Some people encounter the unexplained once.

Others seem to brush against it again and again, across decades, places, professions, and turning points in life.

In this deeply personal episode of Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares the extraordinary experiences of listener Jim Corbett — a thoughtful sceptic with a lifelong interest in ghosts, psychic phenomena, and the strange moments that resist easy explanation.

Jim’s accounts begin in childhood, with out-of-body sensations, the sound of children playing near the site of a wartime school tragedy, a Ouija board prediction linked to Concorde, and a mysterious woman seen near Highgate Cemetery. From there, his stories move through family homes, an attic room filled with phantom voices, a hotel near Canterbury Cathedral with its own poltergeist, and several unsettling incidents from his military years.

Those military accounts include a terrifying sensation on a dark training road at Crowborough, where Jim later learned a soldier was said to have died, shadowy SS figures and jackboot footsteps in a former barracks in Germany, and the ghostly routine of a former medical orderly still making rounds in an army sick bay.

The episode then enters the world of hospitals and the NHS, where Jim encountered a blue-dressed child in an old workhouse hospital, a mysterious priest who appeared to comfort grieving parents, phantom footsteps in locked areas, alarm bells ringing in empty rooms, and finally, a chilling account of a banshee heard in an Irish hospital as a patient lay dying.

Rich, varied, and grounded in Jim’s careful search for rational explanations, this episode explores ghosts, memory, war, hospitals, old buildings, residual hauntings, and the unsettling possibility that some lives gather stories simply by being close enough to notice them.

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