A crumbling Venetian palace.

A dinner party gathered beneath old paintings and candlelight.

And a portrait of a murdered Contessa that seemed to watch everything.

In this season two opener of Haunted UK Podcast, Steve travels into the strange and unsettling story of Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice — a grand historic palace that became the setting for an extraordinary series of paranormal events witnessed by guests and staff during a private gathering in 1994.

The episode follows Karen Keeling and chauffeur Shaun Mullin as they prepare the palace for Lady Carol Bamford, Joan Collins, Hugo Guinness, and their party of guests. At first, the Albrizzi is beautiful, atmospheric, and slightly cold. But as the stay begins, the mood changes. Guests experience nightmares, cold spots, oppressive feelings, and the sense that something in the building is deeply unsettled.

Then Shaun sees the apparition of a woman in period dress in the dining room — a figure said to match the portrait of the Contessa, whose violent death centuries earlier had become part of the palace’s dark history. From there, the activity escalates: chocolates arranged in a mysterious pattern, shadow figures, overwhelming emotional force beneath the portrait, a storm that plunges the palace into darkness, and knives found embedded in a chopping board as though thrown by unseen hands.

With multiple witnesses, physical effects, staff testimony, local folklore, and a final apology made to the Contessa’s portrait, this episode blends Venetian history, aristocratic intrigue, ghostly apparition, poltergeist activity, and the unnerving idea that some rooms may still belong to the dead.

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