Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

In the summer of 1988, a small South Carolina town found itself chasing a seven foot, scaled creature with red eyes, and the strangest part of the whole case is that the only real evidence anyone ever produced was a terrified seventeen year old boy who passed a police polygraph test. This episode of Dark Matters heads to Scape Ore Swamp, near Bishopville in Lee County, for the story of the Lizard Man.

After a couple's car turned up mysteriously damaged in the swamp overnight, Christopher Davis reported being chased by something out of the trees while changing a flat tyre on a lonely back road. Deputies cast three toed footprints, a cryptid researcher blamed Bigfoot, a fake evidence claim collapsed within days, and the story went national, turning a quiet cotton town into a media circus complete with lizard themed merchandise and a million dollar reward nobody ever claimed.

More than three decades on, the case is still unresolved, tangled up with a dying sheriff who never stopped believing, a witness whose life was upended by that one night, and a local rumour involving a butterbean farmer that's never been confirmed or denied.

Hear the full story, and the competing theories behind it, in this episode of Dark Matters.
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Jonathan Frank Tate spent years patrolling Newborough Forest on Anglesey as Warden, and it's one of his own recorded accounts, unaltered from his book Factual Supernatural, now out on Amazon, that gives this episode of the Haunted UK Podcast its material.

Walking a quiet forest path late one still night, he sees a warm, lantern-like glow moving through the trees on a parallel track, gliding steadily towards him with no footsteps and no figure carrying it.

The light draws level, bright enough to catch the branches around it, then stops directly opposite where he's standing, as though it's noticed him too. There's no hand holding it, no shadow, no sound at all, just the glow, motionless in the dark a few metres away, until he forces himself to walk on. When he finally looks back, it's vanished completely, with nothing left to explain where it went.

Hear the full account, exactly as Jonathan wrote it, in this episode.
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On her very first day working at Dover Castle, Cecilia looked up at an enormous building beside the car park and saw a woman in a dark, hooded cloak staring down at her from a second-floor window. In this real Witness Files account, that single glance sets off a chain of events that leaves two experienced colleagues just as unsettled as she was.

The building turns out to be the Officer's Mess, a 19th-century addition to Dover Castle that's been closed to staff and visitors for years. When Cecilia mentions the figure she saw on her first day, her colleagues insist she couldn't have seen anyone there at all, and take her inside to prove it. What she finds is a gutted shell with no floor on the level where the woman had been standing.

Her manager has an explanation of her own: Dover Castle's long-reported Grey Lady, a spirit tied to this exact building, said to have appeared decades earlier during a party to warn staff of a fire, then vanished with no guest matching her description ever found.

Hear Cecilia's full witness statement, and find out how to submit your own story to The Witness Files, in this episode.
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Jonathan Frank Tate spent years patrolling Newborough Forest on Anglesey as Warden, and it's one of his own recorded accounts, unaltered from his book Factual Supernatural, now out on Amazon, that gives this episode of the Haunted UK Podcast its material.

Sitting on a quiet hillock above a forest track on a calm summer afternoon, he hears what sounds like hundreds, maybe thousands, of feet running along the path directly below him. When he looks down, the track is completely empty.

The sound doesn't fade or explain itself. It builds into what he describes as a stampede's worth of footsteps, rushing and overlapping, with no voices and no visible cause, while sunlight falls undisturbed across an empty path and the ferns beside it don't so much as move. It lasts several long minutes before receding into the trees, leaving the forest to settle back into ordinary birdsong as though nothing had happened at all.

Hear the full account, exactly as Jonathan wrote it, in this episode.
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A man sitting alone in a rural train station shelter gets up, walks into the dark at the end of the platform, and vanishes completely: no footprints, no sound, nowhere he could have gone. Then the footsteps start again, coming from behind him. This episode of Fright Bites packs in four real, unexplained encounters, including one told for the first time in the listener's own voice.

Alongside it: a lifetime of unexplained incidents in one family home, from toys thrown by nobody to a heating system that kept getting turned up while the house sat empty, and two brothers, years apart, who each described the exact same imaginary friend. A night of relentless knocking at a Welsh holiday cottage turns out to have happened to every guest who's ever stayed there. And a ten year old, wide awake in bed, comes face to face with a tall, snarling, black clad figure she was certain, even then, was a vampire.

Listen to all four accounts now, and if you've had an encounter of your own, get in touch, it could be the next Fright Bite.
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