Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK
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Haunted UK Podcast explores the history, hauntings, folklore, and unexplained events tied to some of the world’s most fascinating places and mysteries. From ancient castles and forgotten tunnels to chilling paranormal encounters, UFO sightings, mysterious disappearances, and strange local legends, each episode blends atmospheric storytelling with real history, eyewitness testimony, and immersive documentary-style narration. Through in-depth research, location visits, interviews with historians, paranormal investigators, and members of staff connected to these remarkable places, Haunted UK Podcast uncovers the stories that continue to linger long after the events themselves have passed into history. Whether standing inside a centuries-old fortress, walking through abandoned underground passageways, or listening to the testimony of someone who experienced something they still can’t explain, every episode asks the same question: What remains behind in certain places… and why do some stories refuse to disappear? So if you ever find yourself visiting one of the locations featured in these episodes, pause for a moment and look around carefully. Because the next unexplained experience… could be yours. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 2d ago

    City of the Dead Tours - Greyfriars Kirkyard - Part 1

    Beneath Edinburgh's Old Town lie underground vaults and graveyards where visitors say they've encountered something they can't explain. In Part One of this two-part Haunted UK Podcast: On the Road interview, we sit down with Jamie Corstorphine, manager of City of the Dead Tours, to find out why Edinburgh has earned its reputation as one of Britain's most haunted cities. Jamie has spent years guiding visitors through Edinburgh's darkest corners, and here he takes us into the history of Greyfriars Kirkyard, one of Scotland's most famous graveyards, shaped by centuries of plague, poverty, and public execution. We hear about the Covenanters' Prison hidden within its walls, an unexpected piece of Greyfriars trivia involving a flag once flown over the White House, and Jamie's own take on why some visitors arrive as sceptics and leave convinced something strange is going on. Part One ends right on the edge of Greyfriars' darkest chapter, as Jamie takes us back to 1679 and the aftermath of the Battle of Bothwell Brig. Listen to Part One now, and join us for Part Two as we head underground into the Mackenzie Poltergeist and the South Bridge Vaults. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    City of the Dead Tours - Greyfriars Kirkyard - Part 1

  2. Aug 26

    Episode 80 - The Beast of the A1075

    A lonely road cuts through the darkened landscapes of East Anglia, passing heathland, forest, ancient trackways and places long associated with folklore. But along the A1075, witnesses have reported something far stranger than shadows at the roadside. In this atmospheric investigation, Haunted UK Podcast travels into the eerie borderlands of Norfolk and Suffolk to explore a series of unsettling encounters with large, hair-covered creatures seen near Thetford Forest, Wayland Wood, Peddars Way and the surrounding countryside. From a towering ape-like figure said to have drifted across the road in front of a startled driver, to reports of grey, long-snouted beasts, silent woodland apparitions, and a possible encounter with the legendary Black Shuck, these accounts form a strange and persistent pattern across decades. Rooted in local history, ancient routes, East Anglian folklore and modern witness testimony, this episode examines the stories of those who saw something they could not easily explain - and the lasting fear, confusion and fascination that followed. Featuring research compiled by Edward Oliver, with witness reports edited and inserted by Lucy Spirit, these accounts are presented with permission on behalf of those who came forward to share their experiences. Whether these sightings are misidentified animals, the influence of folklore on lonely night journeys, or something more difficult to define, the mystery of the Beast of the A1075 remains one of East Anglia’s most intriguing roadside legends. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Episode 80 - The Beast of the A1075

  3. Aug 23

    Bonus Episode - The Mothman of Point Pleasant

    A bonus episode arrives ahead of the Season 8 finale, which heads into eastern England's A1075 for years of reported beast sightings there. It got us thinking that cryptids aren't just a British story, so this one leaves the UK behind for one of the best documented cryptid cases anywhere: The Mothman of Point Pleasant. Four young people described it first, on a freezing night in November 1966: six or seven feet tall, grey, wings folded against its back, and eyes that didn't reflect the light but burned. It made the front page of their local paper by the next morning, and what followed over the next year ended in tragedy, inspired a Hollywood film, and left a small town on the Ohio River with a legend it's never shaken. Two young couples driving past an abandoned wartime munitions site watched the creature rise vertically off the ground and keep pace above their car at over a hundred miles an hour. Within two days, two more separate groups nearby described the same grey, winged, red eyed figure, including one that followed a young mother onto her porch. A local reporter took five hundred phone calls in a single weekend, and thirteen months later, tragedy struck the town in a way nobody has ever fully explained. The episode follows the sightings, the writer whose own life turned strange while chasing the story, and the folklore, including the legends wrongly attached to Chernobyl, that grew up around Point Pleasant afterwards. A bonus episode to hold you over before Season 8's last case drops. Listen now. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Bonus Episode - The Mothman of Point Pleasant

  4. Aug 19

    Fright Bites - EP12 - Open Evening & Other Encounters

    An empty college corridor. A supermarket aisle at 2:30 a.m. The top floor of a tired high-rise. A village pub just before closing. In this Fright Bites collection, four listeners share short accounts from ordinary places after dark - the moments when work, routine and familiarity give way to something harder to explain. A teacher sees a silent girl standing at the windows during a sixth form open evening. A night-shift worker finds a customer trolley where no trolley should be. A tenant on the twenty-second floor hears footsteps passing a door with nowhere to go. And in a village pub, a stranger arrives for last orders, takes his usual seat, and leaves behind a full pint. Compact, personal and quietly unsettling, these are brief encounters from the Haunted UK Podcast archive - stories where the ordinary world feels almost unchanged, except for one detail that refuses to fit. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Fright Bites - EP12 - Open Evening & Other Encounters

  5. Aug 12

    S08 - EP09 - Royal Ghosts and Haunted Royals

    Power leaves its mark on the places that hold it. Across royal palaces, castles, chapels, staircases and private chambers, stories have endured of monarchs, queens, servants, soldiers and courtiers who seem unable to leave the world behind. This episode explores some of the most atmospheric royal hauntings from Britain and beyond, from Anne Boleyn’s ghost at the Tower of London, Blickling Hall, Hever Castle and Windsor, to the haunted galleries of Hampton Court Palace, where Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Sybil Penn are said to remain. The journey moves through the darker edges of royal history: the Princes in the Tower, the murder of David Rizzio at Holyroodhouse, the restless spirits of Glamis Castle, the Romanov tragedy, the haunted legacy of Versailles, and ghostly accounts connected to palaces in France, Mexico, China, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and Austria. Blending historical storytelling with witness accounts and enduring folklore, this documentary-style episode asks why royal residences so often become places of haunting. Are these apparitions echoes of trauma, glimpses into the past, or something more personal - a final trace of those who lived, ruled, suffered and died behind palace walls? Episode Written by Melissa West Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    S08 - EP09 - Royal Ghosts and Haunted Royals

  6. Aug 8

    Dark Matters – EP05 – The Ghosts of Tutbury Castle

    Forty grown men, standing in the dark below a ruined tower in Staffordshire, looked up and saw a woman in a pure white Elizabethan gown staring straight back down at them... and every one of them knew instantly it couldn't be a member of staff. This is the story of Tutbury Castle, one of Britain's most haunted locations, and the strange, decades-spanning case for what's still walking its grounds. Tutbury held Mary, Queen of Scots prisoner across four separate stays, and she's said to haunt it still, seen sprinting across open grass at impossible speed by an off-duty Royal Marine in 1984, spotted by archaeologists mid-dig, and glimpsed by the castle's own most sceptical staff. Then there's Ellie, a child spirit in the King's Bedroom who tugs at visitors' fingers one by one, and the Keeper, an armoured figure at John of Gaunt's Gateway still telling people to "get thee hence." Over 250 sightings have been logged since 2000. Now, with the castle closed and its long-serving curator retired, there's nobody left walking those grounds after dark to report back on what's still there. Hear the full case for yourself in this episode of Dark Matters. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Dark Matters – EP05 – The Ghosts of Tutbury Castle

  7. Aug 5

    The Witness Files - Case 06 - The Graythwaite Apparitions

    An empty hotel bar after a wedding. A man in a bowler hat with a sherry glass. And a second apparition seen months later by a guest with no knowledge of the first. When Rob began working at Graythwaite Manor in Grange-over-Sands, he knew little of the hotel’s history. One night, while closing the bar after a wedding, he glanced across the room and saw a man seated in the bay window — calm, silent, and dressed in a bowler hat. Seconds later, the figure was gone. What might have been dismissed as a fleeting mistake became harder to explain when the hotel’s owner revealed a detail from its past: the bar had once been the drawing room of the manor’s original owner, a retired banker from Bradford known locally for wearing a bowler hat. Months later, another wedding brought another sighting. This time, a bridesmaid at breakfast saw what appeared to be a maid in traditional dress approaching the dining room — only for her to vanish before the order could be taken. In this case from The Witness Files, one former hotel worker recalls two quiet but striking apparitions inside a Cumbrian manor house: encounters that suggest some buildings remain occupied long after their guests have gone. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Witness Files - Case 06 - The Graythwaite Apparitions

  8. Aug 4

    Stuck in the Elevator - A Patreon and Kofi Round Up

    The host walks into a lift, and the lift promptly breaks it. What follows is a very overdue apology: months, in some cases the better part of a year, of Patreon and Ko-fi support that's never been properly thanked out loud, on the show, until now. Trapped between floors with nothing but tinny elevator music playing, the host works through every tier of supporter, by name, from the Totally Tormented tier all the way down to the fleeting Apparition tier. Dozens of names get read aloud, several with their own running jokes, as thanks for keeping a small independent paranormal show on the air. If you've ever wondered whether your support actually gets noticed, this is the answer. Press play to hear your name, and find out how to end up in the lift next time. Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, leave us a rating, and drop a review. It really helps the show reach more listeners. Here's where to find more: Support the show: Patreon (patreon.com/hauntedukpodcast) | Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/hauntedukpodcast) Follow us: Instagram @hauntedukpodcast | TikTok @hauntedukpodcast | X @hauntedukpod Website: https://hauntedukpodcast.com/ Produced by Pink Flamingo Sound Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Stuck in the Elevator - A Patreon and Kofi Round Up
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Haunted UK Podcast explores the history, hauntings, folklore, and unexplained events tied to some of the world’s most fascinating places and mysteries. From ancient castles and forgotten tunnels to chilling paranormal encounters, UFO sightings, mysterious disappearances, and strange local legends, each episode blends atmospheric storytelling with real history, eyewitness testimony, and immersive documentary-style narration. Through in-depth research, location visits, interviews with historians, paranormal investigators, and members of staff connected to these remarkable places, Haunted UK Podcast uncovers the stories that continue to linger long after the events themselves have passed into history. Whether standing inside a centuries-old fortress, walking through abandoned underground passageways, or listening to the testimony of someone who experienced something they still can’t explain, every episode asks the same question: What remains behind in certain places… and why do some stories refuse to disappear? So if you ever find yourself visiting one of the locations featured in these episodes, pause for a moment and look around carefully. Because the next unexplained experience… could be yours. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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