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Strange Stories UK

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Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 267

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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🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
19/08/2026
#96
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
18/08/2026
#75
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
17/08/2026
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🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
16/08/2026
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🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
15/08/2026
#82
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
14/08/2026
#92
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
12/08/2026
#90
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
10/08/2026
#84
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
09/08/2026
#93
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
27/07/2026
#97

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White Slavery moral panics and the first celebrity drug death in the UK

Season 7 · Episode 31

Thursday, August 29, 2024 • Duration 38:17

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This is the second podcast setting the scene to examine crime gangs active in the UK between the two world wars.
This rambling podcast is about the fear of white slavery and the first celebrity drug death in the UK.
This podcast is not edited and recorded in one take with words mispronounced.

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Strange Stories: Drugging the UK, how drugs were introduced to the UK.

Season 7 · Episode 30

Friday, August 23, 2024 • Duration 37:12

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This is the first of a series of podcasts regarding some incidents in the UK (London) that took place 100 years ago and caused a 'moral panic'. This first podcast tells of how drugs, (class A drugs as we understand them today) were introduced into the UK, at first accepted but then rejected after misuse. The second podcast will be about what was known as 'White Slavery' 100 years ago but as we better understand as human trafficking. Then I will broadcast some podcasts based on these podcasts and police reports of the time. Incidents that are mainly forgotten today. I will post the next pod shortly.
This podcast has not been edited in anyway, and has been recorded in one take. I apologise in advance for any mispronounceations.

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Strange Stories: The monster of the mere and other huge UK freshwater fish,

Season 7 · Episode 21

Thursday, May 2, 2024 • Duration 43:56

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What is the largest fish caught in British freshwaters and are they dangerous? This episode is about a huge creature that lived in Martin Mere that was said to feed on swans! Some of the podcast is rather silly but all of it true.
There is a Slightly boring opening about geological features, folklore and drainage systems, this lasts about five minutes, so maybe skip that part.
As usual please be warned this is a lo fi production by someone that often stumbles over words and records in one take without any editing.
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Strange Stories UK Canning Town, London, Organised Crime and Corrupt police 1.

Season 4 · Episode 1

Friday, September 3, 2021 • Duration 01:32:07

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Season 4 starts with contemporary Organised Crime in London, there will be four or five linked podcasts on this theme starting with a case that developed in Canning Town, the next few podcasts will flow on from this case including a podcast of the Rettendon aka Essex boys murders. I know this case has been very well covered but it does tie in with the other podcasts.

For this case : We examine the Canning Town area which suffered from Organised Crime. I keep referring to OCGs which refers to Organised Crime gangs. There were several in the Canning Town area who seemed to work as a cartel and hence were known as the Canning Town Cartel OCG. This story will develop and was inspired by the book ‘Legacy’ by Michael Gillard. The actual recording was done as a thunderstorm took place without any warning, towards the end of the podcast this storm can be heard so apologies for that.

This is my fourth year of producing podcasts within a month, I will be producing my one hundredth episode having produced a podcast every 2/3 weeks. Early podcasts were quite amateurish but I think they have improved over time. I have now got a website: www.strangestoriesUK which has a blog introducing each episode. I will be aiming to improve the Facebook and Instagram sites by keeping them up to date with some more information. I will continue to produce the podcasts in one take without editing as I like to produce the feel of a live radio station. Obviously it is not, but perhaps the closest I can get to it.

As with most podcasts, I am trying to get an income stream to fund the hosting costs and the subscriptions I have to pay in order to research some episodes. This will not affect the podcasts being produced and of course there is no obligation to make a contribution although I am thinking of making some sort of reward for anyone that does want to contribute such as extra podcasts. I thought I would make a podcast related to a story being covered. The podcasts go off in so many tangents that I will develop one of these.

Strange Stories UK: St.Boswells haunted road.

Season 3 · Episode 35

Sunday, July 18, 2021 • Duration 38:39

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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

Season 3 · Episode 34

Sunday, July 11, 2021 • Duration 47:18

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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

Season 3 · Episode 33

Saturday, July 10, 2021 • Duration 01:15:16

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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.

Season 3 · Episode 32

Saturday, June 19, 2021 • Duration 01:05:42

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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

Season 3 · Episode 31

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 • Duration 01:21:36

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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

Season 3 · Episode 30

Friday, May 21, 2021 • Duration 01:16:33

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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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