S04-E10 - The Staircase and Other Listeners’ Stories - Part 3
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A mother sees her son come home — while he is still miles away.
A stately home keeps its own secrets behind locked doors.
And in a former children’s hospital, something waits at the top of the staircase.
In this third collection of listener stories, Haunted UK Podcast brings together a deeply unsettling range of true paranormal experiences from people whose encounters have never left them.
These accounts move from possible astral projection and signs from loved ones, to a haunted historic house in Stockport where lights switch on by themselves, phantom footsteps echo through empty rooms, and a child called Thomas appears to speak to another child. There are also stories of psychic premonitions, playful ghosts, a hotel room with a tragic past, an old woman in black seen by two brothers years apart, and a disturbing creature with yellow eyes seen near woodland.
The episode closes with Cameron’s chilling childhood account of a four-storey family home with a dark history as a children’s hospital and orphanage — a house where footsteps ran along the stairs, figures watched from windows, unseen forces seemed to act around the children, and one terrifying encounter ended with a fall from the top of the staircase.
Atmospheric, varied and intensely personal, this episode explores haunted buildings, family testimony, residual echoes, protective presences and the unsettling possibility that some houses remember every life that passed through them.
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| 1:04.9 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode. |
| 1:27.0 | My final experience and by far the most terrifying and memorable for me in that house happened the day that we were moving out of the property. |
| 1:31.4 | The year was 2008. |
| 1:34.3 | I was eight years old at the time. |
| 1:37.1 | I was given the task by my mother of going to the very top floor of the house |
| 1:41.1 | to get a cardboard box that lay at the top of the staircase. |
| 1:46.8 | Call it survival instinct or knowing what was in that house already, but I never trusted it. |
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