An examination of some aspects of the history of the rat in Britain according to Frank Buckland and Henry Mayhew, Victorian scientists. Not a normal episode but more of an interesting ramble on some bizarre and interesting f...
A sideways look at the Loch Ness Mystery, an examination of some of the characters involved in the story and some possible candidates for the sightings. A realisation that Loch Ness is an unusual place and strange things ha...
Shana Grice was a teenager living independently in Brighton. A work colleague became infatuated by her and started stalking. Shana asked the police for protection, but they gave her a fixed penalty notice for wasting their ti...
Drunken domestic violence in Worthing West Sussex. Robert Trigg played the dating game but was the date you did not want. Charming company when sober but a violent jealous drunk. Robert killed two of his girlfriends claiming ...
Edward Prince of Wales is staying at Tranby Croft while attending the horse racing at Doncaster during September 1890. His entourage are enjoying the hospitality of a shipping magnate Mr Wilson. A game of baccarat results in ...
London 1930. A man who had many lovers decides to disappear. He chooses a victim to kill as if it himself that has died in order to end his problems. A case that intrigued the British press in 1931.
Gaia Pope was a talented teenager from a loving family who lived in a quiet Dorset village. She became a victim of a sexual pervert she met at college, incompetent policing , austerity cuts and a lack of provision from …
John Bodkin Adams was accused of being one of the greatest mass murderers in history. Was this doctor practicing in the South coast town of Eastbourne wrongly accused by small town gossip or was he cleared by a Masonic conspi...
Strange Stories UK. Two Ghost stories, one I experienced and another told to me. These are not Hammer Horror stories and probably have a rational explanation. However it is Christmas and there is time to examine such stories.
October 1986 two nine year old girls are found murdered in a wooded park in Brighton, UK. There is a suspect who is charged but found not guilty. People in Brighton are still suspicious that the person acquitted was the …
Why did a scientist die in a wood in Oxfordshire? Was it suicide or was he murdered? I seems certain that secret police were involved and that the scientist knew of secrets that caused a war. We examine the life …
Brighton, a GAY friendly party town in the 1980s where some sexual predators took advantage of vulnerable young men.
There was a Satanism scare in Britain during the late 1970s and 1980s. This is an aspect of what was happening in Sussex during the 1980s ending in a trial that could be seen as part Dennis Wheatley and part …
Spring 1973, an unsolved murder case that caused no end of speculation, criticism of the French police and diplomatic manoeuvring to fudge the differences of French and British law. Was it organised crime or a a political ex...
Max and Ace, young and inexperienced, thought they would make some easy money moving from South London to sell drugs in the Sussex market town of Horsham. Things went wrong quite quickly.
The most famous fossil forgery and archaeological fraud was Piltdown man, this is an examination into Charles Dawson who I think was responsible for the fraud.
A true story set during world war 1 on the Kent coastline where poltergeist activity was thought to be taking place. The army commisioned a report amongst others to try to get some understanding what was taking place.
UK true crime case from 2016. A story involving infatuation and murder on the South coast of Sussex.