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: The Brighton Tragedy of Sue Addis. Lockdown 2021.
In January 2021 there was news reported that shocked the people of Brighton and Hove. Prominent and popular businesswoman Sue Addis was stabbed and killed in the bath while at home. Thi…
Strange Stories : Southampton skinhead murder.
This is a story that has not really been told with any accuracy before. Feckless youth struggling to find an identity, wanting to prove their worth to the skinhead group they identify w…
Strange Stories : Sold for a farthing, a story of a sparrow.
This a shorter and quirkier podcast than usual. I read a book which moved me and I wanted to make a podcast about it. It is essentially about the life of a sparrow.
I suppose most of u…
Strange Stories, Ghost Story for Christmas 2023: Hinton Ampner and a couple of Yorkshire hauntings.
The first haunting considered is that of Hinton Ampner, then the podcast moves onto the East Riding and West ridings of Yorkshire for further cases of supposed paranormal activity.
The P…
Strange Stories UK, Ten Days at Winchester Crown Court, Nov 2023.
This is the first episode of Season 7. I spent a couple of weeks at Winchester Crown Court watching a few cases. There was a murder trial in Court 1, a stabbing on the Isle of Wight, th…
Strange Stories UK: The Messiter mystery, a Southampton murder.
This podcast has a dog snoring throughout, some cats make an appearance but dont seem to have any audio affects. The window is open so warning there may be some crow or frog noise.
Anyh…
Strange Stories UK: Halloween 2023, Stories from 1923 Society of Physic research records.
Hello Anybody reading this. This podcast is regarding some stories as reported in the Society of Physical Research (SPR) records for 1923. The SPR tended not to report on ghost type sto…
Strange Stories : William Burkitt, the king of the serial killers.
Please don't get too excited by the title of this podcast. By definition, Burkitt was a serial killer whose killing area was Hull, but I think that the nickname 'The King of the Serial …
Strange Stories UK: Pirate Radio, Top pop tunes and murder on the North Sea.
Episode 165:
Reg Calvert was a family man who got involved in the pop music scene in the early 1960s and through chance became involved with Pirate radio. He was a person that made thin…
Strange Stories UK: Ladock, Cornwall. Madness and murder
This is a podcast about Cornwall in 1959, a strange and sad double murder that seems to have been forgotten about.
I am thinking that my microphone needs replacing which won't happen un…
Strange Stories UK: Krays 2, Bob Boothby, Ronnie Kray and Bacon Bonce.
Part 2 of the untold Kray stories. This tells of the corruption that resulted from the sexual interests of Ronnie Kray who was a predatory homosexual paedophile who corrupted others inc…
Strange Stories UK: The Krays One (part 2) The True Story regarding affray and murder at Catford.
This is the second part of the podcast about a shoot out and affray at a club in Catford during March 1966.
This podcast is not really about the Krays but an incident that finished their…
Strange Stories UK: The Krays 1: The true story of affray and murder at Catford. Part One.
I have had the intention of doing some podcasts on the Kray gang for some time. As the story has been so well told and so well known I am concentrating on some background and lesser kno…
Strange Stories Uk: Hells Angels fall out in Yorkshire UK during 1975.
Four chapters of Hells Angels meet in a Yorkshire pub in Normanton and start drinking heavily. What could possibly go wrong? The crime is not a mystery and this is more of a period pie…
Strange Stories : The Ghosts of Preston Park, Brighton.
Hello Anybody reading this, the first 12 minutes of the podcast is background on Preston Manor, is is quite complicated and listening back I have to concentrate, so maybe you could ski…
Strange Stories UK: The Monster of Margate.
This story dates back to August 1965 and events between then and 2014. I have called this episode the Margate Monster referring to Alan Houchin who served ten years for murder was then…
Strange Stories UK, Al Watson and Ruby Roberts.
The Sussex town of Worthing had the misfortune to have Al Watson move there in 1964 after finishing his latest prison sentence. Watson was a delusional and incompetent criminal who was …
Strange stories UK, A double murder at Aldington, Kent. 1961.
This episode is quite a remarkable story, I said in the pod that it could have been the plot of an Ian McEwan novel.
We go back to 1961 to examine a double murder at Aldington, Kent. I…
Strange Stories UK. A knifing in Eastbourne.
This is another short podcast about a story long forgotten. It is a sad story set in Eastbourne, a seaside town in Sussex during 1949. The story is told in lo-fi.
Strange stories UK: The Old Curiosity Shop Murder, Arundel, Sussex.
This is a short, straight forward case of a murder from 1944 taken from Police records. Nobody will remember a case that has faded from memory. I intend to post a few more short forgott…