Fright Bites: Still Sitting in the Garden
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
A palliative care worker visits the home of a woman she once cared for.
The funeral has passed. The house is quiet. The garden is still alive with colour.
Then someone steps out of the greenhouse.
In this Fright Bites episode from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares a deeply moving listener account from a member of a palliative care team, whose work brought her close to families at the most difficult moments of their lives. After caring for a woman named Doris in her final days, she later returned to check on Doris’s husband — and saw something in the garden that she has never been able to forget.
This is not a story built on fear. It is quieter, stranger, and more tender than that. A woman who had passed away appears healthy, vivid, and real, smiling and waving from the garden she loved. Her husband says nothing, but his knowing expression suggests he may understand far more than he lets on.
Atmospheric, intimate, and gently unsettling, this short true paranormal story explores end-of-life experiences, grief, love, after-death encounters, and the possibility that some presences remain close to the places — and people — they loved most.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fright Bites, a mini-series from the Haunted UK podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Over the years, you've trusted us with your true paranormal experiences, stories that chilled us, unsettled us, and stayed with us |
| 0:23.0 | long after the episodes ended. In Frightbytes, we bring you the very best short-form listener |
| 0:29.7 | submissions we've ever received, hand-picked, stripped down, and told in their most terrifying |
| 0:35.9 | form. These are short stories, real accounts. |
| 0:40.7 | No filler, no distractions, just a single moment |
| 0:44.2 | where something unexplained stepped out of the shadows |
| 0:47.1 | and into someone's life. |
| 0:50.1 | So dim the lights, get comfortable, and brace yourself. |
| 1:05.6 | This story was sent in by a member of a palliative care team. |
| 1:11.6 | Because of her profession and to protect the people involved, she asked to remain anonymous. So for the purpose of this story, we'll call her Susan. All other names have also been changed. |
| 1:20.6 | As you can imagine, working in palliative care means meeting people from all walks of life at the very end of theirs. |
| 1:29.3 | Our role is to make that time as comfortable and as pain-free as possible. |
| 1:34.3 | Thankfully, in my experience, most patients do pass away peacefully. |
| 1:39.3 | But you're not just caring for the person who is dying. You're also supporting the people |
| 1:44.8 | they're leaving behind. You form connections. You help families begin to come to terms with what's |
| 1:51.7 | coming, whether that's weeks away, days away, or only hours. It's a strange line of work emotionally, |
| 1:59.2 | and people deal with it in very different ways. |
| 2:03.3 | I'd be lying if I said I'd never left a family and had a good cry to myself. |
| 2:08.6 | Sometimes you get attached. |
| 2:10.8 | Sometimes it's unavoidable. |
| 2:13.7 | Over the years I'd heard colleagues talk about unusual experiences, strange moments that happened around death, but nothing like that ever happened to me, |
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