Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

On a remote hillside on the Isle of Man, a lonely farmhouse became the centre of one of the strangest cases in British paranormal history.

The house was Doarlish Cashen. The family were the Irvings. And the voice inside the walls claimed to belong to Gef — an “extra, extra clever mongoose” that sang, shouted, insulted visitors, mimicked animals, and spoke from hidden spaces no one could fully reach.

At first, the story sounds almost absurd. A talking mongoose in a remote Manx farmhouse. But beneath the oddity lies something far more unsettling: a family living in deep isolation, strange noises moving through the walls, a presence that seemed to watch and answer back, and investigators who could never quite agree on what was really happening.

This episode of Dark Matters explores the case through the people who tried to explain it, from Harry Price and the National Laboratory of Psychical Research to Nandor Fodor’s more psychological interpretation of the haunting. Was Gef a hoax, a poltergeist, an unusual animal, a projection of loneliness, or something that still sits uncomfortably between all of those explanations?

A strange, atmospheric journey into folklore, psychical research, Manx history, and one of the most peculiar voices ever said to emerge from the dark.
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Haunted UK Podcast has officially moved to Acast.

In this short update, Steve shares what the move means for the future of the show, reflects on how far Haunted UK has come over the past five years, and looks ahead to more history, hauntings, witness accounts, location episodes, and unexplained stories still to come.
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An overnight security guard patrols an almost abandoned office block where little ever changes. Empty corridors. Silent lifts. Rows of stripped-back offices left frozen in time.

But on the third floor, one desk remains.

At first, it’s easy to dismiss the strange activity as faulty equipment and exhaustion. A lift opening on its own. The sound of typing echoing through empty rooms. A chair inexplicably pulled back from a desk no one should be using. Then the CCTV begins to capture something impossible.

In this Fright Bites episode, we hear the unsettling account of a night worker who came face to face with the lingering presence of a former employee… a man said to have died alone at his desk years earlier, unnoticed for days inside the silent building.

A short-form paranormal encounter rooted in isolation, empty workplaces, late-night patrols, and the unnerving feeling that some places never truly empty out.
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The investigation continues beneath the surface of Hack Green Nuclear Bunker.

After exploring the bunker’s Cold War history and after-hours atmosphere, the second part moves deeper into the experiences connected to the site: the strange sensations, unexplained encounters, and witness accounts that have become part of Hack Green’s modern identity.

This is not simply a story of concrete corridors and preserved military rooms. It is a story about what remains in a place shaped by secrecy, isolation, and the constant shadow of catastrophe. As Bryony and Emma continue their conversation with Steve, the bunker begins to feel less like a museum and more like a building still holding onto something.

Part 2 brings together witness testimony, paranormal discussion, and the lingering emotional weight of a location designed for the end of the world - asking whether places built around fear can absorb it, preserve it, and perhaps even echo it back.
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A late-night drive on an almost empty stretch of the M6 should have been uneventful.

But just past Wigan, one driver noticed a woman standing alone on the hard shoulder. No broken-down car. No hazard lights. No attempt to wave for help. Just a still figure in a light-coloured coat, facing the road as traffic passed in the dark.

As the car drew level, she turned and looked directly at the driver - not frightened, not pleading, but waiting. A moment later, she was gone. No movement. No trace. Nothing visible in the mirror but the empty hard shoulder behind.

In this short Fright Bites encounter, a seemingly ordinary motorway sighting becomes something far harder to explain, especially when a colleague later mentions the stories attached to that same stretch of road: reports of a woman seen near the place where a fatal accident was said to have happened years before.

A quiet, chilling account of late-night roads, roadside ghosts, and the unnerving feeling that some places hold onto the final moments of those who never made it home.
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