S01-E05 - Michelham Priory

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

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

There are some old houses that feel silent.

And then there are places like Michelham Priory — where the silence seems aware of you.

In this early Haunted UK Podcast episode, Steve explores the haunted history of Michelham Priory, a beautiful and deeply atmospheric Sussex property with origins dating back to the 13th century. Once an Augustinian priory, later seized during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and eventually preserved by the Sussex Archaeological Society, Michelham is a place shaped by religion, conflict, private ownership, military use, and centuries of human presence.

At the centre of the episode are the experiences of property managers who lived and worked inside the building. Chris Tuckett’s time at Michelham began with a heavy, watchful atmosphere, followed by crying voices, footsteps, rattling doors, furniture moving by itself, and the terrifying sense that the house wanted him gone. His predecessor, Fred Overty, also described a powerful invisible force moving through the property with the sound and pressure of something almost impossible to define.

The episode also explores sightings of a man in black, a grey lady near the moat, a hooded figure in the kitchen, a young girl in the Prior’s room, a phantom cook, ghostly dogs, unexplained shadows, physical attacks, cold spots, and incidents reported during paranormal investigations and television visits.

Atmospheric, historically rooted, and rich with witness testimony, this episode asks whether Michelham Priory is haunted by individual spirits — or whether the building itself, after more than seven hundred years, has become something watchful, protective, and deeply unwilling to be forgotten.

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0:00.0	The only way that I can describe living here nowadays is if I could put you in the position of walking into a really busy pub or restaurant in town.
0:16.5	Seeing everybody eating, drinking, talking, and you walking into that room and seeing every single
0:22.9	person stopping, eating, drinking and talking, and just staring at you.
0:28.5	That would be a really uncomfortable feeling, and this is what I get.
0:33.7	Odd nights will walk in here and go, wow, and it's a little tap on the shoulder to remind you that you're not on your own, and it's not yours.
0:43.4	Those are the nights when things tend to happen.
0:47.1	Quote, from Chris Tuckett, Property Manager. Welcome to Pink Flamingo's haunted UK podcast.
1:04.9	Music The This is episode five of Pink Flamingo's Haunted UK podcast,
1:47.5	and this week we'll be telling spooky tales from Mitchell and Priory.
2:07.8	This beautiful T-shaped stone-built priory has a long and checkered history. It dates back as far as 1229, when the Augustinian Priory of the Holy Trinity was formed by Gilbert Oguila.
2:17.1	It was seized in 1537 by Henry VIII during the
2:20.9	dissolution of the monasteries and passed on to Thomas Cromwell. Following Cromwell's execution in
2:27.6	1440, it was then taken over by Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of Henry VIII.
2:41.5	Interestingly, it was used by Canadian troops as a base for training for Operation Jubilee during the winter of 1941 to 1942. This was an allied amphibious attack which took
2:49.6	place on a French beach on the Western Front,
2:52.6	with over 6,000 troops, tanks and RAF support all involved.
2:59.6	The property changed hands again in 1958, when Mrs. H. Hot Black brought the Priory with the view of preserving it for many generations to come.
3:10.9	It was put into trust and given to the Sussex Archaeological Society who still take care of it today.
3:18.0	The Priory and its buildings are now classed as both Grade 1 and Grade 2 listed.
3:25.0	Mitchell and Priory's haunted history is long and varied.
3:29.0	Many paranormal investigators, ghost hunters and psychics have had strange and
3:34.0	sometimes very frightening experiences.
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