Dark Matters: Gef the Talking Mongoose
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Haunted UK podcast, where paranormal stories from around the world refuse to stay buried. |
| 0:09.5 | If you want to help us keep uncovering the unseen, support us on Patreon, or leave an offering on coffee. |
| 0:17.3 | Now sit back, dim the lights, and don't look behind you. Welcome to Dark Matters, a mini-series from the Haunted UK podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | Here we examine stories already etched into the public record, |
| 0:45.8 | disturbing incidents, unexplained events, enduring mysteries, |
| 0:49.5 | and accounts that continue to trouble the boundary between truth and belief. |
| 0:55.3 | These are the cases that remain unsolved, |
| 0:58.7 | not because they were forgotten, |
| 1:00.9 | but because no one has ever managed to explain them away. |
| 1:06.6 | What if I told you that one of the strangest voices in British paranormal history |
| 1:11.5 | did not belong to a ghost or a demon or anything even human, |
| 1:17.3 | but to something that claimed to be a talking mongoose, |
| 1:20.7 | living inside the walls of a lonely farmhouse on the Isle of Man? |
| 1:25.9 | This is episode two of Dark Matters. |
| 1:29.3 | Jeff, the Talking Mungoose. |
| 1:43.7 | There are some stories that sound absurd the moment you hear them, |
| 1:47.7 | cases that seem almost too strange to take seriously, |
| 1:51.3 | and Jeff is one of them, a talking mongoose. |
| 1:55.4 | Even saying it out loud feels faintly ridiculous, |
| 1:58.4 | but some of the strangest cases are like that. They arrive wrapped |
| 2:02.7 | in something almost comical and only later begin to reveal the darker shape underneath. |
| 2:09.1 | Because once you strip away the novelty, what you're left with here is not really a funny story |
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