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Strange Stories UK
by DBC
true crime, mysteries, strange stories, stories,paranormal, UK, I try to be factual and not give too many opinions. Podcasts are 'low fi' with out any editing.
Episodes
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Strange Stories UK: Alan Patrick Reeve, Billy Doyle, Chaos at Broadmoor
Send us Fan Mail January 2023, 34-year-old Hugo Flint Cahan was strangled by fellow patient Rolando Torres-Pena, aged 22, on Topaz Ward at Newham Mental Health Centre in east London. An inquest reported in September 2026 revealed serious failings in patient supervision, including staff sleeping...
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Strange Stories UK: The hidden history of Brompton, Yorkshire; and murder.
Send us Fan Mail The hidden history of a Yorkshire village. A quiet landscape which contains thousands of years of conflict. This podcasts moves from 1138, the battle of the standard to 2026 domestic violence. The central story involves a 1950 murder which seemed unusual on a number of counts....
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Strange Stories UK. Manchester and the Bennell blemish
Send us Fan Mail This episode examines the seperate crimes of Ronald Bennell and Barry Bennell, two members of the same family whose offences became part of Manchester’s criminal history. Ronald Bennell was convicted on two separate occasions 15 years apart of rape and murder. Barry Bennell was...
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Strange Stories UK: Deaths in Middlesborough, what are we not being told?
Send us Fan Mail Following events in Middlesborough last weekend, on the lunch time news today, Friday 28 August, it seems that trouble continues. I wanted to understand what was going on so put this short podcast together. This was made in two hours so not a very polished but it includes all…
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Strange Stories: Music, Misfits and Murder, Chelsea on the eve of the Swinging Sixties
Send us Fan Mail This is a bit of a ramble about Chelsea, London in 1962. Rolling Stones and the Beatles get a mention as does the Kings Road and a murder.
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Strange Stories UK: Jason Arday is dead, is anyone to blame?
Send us Fan Mail This is a short podcast after the sad news that Jason Arday was found dead yesterday, Friday 14 August 2026. As I have made a couple of podcasts on the Arday affair, I thought I would make some final comments. This matter is not going to be forgotten as a result of the many…
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Strange Stories: Jason Arday 2: How was he appointed at Cambridge University?
Send us Fan Mail This is another podcast concerning the Jason Arday affair at Cambridge University. Although so much has been posted on the subject I was concerned that those involved in Arday’s appointment had not been widely made. I thought I would name them hopefully in a neutral way. To make…
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Strange Stories UK: Jason Arday and the failure of the University of Cambridge.
Send us Fan Mail I have read this story in the news reports today and felt like making a podcast on it. It concerns a Critical Race theory sociologist who was appointed a professor at the University of Cambridge. The person was Jason Arday and he had not been truthful in his claims and should…
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Strange Stories UK: The Strange Case of Michele Lupo.
Send us Fan Mail The Michele Lupo case is the story of a serial killer and also a window into the mid 1980s London of High Society and High fashion. Also of the London GAY community during the AIDS crisis. The whole story will never be told as some influential characters involved thought it best...
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Strange Stories : The Peter B's, Fleetwood Mac and the Cobham Apparition
Send us Fan Mail The Peter B's, Fleetwood Mac and the Cobham Apparition explores one of Britain's most unusual ghost stories. In November 1965, four young musicians—including future Fleetwood Mac founders Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood—reported seeing a mysterious figure beside the A3 near…
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Strange Stories UK: Tattooing people and Stories from the UK.
Send us Fan Mail Some offbeat stories about tattooing in the UK since the late Victorian period up to the modern day. Told in one take outside in the garden, lo fi and with a replacement microphone.
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Strange Stories : Double murder at Cadno Farm, Wales.
Send us Fan Mail Ronnie Harries was in his mid twenties, newly married with a baby girl living in rural South Wales, a member of a community where he had lived all his life. How did he think he could kill relatives he called uncle and auntie and take over their farm without anyone asking where…
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Strange Stories: Hanwell, London. A forgotten murder.
Send us Fan Mail This is a case you will not be aware of. A forgotten murder. A marriage dispute where a man kills his wife. What is a surprise is the sentence. Recorded in one take in the garden, with no edit, I do not even listen through after recording, so apologies for any mistakes.
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Strange Stories: Belmont Road, Southampton murder.
Send us Fan Mail Belmont road Southampton. Henry Novak was murdered outside number 68 Belmont Road during May 2026. 66 years before this date, there was another murder at 11 Belmont Road. At that time, the UK was a different country, this is the story. Recorded in one take, without editing.
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Strange Stories UK: Melanie Hall, Bath unsolved murder 30 years on.
Send us Fan Mail I wanted to post this podcast on the 30th anniversary of the unsolved murder of Melanie Hall on 9 June 1996. I know Bath well having lived there during the 1980s. This is the story of Melanie Hall's disappearance and murder. The police have the case open and are asking for help…
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Strange Stories UK: The ghosts of the Airship R101.
Send us Fan Mail This podcast is based on Eric Dingwall’s private papers that became available to view by the public during October 2025 at London University. It is about the R101 that crashed in October 1930, and resulting seances and investigations into the crash and the resulting Official...
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Strange Stories UK, Henry Nowak, Southampton Murder.
Send us Fan Mail This case has just made national news headlines. It was not widely reported at the time or when the trial started but police worn body cam footage was reminiscent of the Black Lives Matter case when George Floyd Jr restrained by police said he could not breath and was ignored by...
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Strange Stories UK: Windrush Men, Marriage and Murder
Send us Fan Mail Windrush Men, Marriage and Murder” examines a series of domestic homicide cases involving Caribbean and African migrants in postwar Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on police files, psychiatric reports, witness statements and court records, it explores how jealousy,...
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Strange Stories : Eva C, Margery and Stella C séances & scandals investigated by the SPR
Send us Fan Mail This podcast will be niche. It is an in depth assessment about the Society of Psychical Research’s investigations into three famous mediums of the 1920s. Eva C., also known as Marthe Béraud or Eva Carrière, and Mina Crandon, better known as Margery and Dorothy Stella Cranshaw…
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Strange Stories UK. The 2025 murder of Karen Carter in the Dordogne.
Send us Fan Mail Something a little different in this podcast, an unsolved murder in the Dordogne. Karen Carter was murdered in April 2025 at her home in a small French village. A couple of months earlier a British couple were killed about 100n kms away and there were similarities. This was also…
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Strange Stories UK : The Wimbledon car crash of 6 July 2023 mystery.
Send us Fan Mail This is a curious case. July 2023, a car mounts a pavement and crashes into a school injuring a number of people and killing two 8 year old girls who were all standing on a lawn in the school grounds. There seems to be a news blackout after initial reports. A year later, 2024…
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Strange Stories UK: The missing boys of South London. What happened to Kevin Hicks?.
Send us Fan Mail During the 1980s there were at least 10 pre-teenage and teenage boys that went missing from South London. This podcast is a reflection on what may have happened to them, the focal point is the case of Kevin Hicks who went missing on Sunday 2 march 1986 from Croydon.
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Strange Stories UK: Richmond, Surrey. A fatal stabbing, unnoticed during a family argument.
Send us Fan Mail July 1966. A Labour government in trouble, America getting bogged down in a foreign war and England winning a world cup, Are there Parallels with July 2026? This case is long forgotten today from Richmond, Surrey. The sons from the dysfunctional Brown family fight in the living...
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Strange Stories UK: Society of Psychical Research investigations 1919-1922.
Send us Fan Mail A selection of Society of Psychical Research investigations 1919-1922 get a mention and brief analysis. Lord Rayleigh's presidential address. Arthur Conan Doyle, Veronica Laparelli, Hereward Carrington, The Swanton Novers poltergeist, The Woods family tradition, book review about...
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Strange Stories UK Society of Psychical Research investigations 1917 and 1918.
Send us Fan Mail Society of Psychical Research investigations 1917 and 1918. Usual poor narration, warning this is lo-fi, recorded in one take and no editing. There are also mistakes. I call Oliver lodge a physicist when he was a physician. I was conscious of this mistake at the time but there…
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Strange Stories UK: Not a podcast, an announcement about Podcast Bully, Murder Mile.
Send us Fan Mail Please be advised that this is not a podcast but an announcement. I feel sorry that I have to make this boring and tedious announcement, but I feel I have to stand up to a fellow podcaster who I find an arrogant bully.
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Strange Stories UK. Organised Crime in London 1975, murder of Biddy Gold 2
Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of the Biddy Gold murder investigation. Crime gangs, corrupt police, suspicions about Bernie Silvers. Please be advised, recorded in one take without editing.
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Strange Stories UK. Organised crime in London 1975, murder of Biddy Gold part 1
Send us Fan Mail 1975 was a time of corruption in Central London. There was a power struggle taking place over the vice trade in Soho. The Bernie Silvers led Syndicate was losing control of the area after investigations into corruption had exposed it. Although Silvers was in jail there may have...
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Strange Stories UK: The Mystery of Alice Williams and June McKechnie
Send us Fan Mail This podcast is about events and a mystery that took place in London during 1950. A very different London than exists today. The story centres on a small cafe in Paddington. Told in one take and without editing.
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Strange Stories UK. The Mystery of Sandy Lane, Ham Hill, Somerset.
Send us Fan Mail This is a story you have not heard before. It comes from the unpublished papers of Eric Dingwall. It concerns an incident at Ham Hill in Somerset that was investigated by Dingwall. Not much happens and not much is resolved but it has some interest of the type of investigation…
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Strange Stories UK: Peter Griffiths, Blackburn murderer.
Send us Fan Mail Warning. This episode is not suitable for children. The police files on this case were released to the public in 1924. It tells of a dreadful event in Blackburn during 1948. The podcast is recorded in one take and has not been edited.
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Strange Stories UK. Society of Psychical Research investigations during 1915 and 1916
Send us Fan Mail This is another podcast looking at some investigations by the Society of Psychical Research during 1915 and 1916 during World War 1. So not a podcast to interest everyone. This podcast examines some premonition and myths during the war, perhaps the best known being the Angels of...
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Strange Stories UK: A Bloody weekend in Plumstead.
Send us Fan Mail Two murders unconnected within a mile and three days of each other in Plumstead, a district in South East London. This podcast is recorded in one take without editing.
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Strange Stories UK : Duke of York, Fitzrovia incident and murder.
Send us Fan Mail Please be advised that the podcast starts after about six minutes when I share with you an accusation made by another podcaster who has called me a disgusting plagiarist. The story when it starts, is a forgotton story about an affray at the Duke of York public house when some…
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Strange Stories UK :Journal for the Society of Psychical Research, selected stories 1913-14.
Send us Fan Mail I thought I would try something a little different for the podcast during 2026. Each month (in conjunction with the usual podcast content) I shall broadcast a podcast giving selected stories from SPR’s journal as they have been bound together (two years at a time) in the British...
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William Hepper of Chelsea and Brighton. painter, spy, BBC employee and child killer.
Send us Fan Mail This is the last podcast of 2025, calling it William Hepper of Chelsea and Brighton. painter, spy, BBC employee and child killer. A case you are unlikely to have ever known about. An unpleasant story, I try not to comment, please listen and make up your own mind.
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Strange Stories UK, Ghost story for Christmas 2025, The Sauchie Case.
Send us Fan Mail Podcast 243 and the number eight Christmas podcast. This case took place in Scotland sixty five years ago over the Christmas period of 1960 in Sauchi, Scotland. Skeptics that studied the case concluded that some of the phenomena reported was genuine although they could not be…
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Strange Stories : A Forgotten Newcastle Murder.
Send us Fan Mail This is a forgotten murder from a different time. 63 years ago, in the city of Newcastle a minor crime of embezzlement led to a murder. Not so much an exciting story but more of a reflection of the time. Told in one take without editing.
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Strange Stories UK: Nora and Judy fall out, Chiswick 1971.
Send us Fan Mail Another short podcast while I am away. This is a story of a couple of women who breaking up in London in 1971 had a nasty falling out. Told in one take without editing.
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Strange Stories UK: Soho murder and prison. The life of George Pickering
Send us Fan Mail I am still out of the country so am posting some shorter podcasts to keep the podcast ticking over. This one concerns a case from 1963 going on to 1967. The podcast is recorded in a studio that is soundproofed but visited by various cats and dogs and sometimes other creatures.…
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Strange Stories UK: Dorothy Wallis, High Holborn.
Send us Fan Mail This is a short podcast just to post something while I am away. Daisy / Dorothy Wallis started a business in High Holborn, central London. She lived a quiet home life with her parents, one wonders who would have wished her harm ?
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Strange Stories UK: Chloe and Josh Bashford, Newhaven, Sussex murders
Send us Fan Mail Chloe and Josh Bashford lived at Newhaven with their four children. Their lives were ended by a family friend who killed them for no understandable reason and then claimed diminished responsibility. The killer will be sentenced on 6 November 2025. This podcast was recorded in one...
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Strange Stories UK : Halloween 2025, BBC live broadcast of Dene Manor haunting.
Send us Fan Mail This podcast has been produced while I am away, recorded with a borrowed microphone and on a MacBook laptop with which I can't seem to upload any background music. Recorded in one take without editing this is the story off the BBC's first live broadcast from a haunted house....
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Strange Stories UK: The Strange Story of John Kealty
Send us Fan Mail John Kealty travelled to Mexico to write a travel guide in the style of a Lonely Planet guide twenty years before they were a thing. It did not end well.
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Strange Stories UK: Egon Von Bulow. South London cop killer.
Send us Fan Mail This case is in living memory. Going back to 1974. Egon Von Bulow's parents came from South America, had him while in the UK, then left him when they went back home. Not an ideal start for him. He grew up anti authoritarian. He shot three policemen and committed other crimes…
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Strange Stories UK: Where British soldiers sacrificed to appease public opinion? Suez.
Send us Fan Mail This case happened in Egypt in 1950, so just about in Living memory. It was a difficult time for British-Egyptian relations. When three soldiers were involved in a murder and tried by a British Court Martial, all politicians tried not to get involved as it was easier for all...
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Strange Stories UK : Ghost Club Chronicles part 1
Send us Fan Mail A selection of Ghost Club discussion topics 1902-1913. These include : Haunted bottles, Egyptian mummy curses, Mrs Etta Wreight’s seances, The Glastonbury Cup, Whymper’s pony, The Pickwick mystery and the Dorchester incident. My narration is not great and there is a pug called…
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Strange Stories: Stephanie Marie and Nimroy Hendricks cases Crawley West Sussex.
Send us Fan Mail Two recent tragic killings from West Sussex. Both preventable, both the result partly of council cuts. These stories are told in one take in lo-fi. Here are the end stories of Stephanie Marie and Nimroy Hendricks, their lives ending just as they were beginning.
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Strange Stories : The Reverend Davidson of Stiffkey
Send us Fan Mail The story of Reverend Davidson, the vicar of Stiffkey dominated the newspapers in the early 1930s. This is the story. The Lion and Albert, By Stanley Holloway was a comic monologue inspired by actual events they had heard about in 1932. The events in this podcast happened in…
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Strange Stories, Manchester Airport Attack, Amaaz and Amaad court case.
Send us Fan Mail Brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad were tried for assault at Liverpool Crown Court. The case is of interest due to CCTV footage going viral amid accusations of violent racist behaviour by the police and accusations of two tier policing. This podcast is posted…
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true crime, mysteries, strange stories, stories,paranormal, UK, I try to be factual and not give too many opinions. Podcasts are 'low fi' with out any editing.
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