S03-E01 - The House that didn’t want to be a Home
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A dream home on the edge of a village.
A dark shape growing in an outbuilding.
A familiar figure walking through the house when the person it resembled was miles away.
In this episode of Haunted UK Podcast, Steve opens Season 3 with two deeply unsettling accounts of houses that seemed to reject the people trying to live inside them.
The first story follows Ben and Helen, a professional couple who moved into a large four-bedroom house in 2010, hoping to build a future there. At first, the property seemed perfect. But after a few months, Helen began experiencing unexplained cold, dark shadow forms, a silhouetted figure in the bedroom, objects moving, lights switching on in the outbuilding, and the growing feeling that something in the house was watching her.
As the haunting intensified, the activity appeared to target the couple separately. Ben saw what looked like Helen walking through the house while she was away for the weekend, received strange phone calls from the landline, and later encountered a floating shadow figure before the kitchen was left in chaos. The pressure became so severe that the couple eventually sold the house and left, choosing financial loss over another night inside.
The episode then turns to Pete’s account of his brother’s council house beside a churchyard — a property filled with oppressive atmosphere, apparitions, poltergeist activity, disembodied voices, and the unsettling presence of several spirits. Unlike Ben and Helen’s story, this haunting ended only after a visiting woman performed a cleansing ritual and identified the spirits of a monk, an elderly husband, and his wife, all seemingly trapped between their old home and whatever lay beyond it.
Atmospheric, personal, and quietly disturbing, this season opener explores haunted houses, shadow figures, mimicry, poltergeist activity, spiritual cleansing, domestic fear, and the question of what happens when a house refuses to become a home.
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| 1:04.3 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode. When you get involved in presenting a podcast and the subject is the paranormal, |
| 1:25.1 | you are desperate for your listeners to get in touch and share their |
| 1:28.2 | stories with you. I've been extremely lucky to have listeners that have felt and mentioned |
| 1:33.5 | that the Haunted UK podcast has been their chosen platform to have the confidence to share |
| 1:39.1 | their experiences without fear of judgment or ridicule, and that means a tremendous amount. |
| 1:45.7 | But every now and then, a story comes along that goes beyond an experience. |
| 1:51.0 | It becomes life-altering. |
| 2:03.6 | It becomes life-altering. The...you know, |
| 2:04.6 | ... The This is episode one of season three of the Haunted UK podcast. |
| 2:50.0 | And in this episode, we're going to hear from people whose houses didn't want to become homes. Thank you. As per the request of the couple who decided to send this story into the podcast, names will be changed and locations won't be mentioned. This is mainly down to the |
| 3:27.0 | negative effects that their admission to these phenomena may have in their professional careers. |
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