Fright Bites: The Ship on the School Field
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
A quiet school field.
A strange dream in the early hours.
A vast ship appearing where no ship should ever be.
In this first Fright Bites story from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares Andrew’s unsettling account of a childhood sleepover in February 1987. After spending the day playing golf on their school field, Andrew’s friend woke suddenly from a vivid and distressing dream. He had seen a huge ferry on the grass, red along the bottom and white above, with people moving on the decks before the vessel began to tip onto its side.
Two weeks later, on 6 March 1987, a ferry left Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium and capsized shortly after departure. When Andrew later saw footage of the disaster, the details felt impossible to ignore: the colours, the scale of the ship, the people, and the terrible image of it rolling onto its side.
Quiet, eerie, and deeply strange, this short true paranormal story explores premonition, childhood memory, disaster, and the unsettling possibility that some dreams may arrive before the events they seem to show.
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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. |
| 1:06.2 | My name is Andrew, and this event took place in late February 1987. |
| 1:09.7 | It was still cold and it was getting dark early. |
| 1:13.6 | At the time my best friend and I spent most of our free time together. We were usually out on our mountain bikes or playing golf. |
| 1:17.6 | We both had half sets of clubs and whenever we could, we'd go out with his dad to play on local courses, usually on a Saturday afternoon. |
| 1:26.6 | His dad made an incredible homemade beef curry that would be |
| 1:31.0 | cooking all day. After we ate, we'd sit watching TV or a video with the family, and I'd normally |
| 1:37.5 | stay over. One Saturday, his dad was called into work. So instead we took our bikes, a single nine iron each and some golf |
| 1:46.8 | balls and rode up to our school field. When we couldn't get onto a course, we'd spend hours |
| 1:52.8 | hitting balls around the field. It was huge and completely empty. After a couple of hours, we headed |
| 1:59.4 | back to his house and carried on with our usual routine, |
| 2:03.2 | curry, a video, and then bed. I slept on a camp bed on the opposite side of his room, right in |
| 2:11.0 | front of the wardrobe. We lay there talking for a while, laughing, and eventually fell asleep. |
| 2:16.6 | Sometime in the early hours, I was |
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