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: Southport Stabbings Cover Up part 2
This is the third and final podcast on the Southport Stabbings from 29 July last year. The most shocking crime committed in the UK that I can ever recall. This is a consideration of una…
Strange Stories UK: Southport Stabbings Cover up part 1
This short podcast is part one, about the cover up by the authorities over the Southport Stabbings and murders.
I like many others feel upset and let down by the authorities about the …
Strange Stories UK: Hackney (London) and Upper Mayfield (Derbyshire) hauntings
Two interesting cases that both went to the law courts in some ways trying to prove that ghosts exist. The first case was in Hackney, East London in 1967, the second was in Derbyshire i…
Strange Stories: Maidenhead, tramping and Murder in 1948.
A little Social and Economic history and a murder in Maidenhead during 1948.
This podcast is told in one take without editing.
Strange Stories: A Double Devon murder, Plymouth 1994
A case probably long forgotton and not much publicised at the time. The information has been sourced from police records and primary sources.
An unpleasant double murder from thirty yea…
Strange Stories : Ghost storey for Christmas 2024. Raynham Hall, Norfolk.
It was at Raynham Hall that what is known as the most famous photograph of a ghost was taken. The background to the photograph being taken was the chaotic family history of the Townshen…
Strange Stories UK. Bournemouth Beach murder of Amie Gray, part 1
This case is being heard at Winchester Crown Court during December 2024. Amie Gray was murdered by Nasen Saadi on Bournemouth Beach as he was curious to known what it would be like to k…
Strange Stories UK: Joe Martin, the drunken bully who liked guns.
London 1960. East London, petty criminals playing with guns.
Warning: This podcast is lo-fi without editing. There is animal noise in the background.
Strange stories. Halloween 2024: some cases briefly considered, Buried Treasure at Glastonbury Abbey?
All Hallows Eve 2024. There is a brief examination of nine cases. These include the cases of Mr Moss and Mr Munnings and the medium Blanche Cooper. The SPR investigator Guy Lambert was …
Strange Stories: Chris Kaba Shooting, London 2022
This case was heard in court this month, October 2024, the media reported on the case which caused much interest, an unarmed black male being shot by an armed police officer in London. …
Strange Stories : The Sea Serpent part 2, sightings, globsters and possible mistaken creatures.
Sea serpents part 2. This podcasts will consider some well known sea serpent sightings and globsters and also consider some creatures that may have been mistaken for sea serpents.
As alw…
Strange Stories : Sea Serpents part 1, setting the scene.
This is the first of three podcasts on sea serpent sightings over the centuries and theories given for these sightings from a mainly British viewpoint. This podcast concentrates on th…
Strange Stories: Alistair Wilson murder, Nairn, Scotland.
A well known unsolved murder from 2004 when a 30 year old banker who worked for HBOS, Alistair Wilson was shot on the doorstep of his home on a Sunday evening. There are lots of theorie…
Strange Stories: Double murder at Gravesend, Kent.
This horrific and little known incident which resulted in the death of two 16 year old children who had been been to church in 1961 at Gravesend. The story is unpleasant but serves as a…
Strange Stories: Brilliant Chang, Eddie Manning, Freda Kempton and other stories.
Brilliant Chang, Eddie Manning, Freda Kempton and other stories. Moral Panics in the UK after WW1 made these characters well known to the British Public. These and other stories, mainly…
White Slavery moral panics and the first celebrity drug death in the UK
This is the second podcast setting the scene to examine crime gangs active in the UK between the two world wars.
This rambling podcast is about the fear of white slavery and the first ce…
Strange Stories: Drugging the UK, how drugs were introduced to the UK.
This is the first of a series of podcasts regarding some incidents in the UK (London) that took place 100 years ago and caused a 'moral panic'. This first podcast tells of how drugs, (c…
Strange Stories: The Leicester Square Incident August 2024.
I have put this short podcast together on Wednesday evening, a couple of days since an incident in Leicester Square which saw a young girl randomly stabbed. The 11 year old girl was vis…
Strange Stories : The Southport Stabbings. What we know after Day 1.
This is a short podcast as a response to the Southport stabbings. What we know after Day 1.
Strange Stories : Newcastle, The one Armed Bandit, 'Get Carter' murder
Quite a complicated story which I have tried to simplify. This is a well known case in the North East, still just about in living memory (1967). It is a case of miscarriage of justice, …