Fright Bites: The Last Customer
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
After closing time in a Somerset social club, the music had stopped, the guests had gone, and the building should have been empty.
But as Helen cleaned behind the bar, she saw an elderly woman walking slowly across the dance floor towards the toilets. She hadn’t heard anyone enter. The doors hadn’t opened. And when Helen and her colleague went to check, there was no one there.
In this Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, a listener recalls a quiet Saturday night shift that turned into something far stranger: a vanishing figure, a locked escape route, an empty toilet block, and the sudden sound of furniture scraping across the floor.
What follows is a short but deeply unsettling true paranormal experience from Somerset, where an ordinary social club seems to hold the echo of a presence that had appeared before — and left behind the same impossible detail.
A ghostly woman. A single chair. And a building that may not have been as empty as it seemed.
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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 |
| 0:22.9 | 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 form. |
| 0:37.2 | These are short stories, real accounts, no filler, no distractions, just a single moment |
| 0:44.3 | where something unexplained stepped out of the shadows and into someone's life. |
| 0:50.3 | So dim the lights, get comfortable, embrace yourself. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Frightbytes, Episode 5, The Last Customer. |
| 1:08.0 | My name's Helen, and around 25 years ago I worked behind the bar at a social club in Somerset. |
| 1:14.6 | I loved that job. It was friendly, familiar, the kind of place where everyone knew everyone else. |
| 1:21.9 | Once Saturday night we'd had a band playing in the function room. The atmosphere was fantastic. |
| 1:29.8 | Lots of laughing, dancing and drinking. |
| 1:36.8 | Eventually the night wound down and the club closed. Once everyone had gone, it was just me and Mike finishing up cleaning, locking doors, getting ready to go home. Mike was tidying the lounge |
| 1:43.1 | area and I was alone behind the bar in the function |
| 1:45.7 | room. Everything was quiet, normal. Then I dropped a glass. It shattered loudly on the floor and Mike |
| 1:53.9 | called out from the lounge to ask if I was okay. I told him I was fine. Grabbed the dustpan and brush |
| 1:59.8 | and bent down to sweep up the broken glass. |
| 2:02.9 | As I stood back up, I saw her. An elderly lady was walking slowly across the dance floor, |
| 2:10.2 | heading toward the open double doors that led to the toilets. I froze. I hadn't heard anyone |
| 2:16.8 | come into the function room. The doors from the lounge hadn't opened, |
| 2:21.0 | and the place was supposed to be empty. I called out trying to sound casual. Excuse me, love. We're |
| 2:27.6 | closed now. She didn't turn around. She didn't reply. She just kept walking. I told myself she must have gone to the |
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