S05-E09 - Terrifying Attachments
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
A night inside an old abbey turns suddenly hostile.
Footsteps move through empty rooms.
A black-robed figure appears in the dark — and what happens next doesn’t stay behind.
This episode explores two deeply unsettling accounts from James and Andrew, whose experiences suggest that some paranormal encounters may not be tied only to a building, a ruin or a haunted location. Sometimes, the fear is that something notices you — and follows.
James’s story begins during an overnight photography visit to a former abbey and manor house, where he and his friends hear impossible footsteps, witness doors opening by themselves, and encounter a faceless black figure after challenging whatever is moving in the dark. But the activity doesn’t end when they leave. At home, taps turn on by themselves, strange shapes appear, nightmares begin, objects move violently, and his children report seeing something monstrous in a mirror.
Years later, Andrew joins James’s group at a castle and encounters something equally disturbing: a room marked by a strange carved symbol, a board on a table, a voice telling him to get out, and a door that seems to trap him inside. In the months and years that follow, his home life becomes plagued by illness, electrical failures, water problems, dead birds, mimic voices, unexplained figures and an email from a stranger claiming he has brought something back with him.
Atmospheric, disturbing and unusually personal, this episode asks whether certain paranormal forces can attach themselves to people — and whether some haunted places are dangerous not because of what happens there, but because of what might leave with you.
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| 1:24.9 | While we were all talking, a horrible feeling swept over me. |
| 1:27.2 | We had to go back in there. All of our camera equipment was |
| 1:29.7 | still inside, and we were also key holders, which meant that we were responsible for the |
| 1:35.2 | building while we were there. We had to lock up and make sure the building was secure. |
| 1:42.3 | We all agreed to wait a while, and then go back to get our things, |
| 1:46.4 | lock up, and leave. After an hour or so, we cautiously walked back to the room to grab our |
| 1:54.0 | equipment. As we stepped inside, we couldn't believe what we saw. The place looked like it had been ransacked, |
| 2:02.8 | with things thrown in all directions. |
| 2:05.9 | Quickly, we gathered everything, |
| 2:08.6 | locked the building, posted the keys through the manager's office letterbox, |
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