Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Jonathan Frank Tate spent years in security operations, the military, and private contracting, but it's his time as Warden for Newborough and Llanddwyn on Anglesey that gives this account its setting.

His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered.

No one touches the chair, no one is ever there, but Tate falls asleep in an old chair inside an abandoned caravan deep in the forest, dreams that something unseen is turning it slowly beneath him, and wakes to find it still spinning exactly as it was in the dream. This is Chair Spin.

Tate's years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn meant long, solitary hours in a forest that has spent centuries quietly reclaiming everything left inside it, from animal paths to a royal court buried beneath the dunes by ancient storms.

Exhausted after hours of walking before dawn, Tate steps inside an old caravan he had always found unsettling but never entered, and sits down in a swivel office chair that looks strangely well kept compared to everything decaying around it. He falls asleep almost instantly and dreams he is still in the chair, being turned slowly and deliberately by someone standing just out of sight. He tries to plant his feet and stop it, but his body will not respond. Then, in one sudden movement, he is awake, and the chair is still turning, slowing down as though whatever had been pushing it had only just let go. Outside, the forest stays completely silent: no footsteps, no movement, nothing to explain what just happened.

Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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On the same night an old family friend died in a car crash hundreds of miles away, a teenager staying overnight at that friend's own house in Melbourne, south Derbyshire, watched a silent, jet black figure the exact shape of the man standing in the hallway. In this real Witness Files account, Ash describes an encounter with what may have been a final visit home.

Seventeen at the time, Ash was staying the night at the house Charlie and his wife Amy lent his grandparents every Christmas while they skied in Austria. Walking back from the kitchen late one December night, he found the hallway blocked by a tall, dark, featureless shape wearing what looked exactly like Charlie's coat and flat cap. It didn't answer when he spoke, and when he stepped closer, it vanished into the room beside him, leaving nothing behind.

The next morning, Ash's grandparents delivered the news: Charlie had died in a car crash in Austria the evening before, at almost exactly the moment of the sighting, and his wife was fighting for her life in intensive care.

Hear Ash'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 in security operations, the military, and private contracting, but it's his time as Warden for Newborough and Llanddwyn on Anglesey that gives this account its setting.

His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered.

No footsteps, no growl, no chase, just a small, familiar dog trotting happily through the pines at midnight, exactly as she'd always looked, hundreds of miles from the house where she should have been sleeping.

This is Mandy.

Tate spent years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn after dark, along paths worn by animals rather than people, in a landscape where centuries-old storms buried a royal court beneath the dunes.

On a calm, clear night deep in the forest, Tate spots movement among the trees: a small spaniel with reddish fur, moving happily through the undergrowth. He recognises her at once as Mandy, his grandmother's dog, a dog he hadn't seen in months while working in North Wales, hundreds of miles from her home in London. She looks exactly as she always had, relaxed and pleased, moving with total confidence through a forest she has no business being in. She glances back at him once, then carries on between the trees until the dark swallows her completely. The next day, Tate learns that Mandy died peacefully at his grandparents' house in London during the night, at almost exactly the same time he saw her.

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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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