S04-E07 - From Sceptic to Believer
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A homemade Ouija board moves in a garage.
Two dogs begin howling as the room turns cold.
And for one listener, that night may have opened the door to a lifetime of strange encounters.
In this episode, Haunted UK Podcast follows the extraordinary testimony of Neil Rowson, whose experiences appear to trace a path from teenage scepticism to lasting belief in the paranormal.
Beginning with a chilling Ouija board session in Lancashire, Neil’s story moves through strange lights near an abandoned police house, ghostly activity inside a historic Preston bar, poltergeist phenomena caught on CCTV, and repeated encounters with apparitions, moving objects, unseen footsteps and lights switching on by themselves.
The account then turns closer to home, where Neil’s children begin speaking about a little girl in their bedroom — a figure they describe with disturbing clarity — before the family discovers that their house was built on land once connected to Chorley Hospital and an earlier workhouse.
Atmospheric, personal and deeply layered, this is a story about sensitivity, haunted places, family testimony and the unsettling possibility that one teenage experiment may have left something open for years to come.
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