tom Hamilton.
Written by Ben Taylor.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2022
The Enfield Haunting
When an invisible entity attacked the Hodgson family in the late 1970s, subjecting them to violent and disturbing attacks, the experience left scars that would last for decades. But a closer inspecti…
The Pendle Witch Trials
In 1612, a young woman took to the stand in the court of Lancaster Castle where she calmly and shrewdly gave testimony which would lead to the conviction and death of ten members of her local communi…
The Big Cats Of Britain
For centuries, eyewitnesses have reported cat-like creatures prowling the countryside of Great Britain, while farmers tell of livestock torn apart by wild beasts. Are these stories flights of fancy, …
Missing: Agatha Christie!
On the morning of the 4th December 1926, a car was found abandoned in Newlands Corner, a nature reserve just east of Guildford, Surrey. The car belonged to Agatha Christie who, following an argument …
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
In the early hours of the 26th December 1980, three US Air Force patrolmen were following the path of what they thought to be a downed aeroplane through the dense woods of Rendlesham Forest. They app…
The Flannan Isles Mystery
During severe storms that battered the islands of the Outer Hebrides in December 1900, three lighthouse keepers, James Ducat, Thomas Marshall and Donald MacArthur vanished without a trace from their …