S05-E08 - Tales from the Emergency Services Part 2
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Hospitals fall silent after midnight.
Old wards remember their dead.
And sometimes, those trained to stay calm are the very people who see what others never do.
In this second collection of emergency services and military accounts, Haunted UK Podcast returns to the strange experiences reported by nurses, police officers, carers, NHS staff and serving military personnel — people whose work often brings them close to danger, trauma, death and the unknown.
These true paranormal stories move from an old workhouse hospital with reports of unseen children, vanishing patients and a terrifying force in a dayroom, to a military training exercise where dozens of exhausted soldiers appear to witness the same impossible city in the woods. There are accounts from Afghanistan, where a soldier sees a black dog-like creature inside a heavily secured outpost, and from an East Anglian mansion where two police officers encounter a figure who walks through a locked door.
The episode also includes a ghostly cat in police accommodation, unsettling care work experiences involving shadow forms, moving objects and possible spirit visitations, and NHS accounts of hospital rooms where patients and staff sense something still lingering.
Atmospheric, varied and grounded in firsthand testimony, this episode explores what happens when people in practical, high-pressure roles come face to face with events that don’t fit the world they’re trained to understand.
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