Nicola Stevenson was a 39 year old mother who was registered as being disabled. She had moved to Lewes in East Sussex in 2018 and was given allocated a council flat by the Lewes Council at Landport Estate in the …
A rather unusual case here which comes from the journals of the Society of Psychical Research. Edgar Vandy drowned while on a day out with friends on a Sussex Estate in the summer of 1933. The inquest recorded accidental deat...
Part 5 of the 'Performance' series. An examination of the Police investigation into a serial killer who targeted female sex workers in 1960s London. It is suggested that a well known celebrity of the time could have been res...
This is the fourth podcast in the series about the background to the film 'Performance'. It is about the Rolling Stones contribution and their situation during the making of the film. How Jagger and Jones became part of the '...
London in the 1950s & 60s was changing, the media said it was becoming 'Swinging London'? In reality new elites were challenging the old establishment. David Litvinoff was involved with the Chelsea set and the worlds of music...
This is part 1 of a series of podcasts that are based on the British Movie Performance. A film which the film historian David Thompson said that the film was not as good as the stories about it. Well the …
Performance was the film made in 1968 where it was said that the Underground met the Underworld. In this podcast we examine the life of an underworld enforcer who was also an actor, who virtually played himself in the film. …
1935 True Crime, Bournemouth, a female muscian unhappily married has an affair with aToy boy, her husband is a famous architect and everything goes wrong. An unhappy story with an unhappy ending; in fact a desperately unha...
This is the last episode of Series 2, we are going back to 31st December 1910. A murder of a Jewish immigrant was thought to be associated with a Jewish secret society wanting a revolution in the UK. What actually …
Ronnie Knight is in his 80s now, born in poverty in the East End of London to a family that became a well known criminal family with close links to the Kray family, he denies that he was ever a …
Two possible cases of retrocognition are considered in this podcast, the events both occurred in 1942. The Dieppe raid was possibly 'relived' in an audio hallucination by two woman in 1952. The Queen Mary / Curacao collision ...
This podcast is about the changing nature of London's street gangs, country lines, increasing violence and how young people are recruited to the gangs. There is an examination of the gangs of Waltham Forest as an example of t...
Jodie Chesney was a teenager in her last year at sixth form college doing her A levels. It was a Friday night in March 2019, hanging with friends in her local park, a geeky, Gothy group of friends playing rock …
Although Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and the people involved in reporting unexplained phenomena at the rectory and their possible m...
Although Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and the people involved in reporting unexplained phenomena at the rectory and their possible m...
Part 2 of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten podcast. Please listen to Part 1 before listening to this podcast.
Nicolas Van Hoogstraten. Ruthless businessman, narcissistic tycoon, dangerous gangster or pantomime villain. This story is something of a ramble and has a bit of everything, murder, conspiracy, state of the nation concerns. T...
Two pointless deaths in Brighton carried out by members of the same family in Brighton. The Weaver family who had a reputation and were well known by the police. Murders that happened for no good reason and were accidental in...
This is Part 2 of An Adventure. Part 1 of An Adventure, Versailles time slip tells of perhaps the best known example of retrocognition. An Adventure was a book telling of the experience of Moberly and Jourdain while at Vers...
Part 1, this describes Perhaps the best known example of retrocognition, ' An Adventure' was a best selling book in 1911 describing the experience of two women that visited Versailles and seemed to have travelled back in time...
One of the famous English poison murders happened 100 years ago, an age when George Orwell said the stories of certain murders gave pleasure to the British public. This is one of the poison murders, thought to have started i...
Barbara Gaul was murdered with a shotgun blast in the car park of the Black Lion hotel, which is virtually the first building you come across when entering Brighton on the A23 road from London. Roy and Keith Edgeler from …
Three stories, none long enough to justify a full episode, none that unsettling, but all have a certain interest. The first tells of people that had premonitions of the Aberfan disaster in 1966, the second tells of the Ferry ...
Prostitution and vice in London was controlled by Maltese gangsters after World War 2, a trade considered dishonourable at the time by the home grown villains. The Messina family dominated up until the early 1950s. The police...