Episodios

  • Strange Stories UK: Soho murder and prison. The life of George Pickering
    Nov 17 2025

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    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.

    This podcast is set in Soho, Central London an area where I used to work and knew quite well back in the late 1980s.

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    26 m
  • Strange Stories UK: Dorothy Wallis, High Holborn.
    Nov 10 2025

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    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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    21 m
  • Strange Stories UK: Chloe and Josh Bashford, Newhaven, Sussex murders
    Nov 3 2025

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    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 take with no editing with animals in the room.

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    30 m
  • Strange Stories UK : Halloween 2025, BBC live broadcast of Dene Manor haunting.
    Oct 23 2025

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    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. Dene/Dean manor, Meopham, Kent on 10 March 1936.

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    34 m
  • Strange Stories UK: The Strange Story of John Kealty
    Oct 13 2025

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    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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    30 m
  • Strange Stories UK: Egon Von Bulow. South London cop killer.
    Sep 30 2025

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    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 after seemingly losing control during July 1974. He could be living near you today.

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    33 m
  • Strange Stories UK: Where British soldiers sacrificed to appease public opinion? Suez.
    Sep 16 2025

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    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 involved to bury an awkward problem.

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    28 m
  • Strange Stories UK : Ghost Club Chronicles part 1
    Sep 9 2025

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    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 Otto snoring at my feet and it is recorded in one take without editing.


    his is the first of four podcasts I will post on Ghost Club meetings over the course of the next year.


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    49 m