Hello anyone reading this. I announced on the podcast that I wasn’t going to spend as much time on the podcasts as I am working on another project as well as working on the day job. I am still intending to produce a couple of podcasts each mon…

A West Country Haunted house, as investigated by the SPR during 1887. This would have been one of the cases investigated by Edmund Gurney and others who were working on a book ‘Phantasms of the living’ (published 1886) which listed and d…

I thought the Rettendon/Essex Boys  podcasts were well received. Former DCI McKelvey seemed to give it the thumbs up. In the first podcast, I set the scene with what was known about the shootings  and gave potted histories of the main char…

hello, if there is anyone there. I feel that I am speaking to an echo chamber! If anyone is interested, I will be posting the next paranormal podcast at the end of March. If I get any feedback on the Essex Boys podcasts, I will share it on the next…

This case dates from May 1979, set in Southampton on the South Coast of the UK. There is an argument between a couple and the woman dies supposedly of strangulation.,  In this case there was an argument for vagal inhibition. Alan Gardner h…

I have just realised that I had not posted a blog for this podcast, I may have to do away with these blogs, I am pretty sure nobody reads them or views the website. Anyhow, I was quite upset about the story behind this podcast, what on earth made a…

6 February 2022: I have had covid over the past couple of weeks, not too serious but due to fits of coughing when I spoke was unable to post a podcast until now. This is the case of Joan Woodhouse, a case I became aware of when I first moved to the …

18 January 2022 : Michael Maybrick parts 1 & 2. Well at last I managed to complete the follow up to the Florence Maybrick podcast of November 2020. I was dreading writing the podcast as there was so much reading and research that I had to comple…

30 December 2021: Strange Stories UK: Bognor-Gatwick train murder. A murder from a long time ago, The Rolling Stones were number 1 in the singles charts with 'I can't get no Satisfaction', this podcast tells of a story from September 1965 when a wo…

  20th Dec 2021: Strange Stories UK, Ghost story for Christmas. Tony Cornell investigates East Anglia hauntings. These three stories come from the journals for the Society for Psychical Reseach. It has been a month, well over a month since I…