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 Teddington / Richmond London murders.
This is a true life horror story on the banks of the river Thames; set in the days just before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned queen in June 1953. Two teenage girls were murdered as the…
Strange Stories: William Crookes / Florence Cook spiritualism scandal Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two part story.
The William Crookes, Florence Cook affair was the major scandal regarding spiritualism in the UK. Cook was a fraudulent medium, trained by her family…
Strange Stories: William Crookes, Florence Cook Spiritualism scandal.Part 1
This is a well known scandal from the 1870s. Florence Cook one of the best known materialisation mediums of her day had been suspect of fraudulent behaviour (not being genuine). To rest…
Strange Stories: London gangland murder of Jack Buggy.
This is an unsolved murder from May 1967, a shooting in Mayfair, London at a gambling club. No one was convicted but it was to become clear that a fellow gangster was responsible for th…
Strange Stories: Murder at Tarrant Keynston, Dorset. Part 2.
This is part 2 of the story of the murder at Tarrant Keynston.
The podcast is recorded in one take without editing.
Strange Stories : Murder at Tarrant Keynston, Dorset UK. Part 1
This is an unsolved murder, or perhaps two involved murders that happened in an isolated Dorset village about ninety years ago. This podcast is part one, part two will be uploaded with…
Strange Stories: Dorset Murder. Edward Reeves.
A Recent case from 2022. I am not sure if it is county lines but young people and drugs are involved in the murder of a young man in a sleepy Dorset town. The story is a ramble, as all…
Strange Stories: The Canvey Island Monster
This is the first Strange Stories podcast (without the UK). Since I started podcasting in June 2018, I wanted to call my podcast 'Strange Stories'but the name was taken at that time. I …
Strange Stories UK, Clifton Hampden Haunting.
This case was investigated by the Society of Psychical Research (SPR) by Frank Podmore in 1885 and published in the Journal for the SPR in September 1886. It was one of the cases that …
Strange Stories UK, Cleft Chin murder at Hammersmith London.
As it has been three weeks since I posted, I decided to make a podcast, write it and post it as quickly as I could. I did not know what story to make a podcast about but I had some phot…
Strange Stories UK. Daniel Douglas Home, Victorian physical Medium.
Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886). Perhaps the best known physical medium. He was a contemporary of the Fox sisters, it was their rappings that caused the explanation that they were comm…
Strange Stories UK : A Portsmouth murder, Harold Loughans
This podcast is about a murder/killing that happened in Portsmouth during World War 2. Another case that showed the failings of the British legal system. I try to make podcasts about un…
Strange Stories UK: Scandal and death at Piddletrenthide, Dorset.
First of all, I would like to say that although I am still intending putting out a couple of podcasts each month, I am cutting back on producing podcasts for the next six months as I a…
Strange Stories UK: A West Country Haunting.
A West Country Haunted house, as investigated by the SPR during 1887. This would have been one of the cases investigated by Edmund Gurney and others who were working on a book ‘Phantasm…
Strange Stories UK: The Rettendon / Essex Boys Murders part 3
This is part three of the Rettendon / Essex Boys Murders which concludes the Canning Town Crime and corruption series off podcasts. This podcast considers the possible Canning Town conn…
Strange Stories UK: Rettendon 'Essex Boys' murders part 2
In part 2 of these podcasts we examine the possibility of it being Corrupt police or Bernard O'Mahoney, or/and Kenneth Noye being involved in the murders of TTR (Tucker, Tate and Rolfe…
Strange Stories UK: Rettendon 'Essex Boys' murders part 1
This is the first of three podcasts on the Rettendon, aka Essex Boys murders which are to finish off the Canning Town Crime and Corruption series of podcasts.
I go straight into the stor…
Strange Stories UK: Murder or Sudden Death? Winchester to Southampton.
This case dates from May 1979, set in Southampton on the South Coast of the UK. There is an argument between a couple and the woman dies supposedly of strangulation., In this case ther…
Strange Stories UK. Janice Ersser, Garston park, Watford.
A sad and senseless killing of a child crossing her local park after visiting a sweet shop during the school summer holiday . It was a violent and sexual killing.
The seemed totally unp…
Strange Stories UK : Joan Woodhouse, Murder and cover-up at Arundel part 2
This is part 2 of the Joan Woodhouse case of murder at Arundel, Sussex.
Please be advised that this is recorded in one take without editing and there are a couple of intrusive coughs.