Paranormal Portal UK

There's a village in Hampshire known as the ghost village: a church, a pond, and a hollow where a manor house stood until its owner had it torn down. Locals say a phantom carriage still races up the old drive, the church sings when nobody is inside, and the lady of the house still passes the churchyard wall.

For this Halloween episode of Portal Investigates, Den and Luke go back over their night at Hartley Mauditt. They test each legend, and talk through a noise in the graveyard that stopped Den in his tracks, a reading Luke couldn't find a source for, and a session by the pond, before weighing up natural causes and giving their verdicts.

The full investigation is on our YouTube channel. Hartley Mauditt is a deserted medieval village in East Hampshire, recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. Its houses were lost over the centuries, and the manor house was demolished in 1798, with accounts still differing on who gave the order and why.

In our Portal Investigates series, Den and Luke head out to investigate the unexplained firsthand, visiting haunted locations and the sites behind local legends. They share their findings honestly—what holds up, what doesn't, and what they simply can't explain—for a grounded take on the paranormal.

Time Stamps

00:00:00 – Introduction

00:01:05 – Catch Up with Den & Luke

00:08:19 – The History & Legends of Hartley Mauditt

00:19:54 – The Investigation: Base Readings & Tests

00:26:34 – The Graveyard

00:35:37 – The Pond

00:41:29 – Possible Natural Causes

00:49:29 – Den & Luke's Verdicts

00:57:46 – Upcoming Notes

01:02:13 – Outro

Episode Links

🔗 Watch the investigation on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRALTF_8cCs&list=PLXJp3xZoWndg

🔗 Explore more cases, galleries, and connect with us – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com

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A hidden place in the woods. A figure that sent one person running. And two drawings that should never have matched.

This week, a listener named Tom shares an experience that's stayed with him since he was sixteen. Deep in the woods outside his Cotswolds town, he and his friends kept a spot no one else knew about — until a newcomer to the group fled from it screaming, with no explanation. When Tom later admitted he thought he'd seen something there too, the two sat at opposite ends of a table and drew what they'd witnessed. What they turned over matched — right down to a detail neither of them had ever said out loud.

In our Beyond the Veil series, Den and Luke share the real, first-hand accounts sent in by our listeners—the encounters, sightings and unexplained moments they've carried with them, told in their own words. Honest, personal and often deeply unsettling, these are the stories you've trusted us to tell.

Time Stamps

00:00 – Introduction

00:01:04 – Catch Up with Den & Luke

00:24:17 – Tom's Story: The Woman in Black

00:33:54 – Our Thoughts

01:03:46 – Upcoming Notes

01:06:14 – Outro

Episode Links

🔗 Explore more cases, galleries, and connect with us – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com

Got a story of your own you've never been able to explain? Send it in — it could feature on a future episode. Subscribe for more Beyond the Veil, and tell us: what do you think Tom saw in those woods? 🕯️

She’s the woman on the staircase — captured in 1936 in one of the most famous ghost photographs ever taken, and still debated nearly a century on. In this bonus discussion, Den asks Luke for his take on the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall: the history behind the haunting, the story of that photograph, and the possible explanations for what it really shows.

In our Beyond the Portal series, Den and Luke pick up the cases and conversations that didn’t make the final episode—bonus discussions digging into the threads too good to leave behind.

Episode Links

🔗 Watch this episode on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKstXudRpok&list=PLMysm6E1gWbw

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One photograph, nearly a hundred years of argument. Subscribe for more Beyond the Portal and tell us: genuine apparition, clever fake, or a trick of the light? 👻

It’s Halloween month, the lights are low, and Den and Luke are settling in to share the films that make Halloween for them. In this special, they each count down their top three Halloween movies — the ones they come back to every year — and talk through what makes each one stand out. From supernatural classics to a guilty pleasure or two, settle in for a view from the portal.

Time Stamps

00:00 - Introduction

00:00:07 - Catch Up with Den & Luke

00:03:09 - The Entity

00:24:41 - Poltergeist

00:49:25 - Dracula

01:14:52 - Event Horizon

01:34:14 - A Nightmare on Elm Street

01:51:30 - Darkness Falls (Den’s Guilty Pleasure)

02:03:16 - Honourable Mentions

02:04:20 - Upcoming Notes

02:04:41 - Outro

Episode Links

🔗 Watch this episode on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_7cIrzANI

🔗 Explore more cases, galleries, and connect with us – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com

Den & Luke, Six films, and plenty to add to your Halloween watchlist. Subscribe for more this Halloween month — and tell us: what makes your top three? 🎃

After his wife noticed the dog acting strangely, Den took him along to a cemetery with a long and unsettling reputation — and came back with questions. In this bonus discussion, he asks Luke the big one: can dogs really sense spirits? Luke digs into the theory behind it, before revealing the site’s reported haunting and the dark history that sits behind it.

In our Beyond the Portal series, Den and Luke pick up the cases and conversations that didn’t make the final episode—bonus discussions digging into the threads too good to leave behind.

Episode Links

🔗 Watch this episode on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCfg99FS6P0&list=PLMysm6E1gWbw

🔗 Explore more cases, galleries, and connect with us – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com

Dogs have been said to sense what we can’t for centuries — but is there anything to it? Subscribe for more Beyond the Portal and tell us: have you ever seen a dog react to something that wasn’t there? 🐕

When archivist Daniel Mercer prises open a box buried beneath a storm-felled tree in Vermont's Bennington Triangle, he expects old paper and rust. What he finds is a ranger's field log, a compass, and a photograph of three real missing people standing together — decades apart. On the back, four words in a shaking hand: Don't look behind him. The deeper Mercer reads into the ranger's journal, the more its entries begin to fracture — and the more he realises he isn't investigating a disappearance. He's being pulled into one.

In our Tales from the Shadows series, we take real unsolved mysteries — true disappearances, hauntings and unexplained events — and reimagine them as fiction. Drawing on the facts of each case before letting the story take its own dark turn, we blur the line between what's documented and what we've imagined, offering chilling, immersive storytelling rooted in events that really happened.

This episode kicks off our Halloween special month — and we're opening on the Bennington Triangle, a stretch of Vermont wilderness where, between 1945 and 1950, a string of people vanished without a trace or explanation. Tonight's story is fiction; the disappearances that inspired it were not.

Episode Links
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Some stories are safer left buried. If "Don't look behind him" is still with you after the episode, subscribe for more Tales from the Shadows this Halloween month — and maybe don't listen to the next one alone. 🕯️

In 1990, two young men walking in the Scottish Highlands photographed a huge diamond-shaped object hanging in the sky near Calvine — a sighting the Ministry of Defence buried for thirty years, and an image still called the best UFO photo ever taken. In this bonus discussion, Luke puts his own verdict to Den: his take on what that object really was. Did it land, or is Calvine still anyone's guess?

In our Beyond the Portal series, Den and Luke pick up the cases and conversations that didn't make the final episode—bonus discussions digging into the threads too good to leave behind.

Episode Links

🔗 Watch this episode on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8jPauXE-o&list=PLMysm6E1gWbw

🔗 Explore more cases, galleries, and connect with us – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com

Hear Luke's case and tell us where you land — has he cracked Calvine, or is the best UFO photo ever taken still a genuine mystery?

A man claims he travelled to the year 4413 and came back with a warning about humanity's future. In upstate New York, a hiker photographs a hunched figure wading through a remote pond — and says it turned and looked right at her. Over Mexico, strange red lights hang in the night sky, filmed by a railway worker and now watched by millions. And an open-house tour uncovers an angry spirit: covered mirrors, a room no one will enter, and the unsettling claim that something wanted to be seen. In this episode of Haunted Headlines, Den and Luke break down all four — debating, debunking, and picking apart what actually holds up. Plus another round of Beast or Bogus, with Luke leading Den three to one — can Den start closing the gap?

In our Haunted Headlines series, Den and Luke dive into paranormal articles that capture their attention, from credible hauntings and unexplained phenomena to amusing viral clips. They unveil these stories to each other on the spot, sparking lively discussions that blend rigorous analysis with a touch of humour, offering a fresh and engaging take on the strange and supernatural.

Time Stamps

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:02 - Catch up with Den & Luke

00:14:34 - Time Traveller's Warning from 4413

00:35:24 - Juvenile Bigfoot Photo

00:47:15 - Red Lights Over Mexico

00:58:12 - Haunted Open House

01:08:03 - Beast or Bogus: Round 3

01:22:08 - Upcoming Notes

01:27:26 - Outro

Episode Links

🔗 Haunted Headlines Gallery (images & clips from this episode) – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com/post/s3-e7-haunted-headlines-gallery

🔗 Follow us and explore more on our website – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com

A warning from the year 4413, a creature that looked back, red lights over Mexico, and a house that wouldn't stay quiet — some of these fall apart the moment you look closely, and some really don't. Subscribe for more Haunted Headlines and let us know: which story holds up best? ⏳👁️🛸👻

It was meant to be an unremarkable evening’s fishing on the banks of the Pascagoula River. Then Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker heard a strange buzzing in the dark — and turned to see a glowing, egg-shaped craft hovering over the water beside them. Three grey creatures with wrinkled skin and crab-like claws drifted out, lifted the two men off their feet, and carried them aboard. Twenty minutes later they were back on the riverbank, shaken and struggling to explain what had happened. They came home with a story almost too strange to believe — and evidence that made it hard not to.

In this episode of Portal Files, Den and Luke investigate the Pascagoula Abduction — one of the most credible and genuinely unsettling encounters ever recorded. They examine the original testimony of Hickson and Parker, the secret police recording that only deepened the mystery, Dr J. Allen Hynek’s investigation, and the polygraph results, alongside the sceptical explanations ranging from hoax to misidentification. Was this a real close encounter, a shared delusion, or something that still resists every explanation?

In our Portal Files series, Den and Luke delve into the vast spectrum of the unexplained—from chilling UFO encounters and elusive cryptids to perplexing mysteries and haunting paranormal cases. Through their own investigations and meticulous research, they unravel eerie evidence, dark histories, and enduring questions that continue to fuel global fascination, offering a gripping exploration of the supernatural and beyond.

Time Stamps

00:00:00 – Introduction

00:00:46 – Catch Up with Den & Luke

00:15:48 – Case Files: Pascagoula (AI Narration)

00:21:54 – Analysis & Evidence

01:57:13 – Final Thoughts & Conclusions

02:02:02 – Outro

Episode Links

🔗 Episode gallery - https://www.paranormalportaluk.com/post/s3-e6-portal-files-the-pascagoula-ufo-abduction-gallery

🔗 Explore more cases, galleries, and connect with us – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com

The Pascagoula Abduction remains one of the best-documented and most baffling UFO cases in history. If two ordinary men fishing on a quiet river really did encounter something that night, what was it? Subscribe for more Portal Files and tell us where you land: hoax, misidentification, honest mistake… or a genuine close encounter? 🛸

CERN is powering down — and some people swear reality came back wrong when it did. A viral clip shows "ghost water" swirling on its own in an Ecuadorian cemetery, moving in a way no one can quite explain. A Virginia dad films something tall and dark stepping through the treeline as his kids scream — a clip now seen nearly twenty million times. And the towering "Giants of Kandahar" resurface to split believers all over again.

In this episode of Haunted Headlines, Den and Luke react live to the strangest stories doing the rounds — debunking, debating, and picking apart what actually holds up. Plus another round of Beast or Bogus, with Luke sitting pretty at 2–0 — can Den finally get on the board?

In our Haunted Headlines series, Den and Luke dive into paranormal articles that capture their attention, from credible hauntings and unexplained phenomena to amusing viral clips. They unveil these stories to each other on the spot, sparking lively discussions that blend analysis with a touch of humour, offering a fresh and engaging take on the strange and supernatural.

Time Stamps

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:03 - Catch up with Den & Luke

00:14:34 - CERN Shutdown & Reported Effects

00:27:41 - "Ghost Water" Cemetery Clip

00:34:52 - Virginia Bigfoot Clip

00:43:10 - The Giants of Kandahar

01:03:02 - Beast or Bogus Round 2

01:14:05 - Upcoming Notes

01:18:42 - Outro

Episode Links

🔗 "Ghost Water" cemetery clip – https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/video-ghost-water-mystifies-cemetery-workers-in-ecuador/

🔗 Virginia Bigfoot clip (@blessedatkins) – https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1235034542/dads-bigfoot-tiktok-goes-viral/

🔗 Explore more cases, galleries, and connect with us – https://www.paranormalportaluk.com

CERN goes dark, ghost water swirls, a twenty-million-view Bigfoot, and giants that refuse to stay buried — some of these fall apart the second you look closely, and some really don't. Subscribe for more Haunted Headlines and let us know: which story actually holds up? ⚛️💧👣🗿