S07-E09 - Witchcraft, Wonder & The Unexplained
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
A clearing in the woods that shouldn’t have been there.
A porcelain doll that seemed to move on its own.
A haunted school bathroom, a disappearing house, shadow figures, time slips, doppelgängers, and encounters with the dead.
In this deeply personal episode of Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares the extraordinary experiences of Katie, an eclectic witch now living in Dublin, whose life has been shaped by magic, sensitivity, spirit contact, and the unexplained. Raised in the Bible Belt of Alabama, Katie grew up surrounded by strict religious ideas while quietly sensing, seeing, and knowing things she couldn’t easily explain.
Her story moves through childhood encounters in haunted woods, strange loops in the landscape, a clearing filled with shadow figures, and the unsettling possibility that something in the forest tried to keep her and her friend from leaving. From there, Katie recounts a disturbing family doll, a ghostly girl in a school bathroom, an abandoned cottage that later vanished, a face at a second-floor window, spirit activity in restaurants and hotels, and vivid experiences in some of the most haunted places in Savannah, Edinburgh, and Dublin.
The episode also explores Katie’s modern witchcraft practice, her connection to ancestor veneration, nature spirits, sacred Irish sites, familiars, tulpas, time slips at the Hill of Tara, and the strange phenomenon of doppelgängers appearing in her life.
Atmospheric, intimate, and full of strange detail, this episode blends witchcraft, folklore, personal testimony, haunted places, spirit encounters, and the uneasy sense that some people may live closer to the unseen world than others.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had a moment that made your skin crawl? A shadow where there shouldn't be one? A whisper in an empty room or something you simply can't explain. If so, we want to hear from you. Here at the Haunted UK podcast, we're always on the lookout for spine-tingling stories to feature in our end-of-season |
| 0:22.0 | listener episodes and our short haunt series. Whether it's a chilling encounter, a mysterious |
| 0:28.5 | experience or something that's haunted you for years, we want your tale. Send your story to contact |
| 0:35.6 | us at haunted UK podcast.com. |
| 0:39.3 | And don't forget to follow us on social media. |
| 0:42.3 | Facebook, X at Haunted UKPod, |
| 0:45.6 | TikTok and Instagram at Haunted UK Podcast, |
| 0:48.5 | or visit our website www.women. |
| 0:52.8 | Hunted UK Podcast.com. Now, if you love what we do and want even more haunted goodies, |
| 0:59.5 | then you can support the show on Patreon and coffee. We've got two brilliant tears, |
| 1:04.8 | possessed and spooked, both packed with bonus content, exclusive episodes and extra material that'll keep you up all night. |
| 1:13.5 | But that's not all. We've launched a brand new sister podcast, Haunted UK Fiction, |
| 1:19.9 | and we're calling all storytellers. Whether you're a published author, an aspiring writer, |
| 1:25.4 | or someone with a natural gift for spinning eerie tales. |
| 1:29.1 | We're looking for original fictional short stories and novellas with strong paranormal or supernatural |
| 1:34.7 | themes. Think suspenseful, mysterious, atmospheric, terrifying, thought-provoking, even darkly magical. |
| 1:43.1 | If your story is selected, we'll professionally |
| 1:45.9 | narrate, record, mix and master it into an audiobook style format, then feature it on the show. |
| 1:52.4 | You'll get a copy of the finished production to use however you like, and you'll retain |
| 1:57.3 | full ownership of your work. Submit your story to Haunted UK Fiction at |
| 2:03.0 | hotmail.com and follow us on Instagram at Haunted UK Fiction. So whether it's truth or |
| 2:09.6 | fiction, if it's haunted, we wanted. Now, sit back and enjoy the episode. We ran as fast as our little feet could carry us. |
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