S06-E06 - Blitz Spirits
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The sirens sound.
The cities go dark.
And in the ruins, shelters and underground stations of wartime Britain, strange stories begin to surface.
This episode of Haunted UK Podcast explores the ghostly and unexplained accounts connected to the Blitz and the wider Second World War years — a time when death, fear, grief and survival shaped everyday life across Britain.
Beginning in Coventry after the devastating raid of 14 November 1940, the episode moves through stories of ruined cathedrals, wartime premonitions, disappearing cats, spiritual warnings and the strange intuition of a young woman named Cath, whose life was forever changed by the bombing of Gosford Green.
From there, the journey continues into London, with an eerie white figure seen near Islington’s Chapel of Ease, the tragic echoes of Bethnal Green Underground station, the spectral lady of Aldgate East, and even the strange folklore of Pond Square’s phantom frozen chicken.
The episode also explores the South Shields séance of Ruth Heslop, the bloody footprint of Trinity Theatre in Cowes, and RAF Wing Commander Victor Goddard’s famous flight over Drem airfield — a possible time slip into Britain’s wartime future.
Atmospheric, reflective and deeply human, this is a story about fear, resilience, loss and the possibility that moments of national trauma can leave traces behind — not only in buildings and streets, but in the people who lived through them.
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| 1:24.0 | It's the morning after the night of the 14th of November, 1940, Coventry, England, |
| 1:31.2 | a night seared and synonymous with terror. Walking through the rubble of Coventry Cathedral, |
| 1:39.6 | Stone Mason Jack Forbes surveyed the landscape with utter disbelief. Fearing the shock was yet to catch up with him, he walked further forward, with ringing in his ears no doubt from the night before. |
| 1:46.8 | It was there, amid the smoke, the putrid air, bitter with shrapnel and burnt timber |
| 1:53.5 | from 14th century frames that used to so proudly hold Coventry Cathedral up. |
| 2:00.3 | He saw something rather eerie and unexpected. I'm I'm I'm |
| 2:18.3 | I'm |
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