Two stories about street drug dealing, both ending in murder ten years ago during 2011. Both drug dealers lived in Portslade part of the conurbation of Brighton and Hove. Gary ‘Hammer’ Hampsen was a flawed character who …

Episode 6 in the Canning Town Crime and Corruption Series of podcasts. This episode is about the novel Judas Pig by Horace Silver. Published in 2004, it became a cult novel as it told stories about an OCG (organised Crime group / gang) that were bel…

Hello,  All Hallows Eve 2021. I am only posting one story this year and it is a pretty standard Haunted House story which was first published in 1902 in the Journal of Psychical Research. I do not know the location of the house as it was kept s…

This is not a podcast to interest everyone. It is about the Burbot, only fish in the UK that has been declared extinct in known history. Please also be warned that this podcast is recorded in one take with no editing and there is a dog snoring in th…

Canning Town episode 5.  This is the fifth episode linked to Canning Town organised crime. Of course there may be no link at all as this podcast deals with three unsolved murders. Nevertheless, it was very strongly rumoured that the people were…

Paranormal episode. Two cases, Ramsbury, Wiltshire. and  Askern,  near Doncaster . These were both investigated by the Society for Psychical Research(SPR). There is also an investigation into the Palm Sunday case.  the Palm Sunday cas…

Podcast 4 in the Canning Town Crime and corruption series: This episode looks at The Bowers OCG  within the Canning Town Cartel, and those who worked within the crime group. Then we look at some feuds concerning Christopher Pearman. The d…

Canning Town, London, Organised Crime and Corrupt police parts  3. Canning Town part was about the rise of the cartel in Canning Town, in particular the rise of the Hunt OCG and how Jimmy Holmes, the author of Judas Pig fell out with David Hun…

Strange Stories UK. Canning Town, London Organised Crime and Corrupt police. Part 2. Season 4, Episode 2. The Last podcast was over an hour and a half which apparently is a no-no for a successful podcast. This podcast was a similar length but I hav…

This is my fourth year of producing podcasts. during September, 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 w…