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.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 230
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Strange Stories UK, Nicholas Van Hoogstraten Part 1
Nicolas Van Hoogstraten. Ruthless businessman, narcissistic tycoon, dangerous gangster or pantomime villain. This story is something of a ramble and has a bit of everything, murder, con…
Strange Stories UK, Two Brighton Murders, pointless and for no reason.
Two pointless deaths in Brighton carried out by members of the same family in Brighton. The Weaver family who had a reputation and were well known by the police. Murders that happened f…
Strange Stories UK, An Adventure, Versailles time, slip part 2
This is Part 2 of An Adventure. Part 1 of An Adventure, Versailles time slip tells of perhaps the best known example of retrocognition. An Adventure was a book telling of the experien…
Strange Stories UK, An Adventure, Versailles time slip, part 1
Part 1, this describes Perhaps the best known example of retrocognition, ' An Adventure' was a best selling book in 1911 describing the experience of two women that visited Versailles a…
Strange Stories Uk , Herbert Armstrong.Hay on Wye poisoner
One of the famous English poison murders happened 100 years ago, an age when George Orwell said the stories of certain murders gave pleasure to the British public. This is one of the p…
Strange Stories UK, The murder of Barbara Gaul.
Barbara Gaul was murdered with a shotgun blast in the car park of the Black Lion hotel, which is virtually the first building you come across when entering Brighton on the A23 road from…
Strange Stories UK Paranormal episode: Aberfan, St Ives and Newhaven (East Sussex)
Three stories, none long enough to justify a full episode, none that unsettling, but all have a certain interest. The first tells of people that had premonitions of the Aberfan disaster…
Strange Stories UK Bernie Silver, The 'Epsom salts' and the murder of Tommy Smithson
Prostitution and vice in London was controlled by Maltese gangsters after World War 2, a trade considered dishonourable at the time by the home grown villains. The Messina family
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Strange Stories UK , Frederick Seddon of Finsbury Park, London.
This 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 Orwell's essay 'Decline of the English murder' wh…
Strange Stories UK. Jean McConville, The ‘Unknowns’ and Gerry Adams
Northern 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. Jean McConville was the widowed mother who was…
Strange Stories UK Jane Longhurst murder and the dangers of internet pornography
Brighton 2003. Jane Longhurst, music teacher went missing and was later found murdered partly as a result of internet pornography. The accused came to think of his desires as normal a…
Strange Stories UK Midsomer murder at Bosham, Valerie Graves Murder.
December 29 2013. A woman was murdered while house sitting with her family. She was murdered during the night while people slept in a wealthy out of the way coastal retreat . It looked…
Strange Stories UK , Ghost Story for Christmas 2019
Three ghost stories for Christmas. The first two are cases of retrocognition, The first case at Man Sands beach at South Devon, the second at Boscastle Cornwall. The third story is at W…
Strange Stories UK The Abdul Deghayes story, extremism and death in Brighton.
The 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 dictatorship of Gaddafi in Libya. The family did…
Strange Stories UK, Neville Heath, deadly ex RAF playboy.
It was the summer of 1946 when the charming but deadly ex RAF playboy Neville Heath shocked the British public with the brutality of his murders. Certainly Heath was a narcissistic char…
Strange Stories UK, The Cheltenham ghost aka The Morton hauntings.
The Morton ghost, later known as the Cheltenham ghost is said to be one of the best records of an apparitional haunting on record. It was first published in the proceedings of the Socie…
Strange Stories UK, Fred Bywaters & Edith Thompson. The Ilford murder.
A famous case in UK legal history. Edith Thompson a modern young woman, made the mistake of marrying young to her first boyfriend. The new husband was about to be sent to France to figh…
Strange Stories UK Albanian drug gangs in Brighton and the UK.
The country with the highest cocaine use is Albanian with 2.5% of the population using the drug. Scotland is runner up and England and Wales, on 2.25%, just miss out on third place to t…
Strange Stories UK , The adventures of the unfortunate Ronald True.
Ronald True from troubled childhood to a liability and hinderance during a world war to an eccentric character to his male friends but a controlling bully to the females he knew. True …
Strange Stories UK, Harold Wilson plots to overthrow his government
Harold Wilson was prime minister for the UK in the 1960/70s. There was a mildly socialist programme that was being implemented. There was plotting against Wilson from inside his own par…