Horrors Over The Holidays - A Christmas Interrupted

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

I bring a selection of tales of Horrors Over The Holidays this festive season, each day bringing a different tale, and beginning here with the tale of how on Christmas Day 1976, one family in Hull got the worst, and most shocking surprise that you can imagine that Christmas....

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events that some listeners may find disturbing or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening in.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about.
0:08.2	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com.
0:23.6	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. The The The
0:40.3	The Hello all and the very warmest of welcomes to the True Crime Enthusiast podcast.
1:14.5	North Wales's very own intrepid jaunt into those tales of true crime I curate from around
1:19.5	the world that aren't usually ten a penny, sometimes they're quirky, they're bit bizarre,
1:24.3	or sometimes they're just plain horrifying but which are all true bringing you these
1:29.8	said tales is myself paul the creator host and true crime enthusiast of the show's title i am accompanied
1:35.5	as ever by my true crime enthusiacat the one eye candy peeksie who sat here watching over me with
1:42.5	this one big evil but still beautiful eye and both me and the
1:47.4	Mog and mostly me Peeksy doesn't really care much about anything beyond chicken and having
1:52.7	his fire on but we're pleased to be joined by yourselves the wonderful enthusiasts that make
1:58.8	the show now fast approaching its ninth year.
2:02.4	Well, I do it. He's, of course, the one I can't, yes, I just said.
2:06.5	It is tremendous of you joining us today, which I thank you kindly for doing so.
2:10.6	And I hope that as the episode finds you, then it finds you and yours all good, all safe, and all well,
2:18.3	and as you're listening,
2:24.7	are either waiting for, having, or have had a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.
2:33.4	I truly hope that you have, because I'm undoubtedly about to take it down a notch with the content here.
2:40.2	Traditionally each year for Patreon subscribers, I do an episode around this time themed Horrors Over the Holidays, and for which I curate tales of crimes and events that take place
2:45.7	at points over the Christmas or the New Year period. It is as simple as that, it's what
2:50.8	it says on the tin.
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