S01-E01 - Dudley Castle

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Steven Holloway

Haunted Locations, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Strange Phenomena, Documentary Podcast, Folklore, Documentary, Hauntings, Ufos, History, Paranormal, Unexplained Mysteries

4.5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

High above the town of Dudley, the castle ruins still look out across the West Midlands.

Stone walls, broken towers, old gateways, and the long memory of war, fire, loss, and legend.

And beneath that history, something is said to remain.

In this first episode of Haunted UK Podcast, Steve explores the haunted history of Dudley Castle — one of the Midlands’ most atmospheric and enduring paranormal locations. With origins stretching back to the Norman period, the castle has witnessed civil war, noble ambition, destruction, rebuilding, family tragedy, and centuries of stories attached to its ancient stone.

At the centre of the episode is the Grey Lady of Dudley Castle, believed by tradition to be Dorothy Beaumont, whose grief during the English Civil War is said to have left a lasting mark on the castle grounds. Her figure has been seen near the keep, around the Grey Lady Tavern, and in photographs taken by visitors who only noticed something strange after leaving.

The episode also explores the ghost of John Somery, the haunted Chapel Undercroft, the mysterious stone coffin, reports of shadowy figures, cold blasts of air, unseen touches, phantom drumming linked to Civil War drummer boys, and poltergeist activity in the castle shop. Alongside these accounts are legends of a witch-like figure, strange apparitions in period dress, and the underground tunnels and caverns that add another layer of mystery beneath the site.

Atmospheric, historical, and rooted in the earliest identity of the show, this episode opens the Haunted UK Podcast archive with a journey into castle folklore, ghostly testimony, local legend, and the strange question of why some places seem to hold the past more strongly than others.

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1:04.8	Welcome to Pink Flamingo's Haunted UK podcast. The This is episode one of Pink Flamingo's Haunted UK podcast,
1:51.1	and this week we're going to cast our gaze towards Dudley Castle.
2:06.8	So let's go over a brief history of Dudley Castle before we go any further.
2:12.7	The castle is located in the town of Dudley, which is in the county of the West Midlands in the heart of England. Dudley Castle started out as a typical Mott and Bailey Castle as early as 1070,
2:20.6	but the majority of what you see today was completed by around 1321 by John Somery, who had quite a
2:27.8	fearsome reputation. The castle passed from keeper to keeper until 1537, when John Dudley ousted its current owner, John Sutton, due to money troubles.
2:40.8	During his time in the castle, John Dudley constructed more buildings within the main walls,
2:46.2	and things seemed to be going well until 1553.
2:51.4	Because of his part played in the attempt to install Lady Jane Grey as queen,
2:55.7	he was executed at Tower Hill in London.
2:59.5	Lady Jane Grey would be forever known as the Nine Days Queen,
3:03.4	and she too was executed.
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