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. 1d ago

    Factual Supernatural - EP05 - Mandy

    Jonathan Frank Tate spent years in security operations, the military, and private contracting, but it's his time as Warden for Newborough and Llanddwyn on Anglesey that gives this account its setting. His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered. No footsteps, no growl, no chase, just a small, familiar dog trotting happily through the pines at midnight, exactly as she'd always looked, hundreds of miles from the house where she should have been sleeping. This is Mandy. Tate spent years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn after dark, along paths worn by animals rather than people, in a landscape where centuries-old storms buried a royal court beneath the dunes. On a calm, clear night deep in the forest, Tate spots movement among the trees: a small spaniel with reddish fur, moving happily through the undergrowth. He recognises her at once as Mandy, his grandmother's dog, a dog he hadn't seen in months while working in North Wales, hundreds of miles from her home in London. She looks exactly as she always had, relaxed and pleased, moving with total confidence through a forest she has no business being in. She glances back at him once, then carries on between the trees until the dark swallows her completely. The next day, Tate learns that Mandy died peacefully at his grandparents' house in London during the night, at almost exactly the same time he saw her. Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon. 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.

    Factual Supernatural - EP05 - Mandy

  2. 5d ago

    Dark Matters - EP07 - The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

    In the summer of 1988, a small South Carolina town found itself chasing a seven foot, scaled creature with red eyes, and the strangest part of the whole case is that the only real evidence anyone ever produced was a terrified seventeen year old boy who passed a police polygraph test. This episode of Dark Matters heads to Scape Ore Swamp, near Bishopville in Lee County, for the story of the Lizard Man. After a couple's car turned up mysteriously damaged in the swamp overnight, Christopher Davis reported being chased by something out of the trees while changing a flat tyre on a lonely back road. Deputies cast three toed footprints, a cryptid researcher blamed Bigfoot, a fake evidence claim collapsed within days, and the story went national, turning a quiet cotton town into a media circus complete with lizard themed merchandise and a million dollar reward nobody ever claimed. More than three decades on, the case is still unresolved, tangled up with a dying sheriff who never stopped believing, a witness whose life was upended by that one night, and a local rumour involving a butterbean farmer that's never been confirmed or denied. Hear the full story, and the competing theories behind it, 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 - EP07 - The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

  3. Oct 7

    Factual Supernatural - EP04 - Lantern

    Jonathan Frank Tate spent years patrolling Newborough Forest on Anglesey as Warden, and it's one of his own recorded accounts, unaltered from his book Factual Supernatural, now out on Amazon, that gives this episode of the Haunted UK Podcast its material. Walking a quiet forest path late one still night, he sees a warm, lantern-like glow moving through the trees on a parallel track, gliding steadily towards him with no footsteps and no figure carrying it. The light draws level, bright enough to catch the branches around it, then stops directly opposite where he's standing, as though it's noticed him too. There's no hand holding it, no shadow, no sound at all, just the glow, motionless in the dark a few metres away, until he forces himself to walk on. When he finally looks back, it's vanished completely, with nothing left to explain where it went. Hear the full account, exactly as Jonathan wrote it, in this episode. 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.

    Factual Supernatural - EP04 - Lantern

  4. Oct 3

    The Witness Files - Case 09 - The Woman in the Window

    On her very first day working at Dover Castle, Cecilia looked up at an enormous building beside the car park and saw a woman in a dark, hooded cloak staring down at her from a second-floor window. In this real Witness Files account, that single glance sets off a chain of events that leaves two experienced colleagues just as unsettled as she was. The building turns out to be the Officer's Mess, a 19th-century addition to Dover Castle that's been closed to staff and visitors for years. When Cecilia mentions the figure she saw on her first day, her colleagues insist she couldn't have seen anyone there at all, and take her inside to prove it. What she finds is a gutted shell with no floor on the level where the woman had been standing. Her manager has an explanation of her own: Dover Castle's long-reported Grey Lady, a spirit tied to this exact building, said to have appeared decades earlier during a party to warn staff of a fire, then vanished with no guest matching her description ever found. Hear Cecilia's full witness statement, and find out how to submit your own story to The Witness Files, in this episode. 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 09 - The Woman in the Window

  5. Sep 30

    Factual Supernatural - EP03 - Runners

    Jonathan Frank Tate spent years patrolling Newborough Forest on Anglesey as Warden, and it's one of his own recorded accounts, unaltered from his book Factual Supernatural, now out on Amazon, that gives this episode of the Haunted UK Podcast its material. Sitting on a quiet hillock above a forest track on a calm summer afternoon, he hears what sounds like hundreds, maybe thousands, of feet running along the path directly below him. When he looks down, the track is completely empty. The sound doesn't fade or explain itself. It builds into what he describes as a stampede's worth of footsteps, rushing and overlapping, with no voices and no visible cause, while sunlight falls undisturbed across an empty path and the ferns beside it don't so much as move. It lasts several long minutes before receding into the trees, leaving the forest to settle back into ordinary birdsong as though nothing had happened at all. Hear the full account, exactly as Jonathan wrote it, in this episode. 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.

    Factual Supernatural - EP03 - Runners

  6. Sep 26

    Fright Bites - EP13 - Frozen Ghosts & Other Encounters

    A man sitting alone in a rural train station shelter gets up, walks into the dark at the end of the platform, and vanishes completely: no footprints, no sound, nowhere he could have gone. Then the footsteps start again, coming from behind him. This episode of Fright Bites packs in four real, unexplained encounters, including one told for the first time in the listener's own voice. Alongside it: a lifetime of unexplained incidents in one family home, from toys thrown by nobody to a heating system that kept getting turned up while the house sat empty, and two brothers, years apart, who each described the exact same imaginary friend. A night of relentless knocking at a Welsh holiday cottage turns out to have happened to every guest who's ever stayed there. And a ten year old, wide awake in bed, comes face to face with a tall, snarling, black clad figure she was certain, even then, was a vampire. Listen to all four accounts now, and if you've had an encounter of your own, get in touch, it could be the next Fright Bite. 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 - EP13 - Frozen Ghosts & Other Encounters

  7. Sep 23

    Factual Supernatural - EP02 - Red Head

    Jonathan Frank Tate spent years in security operations, the military, and private contracting, but it's his time as Warden for Newborough and Llanddwyn on Anglesey that gives this account its material. His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered. In broad daylight, on a coastal path between the dunes and the forest, Tate sees a girl sitting perfectly still beside the track. He looks away for only a few seconds. When he looks back, she is gone, with no tracks in the sand and no sound in the trees to explain how. This is Red Head. Tate spent years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn, walking coastal paths caught between dune and forest, in a landscape shaped by wind, tide, and centuries of storms that buried a royal court beneath the sand. Walking that same path for hours, losing track of time and distance in the silence, he notices the girl sitting just off the track, her pale hair lifting in the wind, and steps behind a tree out of reflex before letting himself be seen. When he steps back onto the path moments later, she has vanished completely: the sand around her lies undisturbed, nothing moves in the trees, and there is nowhere she could have gone without being seen or heard. Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon. 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.

    Factual Supernatural - EP02 - Red Head

  8. Sep 19

    Dark Matters - EP06 - The White Lady of Grace Dieu Priory

    A woman who died almost eight hundred years ago is still, by more than one account, walking a stretch of road in Leicestershire. In this Dark Matters case, a bus once pulled in for her at a shelter opposite Grace Dieu Priory, the doors opened, and nobody got on, because by the time the driver looked, she'd already gone. The White Lady has been seen at the same forty yards of road across decades: a family in a horse-drawn carriage in 1926, an off-duty police constable in 1981, a family driving home in 1990, and, more than once, officers who say a hooded figure simply appeared in the back seat of a parked patrol car. The ruins themselves, all that's left of a strict thirteenth-century nunnery founded by the formidable Rohese de Verdun, sit on a real geological fault line, and a darker local legend claims a prioress was bricked up alive after her baby was drowned in the priory fishpond. Ghost hunters have picked up the same details independently on separate visits years apart, from a ghost box insisting eight spirits are present to a photograph that looks unmistakably like a hooded figure caught in mist. Listen to the full case 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.

    Dark Matters - EP06 - The White Lady of Grace Dieu Priory
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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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