S07-E10 - The Ghost Within & Other Listeners’ Stories - Part 2
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
A whisper in a care home.
A clock that stops every night at four.
A figure in the hallway with empty eyes.
And a haunting that may have come from somewhere far closer than expected.
In this second collection of listener stories from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares another unsettling set of real paranormal experiences, ranging from childhood encounters and care home hauntings to strange family warnings, apparitions, moving objects, possible spirit attachments, and unexplained moments that continue to trouble those who lived through them.
The episode begins with Alana’s terrifying work experience in a care home, where residents had long spoken of a troublesome little boy named Timmy. A whispered warning, a figure with white eyes, crying from an empty floor, and a door that refused to open left her shaken enough never to return.
Other accounts include a family clock that stops at the exact time of death, a life-saving voice on a country road, a strange warning before the 7 July London bombings, and a house where a mist-like child figure, thrown objects, footsteps, cold breezes, and disturbing responses suggest something may be deeply active.
The episode also features stories from care work, possible deathbed visitations, time-slip-style premonition, and the return of Sam, whose vivid dream in Melbourne appeared to show events before they happened.
But the closing account gives the episode its name. Robert Ensor shares his deeply personal experience of what he first believed to be poltergeist activity — strange noises, crawling sensations, smells, movement, fear, and apparent disturbances — before developing his own interpretation of the phenomena as something generated not by an external ghost, but by the mind itself.
Atmospheric, varied, and thought-provoking, this listener-led episode explores true paranormal stories, care home ghosts, family warnings, strange entities, possible poltergeist activity, and the uneasy question of whether some hauntings may begin within us.
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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. |
| 0:39.2 | And don't forget to follow us on social media. |
| 0:42.3 | Facebook, X at Haunted UKPod, TikTok and Instagram at Haunted UK Podcast, or visit our website |
| 0:50.5 | www.w.w.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. |
| 2:35.3 | Most of these events occurred in my bedroom at night, but increasingly I had minor experiences out and about in daytime, such as faint crawling and shuffling sensations on my head and face. |
| 2:41.8 | I tried on all the normal explanations, creaking old house, wind, sleep paralysis, hypnagogia, |
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