Strange Stories UK

Strange Stories UK: St.Boswells haunted road.

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 16:00:00 GMT

This a short episode to end Series 3. Again a rambling story about a possible paranormal incident in a small village (St.Boswells) in the Borderlands between England and Scotland. The story comes from the Journals of the Society of Physical research. I give the links to these on www.strangestories.uk.com
I will not post anything for the next six weeks. I would like to thank you for reading this and I will try to get some different Damselfly music for series 4.

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Strange Stories UK, The Hess Enigma , Part 2

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 12:00:00 GMT

This is part 2 of the Hess Enigma. What happened to Hess? Was he murdered? Was it Hess? We also examine the roles of other characters such as Tancred Borenius, the Polish leader Sikorski and others.
There is also Anthony Blunt the Soviet spy who carried out dirty business for the Royal family.
There are so many secrets and rumours regarding the Hess flight, and he was prevented with communicating with anyone after he was locked up, so it is unlikely that the truth will ever come out.

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Strange Stories UK, The Hess Enigma part 1

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 03:00:00 GMT

May and June 1941 was the period that Nazi Germany came close to conquering Western Europe. But the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler then opened a second Front which was going to cost him the war.
Events during May and June 1941 are shrouded in mystery, part of the puzzle was Rudolf Hess's (Hitler’s deputy) flight to Scotland during May 1941. Was Hess sent by Hitler to offer Britain peace terms so he could concentrate on invading the USSR? Did Hess ask Britain to help them defeat the USSR? Was Hess tricked by the British security services ? Was Hess trying to cause civil unrest in Britain to aid the Nazi cause?
What is certain is that there was a large section of the British people who seemed to be in favour of a peace deal with the Nazis, appeasement; these were the Middle and Upper classes that had the most to lose. The perception of Britain in 1940 was that the Nation was united against the Nazi threat. This was not true.
Was the Churchill government playing the Nazis and the Soviets against each other? I don’t think that we will ever know the true story, but some members of the aristocracy and the Royal family do not come out of this story very well. This is part one of the story, part two will be posted within the next two days.

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Strange Stories UK, John Palmer, Brinks Mat, Time Shares scams and a lot of shootings.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:00:00 GMT

This is a rambling story based on John 'Goldfinger' Palmer. We find how the Brinks Mat gold bullion robbery was responsible for a lot of criminal enterprises as these were funded by the proceeds of Brinks Mat gold. John Palmer was an interesting character, a key figure in disposing of the Brinks Mat gold.
Palmer managed to avoid prosecution and started a huge Timeshare fraud on the island of Tenerife which made him so much money that he made the Sunday Times rich list on equal place with the Queen!
Anyone who has read the book McMafia will realise that organised crime noticed the money made by Palmer and moved in on his enterprises. The police and insurance companies were also trying to get back stolen money. There was a lot of paranoia, jealousy and shootings, so much so that it was said that the Brinks Mat gold was cursed.
British organised crime gangs and enemies of Palmer were also making moves against him. Palmer was never really able to enjoy his wealth and always had to wear a bullet proof vest when he was in public. Having just played back the recording while uploading I realise that I have not thanked Damselfly for providing the backing music or you for listening.
The main sources of information for this podcast were the two Wensley Clarkson books: Killing Goldfinger and the Curse of Brinks Mat, Goldfinger and me by Marnie Palmer, various other books and newspaper articles. http://www.strangestoriesuk.com

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Strange Stories UK: some considerations on The death of Princess Diana

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:00:00 GMT

There has been recent news items on the interview between the BBC Panorama programme and Princess Diana in November 1995 and that was the inspiration for this podcast.
I have not attempted a full story of the car crash that killed Princess Diana, in chronological order, as the story is quite well known. I have focussed in on some areas.
There have been suggestions that Diana was killed by a faction within the security services that were unable to accept the fact that the future king of England's mother may have married a Muslim and converted to that faith.
This podcast looks at certain aspects of the car crash that killed her and Dodi Al Fayed and their driver Henri Paul.
I try not to come to any conclusion in these podcasts and leave it to the listener to make their own minds up.
The Princess Diana death is a well known conspiracy theory, it won't be proved either way but there are some inconvenient loose ends that have not been explained.
For a bibliography please visit the 'strangestoriesuk.com' website.

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Strange Stories UK: The Society of Psychical Research investigate a London ghost

Fri, 21 May 2021 14:00:00 GMT

I thought it time for a paranormal type episode, this one taken from the journals of the Society for Psychical Research. I do my research in the British Library for these podcasts, this one comes from the 1949 journal.

I like to do a paranormal podcast during the month of May, This story was published in the 1949 Journal of the Society of Psychical Research and was called 'The Woman in Brown'.

Edward Osbourne was an investigator for the SPR and it was he that wrote up the story.

I gave quite a long lead into the podcast explaining what London was like in 1948, for someone in their 80s, they must have seen so much change during the course of their lifetimes’, it would scarcely seems credible to someone much younger so I thought I would give some description to London life at that time.

There may be something of a delay in my next podcast as I have to do some building works, I am going to try to lay a concrete floor using Youtube tutorials, so I think that will take up most of my time for the next month. I will try to put another podcast out within the month.

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Strange Stories UK: Colin Wallace, Kincora and Clockwork Orange part 2.

Sun, 09 May 2021 11:00:00 GMT

This is part 2 of the podcast, the details being the same as for part 1.

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Strange Stories UK: Colin Wallace, Kincora and Clockwork Orange part 1

Fri, 07 May 2021 21:00:00 GMT

Northern Ireland 1970s, MI5, Clockwork Orange, Murder, SAS, paedophiles, IRA, UDA.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well quite a lot did go wrong. This is part one of a story that few people come out of very well.
Colin Wallace had a questionable job peddling black propaganda. But you have to accept the position he was in, his background in Northern Ireland and the fact that he thought he was doing good by fighting terrorism. He was to find that once you join such an organisation, it is difficult to leave.
Clockwork Orange developed into a policy that would target anyone that the Security Services (MI5, MI6, Special Branch , RUC and others) disapproved of. Even the democratically elected representatives of the people. It was said that the Security Services were out of control in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
Colin Wallace learnt of a paedophile sex ring operating from perhaps nine children’s homes in Northern Ireland but centred on one home called Kincora. The security Services tolerated paedophile abuse because they were able to blackmail those committing the offence to gain useful information.
Please see the web site for the list of sources used for this podcast. Two that were particularly useful were the Lobster magazine which is available online
https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk
highly recommended and if you are interested in this story there is a wealth of similar stories available to read online free of charge!
I also made a lot of use of Paul Foot's book 'Who framed Colin Wallace?
I will post Part 2 of the story within the next couple of days.

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Strange Stories UK, Hilda Murrell part 3

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:00:00 GMT

This is part three of the Hilda Murrell murder, please listen to parts one and two.
The police continue to insist that the Hilda Murrell murder was a burglary gone wrong despite evidence mounting up that there was more involved. Were the police chiefs being told to follow this line?
More evidence comes forward that a gang abducted Hilda before killing her.
The police arrest somebody for the murder twenty years after it was committed. There was a guilty verdict. However, not everyone is convinced, there were many unanswered questions and it was argued that the jury had to reach a verdict without hearing all the evidence.

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Strange Stories UK : Hilda Murrell part 2: Belgrano, Sizewell and other theories.

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 23:00:00 GMT

This is part two of the Hilda Murrell podcast.
Maybe I should think about doing some editing; apologies in this podcast I call Hilda Murrell, Hilda Murray a few times and have difficulty in conjugating a verb, sank or sunk? On consideration I am happy leaving in a few mistakes in order to concentrate on more stories.
Anyhow in this episode we examine some aspects of the Falklands war, especially the sinking of the ship General Belgrano.
We also exam the aspects of the Sizewell B nuclear plant inquiry.
We consider the actions of Zeus Security and the private investigative firms that they employed to spy on those people and groups objecting to a new nuclear plant in Suffolk.
In early 1985, tv programmes are being made about the murder of Hilda Murrell. This problem is not going away!

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Strange Stories UK : The Hilda Murrell murder. 1984

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:00:00 GMT

This is part one of a three part podcast. 21 March 1984. Hilda Murrell was abducted from her home. She was an anti-nuclear campaigner who had just gained approval to present a paper on the problems of nuclear waste at the Sizewell planning inquiry.
Hildfa's body was found three days later. The police thought that a lone panicking burglar was responsible.
It seemed more probable that a panicking government or nuclear agent or agents were responsible and then a cover up put into operation. In part one of the story we try to consider4 the state of the UK in 1984 and the events of 21st March 1984.
Part two which will be realised tomorrow (Saturday 17 April) will consider the reasons why Hilda was murdered,
Part three which will be broadcast the day after part two (Sunday 18th April) will try to come to some conclusions.

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Strange Stories UK. The Brighton University student Janet Muller murder in 2015

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:00:00 GMT

This is another case of a jury getting it wrong. Janet Muller was murdered by Christopher Jeffrey - Shaw in Sussex in 2015. We do not know the whole story, there are gaps in our understanding of it.
What is clear is that Jeffrey-Shaw murdered a vulnerable student from Brighton University who was having psychotic episodes and in the care of the NHS Mill View hospital in Hove.
Jeffrey-Shaw was a fantasist and small time drug dealer probably on 'County Lines' business. Important witnesses did not take part in his court case. The judge called Jeffrey-Shaw a liar and callous beyond belief.
Please be advised that this podcast is not edited in any way and recorded in one take so there may be some background noise and I may stutter over a word or two.

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Strange Stories UK, The Porthole Murder of Gay Gibson.

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:00:00 GMT

A promising 21 year old actress who lived as she wished, not to the conventions of the day, goes missing on a cruise ship.

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Strange Stories UK : The Thug Life in Ipswich: County Lines.

Sun, 07 Mar 2021 12:00:00 GMT

The 'Thug life' referred to in this podcast, refers to street gangs in Ipswich copying the behaviour of street gangs in America. The American rapper Tupac came up with a phrase that makes the acronym.

The hate U Give, Little Infants Fucks Everything.

Tupac was trying to argue that life on the streets is hard for those people who society oppresses (the poor and uneducated). The 'thug' on the street refers to the underdog who does what he has to do to survive and get by.

This podcast takes Ipswich as an example of County Line drug dealing causing an increase in violence on the streets of that town; in particular the events leading to the death of a 17 year old fringe gang member in 2018.

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Strange Stories UK, The Fairy Investigation Society 1927 - to present.

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:00:00 GMT

The Fairy Investigation Society (aka FIS), founded in the UK in 1927, exists to report fairy sightings.
This podcast attempts to give a brief history of fairies in the UK (zero to 10 minutes).
Then examines the beginnings of FIS (10 -21 minutes).
then it examines the ideas of Quentin Craufurd (the inspiration for FIS), who explains what is required to view fairies.
Then we continue with the Fairy Investigation Society history and membership between 29:00 minutes to 57:00 minutes.
The final 28 minutes gives some examples of recent fairy sightings as reported to the recent Fairy census.
The sources used will be available on the blog for strangestoriesuk.com
On the website, I will be happy to answer any questions. Most of the information for the podcast has been taken from the postings of Doctor Simon Young.
For further information on fairies in the UK please see www.the fairyist.com
Please be advised that the podcast is recorded in one take in my spare time so apologies for the low-fi production.

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Strange Stories UK, Brighton Murder, The tragic death of Suel Dagado

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:00:00 GMT

A group of young men decide to spend a Saturday night in Brighton. There is an altercation as they leave a nightclub, a stupid drunken quarrel and macho posturing leads to a tragic and pointless death and life changing injuries for others.
Any queries or comments please go to www.strangestoriesuk.com
I am now including a transcript of the podcast.

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Strange Stories UK The Rise and fall of the Messinas, vice in London 1930-60

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 16:00:00 GMT

Please be advised that I now have a website where I can be contacted.
www.strangestoriesuk.com
also an email address,
strangestoriesuk@gmail.com
I will be happy to answer any questions, or receive any opinions or suggestions.
This episode is mainly about five brothers that came to the UK to make their fortune in the only way they knew how, which was in the white slavery trade, known as sex trafficking today. Their gang was known as the Messina gang, and they manipulated and controlled women.
Other criminal gangs in London despised them but they were allowed to exist because they paid a 'tax' to dominant criminal gangs in the areas they operated from.
I will put the sources used on the website.
I also intend to start putting some shorter podcasts up, the intention being one long podcast each month of around an hour, and two shorter podcasts each month.

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Strange Stories UK, The Lord Janner sexual abuse cover-up.

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:00:00 GMT

Well this is a bit of a ramble, but the main story is how a prominent Leicester MP Greville Janner had credible allegations of sexual abuse made against him over a long period of time but was never investigated.
It is suspected that the Security services of MI5 and Special Branch protected him due to his position of being an influential Jewish personality who had a relationship with leaders of countries of the Middle East.
There is also the story of how paedophiles infiltrated Children's homes in the Leicester area in the 1960s,70s, 80s and probably beyond. There seemed to be a paedophile network active in the Leicester area probably protected in part by Freemason influence.
We also see how inquiries into abuse in the 1990s after the Frank Beck child abuse trial were not very effective and probably did not stop all the abuse.
We examine how the Carl Beech case in 2018 impacted on inquiries, to the extent that the case seemed like an attempt to hijack the debate on child abuse after the Savile case had bought forward so many historical claims.
It is hoped that the ill-fated Independent Inquiry of Child Sexual Abuse inquiry (IICSA) will provide some answers when it produces its report in 2022. They will produce a separate report on the Janner case.
I would also like to state again that this podcast is not edited in any way and is recorded in one take, so apologies over any stuttering or mispronounced words.
Of no interest to anyone other than myself, this is the 80th podcast I have produced.

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Strange Stories UK, Brides in the Bath, George Smith part 2.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Part 2 of the Brides in the Bath Story.

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Strange Stories UK, Brides in the Bath murders. Part 1.

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 19:00:00 GMT

A murder trial at the Old Bailey in 1915 caused much comment. Thousands of soldiers were being killed on a daily basis while a long complicated trial was being staged to decide the life of one man.
George Smith was despised and is the most repugnant person I have made a podcast about. He was a misogynist and was prepared to marry and kill for financial gain.

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Strange Stories UK, Ghost Story for Christmas 2020

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 09:00:00 GMT

Two stories from the records of the Society of Physical Research (SPR) investigated by Fred Stratton. There are similarities between the two stories, both classic haunted house stories, both of which were being investigated by Fred during 1913.
One story was published in the journals of the SPR in 1914. Both stories were soon forgotten as a result of World War 1.
When Fred died in 1960 records of the unpublished story, about Abbey House at Cambridge, were found and published in the journal for SPR. The Abbey House story became quite well known and mentioned in various publications. The other story about an unnamed house in the Midlands seems to have been totally forgotten.

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Strange Stories UK, The murder of Louise Smith at Leigh Park, Havant.

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Lockdown in the UK during May 2020. Not a good time for teenagers or the young. Imagine being a sixteen year old teenager having fallen out with her mother, suffering from anxiety and self harm, with a difficult background staying in a one bedroom flat with your auntie and uncle who do not approve of your life style. Add into this mix a 30 year old male (Uncle Shane) who acts inappropriately and claims he has forgotten what he has done from one day to the next.
It is difficult to argue against a mother's claim of 'pure evil' when describing the actions of Shane Mays. Shane Mays IQ was defined as 'feeble-minded', some testing (Levine & Marks) defined him as a moron. Shane Mays defence team seemed to want to use this as an excuse for his behaviour. It was the wrong time at the wrong place for Louise Smith as she was experiencing her difficult teenage years.

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Strange Stores UK, The extraordinary story of Brian Donald Hume.

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Brian Donald Hume, better known as Donald Hume was a smuggler, bank robber, murderer and successful businessman. His life story is quite extraordinary. It is a pity that he allowed his anger get the better of him because he had a lot of ability and could have followed a different path.

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Strange Stories UK, The Florence Maybrick trial.

Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:00:00 GMT

The Florence Maybrick trial which took place in Liverpool during 1889 is a famous case in which a woman was charged with the murder of her addict husband as a result of a manipulating Free Mason pulling the strings to ensure a guilty verdict and a death sentence. Although this episode stands by itself, I will return to this trial in a future podcast to investigate ‘Jack the Ripper’ allegations.

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Strange Stories UK. A Newhaven murder and an Albanian drug dealer's death.

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:00:00 GMT

Newhaven, East Sussex, once a booming light manufacturing town on the coast is now in the doldrums. There is not many opportunities for the young some of whom are often forced to spend idle days looking for ways to fill their time. Trent Hutchinson was one such teenager who could be considered as having various issues and being out of control with an anger management problem.
I also consider the results of a case we have briefly mentioned earlier when an Albanian drug dealer was stabbed probably as a result of drug psychosis in Brighton.
These are two murders that don't seem to have any understandable motive and were barely reported in the press although they had a big impact on those that knew those involved.

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Strange Stories UK, Halloween 2020, The Ardachie case, the crawling woman.

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

This is the third story I have uploaded for Halloween 2020. The other two being the Edgar Vandy case and Rougham mirage. This podcast is the Ardachie Case.
Peter McEwan and his family moved to Ardachie Lodge on the banks of Loch Ness, they were aiming to breed pigs. When the McEwan's hired a housekeeper and live stock help the MacDonalds came to stay. Mrs MacDonald was a sensitive. Most of the he information on this ‘haunted house’ story comes from the journals of the Society of Physical research 1955.

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Strange Stories UK, The Dorset Brehmer/Parry killing. Did the jury get this one wrong?

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:00:00 GMT

May 2020, Policeman Timothy Bremer killed his lover of 10 years Claire Parry , by accident in his car as she sent a message to his wife informing him of their affair.
Did the jury get this one wrong?

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Strange Stories UK : Paranormal Suffolk The Rougham mirage and Kersey time-slip

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:00:00 GMT

The second of the Halloween podcasts for 2020, these are both set in the county of Suffolk. The Rougham mirage and the Kersey time-slip. Both phenomena could be retrocognition or hallucination.

Carl Groves goes into much greater detail on the Rougham mirage, search for the Rougham mystery by Carl Groves online for further details.

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Strange Stories UK, The Lewes, Sussex murder of Nicola Stevenson in 2019.

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:00:00 GMT

Nicola Stevenson was a 39 year old mother who was registered as being disabled. She had moved to Lewes in East Sussex in 2018 and was given allocated a council flat by the Lewes Council at Landport Estate in the town. Nicola was prescribed pain relief medication and also used alcohol and class A drugs, Nicola was described as a feisty and positive character who soon made friends in the Lewes area.
Nicola took pity on Richard Canlin who she knew and described as her step brother; he was homeless and so she said he could lodge in the front room of her one bedroom flat. This proved to be a mistake as Canlin was psychopathic personality who was quick to enrage and take his anger out on those who were less physically strong as him.

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Strange Stories UK, The mysterious death of Edgar Vandy.

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:00:00 GMT

A rather unusual case here which comes from the journals of the Society of Psychical Research. Edgar Vandy drowned while on a day out with friends on a Sussex Estate in the summer of 1933. The inquest recorded accidental death but Edgar's brothers were unhappy with the verdict and employed mediums to try to ascertain the truth of what happened that day which seemed to suggest something of a 'cover-up'.
This is the first of three episodes being uploaded leading up to Halloween 2020.

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Strange Stories UK Hammersmith murders ,London serial killer, Performance 5

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:00:00 GMT

Part 5 of the 'Performance' series. An examination of the Police investigation into a serial killer who targeted female sex workers in 1960s London. It is suggested that a well known celebrity of the time could have been responsible but was protected by freemasonry and corrupt police who were blackmailing him.
The investigation giving an idea of the time that the film was made showing the criminal side of corrupt London as counterbalance to the last episode showing something of the glamour of Swinging London.

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Strange Stories UK, Performance 4, Rolling Stones, Police Corruption, Murder?

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:00:00 GMT

This is the fourth podcast in the series about the background to the film 'Performance'. It is about the Rolling Stones contribution and their situation during the making of the film. How Jagger and Jones became part of the 'Chelsea set'. Police and media collusion and corruption, MI5 and FBI trying to convict the Rolling Stones to prevent them influencing young people. Bent Policeman D.S.Pilcher targeting Pop stars to convict them for drug offences. The death of Brian Jones in 1969, accident or murder or a combination of these?
It is a bit of a ramble, although this is part 4 the episodes can be listened to in any order as it is not a chronological story. Episode 3, the John Bindon episode was back-dated by mistake and seems to have been lost to some. Next weeks podcast concerns the investigation into a serial killer that haunted the filming of Performance.

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Strange Stories UK, Performance 2, Litvinoff's Swinging London?

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

London in the 1950s & 60s was changing, the media said it was becoming 'Swinging London'? In reality new elites were challenging the old establishment.
David Litvinoff was involved with the Chelsea set and the worlds of music, art and crime. It was his contribution to the film Performance that connected the London Underworld to the London Underground, He knew the Krays and he knew the Rolling Stones and he knew a lot of other people.
Litvinoff was one of the mysterious characters that London produced during a time of flux and change. He was a character who it may have been fun to be around, but you wouldn't want him too close.

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Strange Stories UK, Performance 1, Jimmy Evans, Once upon a time in London

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

This is part 1 of a series of podcasts that are based on the British Movie Performance. A film which the film historian David Thompson said that the film was not as good as the stories about it. Well the film has a Rotten tomatoes score of 85% and has had a number of books and articles written about it. It is about London in the late 1960s when the swinging fashionable crowd mixed with the aristocracy who mixed with the criminal underworld. This episode is about Jimmy Evans, a flash 'Jack the lad' gangster, scared of nothing who was the advisor for a similar character who played the lead role in the film Performance (Chas Devlin), a film when the criminal underworld of London decided to take part and show themselves on film. This first episode examines the life of Jimmy Evans who inspired the role of Chas Devlin.

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Strange Stories UK, John Bindon, Princess Margaret, Murder and London. Performance 3.

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Performance was the film made in 1968 where it was said that the Underground met the Underworld. In this podcast we examine the life of an underworld enforcer who was also an actor, who virtually played himself in the film. John Bindon, a larger than life character who was a violent thug, an associate of the Krays and had the Queen's sister Princess Margaret as a lover.

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Strange Stories UK Rattenbury Stoner murder in Bournemouth

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 21:00:00 GMT

1935 True Crime, Bournemouth, a female muscian unhappily married has an affair with aToy boy, her husband is a famous architect and everything goes wrong. An unhappy story with an unhappy ending; in fact a desperately unhappy ending which was not fair. A murder at Bournemouth /Boscombe Manor road.

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Strange Stories UK The Clapham Murder, Steinie Morrison and anarchism

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:00:00 GMT

This is the last episode of Series 2, we are going back to 31st December 1910. A murder of a Jewish immigrant was thought to be associated with a Jewish secret society wanting a revolution in the UK.
What actually resulted was a confused court case eagerly reported by the newspapers where a number of colourful East End characters seemed incapable of telling the truth. The case played out like a Dickens novel.
The case was playing out to the background of the Houndsditch murders and the siege of Sidney Street and the moral panic of an influx of Jews from Eastern Europe.
Did Steinie Morrison murder Leon Beron? Probably, he was found guilty but there were unanswered questions.

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Strange Stories UK, Ronnie Knight, the murder of Alfredo Zomparelli and consequences.

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 17:00:00 GMT

Ronnie Knight is in his 80s now, born in poverty in the East End of London to a family that became a well known criminal family with close links to the Kray family, he denies that he was ever a gangster but he was involved in crime, almost as today youngster on estates today are forced into gangs. Ronnie and his brothers were the last of what could be called the 'old school gangsters' who put emphasis on dressing well and having good manners and good (to their interpretations)morals.
Ronnie was a celebrity gangster who experienced the highs and the lows. In the public eye for being the husband of Barbara Windsor. It is difficult to dislike the man who suffered tragedy but also an exciting and rewarding life.

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Strange Stories UK: Dieppe Raid & Queen Mary paranormal incidents?

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 11:00:00 GMT

Two possible cases of retrocognition are considered in this podcast, the events both occurred in 1942. The Dieppe raid was possibly 'relived' in an audio hallucination by two woman in 1952. The Queen Mary / Curacao collision was another audio hallucination by marine engineer John Smith in 1971. The 'haunted' Queen Mary liner was investigated by parapsychologists Tony Cornell and Bill Roll in 1988.

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Strange Stories UK, London Gangs and the murders of Jaden Moodie and Corey Davis Jnr.

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:00:00 GMT

This podcast is about the changing nature of London's street gangs, country lines, increasing violence and how young people are recruited to the gangs. There is an examination of the gangs of Waltham Forest as an example of the problems faced in one London borough. Some gangs try to concentrate on making money from trading in drugs but with so much competition the gangs have to constantly adapt to changing circumstances. The podcast looks at the murders of two 14 year old young males as a result of gang warfare.

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Strange Stories UK, The Murder of Jodie Chesney

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 15:00:00 GMT

Jodie Chesney was a teenager in her last year at sixth form college doing her A levels. It was a Friday night in March 2019, hanging with friends in her local park, a geeky, Gothy group of friends playing rock music on their phones.
Their world was about to clash with small time drug dealers speaking American street gang jive slang and trying to act like big shot gangsters armed with hunting knives.
What happened that evening caused media outrage and a demand that something was done to stop the stabbing epidemic that happening in London at the time.

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Strange Stories UK. The truth of Borley rectory and Harry Price part 2

Fri, 15 May 2020 23:00:00 GMT

Although Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and the people involved in reporting unexplained phenomena at the rectory and their possible motivations.
This is part 2 of the story.

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Strange Stories UK The truth of Borley rectory and Harry Price. Part 1.

Fri, 15 May 2020 14:00:00 GMT

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Strange Stories UK, Nicholas Van Hoogstraten Part 2

Tue, 05 May 2020 03:00:00 GMT

Part 2 of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten podcast. Please listen to Part 1 before listening to this podcast.

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Strange Stories UK, Nicholas Van Hoogstraten Part 1

Mon, 04 May 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Nicolas Van Hoogstraten. Ruthless businessman, narcissistic tycoon, dangerous gangster or pantomime villain. This story is something of a ramble and has a bit of everything, murder, conspiracy, state of the nation concerns. This is part 1 of the Nicholas Van Hoogstraten story.

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Strange Stories UK, Two Brighton Murders, pointless and for no reason.

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:00:00 GMT

Two pointless deaths in Brighton carried out by members of the same family in Brighton. The Weaver family who had a reputation and were well known by the police. Murders that happened for no good reason and were accidental in many ways. But macho aggressive behaviour does costs lives.

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Strange Stories UK, An Adventure, Versailles time, slip part 2

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 23:00:00 GMT

This is Part 2 of An Adventure. Part 1 of An Adventure, Versailles time slip tells of perhaps the best known example of retrocognition. An Adventure was a book telling of the experience of Moberly and Jourdain while at Versailles. This episode tells of the women's theory what had happened to them, a critic of their views and examines other strange experiences some people had experienced at the Trianons at Versailles.

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Strange Stories UK, An Adventure, Versailles time slip, part 1

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Part 1, this describes Perhaps the best known example of retrocognition, ' An Adventure' was a best selling book in 1911 describing the experience of two women that visited Versailles and seemed to have travelled back in time. They told their story and were told that historically they were wrong, they could not have seen what they claimed.
However, these women were determined to prove themselves right and started to research the period they thought they had witnessed and after ten years research and investigation they rewrote history and revised incorrect historical observations.
This begs the question, how did the women know?
This is part 1, I will publish part 2 this time next week. I am sorry but I have exhausted my podcast allowance for this month.

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Strange Stories Uk , Herbert Armstrong.Hay on Wye poisoner

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

One of the famous English poison murders happened 100 years ago, an age when George Orwell said the stories of certain murders gave pleasure to the British public. This is one of the poison murders, thought to have started in 1920, the court case was in 1922. On the Welsh - English border in Hay on Wye, a solicitor Herbert Armstrong decided that the use of arsenic would solve some of his problems.

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Strange Stories UK, The murder of Barbara Gaul.

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Barbara Gaul was murdered with a shotgun blast in the car park of the Black Lion hotel, which is virtually the first building you come across when entering Brighton on the A23 road from London. Roy and Keith Edgeler from the East End of London were convicted of the murder which was a contract killing, although the Edgeler brothers were too frightened to say who had organised the hit. So who wanted the former glamour model , now living a quiet life in Norfolk, dead in 1976?

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Strange Stories UK Paranormal episode: Aberfan, St Ives and Newhaven (East Sussex)

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Three stories, none long enough to justify a full episode, none that unsettling, but all have a certain interest. The first tells of people that had premonitions of the Aberfan disaster in 1966, the second tells of the Ferry Bridge Inn ghost, claimed to be the oldest haunted Inn of England. The third is a curious little story from Newhaven in East Sussex.

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Strange Stories UK Bernie Silver, The 'Epsom salts' and the murder of Tommy Smithson

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Prostitution and vice in London was controlled by Maltese gangsters after World War 2, a trade considered dishonourable at the time by the home grown villains. The Messina family
dominated up until the early 1950s. The police were reluctantly forced to take action against them and in the vacuum left, Bernie Silver came to lead the remnants of the Maltese forming them into the Syndicate a successful organised crime gang that controlled London vice in the 1960s.
Tommy Smithson attempted to muscle in on the Maltese gambling business but was shot in 1956, his murder came back to haunt Bernie after anti-corruption trials were bought to stop the Syndicate's business and corruption of the Metropolitan police force.
This podcast is just a silver of the complicated story, a story that we will return to within a couple of months.

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Strange Stories UK , Frederick Seddon of Finsbury Park, London.

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:00:00 GMT

This is now a forgotten murder and a possible miscarriage of justice from 1911. It was a famous case of the time and featured in George Orwell's essay 'Decline of the English murder' when everybody seemed to read about and have an opinion of the murder cases of the day.
It was considered that Frederick Seddon would have escaped his sentence if he refused to give evidence at court and gave a 'no comment' response. However Mr Seddon was considered an arrogant person who couldn't stop himself putting his case to the jury. His wife who may have been the guilty party, kept a low profile.

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Strange Stories UK. Jean McConville, The ‘Unknowns’ and Gerry Adams

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:00:00 GMT

Northern Ireland 1972, a mother of 10 goes missing, she was abducted from her home in front of her 10 children. She was never seen again. Jean McConville was the widowed mother who was such a threat to the Republican cause that she had to be killed in secret and buried. The IRA admit to killing her. Gerry Adams was the IRA commander who gave the order for the ‘Unknowns’ to make her disappear.

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Strange Stories UK Jane Longhurst murder and the dangers of internet pornography

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:00:00 GMT

Brighton 2003. Jane Longhurst, music teacher went missing and was later found murdered partly as a result of internet pornography. The accused came to think of his desires as normal after discovering material that sexually excited him on the internet; later trying to use the excuse of 'sex gone wrong'.

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Strange Stories UK Midsomer murder at Bosham, Valerie Graves Murder.

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:00:00 GMT

December 29 2013. A woman was murdered while house sitting with her family. She was murdered during the night while people slept in a wealthy out of the way coastal retreat . It looked like the case was to remain unsolved until information was given from Romania five years later, information given by a wife involved in a bitter divorce. An interesting case where the police worked hard but did not cover themselves in glory.

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Strange Stories UK , Ghost Story for Christmas 2019

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Three ghost stories for Christmas. The first two are cases of retrocognition, The first case at Man Sands beach at South Devon, the second at Boscastle Cornwall. The third story is at Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire and is a tradition haunted house story with perhaps an explanation. It is a well known story aka The Luton ghost and it involves the story of the highwayman Dick Turpin. The stories may not be too scary but lots of interesting characters, as they say 'The past is a different country'.

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Strange Stories UK The Abdul Deghayes story, extremism and death in Brighton.

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:00:00 GMT

The Deghayes family moved to the Brighton area in the late 1980s, a young family with children wanting to make a new start away from the dictatorship of Gaddafi in Libya. The family did not find it easy to integrate. There were problems with the family for many reasons. There were five sons and three felt the need to fight for Al-Nusra against the Syrian army, in a country that they did not live but felt that Muslims were being oppressed.
Meanwhile in Brighton the other two sons became small time gangsters, one being killed in a drug dispute in 2019, the other being imprisoned for drug offences. The father was also imprisoned for domestic violence. The Social Services and the police were criticised for their role in the recent family history.

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Strange Stories UK, Neville Heath, deadly ex RAF playboy.

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:00:00 GMT

It was the summer of 1946 when the charming but deadly ex RAF playboy Neville Heath shocked the British public with the brutality of his murders. Certainly Heath was a narcissistic character who was addicted to thrills and sex. When Heavy drinking was then added to the mix, Heath who was a deeply flawed fantasist seemed to lose all control. Heath had a magnatism to his personality that some women found irresistible. He had the confidence and arrogance to act as a different personality which people readily accepted.
If Heath had set his sights higher he could have been a master criminal instead of the small time conman, drunk , bully and murderer as he will be remembered.
But could it be argued that Heath was mentally damaged during his birth and his wartime experiences to the extent that in certain circumstances he was not responsible for his actions?

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Strange Stories UK, The Cheltenham ghost aka The Morton hauntings.

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

The Morton ghost, later known as the Cheltenham ghost is said to be one of the best records of an apparitional haunting on record. It was first published in the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research in 1892 under the title 'Record of a Haunted House' by R.C.Morton. Morton was actually Rosina Despard who was a teenager when she published her report.As is usual the actual location was kept secret by the SPR but was revealed in 1948 when all those involved were dead.

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Strange Stories UK, Fred Bywaters & Edith Thompson. The Ilford murder.

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 23:00:00 GMT

A famous case in UK legal history. Edith Thompson a modern young woman, made the mistake of marrying young to her first boyfriend. The new husband was about to be sent to France to fight in the Great War. Fred didn't get to fight in France and the marriage was unhappy.
Edith starts an affair with a younger man who shares some of her interests. This results in a scandal in the suburbs and an unjust death sentence by the state.

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Strange Stories UK Albanian drug gangs in Brighton and the UK.

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:00:00 GMT

The country with the highest cocaine use is Albanian with 2.5% of the population using the drug. Scotland is runner up and England and Wales, on 2.25%, just miss out on third place to the United States.
Albanian drug gangs are the major supplier of cocaine to the UK, a relatively recent development that has happened over the past 10 years. The youth of Albanian are leaving their homeland to become street runners and dealers in Europe were they use fake id to try to avoid deportation as illegal immigrants.
This podcast gives a brief history of the rise of Albanian drug gangs with a special focus on the East Sussex city of Brighton.

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Strange Stories UK , The adventures of the unfortunate Ronald True.

Sun, 22 Sep 2019 13:00:00 GMT

Ronald True from troubled childhood to a liability and hinderance during a world war to an eccentric character to his male friends but a controlling bully to the females he knew. True was a case celebre in 1922 when he was a defendant at the Old Bailey court. Ronald True the founder member of the murderers club at Broadmoor hospital.

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Strange Stories UK, Harold Wilson plots to overthrow his government

Sat, 07 Sep 2019 16:00:00 GMT

Harold Wilson was prime minister for the UK in the 1960/70s. There was a mildly socialist programme that was being implemented. There was plotting against Wilson from inside his own party, the security services and later Right wing groups and private paramilitary armies were ready to step in to take control against labour and Tory governments as it was thought that there was to be a communist take-over. There are many stories of crimes and black propaganda being used during this time, crimes never punished, similar crimes that bought down the president in the Watergate affair were totally ignored in the UK.

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Strange Stories UK Bernard Spilsbury, the Sussex murders The Crumbles and Crowborough.

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:00:00 GMT

A podcast looking at different sides to the forensic pathologist Bernard Spilsbury, a brilliant pathologist but maybe lacking in humanity as he was entranced by his image.
We look at two cases showing different aspects of his work, The murder of Emily Kaye at the Crumbles in Eastbourne where he did an excellent job that was praised by the Public Prosecutions Office, which was most unusual. There was a similar case where a chicken farmer at Crowborough is accused of pre-meditated murder and the court case becomes centred on arguments between two pathologists which may have resulted in an unfair trial, and although Spilsbury may have won the case, his reputation started to slip afterwards. Both cases involve a man killing and cutting up his lover so I would have thought sympathy would not be with the guilty men but with the women that they killed.
We also see some aspects of the rise and fall of Bernard Spilsbury, I know the effect he had on the public as my grandmother gave me his book when I was a young lad and I enjoyed reading it.
As a podcaster, I record each episode in one take so apologies fr any background noise such as chickens or dogs or my coughing.

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Strange Stories UK Lucy McHugh murder part 2

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 01:00:00 GMT

Stephen Nicholson an unskilled scratcher / tattooist who preyed on young girls offering them body art in return for sex. He stood trial during June/July 2019 for underage sex and murder in his hometown of Southampton.
This is part 2 of the story of the murder of Lucy McHugh. This podcast was made on the day of Nicholson being sentenced. Nicholson very nearly escaped justice, it was dedicated work by the police using the latest techniques that managed to convict him.However in some ways it seems that not the whole story came out and there remain some unanswered questions.

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Strange Stories UK Lucy McHugh murder part 1

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 23:00:00 GMT

This is a trial taking place now. June/July 2019. the trial is perhaps half way through. It is claimed that less than 5% of males are peadophiles, that is interested in young teenage girls, not including males interested in boys.
Lucy McHugh was 12 years of age living in Southampton who started a relationship with a 24 year old lodger that seemed to end in her murder when she claimed she was pregnant by him. She wasn't pregnant when she was murdered aged 13.
There were warning signs that seemed to be missed by the parents and although flagged by the school were not acted upon by Social Services who admittedly have a very difficult job.
This is part one of a story that will be concluded when the trial has finished.

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Strange Stories UK, Hove Crown Court Incident

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:00:00 GMT

It is June 2019. There is a rape trial being held at Hove Crown Court. A rape having taken place in the January of that year by a plastic gangster on a woman he had been giving alcohol to all night as they wandered around Brighton City Centre. When the case came to court it seems that the Brighton Police Safeguarding team were a little heavy handed in their approach to those attending the case in the public gallery. It seems that the police and the court system are reacting to the emergence of Social Media by bullying the general public and making people uncomfortable when watching the law in action. Thank Goodness for judges such as Lord Justice Burnett.

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Strange Stories Uk Undercover Police UK

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 18:00:00 GMT

Are you being spied on by the UK Undercover police? You may think because you have no police record that this could not be the case, but think again. If you care about the environment or your fellow citizens you may be targeted. Since 1968 there have been undercover police who have had relationships with environmentalists and have fathered children before disappearing from their lives. These were undercover police who deliberaley had relationships and children in order to spy on lawful groups at great cost to the taxpayer. Almost unbelievable but true. Policing in Britain today.

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Strange Stories UK , The murder of Allan Chappelow

Mon, 20 May 2019 16:00:00 GMT

Allan Chappelow, a forgotten author who had no close family or friends was found dead under a pile of paper at his crumbling house at Hampstead London in 2006. Who killed him? Was it Chinese identity thieves? Was the person convicted of his murder set up by the security services? Was it a serial killer of elderly gay men who frequented Hampstead Heath? Why was the murder trial held in secret?

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Strange Stories UK, The Ghost Club and the Society for Psychical Research.

Wed, 08 May 2019 16:00:00 GMT

The Ghost Club and The Society for Psychical Research were organisations that started in the same year 1882 in London. They were both created in a response to the great interest that British society had in the spirit world and the paranormal in the Victorian period. this podcast attempts to explain the differences in the organisations by giving some case histories examined by the clubs. Both organisations exist today but are much changed from their original form.

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Strange Stories UK , Sex games gone wrong, the Christina Abbotts murder.

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:00:00 GMT

Spring 2018, Crawley UK. A young woman found murdered in a flat she was looking after for a friend. A secret life emerged to friends and family as the police investigated, she was an escort girl. The person convicted of the murder was a well paid city worker who had a secret life of sex clubs and escorts. Modern Britain with its instant communications allows some people live out a fantasy life where real life and fantasy become tragically blurred.

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Corrupt London part 2 paedophilic activity

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 13:00:00 GMT

Part 2 of paedophilic activity in London. We concentrate here on three main strands. The activities of Roger Gleaves and Sidney Cooke who seemed to corrupt youngsters from the 1960/70/80/90s without too much hinderance from the law, they seem to have been involved in the rape and murder of underage boys during this period. They both seem to have connections to strand three which is the Elm Guest House which was a hotel for homosexual paedophiles in the 1980s. The murder of Jason Swift is well recorded and there was a successful prosecution for his murder but there are a number of other murders of young boys that did not result in prosecution. There are reports that videos of boys deaths were recorded on film after sexual assaults. I recommend anyone interested should look at the scepticpeg web pages that has images of newspaper reports and lots of excellent information and links about this .

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Strange Stories UK, Corruption in London, part 1

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 23:00:00 GMT

This episode has been inspired by the book by Anthony Daly, 'Playland' secrets of a forgotten scandal. Playland refers to a homosexual/rent boy vice ring centring on the Playland amusement arcade in Piccadilly during the mid 1970s. To understand how it operated, the problem of police corruption in the area is examined. As a related side topic we also look at a homosexual vice ring operating from the Guards army barracks in central London at this time.
This podcast is part 1 of a 3 part story

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Strange Stories UK, Witchcraft, human sacrifice and child trafficking in London, today

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

21 Sept 2001, a torso of a young boy found in the Thames caused an investigation into the hidden world of African witchcraft taking place in London, which revealed possible human sacrifice to aid human trafficking from Africa to Europe and in particular London. An examination of witchcraft practices taking place in London by people of Nigerian and Congolese origin that the authorities find so difficult to investigate and some tragic consequences for abused children accused of being witches.

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Strange Stories UK Aimee Spencer podcast

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Aimee Spencer was a larger than life character, a modern woman who took on the world on her terms. One of her friends was Daniel Lewis, a spoilt rich kid from a newly wealthy family who had a lot of influence. Daniel was a high end drug dealer. At a party at his flat in Brighton in 2016, Aimee plunged to her death from his flat, probably an accident. Daniel faced court for his drug dealing but it has been suggested that his family influence got him a very reduced non custodial sentence. There are many unanswered questions in the case; however the readers of a local Brighton newspaper and probably Aimee's family forced a re-sentence. Partly a reflection on modern day society where the well connected and wealthy find it easier to avoid punishment in the courts for their wrongdoing.
Having criticised Sussex police in the past, I am happy to to say that they did some good work in this case, although frustrated by the system.

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Strange Stories UK, Rats in Britain according to Buckland and Mayhew

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:00:00 GMT

An examination of some aspects of the history of the rat in Britain according to Frank Buckland and Henry Mayhew, Victorian scientists. Not a normal episode but more of an interesting ramble on some bizarre and interesting facts in order to post a podcast while I am away for a couple of weeks.

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Loch Ness podcast

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

A sideways look at the Loch Ness Mystery, an examination of some of the characters involved in the story and some possible candidates for the sightings. A realisation that Loch Ness is an unusual place and strange things have been seen to happen there. This podcast examines some of the characters involved and some possible candidates for the 'monster'

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Shana Grice A Sussex stalking story

Sat, 09 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Shana Grice was a teenager living independently in Brighton. A work colleague became infatuated by her and started stalking. Shana asked the police for protection, but they gave her a fixed penalty notice for wasting their time. Within six months Shana was murdered in her own home.

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Strange Stories UK Robert Trigg from Worthing

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Drunken domestic violence in Worthing West Sussex. Robert Trigg played the dating game but was the date you did not want. Charming company when sober but a violent jealous drunk. Robert killed two of his girlfriends claiming they had died accidentally when he rolled on them while asleep. Sussex Police accepted his story but his second victims parents did not and spent their savings on bringing Trigg to justice despite Sussex Police telling them nothing was wrong. A sad story but let us acknowledge Peter and Elizabeth Skelton of Worthing for fighting for justice.

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Strange Stories UK The Baccarat scandal

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Edward Prince of Wales is staying at Tranby Croft while attending the horse racing at Doncaster during September 1890. His entourage are enjoying the hospitality of a shipping magnate Mr Wilson. A game of baccarat results in allegations of cheating and a court case that was talked of around the world. Was sexual jealously behind the allegations and was the court case biased?

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Strange Stories UK Alfred Rouse The burning car murder.

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

London 1930. A man who had many lovers decides to disappear. He chooses a victim to kill as if it himself that has died in order to end his problems. A case that intrigued the British press in 1931.

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Strange Stories UK, Gaia Pope

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:00:00 GMT

Gaia Pope was a talented teenager from a loving family who lived in a quiet Dorset village. She became a victim of a sexual pervert she met at college, incompetent policing , austerity cuts and a lack of provision from social services in rural Dorset. Despite a huge community effort to find her, it was too late. As her family said, this is not a story just about Gaia, but all young women let down by the system.

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Strange Stories UK , Dr. Bodkin Adams.

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:00:00 GMT

John Bodkin Adams was accused of being one of the greatest mass murderers in history. Was this doctor practicing in the South coast town of Eastbourne wrongly accused by small town gossip or was he cleared by a Masonic conspiracy?
Did Adams plan to kill elderly patients with heroin and morphine after he persuaded them to change their wills in his favour, or did he have their best interests at heart offering pain relief?

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Strange Stories UK , A Christmas Ghost story 2018.

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:00:00 GMT

Strange Stories UK. Two Ghost stories, one I experienced and another told to me. These are not Hammer Horror stories and probably have a rational explanation. However it is Christmas and there is time to examine such stories.

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Strange Stories UK, Babes in the Brighton wood murder

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:00:00 GMT

October 1986 two nine year old girls are found murdered in a wooded park in Brighton, UK. There is a suspect who is charged but found not guilty. People in Brighton are still suspicious that the person acquitted was the murderer. There is a law change which allows the suspect who is serving a long sentence for a sexual offence against a seven year old, is to be tried again. The trial is known as the 'Babes in the wood' murders. A case that will always be remembered in Brighton.

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Strange Stories UK David Kelly's strange death and reasons for the invasion of Iraq.

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:00:00 GMT

Why did a scientist die in a wood in Oxfordshire? Was it suicide or was he murdered? I seems certain that secret police were involved and that the scientist knew of secrets that caused a war. We examine the life of that scientist David Kelly who died in July 2003 to try to discover the reasons for his death.

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Strange Stories UK Historic Sex Crimes in Brighton.

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:00:00 GMT

Brighton, a GAY friendly party town in the 1980s where some sexual predators took advantage of vulnerable young men.

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Strange Stories UK, Satanism in Sussex

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:00:00 GMT

There was a Satanism scare in Britain during the late 1970s and 1980s. This is an aspect of what was happening in Sussex during the 1980s ending in a trial that could be seen as part Dennis Wheatley and part a dark 'Carry On' comedy.

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Strange Stories UK, The Cartland murder

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Spring 1973, an unsolved murder case that caused no end of speculation, criticism of the French police and diplomatic manoeuvring to fudge the differences of French and British law. Was it organised crime or a a political execution or a family squabble?

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Strange Stories UK , When country lines goes wrong.

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Max and Ace, young and inexperienced, thought they would make some easy money moving from South London to sell drugs in the Sussex market town of Horsham. Things went wrong quite quickly.

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Strange Stories UK Piltdown man and Charles Dawson

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:00:00 GMT

The most famous fossil forgery and archaeological fraud was Piltdown man, this is an examination into Charles Dawson who I think was responsible for the fraud.

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Strange Stories UK, Folkestone Poltergeist

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 23:00:00 GMT

A true story set during world war 1 on the Kent coastline where poltergeist activity was thought to be taking place. The army commisioned a report amongst others to try to get some understanding what was taking place.

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Strange Stories UK, Midlife crisis, UK true crime.

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:00:00 GMT

UK true crime case from 2016. A story involving infatuation and murder on the South coast of Sussex.

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