Haunted UK On the Road - Black Shuck Festival 2025
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Some legends never really leave the places that made them famous.
In Bungay, East Suffolk, the story of Black Shuck still moves through the town’s history, its church, its folklore, and now its modern festival — a living celebration of one of Britain’s most enduring supernatural figures.
Recorded on location at Bungay Museum during the Black Shuck Festival, this special episode follows Steve as he explores the legend of East Anglia’s spectral black dog and the cultural legacy it still carries today. Joined by Chris Reeve and James Mayhew, the conversation looks at the history of Black Shuck, its connection to Bungay, and how an old tale of fear, folklore and mystery has become the heart of a contemporary community event.
From the enduring image of the black dog to the work involved in bringing the festival to life, this is a thoughtful and atmospheric journey into local legend, storytelling, and the way folklore continues to shape the places we think we know.
Part location recording, part folklore special, and part celebration of community history, this episode captures Black Shuck not simply as a ghostly creature of the past — but as a legend still very much alive in East Anglia.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had a moment that made your skin crawl? A shadow where there shouldn't be one? A whisper in an |
| 0:06.5 | empty room or something you simply can't explain. If so, we want to hear from you. Here at the |
| 0:14.0 | Haunted UK podcast, we're always on the lookout for spine-tingling stories to feature in our |
| 0:19.6 | end-of-season listener episodes and our |
| 0:22.4 | short haunt series. Whether it's a chilling encounter, a mysterious experience or something |
| 0:28.3 | that's haunted you for years, we want your tale. Send your story to contact us at hauntedukysk |
| 0:35.7 | podcast.com. And don't forget to follow us on social media. |
| 0:40.6 | Facebook, X at Haunted UK Pod, TikTok and Instagram at Haunted UK Podcast, or visit our website |
| 0:48.8 | www.woundedukpodcast.com. Now if you love what we do and want even more haunted goodies, |
| 0:57.9 | then you can support the show on Patreon and coffee. We've got two brilliant tears, possessed |
| 1:03.5 | and spooked, both packed with bonus content, exclusive episodes and extra material that'll |
| 1:10.0 | keep you up all night. But that's not all. We've launched a |
| 1:14.4 | brand new sister podcast, Haunted UK Fiction, and we're calling all storytellers. Whether you're a |
| 1:21.6 | published author, an aspiring writer, or someone with a natural gift for spinning eerie tales, we're looking for original fictional |
| 1:29.2 | short stories and novellas with strong paranormal or supernatural themes. Think suspenseful, mysterious, |
| 1:36.6 | atmospheric, terrifying, thought-provoking, even darkly magical. If your story is selected, |
| 1:43.3 | we'll professionally narrate, record, mix and |
| 1:46.0 | master it into an audiobook style format, then feature it on the show. You'll get a copy of the |
| 1:52.0 | finished production to use however you like, and you'll retain full ownership of your work. Submit |
| 1:58.5 | your story to Haunted UK fiction at Hotmail.com and follow us on Instagram |
| 2:04.1 | at Haunted UK Fiction. So whether it's truth or fiction, if it's haunted, we wanted. Now, |
| 2:12.3 | sit back and enjoy the episode. So, I'm. I'm I'm |
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