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Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Dear Steve - My mum saw an elderly lady zoom up into the afterlife…

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Steven Holloway

Haunted Locations, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Strange Phenomena, Documentary Podcast, Folklore, Documentary, Hauntings, Ufos, History, Paranormal, Unexplained Mysteries

4.5652 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Do you have an interesting story which you'd be willing to share with the show? If so, your story could feature in our end of season Listeners’ Stories episodes – or a Dear Steve. Please get in touch with the show via our new Haunted UK Podcast Website, or email us at contactus@hauntedukpodcast.com, marking the subject as Listener Story or Dear Steve. 


All stories are treated with the utmost privacy and respect – if you wish to remain anonymous – that's no problem at all.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to another Halloween edition of Dear Steve.

0:05.0

So let's see what we have in the Halloween mailbag for you today.

0:10.0

Dear Steve, my name is Jeff, and I thought you may be interested in a couple of experiences that happened to me when I was a young teenager. My parents, brother and I

0:23.3

lived in a masonette in London. My father developed cardiac problems, which ended up with him

0:29.2

having a heart attack. When he recovered, our GP advised that we should try to move into a flat

0:35.1

so that he didn't have to climb stairs.

0:42.5

A flat became available nearby when an elderly lady tenant died.

0:48.0

Not long after, we moved in and began to settle down.

0:56.5

After a short time, I began feeling a little uneasy, especially in certain rooms, namely the kitchen and the bedroom that me and my brother shared. On a regular basis, I was volunteered to make cups of tea

1:02.1

whilst my parents watched the television. I began dreading this duty. Every time I was waiting

1:09.5

for the kettle to boil, I had an unnerving feeling

1:12.3

of being watched, and it didn't feel friendly at all. I couldn't wait to make the tea and return to my

1:18.4

parents. I never mentioned this to them, but kept it to myself. On other occasions, I would feel the

1:25.3

end of my bed sink down, as if somebody was sitting on it.

1:29.3

It was terrifying.

1:31.3

I would just put my head under the covers and wait for it to go away.

1:35.7

All the other rooms in the flat were okay, just my bedroom and the kitchen.

1:41.5

Once we moved again, nothing like this ever happened. While we lived in these flats, my

1:48.6

mother related a story to us which I would like to tell you. She became friendly with an elderly

1:54.5

lady who lived in the flat below us. My mother used to cook extra food and give it to her on

2:00.0

occasions. My mother said that one night food and give it to her on occasions.

2:06.4

My mother said that one night in the early hours, she was woken by a brilliant light,

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