Well I am sorry that I have not put out any podcasts during November 2022 but I have some interesting stories that I have researched that I dont think you will find anywhere else easily. In this episode I think it will become obvious that Mark…

This is a Halloween podcasts for 2022. An attempt by the  British Society of Psychical research (SPR) to explain paranormal activity.  Phantasms of the Living was to be the book published by the SPR that was to explain the reasons for peo…

When researching this case, I was surprised to find that the police files were supposed to have been released until 2046, but had been opened 40 years early. I am not sure why this was because it is possible that some of those mentioned in the podca…

  I have had to make this podcast into two parts as two hours was the least I could get the information down to without compromising the story. It seems that most people that have written on the subject have been sympathetic to the spiritualis…

  Strange Stories: London gangland murder of Jack Buggy. Wow, that was a long recording about 90 minutes during which I consumed the best part of a bottle of wine, no its gone. I drink tea while researching and writing but I donate like recor…

Hello All, I have just posted part 1 of the murder at Tarrant Keynston, Dorset. Originally this was to be posted at the end of season 4 with someone else narrating, a very nice chap offered to narrate as it was clear that it wasn’t my strong p…

Hello anyone that may be reading this. This story is one of many that were investigated by Frank Podmore of the SPR. He was the person that went to investigate supposed hauntings. This particular story was published in the journal of the SPR but did…

This podcast is about a murder/killing that happened in Portsmouth during World War 2. Another case that showed the failings of the British legal system. Harold Loughans was a 'Dickensian' type character who did not anything positive, stealing his w…

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…