Islands often promise escape.

Sunlight, sea air, hidden beaches, and the feeling of being far from the ordinary world.

But some islands carry stories that are far older, stranger, and darker than the postcards suggest.

In this Haunted UK Abroad episode, Steve travels beyond Britain to explore mysterious and haunted islands around the world — places shaped by folklore, tragedy, isolation, strange disappearances, and deeply unsettling legends. From the ghost of Catalina Lercaro in Tenerife and the vanishing island of San Borondon, to the plague pits and abandoned asylum of Poveglia, these stories reveal how paradise can become something far more disturbing when history is left to decay.

The journey continues through Cemetery Island in South Carolina, the shipwreck-haunted sands of Sable Island, the forbidden shores of North Sentinel Island, and the otherworldly landscape of Socotra, where dragon’s blood trees, Jinn legends, and lost civilisations blur the line between natural wonder and myth.

The episode also explores the haunted castles and ghost stories of the Thousand Islands, before ending at the remote Palmyra Atoll — a place associated with shipwrecks, vanished aircraft, murder, buried treasure, and a reputation for hostility that some visitors have described as almost impossible to explain.

Atmospheric, wide-ranging, and quietly unsettling, this episode blends haunted travel, island folklore, historical tragedy, cryptic legends, and true unexplained stories into a global journey through places where beauty and darkness share the same shore.

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