S06-E01 - Don’t Scream
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
A beautiful antique wardrobe is brought into a warm family home.
Soon, the atmosphere begins to change.
Then the noises start from inside.
In this deeply unsettling listener account, Haunted UK Podcast shares Libby’s story — a terrifying sequence of events that unfolded over ten months when she was twelve years old, after her father brought home a large carved wardrobe from a house clearance.
At first, the disturbances are small: a shape seen moving at an upstairs window, unexplained bangs from inside the wardrobe, doors opening, strange sounds, and a growing darkness in a house that had never felt haunted before. But as the activity intensifies, Libby and her mother both begin experiencing something far more disturbing — a presence that seems connected to the wardrobe itself.
There are visions of an old woman, voices in the night, bruising atmospheres, objects vanishing and reappearing, and one horrifying moment when Libby hides inside the wardrobe during a game and hears two words whispered in her ear: “Don’t scream.”
What follows leaves physical marks, fractures trust beyond the family home, and forces her parents to destroy the object they believe brought something into their lives.
Atmospheric, intimate and genuinely chilling, this episode explores haunted objects, family testimony, doppelgänger-like encounters, antique furniture, and the frightening possibility that some things carry their history with them.
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| 1:53.0 | My father unlocked the car and got in, followed by Charlotte who got in the back. |
| 1:59.0 | As I went to open the door to get in, my attention was drawn to the window of the master bedroom. |
| 2:04.6 | I have no idea why. |
| 2:06.6 | There were no noises or anything which would have drawn my gaze to it, |
| 2:10.6 | but for some inexplicable reason, I felt that I had to look up there. |
| 2:15.6 | As I glanced up, |
| 2:18.4 | I could have sworn that I saw someone move from the window |
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