Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

On a remote hillside on the Isle of Man, a lonely farmhouse became the centre of one of the strangest cases in British paranormal history.

The house was Doarlish Cashen. The family were the Irvings. And the voice inside the walls claimed to belong to Gef — an “extra, extra clever mongoose” that sang, shouted, insulted visitors, mimicked animals, and spoke from hidden spaces no one could fully reach.

At first, the story sounds almost absurd. A talking mongoose in a remote Manx farmhouse. But beneath the oddity lies something far more unsettling: a family living in deep isolation, strange noises moving through the walls, a presence that seemed to watch and answer back, and investigators who could never quite agree on what was really happening.

This episode of Dark Matters explores the case through the people who tried to explain it, from Harry Price and the National Laboratory of Psychical Research to Nandor Fodor’s more psychological interpretation of the haunting. Was Gef a hoax, a poltergeist, an unusual animal, a projection of loneliness, or something that still sits uncomfortably between all of those explanations?

A strange, atmospheric journey into folklore, psychical research, Manx history, and one of the most peculiar voices ever said to emerge from the dark.

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Haunted UK Podcast has officially moved to Acast.

In this short update, Steve shares what the move means for the future of the show, reflects on how far Haunted UK has come over the past five years, and looks ahead to more history, hauntings, witness accounts, location episodes, and unexplained stories still to come.

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An overnight security guard patrols an almost abandoned office block where little ever changes. Empty corridors. Silent lifts. Rows of stripped-back offices left frozen in time.

But on the third floor, one desk remains.

At first, it’s easy to dismiss the strange activity as faulty equipment and exhaustion. A lift opening on its own. The sound of typing echoing through empty rooms. A chair inexplicably pulled back from a desk no one should be using. Then the CCTV begins to capture something impossible.

In this Fright Bites episode, we hear the unsettling account of a night worker who came face to face with the lingering presence of a former employee… a man said to have died alone at his desk years earlier, unnoticed for days inside the silent building.

A short-form paranormal encounter rooted in isolation, empty workplaces, late-night patrols, and the unnerving feeling that some places never truly empty out.

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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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A family searching for more space finds a beautiful house in Tunis, set behind metal gates, surrounded by fruit trees, heat, and blinding North African sun.

But from the moment Emma first sees the property, something feels wrong. The windows are open, the day is bright, and yet the glass shows nothing but blackness.

In this Witness Files case from Haunted UK Podcast, Emma shares the deeply unsettling account of the six months she and her family spent inside a house that seemed to resist them from the beginning. What starts as unease soon becomes something far harder to dismiss: dark figures moving through rooms, freezing cold in the middle of a Tunisian summer, pulsing lights, oppressive presences, and the terrifying moment another witness sees what Emma had been trying to explain.

Rooted in first-hand testimony, this case explores the fear of living in a place that feels occupied by something unseen, the emotional strain of not being believed, and the cultural shadow of the Jinn — spirits said, in some traditions, to interfere with and torment human lives.

A witness account of intuition ignored, darkness behind glass, and a house that left its mark long after the family escaped it.

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A teenage boy sees a black figure standing motionless in the upper window of an abandoned school building. It doesn’t move. It doesn’t speak. It simply watches.

Years later, the same kind of shadow appears again — not in the old school, but behind him.

In this Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, listener Jack Henderson shares a deeply unsettling account of a presence that seemed to appear at different points across his life. From a former school near Strawberry Field, to a locked workshop, to the quiet darkness of a newly bought house, the encounters form a pattern that’s difficult to dismiss.

This short true paranormal story explores the fear of being watched, the strangeness of shadow figure sightings, and the lingering question of whether some encounters are tied to places… or to people.

A figure in a window. A witness frozen in fear. And a darkness that may never have fully let go.

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There are moments in the dark when the body refuses to move, the voice disappears, and the room begins to feel occupied by something unseen.

For some, it is a pressure on the chest. For others, footsteps beside the bed, figures in the doorway, hands around the ankles, or the unmistakable sense that something is waiting just out of sight.

In this first part of a listener-led exploration of sleep paralysis, Haunted UK Podcast gathers real accounts from people who have experienced one of the most frightening states of the sleeping mind. Some describe the classic terror of being unable to move or cry out. Others speak of shadow figures, insect-like entities, green-tinged rooms, dragging sensations, dark masses, strange lights, and the chilling figure known by many as the Hat Man.

The episode also touches on the research of Dr Emma Barkus at Northumbria University, whose work into sleep paralysis helped prompt listeners to share their own experiences. What emerges is a deeply human collection of stories, sitting somewhere between science, folklore, trauma, stress, sleep disturbance, and the lingering question of why so many people report such similar encounters.

Calm, unsettling, and intimate, this episode explores sleep paralysis not as a simple horror story, but as a strange borderland between waking life and dream — a place where the mind may be vulnerable, the body helpless, and the dark beside the bed feels anything but empty.

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A young boy sits alone at the top of the stairs in a quiet family home.

The upstairs lights are off. The house is ordinary. Nothing should be there.

Then movement comes from the bedroom doorway.

In this Fright Bites episode from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares a chilling listener account from Richard, who grew up in a house in a coastal town in the North East of England. One winter evening, after being sent upstairs, he saw the full figure of an older woman glide from his bedroom into his sister’s room — a woman he had never seen before, and one his mother would later admit she had also encountered years earlier.

What makes this story linger is its simplicity. No dramatic haunting. No long build-up. Just a clear, unsettling sighting in a family home, witnessed by a child and later echoed by another member of the household. A woman with her hair in a bun, her hands cupped before her, moving silently through the space as though the walls and rooms still belonged to her.

Atmospheric, intimate, and quietly unnerving, this short true paranormal story explores memory, childhood fear, family testimony, and the strange possibility that some buildings may hold onto more than just the lives lived inside them.

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Above an ancient Cornish church, something impossible was said to have appeared.

Red eyes. Broad wings. Black claws. A shape too strange to be only a bird… and too vivid to be forgotten.

In this opening episode of Dark Matters, Haunted UK Podcast explores the enduring legend of the Owlman of Mawnan — one of Britain’s strangest modern creature stories. Centred around St Mawnan Church in Cornwall, the case draws together alleged witness sightings, local folklore, eerie landscape, and the uncomfortable question of how an unexplained encounter becomes a legend.

The story begins with earlier rumours of a large, ferocious bird near the church, before taking shape in 1976, when two young sisters reportedly saw a winged creature above the tower. Later that same year, another account added the sound of hissing from the trees, a strange figure in the darkness, and something lifting into the air before vanishing from sight.

But the Owlman is not a simple creature case. Its history is closely tied to Tony “Doc” Shiels — magician, artist, occult showman, trickster, and one of the most colourful figures in British paranormal folklore. Through him, the case becomes harder to separate from performance, mythmaking, misidentification, and the strange power of a story told in exactly the right place.

Atmospheric, thoughtful, and quietly unsettling, this episode looks at the Owlman not just as a possible sighting, but as a modern legend: part witness testimony, part folklore, part Cornish mystery, and part shadow cast by the church tower at dusk.

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