Some people experience the unexplained once, and spend the rest of their lives trying to understand it.

For Catherine Jackson, it has never been just one moment. It has been a lifetime of knowing things before they happened, sensing presences in empty rooms, hearing voices with no visible source, and living alongside something that seems to follow from house to house.

From childhood in Western Australia, Catherine carried a quiet certainty about events before they unfolded. She knew when her grandmother was about to arrive. She sensed the death of her father before the news reached her. Years later, she would hear a radio report of a well-known entertainer’s death a full week before it was officially announced.

But Catherine’s story reaches far beyond premonition. Across decades, homes, relationships, and generations, strange activity has continued around her and her family. A hand stopping her from stepping into traffic. A shadow figure standing beside the bed. A child seen in the kitchen and then gone. Objects vanishing and reappearing in impossible places. Voices calling from empty rooms. And, perhaps most unsettling of all, a doppelgänger seen by her own son: an exact version of Catherine sitting on her bed, reading, while Catherine herself was miles away.

This is a deeply personal witness account of paranormal encounters, family memory, grief, intuition, and the strange possibility that some people don’t simply pass through the unexplained. They live with it.

A calm, atmospheric journey into one woman’s lifelong relationship with the unseen — and the question of whether a haunting can follow a person, rather than a place.

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After closing time in a Somerset social club, the music had stopped, the guests had gone, and the building should have been empty.

But as Helen cleaned behind the bar, she saw an elderly woman walking slowly across the dance floor towards the toilets. She hadn’t heard anyone enter. The doors hadn’t opened. And when Helen and her colleague went to check, there was no one there.

In this Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, a listener recalls a quiet Saturday night shift that turned into something far stranger: a vanishing figure, a locked escape route, an empty toilet block, and the sudden sound of furniture scraping across the floor.

What follows is a short but deeply unsettling true paranormal experience from Somerset, where an ordinary social club seems to hold the echo of a presence that had appeared before — and left behind the same impossible detail.

A ghostly woman. A single chair. And a building that may not have been as empty as it seemed.

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Some stories aren’t built around fear.

They’re built around presence, memory, family, and the quiet hope that love may continue beyond death.

In this opening case from The Witness Files, Haunted UK Podcast shares Jenny’s deeply personal account of paranormal experiences spanning several generations. Her story moves from wartime London and whispered voices in a bedroom, to a former Bethnal Green fire station where unseen footsteps, missing objects, and the sound of an unknown man whistling became part of everyday family life.

At the heart of the case is Jenny’s father — a London fireman, a husband, a grandfather, and a man whose presence may have continued long after his passing. From a child’s sighting in a cathedral, to an impossible electronic game playing without batteries, to a medium’s message that revealed an old promise made between husband and wife, this is a witness account filled with grief, tenderness, and the possibility of reunion.

Atmospheric, intimate, and emotionally powerful, this episode explores family hauntings, after-death communication, inherited sensitivity, wartime memory, and the enduring question of whether those we love may still find ways to reach us from the other side.

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A beautiful antique wardrobe is brought into a warm family home.

Soon, the atmosphere begins to change.

Then the noises start from inside.

In this deeply unsettling listener account, Haunted UK Podcast shares Libby’s story — a terrifying sequence of events that unfolded over ten months when she was twelve years old, after her father brought home a large carved wardrobe from a house clearance.

At first, the disturbances are small: a shape seen moving at an upstairs window, unexplained bangs from inside the wardrobe, doors opening, strange sounds, and a growing darkness in a house that had never felt haunted before. But as the activity intensifies, Libby and her mother both begin experiencing something far more disturbing — a presence that seems connected to the wardrobe itself.

There are visions of an old woman, voices in the night, bruising atmospheres, objects vanishing and reappearing, and one horrifying moment when Libby hides inside the wardrobe during a game and hears two words whispered in her ear: “Don’t scream.”

What follows leaves physical marks, fractures trust beyond the family home, and forces her parents to destroy the object they believe brought something into their lives.

Atmospheric, intimate and genuinely chilling, this episode explores haunted objects, family testimony, doppelgänger-like encounters, antique furniture, and the frightening possibility that some things carry their history with them.

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Some experiences don’t arrive with warning.

They pass quietly through families, through generations, and through moments that change everything.

In this Short Haunt, Natalie shares the story of an extraordinary event in her life — one that suggests a remarkable gift may have been passed down through her family. What begins as a deeply personal account becomes something much larger: a story of intuition, legacy, and the possibility that some people carry abilities they don’t fully understand until the moment they’re needed.

Intimate, atmospheric and quietly powerful, this is a listener story about the unexplained entering ordinary life — and altering the course of someone’s future.

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A brand-new house should feel untouched.

No history in the walls. No memories in the rooms. No reason for anything to linger.

But when Jackie and her children moved into a new-build home in Norfolk, the house soon began to reveal something much older beneath its clean surfaces. A smoke alarm that stopped only when spoken to, a freezing downstairs toilet, the sound of a sickly cough, and the repeated sight of a woman watching from an upstairs window all suggested that the land itself may have carried a darker past.

As the activity grew, so did the number of witnesses. Jackie’s children saw a small red dog running through the house. A boiler engineer saw it too. A woman in Victorian dress appeared in the downstairs bathroom, workshop sounds echoed through rooms that had never been workshops, and a bearded man in a top hat was seen reflected in the window.

Blending true paranormal testimony, local history and the lingering question of whether old land can hold old memories, this Short Haunt explores a home where the haunting may not have belonged to the building at all — but to the ground beneath it.

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A black mass rushes up a staircase.

A strange creature waits at the edge of Cannock Chase.

A voice calls from upstairs, and someone familiar stands in the dark — except it isn’t really them.

In this final listener stories collection of the season, Haunted UK Podcast brings together a wide range of true paranormal experiences from ordinary people who found themselves caught in extraordinary moments. These accounts move from haunted family homes and unexplained poltergeist activity, to strange creatures, military hauntings, battlefield anomalies, prophetic dreams and deeply personal encounters that seem to cross the line between memory, grief and the unexplained.

There are stories from Denton Burn, Cannock Chase, Lincolnshire, HMS Daedalus, Normandy, Luton Hoo and quiet family houses where the past appears to keep returning. Listeners share accounts of disembodied footsteps, moving objects, shadowy forms, phantom voices, ghostly figures, strange animals, possible doppelgängers, and children who seem able to see what adults cannot.

Atmospheric, varied and deeply human, this episode closes the season with a powerful reminder of what makes listener testimony so compelling: these stories don’t happen in distant ruins or on dramatic stages.

They happen at home, at work, on familiar roads, and in the rooms we think we know best.

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Some childhood memories fade.

Others wait quietly in the dark, unchanged, until something brings them back.

In this Short Haunt, Cassie takes us back to 1993 — to bikes, ghost stories, derelict places, and a family house that never quite felt like home. After a day spent frightening herself with friends, she wakes in the early hours to find a woman standing at the foot of her bed. At first, in the confusion of darkness and panic, she thinks it might be her mother.

But then comes the terrible realisation: whoever — or whatever — is standing there, it isn’t her.

Years later, a conversation in the garden with her mum reveals a detail Cassie had never been told: a woman may once have died in that very bedroom, possibly in a fire. What follows is an unsettling account of childhood fear, family history, night terror, grief, coincidence and the possibility that certain rooms remember more than they should.

Atmospheric, intimate and quietly disturbing, this is a story about the places we grow up in, the things we sense before we understand them, and the memories that never fully leave us.

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An abandoned waterworks.

A site surrounded by old reservoirs, railway lines and stories no one wanted to tell.

Then the machinery moved by itself.

In this Short Haunt, an anonymous listener shares their experiences while working as a contractor at the former Vange Treatment Works in Fobbing, Essex — a site they once approached as a sceptic, and left as a believer.

What began with an old disconnected bell ringing by itself soon became something far stranger. A heavy torque wrench was seen throwing itself across a workshop. A man in a white T-shirt appeared in the yard before fading away. Childlike handprints appeared on locked machinery, voices were heard where no one should have been, and a towering black-robed figure was witnessed near the back of the site.

But the most disturbing moment came one night during late work, when a woman’s scream cut through the noise of heavy machinery — loud enough to stop the team, bring police to the site, and leave the incident officially unexplained.

Blending industrial history, workplace haunting, poltergeist activity and witness testimony, this is a chilling account of a place where water, memory and tragedy may have left something behind. And with the old site now redeveloped into housing, the story raises one final unsettling question: if the buildings are gone, what remains on the land?

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A naval officer walks through a locked door beneath Dover Castle.

A child speaks to figures no one else can see.

A haunted pub keeps its own secrets, and a Ouija board may have opened something that refused to leave.

In this fourth collection of listener stories, Haunted UK Podcast gathers a wide range of true paranormal accounts from people whose experiences have stayed with them for years. From the wartime tunnels beneath Dover Castle to haunted homes in Kent, the ghostly village of Pluckley, Fort Amherst, a North Devon pub, and a Canadian shop where a child’s voice calls for help after closing time, these stories move between the deeply personal and the genuinely unsettling.

There are accounts of imaginary friends, poltergeist activity, disembodied voices, haunted workplaces, strange lights in graveyards, ghostly figures, unexplained footsteps, moving objects, and the lingering presence of loved ones. The episode also builds toward Diana’s terrifying account of a hooded black apparition, occult objects, a Ouija board, and a family’s desperate attempt to remove something from their home.

Atmospheric, varied and quietly chilling, this episode explores what happens when ordinary people encounter something they can’t dismiss — and why some doors, once opened, may not be easy to close.

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Some childhood memories stay bright.

Others return like a shadow at the edge of the mind.

In this Short Haunt, John takes us back to the summer of 1984, when he and his closest friend Paul were teenagers in Chatham, Kent — spending long days on BMX bikes, exploring parks, old tunnels and the local cemetery. What began as an ordinary summer afternoon became something neither of them would ever forget.

Sitting near the old graves, the two friends noticed a figure emerging from the direction of the church and greenhouse. At first, they thought it might be a caretaker. But as it drew closer, they saw something far more unsettling: a jet-black human-shaped figure, wearing what looked like a top hat and long coat, with no face, no detail and no visible legs.

As the shadow moved through the graves and began following them, the afternoon turned into a frantic escape — one that left both witnesses shaken for decades. Years later, after finally deciding to tell the story, John experienced something in the same area that made him wonder whether the shadow had ever truly gone.

Atmospheric, personal and deeply unsettling, this is a story of childhood freedom, old cemeteries, shared terror and the memories that never quite leave us.

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A voice calls from behind an empty staircase.

A grave seems to move in an Irish cemetery.

A room in an old hotel carries a fear so powerful it feels alive.

In this third collection of listener stories, Haunted UK Podcast brings together another atmospheric range of true paranormal experiences from people whose encounters refuse to fade. These accounts move from haunted family homes and strange workplaces, to rural Wales, Irish graveyards, Australian restaurants, Dudley Castle, and a deeply unsettling hotel room in Oregon.

There are stories of shadow figures, phantom voices, unexplained growls, objects moving by themselves, vanishing graves, haunted shops, strange reflections, unseen presences and family spirits. The episode also closes with Tom’s account of an old former care home, where voices seemed to mimic the living, knocks sounded at empty doors, and a black dog appeared to be seen by more than one witness.

Varied, intimate and quietly disturbing, this episode explores the kind of paranormal moments that don’t arrive with explanation — only memory, uncertainty, and the feeling that something unseen may have been close enough to speak.

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A teenage farm boy works alone through the night.

The tractor moves through darkness.

Then a silent silver object descends into the field — and hours disappear.

In this Short Haunt, David shares the remarkable story of his father’s experience on an isolated farm in New South Wales, Australia, in the 1950s. While ploughing wheat fields overnight, his father recalls a sudden flash of light, a silent craft in the sky, and then almost nothing at all — until dawn, when he returns with missing time, far less work completed than expected, and no clear memory of the night.

The details that remain are difficult to explain. The tractor had used only a fraction of the fuel it should have. The field had not been ploughed as far as it should have. And when he undressed, his clothing was arranged differently from how he always wore it against the cold.

Decades later, the memory still troubles him. Blending UFO testimony, rural isolation, missing time and the unsettling possibility of contact with something unknown, this is a quiet, eerie account of a night in the fields that may have changed one man’s view of the world forever.

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A locked botanical garden.

A winter evening patrol.

An elderly woman walking slowly along the path… where no one should have been.

In this Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares Connor Pilling’s unsettling account of an encounter that took place when he was thirteen years old. While helping his father, a security officer at a UK botanical garden, Connor joined the final sweep of the grounds after closing time — checking gates, paths, and clearings to make sure no visitors had been left behind.

Then their torchlight caught sight of an elderly woman ahead of them. She didn’t respond when they called out. She continued walking until she reached a bend in the path… and vanished.

What makes the account even more disturbing is what Connor learned later. His father and several colleagues had reportedly seen the same figure in the same grounds before. For Connor, the experience changed everything. The darkness he had never feared before suddenly felt occupied, uncertain, and alive with possibilities he could no longer dismiss.

Quiet, direct, and deeply unnerving, this short true paranormal story explores a repeated ghost sighting, childhood fear, haunted landscapes, and the moment a single encounter can permanently alter the way someone sees the world.

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A hooded figure walks through a quiet village before dawn.

A haunted mansion reveals something in the cellar.

A Ouija board session opens a door that may not have been properly closed.

In this second collection of listener stories, Haunted UK Podcast gathers another range of true paranormal experiences from people whose encounters have left a lasting mark. These accounts move from Woodchester Mansion and rural Northern Ireland, to haunted sports clubs, time-slip pubs, family homes, Dublin ghost tours and deeply personal experiences with spirits, shadows and strange presences.

There are stories of blue lights, unseen touches, ghostly figures, impossible footsteps, haunted bedrooms, a phantom walking man, a cricket player in an empty club, and a vanished village pub that may have belonged to another time. The episode also centres on Katie’s remarkable testimony as a practising witch, including her warnings about Ouija boards, spirit communication, shadow entities, haunted places in Dublin, and the lingering presence of a beloved familiar.

Atmospheric, varied and unsettling, this episode explores the moments when ordinary people step into something far older, stranger and harder to explain — and what can happen when the boundary between this world and the next is treated too lightly.

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A dream reveals details that shouldn’t be known.

A ghostly gentleman appears in Tasmania.

A young woman hears someone moving through an empty flat — and realises she may not be alone.

In this first collection of listener stories from Episode 50, Haunted UK Podcast brings together a powerful mix of true paranormal encounters from ordinary people whose experiences continue to trouble, comfort and fascinate them.

These accounts move from precognitive dreams and possible spirit guides, to haunted family homes, ghostly visitations, phantom footsteps, strange smells, shadow figures, time slips, impossible phone calls from the dead, and one deeply unsettling flat in New Zealand where something seemed determined to make itself known.

There are stories from Australia, Northern Ireland, Essex, New Zealand and beyond — each one exploring the fragile line between memory, grief, coincidence and the unexplained. Atmospheric, personal and quietly chilling, this episode begins a landmark listener-stories collection with encounters that suggest the paranormal is rarely distant. Sometimes, it’s already in the room with you.

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A night inside an old abbey turns suddenly hostile.

Footsteps move through empty rooms.

A black-robed figure appears in the dark — and what happens next doesn’t stay behind.

This episode explores two deeply unsettling accounts from James and Andrew, whose experiences suggest that some paranormal encounters may not be tied only to a building, a ruin or a haunted location. Sometimes, the fear is that something notices you — and follows.

James’s story begins during an overnight photography visit to a former abbey and manor house, where he and his friends hear impossible footsteps, witness doors opening by themselves, and encounter a faceless black figure after challenging whatever is moving in the dark. But the activity doesn’t end when they leave. At home, taps turn on by themselves, strange shapes appear, nightmares begin, objects move violently, and his children report seeing something monstrous in a mirror.

Years later, Andrew joins James’s group at a castle and encounters something equally disturbing: a room marked by a strange carved symbol, a board on a table, a voice telling him to get out, and a door that seems to trap him inside. In the months and years that follow, his home life becomes plagued by illness, electrical failures, water problems, dead birds, mimic voices, unexplained figures and an email from a stranger claiming he has brought something back with him.

Atmospheric, disturbing and unusually personal, this episode asks whether certain paranormal forces can attach themselves to people — and whether some haunted places are dangerous not because of what happens there, but because of what might leave with you.

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A sceptic sits down with a medium.

The reading begins with guesswork, vague names and familiar tricks.

Then something changes.

In this Short Haunt, Rachael shares a deeply unusual account of childhood, grief, scepticism and one encounter that still refuses to fit any ordinary explanation. As a child, she believed she saw her grandmother’s deceased ginger cat, Poppet, sitting at the window as if nothing had changed. Years later, as her grandmother was dying, Rachael asked for a sign — something unmistakable, something only the two of them would understand.

That sign may have arrived in the most unexpected place: inside the home of a medium Rachael believed was exploiting a vulnerable friend. What began as a test of cold reading and fortune-telling suddenly turned into something far more personal, when the medium appeared to speak in Rachael’s grandmother’s voice, using a private childhood phrase and a name no one else in the room should have known.

Calm, intimate and quietly astonishing, this is a story about scepticism, memory, love after death, and the unsettling possibility that sometimes the most convincing paranormal evidence arrives when you’re least willing to believe it.

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Hospitals fall silent after midnight.

Old wards remember their dead.

And sometimes, those trained to stay calm are the very people who see what others never do.

In this second collection of emergency services and military accounts, Haunted UK Podcast returns to the strange experiences reported by nurses, police officers, carers, NHS staff and serving military personnel — people whose work often brings them close to danger, trauma, death and the unknown.

These true paranormal stories move from an old workhouse hospital with reports of unseen children, vanishing patients and a terrifying force in a dayroom, to a military training exercise where dozens of exhausted soldiers appear to witness the same impossible city in the woods. There are accounts from Afghanistan, where a soldier sees a black dog-like creature inside a heavily secured outpost, and from an East Anglian mansion where two police officers encounter a figure who walks through a locked door.

The episode also includes a ghostly cat in police accommodation, unsettling care work experiences involving shadow forms, moving objects and possible spirit visitations, and NHS accounts of hospital rooms where patients and staff sense something still lingering.

Atmospheric, varied and grounded in firsthand testimony, this episode explores what happens when people in practical, high-pressure roles come face to face with events that don’t fit the world they’re trained to understand.

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A family moves into a tall Victorian townhouse.

The piano comes with them.

But when the piano tuner steps inside, something in the house makes him want to leave.

In this Short Haunt, Abi shares a chilling family story about a home in Essex, a professional piano tuner, and a cellar that seemed to hold onto something deeply unsettling. At first, the only strange detail is the piano tuner himself — a trusted family friend who suddenly becomes distant, uneasy and desperate to finish his work as quickly as possible.

Then the house begins to reveal more. The family dog refuses to enter the converted cellar. The cellar door slams shut in the night, again and again, even after being checked and bolted. As the disturbances continue, the family tries to live around them — until another move finally takes them away.

Only then does the piano tuner admit what he’d been sensing all along: something in that house had felt wrong from the moment he entered it. Something that made him physically ill. Something that seemed to grow stronger each time he returned.

Atmospheric, restrained and quietly disturbing, this is a story about intuition, place memory, hidden history and the possibility that some houses keep replaying what happened behind closed doors.

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A cottage in Cheshire becomes a point of contact.

A 16th-century farmer writes through a BBC Microcomputer.

Then something else begins to answer.

In the concluding part of The Vertical Plane, Haunted UK Podcast returns to Meadow Cottage in Dodleston, where Ken Webster, Debbie Oakes and Peter Trinder find themselves drawn deeper into one of Britain’s strangest paranormal cases.

What began as communication with a man calling himself Lukas becomes something far more complex. Messages appear from 2109, a mysterious intelligence claiming to be part of an experiment involving time, communication and forces beyond ordinary understanding. Poltergeist activity intensifies inside the cottage, objects move, furniture is violently displaced, chalk messages appear, and the line between haunting, hoax, psychological strain and genuine time anomaly becomes increasingly difficult to hold.

As Lukas’s identity begins to emerge as Tomas Hawarden, a possible 16th-century Oxford scholar, the story expands into questions of history, language, psychical research, future technology, spirit communication and the possibility that different eras may have briefly touched.

Atmospheric, layered and deeply strange, this episode explores a case where the past, the present and something claiming to come from the future all seem to occupy the same haunted space.

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An old Cheshire cottage begins to change.

Small footprints appear on freshly painted walls.

Objects move, messages arrive, and a BBC Microcomputer becomes the centre of one of Britain’s strangest paranormal cases.

In the first part of The Vertical Plane, Haunted UK Podcast explores the extraordinary story of Ken Webster, Debbie Oakes and Meadow Cottage in Dodleston. In the mid-1980s, long before the internet entered ordinary homes, a series of messages began appearing on a school BBC Microcomputer brought into the cottage for writing and word processing.

At first, the messages are strange, poetic and unsettling. Then they begin to take on a clearer voice — that of a man calling himself Lukas, who claims to live in the same house, but in the 16th century. As Ken, Debbie and their friend Peter Trinder try to make sense of the language, dates, historical clues and inconsistencies, the cottage itself becomes increasingly active, with strange markings, stacked objects, cold sensations, tapping sounds, vivid dreams and what appears to be poltergeist phenomena.

Blending alleged time communication, haunting, Tudor history, psychical mystery and one deeply unsettling question, this episode begins a two-part journey into a case where past, present and future seem to overlap — and where every possible explanation may be stranger than the last.

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A whistle sounds across an empty railway platform.

A former RAF officer sees figures that shouldn’t be there.

And inside an abandoned care home, something waits beyond a banging door.

In this listener stories special, Haunted UK Podcast gathers a varied and unsettling collection of true paranormal experiences from people whose encounters span childhood, military life, family homes, haunted workplaces and isolated night shifts.

These accounts include ghostly figures seen in bedrooms, strange visitors connected to a child’s imaginary friends, possible premonitions, haunted RAF bases, a wartime airfield apparition, unexplained voices, a chilling house that seems to match a lifelong nightmare, and a security officer’s account of something hostile inside a derelict care home.

From Australia and Bedford to RAF Halton, RAF Northolt, rural Lancashire and one of England’s most haunted towns, this episode explores the moments when ordinary surroundings become charged with something unseen — and when the emptiest places may not be empty at all.

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A little girl begins talking to someone no one else can see.

At first, her parents think it’s an imaginary friend.

Then the house starts to answer back.

In this Short Haunt, Justin shares the deeply unsettling story of his late wife Elaine, whose childhood home in Sussex became the setting for a haunting that seemed to focus around a mysterious little girl called Pep.

What begins with whispered conversations and childlike giggling soon develops into something far more disturbing. Objects vanish and reappear, knives are found arranged in a perfect circle on the kitchen floor, Christmas lights are removed from the tree and placed in a glowing ring, and a bearded man in a hat appears at the bedroom window.

As Pep’s presence becomes more intense, Elaine begins to say that her unseen friend wants her to stay in the house forever. When a fire breaks out in her bedroom and her mother sees the image of a small child in the flames, the family are forced to confront the possibility that this is no ordinary childhood haunting.

Intimate, chilling and quietly tragic, this is a story about imaginary friends, haunted houses, family testimony and the fear that something unseen may not simply want to be noticed — it may want to keep someone.

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A tunnel.

A brilliant light.

A familiar voice saying it isn’t time.

For generations, people who have come close to death have returned with stories that seem to follow a strangely familiar pattern — leaving the body, moving toward light, encountering loved ones, and feeling an overwhelming sense of peace.

In this first part of Haunted UK Podcast’s exploration of near-death experiences, Steve examines extraordinary accounts from those who stood at the boundary between life and death. From Jeanette Atkinson’s hospital-bed encounter with a grandmother she barely remembered, to neurosurgeon Eben Alexander’s vivid journey during a devastating coma, and Christina Stein’s account of watching surgeons fight to save her life after a catastrophic road accident, these stories raise profound questions about consciousness, memory, survival, and what may wait beyond the final moments of life.

The episode also travels to the Cairngorms, where Jackie Greaves endured a brutal mountain survival ordeal after a fall in white-out conditions, guided by strange lights and impossible visions that may have helped keep her alive.

Blending witness testimony, medical mystery, scientific theory, and the enduring hope of an afterlife, this atmospheric documentary episode explores whether near-death experiences are the final dream of a dying brain — or a glimpse of something far beyond it.

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A police officer enters a Victorian house and feels something pull him back.

An ambulance control room receives impossible calls from the dead.

A murder-scene cottage begins to turn its own lights and taps on in the night.

In this first collection of emergency services accounts, Haunted UK Podcast shares true paranormal stories from people trained to stay calm in situations most of us would struggle to face. These are witnesses used to pressure, danger, trauma and death — yet the experiences they describe still left them searching for answers.

The episode brings together accounts from police officers, NHS workers, ambulance control, the Prison Service and the fire service. There are stories of active poltergeist phenomena, haunted care homes, unexplained emergency calls, ghostly figures, prison disturbances, haunted woodland roads, a chilling flat above a shop, and a rural murder scene where something seemed to remain after the tragedy.

Grounded in firsthand testimony and told with a calm documentary tone, this episode explores what happens when those who deal with real emergencies encounter something beyond procedure, training and ordinary explanation.

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A child laughs in the trees after midnight.

A black dog appears where strange lights fall from the sky.

And deep within Cannock Chase, witnesses continue to report encounters that resist easy explanation.

In this episode, Haunted UK Podcast explores one of England’s most mysterious landscapes: Cannock Chase, a place of woodland, heathland, old mines, military history and long-standing paranormal reputation.

The episode investigates some of the most unsettling stories linked to the Chase, including sightings of black-eyed children, reports of strange creatures, the legend of the Pig-Man, ghostly figures at Seven Springs, the spectral Black Dog of Brereton, possible UFO activity, and repeated accounts of large black cats moving through the trees.

Alongside the folklore and witness testimony, the episode also touches on the darker real history of the area, including the tragic Cannock Chase child murders of the 1960s, while treating those events with care and respect.

Atmospheric, wide-ranging and deeply strange, this is a journey into a landscape where ghost stories, cryptid sightings, UFO reports and historical trauma seem to gather in one place — leaving one question behind: what is it about Cannock Chase that draws so many mysteries into the woods?

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A supermarket after closing should feel ordinary.

The aisles are quiet, the freezers hum, and the night shift gets on with the work.

But for Carl, one section of the store never felt empty.

In this Short Haunt, Carl shares his experiences from ten years working nights at a supermarket in Kingswinford, Dudley — a place where stories of a ghostly woman near the freezer aisles had already become part of staff folklore.

After moving onto the frozen section, Carl begins to notice shadows in his peripheral vision, hears his name whispered when no one is nearby, and sees figures reflected in glass where no one should be standing. Soon, the strange activity spreads beyond the freezer aisle: a figure walks through a freezer door, a young girl appears in the staff toilets, disembodied legs are seen for a moment, and objects vanish before reappearing somewhere impossible.

As Carl looks into the history of the land beneath the supermarket, he discovers links to an old farm, nearby mining works and long-vanished buildings — raising the question of whether the haunting belongs to the store itself, or to something much older beneath it.

Quietly eerie and grounded in an everyday workplace, this is a story about the strange things that can linger in the most ordinary places.

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A child says the word “fire” — and objects begin to burn.

A farmhouse erupts into flames again and again with no clear cause.

A young nanny is accused of witchcraft, arson and something far stranger.

This episode explores one of the rarest and most disturbing areas of paranormal investigation: unexplained fires linked to people, places and possible poltergeist activity.

From the reported pyrokinesis of Emma Tablate in the Philippines, to the strange 1820 case of Elizabeth Barnes in London, the Willey Farm fires in Illinois, the Caledonia Mills farmhouse haunting in Nova Scotia, and the infamous case of Scottish nanny Carole Compton, these stories move through courtroom accusations, frightened families, psychical research, folklore, superstition and fires that witnesses claimed began without any ordinary source.

The episode also touches on Benedetto Supino, the Italian boy said to ignite objects simply by looking at them, and asks whether these cases point towards fraud, emotional disturbance, poltergeist energy, unexplained human ability — or something still beyond our understanding.

Atmospheric, unsettling and carefully balanced, this is a journey into the terrifying idea that fire itself may sometimes become part of the paranormal.

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A phone rings with a voice that should no longer exist.

An email arrives from someone already gone.

A warning comes through static, silence and impossible technology.

This episode explores one of the most emotionally powerful areas of the paranormal: alleged contact from the dead through phones, emails, text messages and other modern devices.

From Mrs Wilson’s mysterious phone call after trying to reach a medium, to Dean Koontz’s unsettling warning call before a terrifying encounter with his father, the episode moves through strange cases where grief, technology and the unexplained appear to meet. It also examines the Windsor Avenue haunting, where messages may have come from a deceased wife — or from something far less comforting — along with the eerie emails linked to Jack Froese, the phone calls after the death of Charles Peck, and actress Ida Lupino’s remarkable accounts of contact from beyond the grave.

Blending personal grief, witness testimony, haunted technology and after-death communication, this episode asks whether our modern devices can sometimes become conduits for something older than the technology itself — and whether, in rare moments, the dead may still find a way to be heard.

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A wartime airfield appears to open onto another time.

A woman in Regency dress drifts past an abandoned Irish mansion.

And in a quiet family home, a presence in the dark begins to feel far too close.

In this final listener stories collection of the season, Haunted UK Podcast brings together a powerful range of true paranormal experiences from ordinary people whose encounters have stayed with them for years.

These accounts move from haunted rooms and protective signs after bereavement, to premonition dreams, full-bodied apparitions, shared visions, sleep paralysis, shadow figures, Ouija board contact, hospital ghosts, family hauntings and a strange darkness inside Woodlawn House in County Galway.

The episode closes with Klare’s remarkable family account of a possible wartime time slip at Woodhall Spa Airfield, where her grandfather and his friend appear to enter a NAAFI canteen that should no longer have existed — and witness airmen connected to a fatal flight.

Atmospheric, varied and deeply human, this collection explores the fragile boundary between memory, grief, place and the unexplained — and asks whether certain locations can hold moments so strongly that, under the right conditions, they briefly return.

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A teenage boy wakes to a voice in the dark.

A phrase repeats in the room.

Then, one night, something happens that makes him question whether he saw a ghost — or himself.

In this Short Haunt, an anonymous listener shares a strange and deeply personal account from the summer of 1994, when a childhood fascination with ghost stories gave way to something far harder to explain.

It begins with a recurring voice heard at night, whispering the same unsettling words again and again: “listen now to me.” As the experiences intensify, a light bulb falls and shatters beside the bed, strange sounds come from downstairs, and the listener discovers something that appears to point toward an out-of-body experience — or a haunting centred not on another spirit, but on his own detached presence.

Years later, the discovery of a tragic death connected to the family home adds another layer to the mystery, linking the strange voice, the garden, and a childhood image of a sorrowful man surrounded by ghostly hands.

Quiet, reflective and unsettling, this is a story about memory, fear, astral projection, grief, mental strain and the possibility that some hauntings may come from much closer than we expect.

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A young man is brought to a priest after seeing something that leaves him visibly terrified.

A Victorian terrace seems to move, hide and answer back.

And across the world, strangers sense something unusual in one man — a presence that makes the frightened feel safe.

In this fourth collection of listener stories, Haunted UK Podcast brings together a deeply varied set of true paranormal experiences, moving from old Irish school corridors and family hauntings, to haunted houses, psychic impressions, hospital encounters, unexplained voices, shadow figures and possible encounters with the recently deceased.

These accounts include stories of a suspected banshee sighting, childhood visitations, premonition dreams, a soldier apparition, a violent poltergeist-like disturbance during a Bible study, a terrifying presence at Winterton Roundhouses, and a Victorian terrace where multiple witnesses experienced moving objects, impossible sounds, reflections, and a house that never seemed entirely empty.

The episode closes with Fraser’s extraordinary account of near-death, spiritual protection and a series of encounters across Tanzania, Iran, Singapore and Kurdistan — where different people, from different faiths and cultures, appear to recognise something in him that he never fully understood himself.

Atmospheric, personal and quietly profound, this collection explores not only the fear of the paranormal, but the possibility that some people may carry a strange kind of peace into places where others are afraid.

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A mother sees her son come home — while he is still miles away.

A stately home keeps its own secrets behind locked doors.

And in a former children’s hospital, something waits at the top of the staircase.

In this third collection of listener stories, Haunted UK Podcast brings together a deeply unsettling range of true paranormal experiences from people whose encounters have never left them.

These accounts move from possible astral projection and signs from loved ones, to a haunted historic house in Stockport where lights switch on by themselves, phantom footsteps echo through empty rooms, and a child called Thomas appears to speak to another child. There are also stories of psychic premonitions, playful ghosts, a hotel room with a tragic past, an old woman in black seen by two brothers years apart, and a disturbing creature with yellow eyes seen near woodland.

The episode closes with Cameron’s chilling childhood account of a four-storey family home with a dark history as a children’s hospital and orphanage — a house where footsteps ran along the stairs, figures watched from windows, unseen forces seemed to act around the children, and one terrifying encounter ended with a fall from the top of the staircase.

Atmospheric, varied and intensely personal, this episode explores haunted buildings, family testimony, residual echoes, protective presences and the unsettling possibility that some houses remember every life that passed through them.

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In Never Take What Isn’t Yours, a special episode released to mark the return of the Haunted UK Podcast and the start of the October spooky season, we hear a chilling graveyard ghost story with strong poltergeist elements. Originally released as a Ko-fi subscriber episode, this story is now available to everyone as a thank you for continued support.

The encounter begins after a ghost hunt in a graveyard, where an individual takes a small, unusual cross from a grave without considering the consequences. What follows is a series of unsettling events suggesting that something may have followed them home. Strange disturbances, unexplained movement, and an oppressive atmosphere begin to build, turning curiosity into fear.

Stories involving objects removed from cemeteries often feature themes of attached spirits, poltergeist activity, and warnings about disturbing resting places. This episode explores one such experience and the terrifying aftermath of taking something that perhaps should have been left alone.

This episode features graveyard ghost story, poltergeist activity, haunted object, spooky season special, paranormal attachment, and a chilling warning — never take what isn’t yours.

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A Victorian music hall where figures still linger backstage.

An old dispensary where footsteps, children’s voices, and the scent of smoke are said to remain.

A ruined abbey where monks, grief, and legend still move through the stone.

In this second part of Tour Haunts: Leeds, Haunted UK Podcast continues its atmospheric journey through some of the city’s most haunted and historically charged locations. Beginning at the City Varieties Music Hall, Steve explores stories of the White Lady, a silent man in a bowler hat, unexplained footsteps, strange cold spots, and a darker poltergeist presence said to have disturbed staff, performers, and even renovation workers.

The route then moves to the Old Leeds Dispensary, a former medical building shaped by sickness, poverty, and the realities of pre-NHS healthcare. There, accounts speak of a well-dressed figure drifting through corridors, the sounds of unseen children, moving toys, and the unsettling apparition of a nurse linked by witnesses to smoke, heat, and fire.

Finally, the tour ends among the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey, where centuries of religious devotion, dissolution, folklore, and ghostly testimony gather around the chapter house, the Sombre Monk, the Mad Monk, and the grieving figure of Mary. With reports of chanting, shadowy forms, strange voices, and the lingering atmosphere of a sacred place disturbed by history, the abbey offers a final, powerful stop on this haunted journey through Leeds.

Immersive, historical, and quietly eerie, this episode blends haunted locations, local folklore, paranormal testimony, and architectural history into a cinematic guide to the unexplained side of one of Yorkshire’s great cities.

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A child wakes in the dark and hears movement beyond the bedroom door.

A silhouette passes through the hallway.

And night after night, something crawls around the bed.

In this Short Haunt, Conan shares two unsettling experiences from childhood: one inside his grandparents’ house, where he saw and heard what appeared to be a figure walking past the spare room door in the early hours, and another involving a recurring sleep paralysis entity that seemed to enter his bedroom, grip his ankle, and drag him from the bed.

As the experiences continue, Conan begins to form his own understanding of what may have been happening — not simply as dreams, but as encounters linked to astral projection, lower dimensions, spiritual vulnerability and the possibility of parasitic entities feeding on fear.

Intimate, eerie and deeply personal, this is a listener story about childhood fear, sleep paralysis, spiritual belief and the terrifying uncertainty of what may be waiting in the dark when the body cannot move.

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A historic Scottish mansion echoes with footsteps, voices and old Jacobite memories.

A shadow figure returns with a feeling of dread.

And in a quiet living room, a whisper cuts through the darkness.

In this second collection of listener stories, Haunted UK Podcast gathers another atmospheric range of true paranormal experiences from people whose encounters move between haunted places, family homes, prison investigations and deeply personal attachments.

The episode begins at Bannockburn House, where volunteers and visitors have reported disembodied voices, French conversations, phantom footsteps, a lady in black, children on the upper floors, and a hostile male presence connected to some of the most unsettling rooms in the house.

From there, the stories move into darker territory: a shadow person that seems to follow one listener until a neighbour intervenes; strange activity during an investigation at Salisbury Prison; and a family home where radios, mirrors, footsteps, shadows and unseen visitors have become part of daily life.

The episode closes with The Living Room Whisperer — a chilling account of whispers heard in a Victorian house, footsteps crossing closed doors, and a growling presence that may have followed a couple into their first home.

Varied, intimate and deeply unsettling, this collection explores haunted buildings, spiritual attachments, residual echoes and the frightening possibility that some presences are not tied to one place at all.

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A locked factory stands silent after hours.

Stacks of industrial tyres line the floor.

Then, from somewhere in the darkness, something starts to run.

In this Short Haunt, listener Jaco Labuschagne shares a deeply unsettling account from Johannesburg in 2001, when a night shift inside a tyre repair factory turned into an experience he has never forgotten.

After agreeing to work alone overnight, Jaco hears what sounds like heavy footsteps breaking into a sprint through the building — fast, loud and close enough to send him to the floor in terror. But when he searches the factory with a tyre iron in hand, every door is locked, every hiding place is empty, and there is no one there.

The story also touches on later experiences in Jaco’s family home, including the glimpse of a childlike figure peering into a bedroom and strange lights captured on video while he practised music — suggesting that whatever he encountered may not have been limited to one place, one night, or one country.

Tense, atmospheric and grounded in workplace testimony, this is a story about night shifts, phantom footsteps, haunted factories and the frightening moment when a sound in the dark becomes impossible to explain.

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A child’s footsteps cross an empty bedroom.

A university house turns dark, cold and oppressive.

And in an attic room, something unseen begins to tear at the silence.

In this first listener stories collection of the season, Haunted UK Podcast gathers a powerful range of true paranormal experiences from people whose encounters have stayed with them for years.

These accounts move from a haunted lodge house in Cornwall, where phantom footsteps, impossible arrivals and strange figures appear around the family home, to rumours of a beast near an RAF base, a large black cat sighting on Askham Fell in Cumbria, and a chilling account of sleep paralysis that shows how frightening the human mind can become when the body cannot move.

The episode also explores Kensington Palace, with reports of ghostly humming, phantom legs, vanished figures, galloping horses and echoes of long-forgotten royal gatherings. It closes with Geoff’s remarkable childhood account from a cottage in west Wales, where multiple witnesses appear to see the same solid apparition of a former blacksmith.

At the centre of the collection is Claire’s disturbing account of a student house in Nottingham — a place of oppressive atmospheres, violent footsteps, ripping paper, insomnia, depression and a presence that seemed to gather strength in the attic.

Atmospheric, varied and deeply unsettling, this episode opens the season’s listener stories with haunted homes, strange creatures, royal ghosts and the lingering question of what certain buildings can do to the people who live inside them.

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A grand Georgian hall becomes a dream home.

Plans are made for a luxury wedding venue.

Then the house begins to answer back.

In this Short Haunt, Haunted UK Podcast explores the unsettling story of Clifton Hall, a historic Nottinghamshire property with roots stretching back to the Domesday Book and centuries of occupation by the Clifton family.

When businessman Anwar Rashid bought the South Wing in 2007, he planned to live there with his family while transforming part of the building into an elegant wedding venue. But almost as soon as they moved in, strange activity began: tapping and banging sounds, lights switching on and off, doors and cupboards opening by themselves, missing tools, unexplained voices, and workmen disturbed by the atmosphere inside the house.

The haunting reached its most disturbing point when Anwar’s wife saw what appeared to be her daughter watching television downstairs — only to find the real child asleep in bed moments later. Then came the final incident: blood-like stains found on the baby’s white quilt, with no injury, no leak, and no explanation.

Blending historic house atmosphere, witness testimony, renovation disturbances and the lingering question of whether old buildings resist being changed, this is a quietly chilling account of a family who entered Clifton Hall with plans for celebration — and left without looking back.

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An unfinished Gothic mansion stands hidden in a Gloucestershire valley.

Its rooms were never lived in.

Yet witnesses still report footsteps, shadows, voices, apparitions — and something waiting in the cellar.

This episode explores the strange history and hauntings of Woodchester Mansion, one of Britain’s most atmospheric and unusual haunted locations. Built in the Victorian Gothic style but abandoned before completion, the house remains suspended in time, with unfinished rooms, exposed stonework, old ladders, silent corridors and a reputation that has drawn paranormal investigators for decades.

The story moves through the mansion’s long history, from the medieval parkland and the Leigh family’s ambitious plans, to wartime use by British, American and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day. It also examines the tragic accident at Middle Lake, where American soldiers drowned during a training exercise — and where witnesses have since reported ghostly soldiers, 1940s music, distant voices and a strange winged figure rising from the mist.

Inside the mansion, the accounts grow darker: vanishing figures in the cellar, children seen in the shadows, mysterious lights, thrown stones, phantom footsteps, a hooded monk-like apparition, unexplained tapping, and reports of an elemental presence in the far vaulted chamber.

Atmospheric, historic and deeply unsettling, this is a journey into a house that was never completed — yet somehow feels far from empty.

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A vast Victorian house sits empty.

A bird circles frantically inside a sealed room.

And before anyone has moved in, the house already seems to want something known.

In this first Short Haunt, an anonymous listener recalls moving into a large old house with friends in 2009 — a place that looked beautiful on the surface, with gothic archways, generous rooms, an art deco bathroom and a sweeping staircase, yet carried a deep unease from the beginning.

The cellar soon becomes a source of dread, filled with old possessions, bad memories and the constant sensation of being watched. As life inside the house begins to darken, relationships strain, illness follows, work falls apart, and the atmosphere seems to press in around everyone living there.

Then comes the scream in the night. A housemate wakes to something circling above her bed — something like the head and shoulders of a young girl, with wings curled beneath her. Later, a strange image on Google Earth appears to show a young girl standing at an upstairs window, wrapped in a blue shawl and staring out from the very house they are desperate to leave.

Quietly unsettling and deeply atmospheric, this is a story about intuition, trapped energy, haunted houses, and the strange possibility that some presences don’t simply appear — they ask to be let out.

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A flight number appears again and again in tragedy.

A phone number becomes linked to death.

And a stolen Scottish gravestone seems to bring misfortune until it is finally returned.

This episode explores the strange and unsettling world of curses — not only ancient tomb warnings and folklore, but modern patterns of disaster, coincidence and belief that continue to trouble those who encounter them.

From the ominous reputation of Flight 191 and the deaths linked to a Bulgarian mobile phone number, to the long shadow cast over the Kennedy family, these stories ask whether curses are supernatural forces, tragic coincidences, or narratives we create when grief and disaster seem to repeat too often.

The episode also travels to South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, where the sacred Clanranald Stone was stolen from an ancient burial ground before a chain of misfortune led to its eventual return. Blending history, folklore, family tragedy, aviation disasters and the psychology of belief, this is a careful look at why some stories of bad luck become something far more enduring.

Atmospheric, thoughtful and quietly disturbing, this episode asks whether curses truly exist — or whether the fear of them can become powerful enough to shape the story itself.

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A homemade Ouija board moves in a garage.

Two dogs begin howling as the room turns cold.

And for one listener, that night may have opened the door to a lifetime of strange encounters.

In this episode, Haunted UK Podcast follows the extraordinary testimony of Neil Rowson, whose experiences appear to trace a path from teenage scepticism to lasting belief in the paranormal.

Beginning with a chilling Ouija board session in Lancashire, Neil’s story moves through strange lights near an abandoned police house, ghostly activity inside a historic Preston bar, poltergeist phenomena caught on CCTV, and repeated encounters with apparitions, moving objects, unseen footsteps and lights switching on by themselves.

The account then turns closer to home, where Neil’s children begin speaking about a little girl in their bedroom — a figure they describe with disturbing clarity — before the family discovers that their house was built on land once connected to Chorley Hospital and an earlier workhouse.

Atmospheric, personal and deeply layered, this is a story about sensitivity, haunted places, family testimony and the unsettling possibility that one teenage experiment may have left something open for years to come.

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A pub till prints a receipt without power.

A gaunt figure appears on the landing in eighteenth-century clothing.

And beneath an old Preston inn, something buried may have been disturbed.

This episode explores the haunting of The George Inn Hotel, a now-demolished pub in Preston with a deeply unsettling reputation among landlords, staff and witnesses who lived and worked there.

The story centres on Tom and Ann, whose time running the pub became dominated by strange activity: disappearing objects, oppressive atmospheres in the cellar, flying CDs, slamming doors, and repeated encounters with a tall, thin figure in a wide-brimmed hat who seemed to focus his attention on Tom. As the phenomena intensified, the family brought in paranormal investigator Melanie Warren and a team of mediums in an attempt to understand who — or what — was haunting the building.

The case becomes darker still with the discovery of a bereavement ring engraved with the name Robert Clay and the date 1786, found beneath an old gravestone in the pub’s cellar. Local history, rumours of murdered children, a possible connection to a nearby house of correction, and reports of a woman in white all deepen the mystery surrounding the inn.

Blending haunted pub folklore, witness testimony, Preston history, poltergeist-like activity and the unsettling question of what may have been hidden beneath the floor, this is a chilling account of a building that may be gone — but whose story still feels unfinished.

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A Tudor-Jacobean mansion marked by tragedy.

A vast industrial mill where footsteps still echo through empty rooms.

A former workhouse where the past seems to move quietly behind the walls.

In this first part of Tour Haunts: Leeds, Haunted UK Podcast begins an atmospheric journey through some of the city’s most haunted and historically charged locations. The route opens at Temple Newsam, one of Leeds’ most famous historic houses, where the stories of Lady Mary Ingram, the Blue Lady, and Phoebe Gray still linger in corridors, staircases, cellars, and rooms said to hold the emotional weight of the past.

From there, the tour moves to Armley Mills, once the largest woollen mill in the world and now home to the Leeds Industrial Museum. Within its heavy stone walls are reports of a grieving Victorian woman near the looms, a foreman-like figure in a top hat and cape, the cries of unseen children, and a darker presence said to haunt the old cinema room.

The final stop in this first chapter is the Thackray Museum of Medicine, housed in a building that once served as the Leeds Union Workhouse. With its history of poverty, illness, medical care, and human suffering, the site has become associated with apparitions, footsteps, whispers, cold spots, and the unsettling sense that some former patients and staff may never have fully left.

Immersive, historical, and quietly eerie, this episode blends haunted places, local folklore, witness accounts, and Leeds’ industrial and social history into a cinematic tour of a city where the past still feels close enough to touch.

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A shop appears where it shouldn’t.

A village seems to fall backwards through time.

A busy Liverpool street becomes a doorway into another decade.

In this follow-up to one of Haunted UK Podcast’s most popular subjects, we return to the strange and deeply unsettling phenomenon of time slips — those rare moments when ordinary people appear to step into another era without warning.

The episode explores a series of remarkable accounts from Great Yarmouth, Tunbridge Wells, Leeds Castle, Penrith, Oklahoma, Ohio, Kersey, Haddon Hall and Liverpool’s infamous Bold Street. From Mr Squirrel’s old-fashioned stationery shop, to Charlotte Warburton’s vanished café, three Royal Navy cadets walking into what seemed to be medieval Suffolk, and shoppers on Bold Street encountering stores, streets and people from decades earlier, these stories suggest that time may not always behave as securely as we believe.

Blending paranormal testimony, historical detail, strange geography and questions of memory, physics and perception, this episode asks whether certain places can briefly open onto the past — and whether some people are simply sensitive enough to notice when they do.

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A dream repeats night after night.

A feeling of dread stops someone from going to work.

A warning arrives too late to prevent disaster — but too clearly to ignore.

This episode explores the unsettling phenomenon of premonitions: those strange moments when people appear to sense, dream or somehow know that something is about to happen before it unfolds.

From the tragic stories surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 and American Airlines Flight 191, to the eerie foreboding linked to the World Trade Center attacks, this is a journey through some of the most disturbing accounts of apparent future knowledge. The episode also looks at the strange warnings and coincidences connected to the Titanic disaster, the controversial wartime medium Helen Duncan, and the deeply personal listener testimony of Craig Reeder, whose experiences with premonitions span decades and touch on grief, family and the possibility of messages from beyond.

Blending historical tragedy, paranormal mystery, witness testimony and questions of fate, this episode asks whether premonitions are simply coincidence and pattern-seeking — or whether, in rare and frightening moments, people really can glimpse what is still to come.

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An old workplace begins to empty.

The staff are moved out, the corridors fall quiet, and the night shift is left behind.

Then the building starts to change.

This deeply atmospheric listener account follows Carole, whose ordinary night-shift role in a former mail-order company building became something far stranger after most of the workforce relocated. With only a handful of people left inside the vast old offices, unexplained activity began to surface: objects moving, taps turning on by themselves, footsteps in empty corridors, phone calls from disconnected rooms, and the repeated appearance of a blonde-haired woman seen by more than one witness.

As Carole, the caretaker Darren, and other members of staff begin comparing their experiences, a darker pattern emerges — one involving a basement no one wanted to visit, a faceless figure in the toilets, strange clicking sounds in the depths of the building, and a black mass moving through corridors where no one else should have been.

Blending workplace haunting, witness testimony, poltergeist-like activity and the eerie atmosphere of a building slowly being abandoned, this episode explores what happens when ordinary people are left alone with something they can’t explain — and whether some places only reveal themselves once the noise of everyday life has finally gone.

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