S08-E02 - The Tudor House and Room Number Nine

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Steven Holloway

Haunted Locations, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Strange Phenomena, Documentary Podcast, Folklore, Documentary, Hauntings, Ufos, History, Paranormal, Unexplained Mysteries

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🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

An abandoned Tudor house in a quiet West Midlands village.

A hidden room filled with books.

Footsteps on the stairs… when no one should have been inside.

In this atmospheric listener account from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares the story of “Tom”, whose strange experiences began as a childhood adventure and ended as something far more unsettling. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, Tom and two friends slipped into an empty historic house that had long fascinated the local children. What began as a secret den soon became a terrifying encounter with footsteps moving through the building, climbing the stairs, and stopping directly outside the room where the boys were hiding.

Years later, after moving to Cornwall, Tom found himself living in a block of bedsits where another disturbing mystery began to unfold. Room Number Nine, recently vacated by a former friend, should have been empty. But Tom and his girlfriend heard clear movement inside. No one had entered. No lights had come on. No footsteps had crossed the landing. And yet something seemed to be moving around in the darkness next door.

With echoes of residual haunting, haunted buildings, unseen presences, and the strange emotional weight certain rooms can hold, this episode explores two deeply personal paranormal experiences connected by memory, place, and the unnerving feeling that some spaces may not be as empty as they appear.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Haunted UK podcast, where paranormal stories from around the world refuse to stay buried.
0:09.4	If you want to help us keep uncovering the unseen, support us on Patreon, or leave an offering on coffee.
0:17.3	Now sit back, dim the lights, and don't look behind you.
0:21.6	Anyway, now things got genuinely scary, and we quickly forgot all about the bathroom.
0:36.6	From downstairs we clearly heard the noise of
0:39.7	somebody entering the building through the kitchen. These sounds were unmistakable, clearly
0:44.8	audible and very, very real. Being the nearest one to the back room door, I slowly and quietly
0:52.3	pushed it shut and then sat with my back against it while Jim and Brad
0:56.3	sat against the far wall on the opposite side of the room. The fear we felt at that moment was
1:02.4	solely based on us getting into trouble for trespassing. Jim's unexplained experience which happened
1:09.0	just seconds previously had really spooked us,
1:11.6	but by now our thoughts and fears were firmly fixed on the inevitable telling off that we were about to receive.
1:18.6	... I'm.... The
1:47.0	The This is episode 72 of the Haunted UK podcast, and in this episode, we listened to the stories of a listener
2:19.1	whose experiences in a Tudor house and a very ominous bedside room were way more than they bargained for. I'm of that age when movies like the Goonies lit up the imaginations of teenagers yearning for adventures.
2:47.0	The possibility of that group of friends who you were part of, discovering some sort of secret
2:52.3	that sent you on a wild run of mysteries and puzzles that needed to be solved, or being in
2:57.9	a situation where you all needed to hide out after the bad guys had discovered that something
3:02.9	in their lair had been moved, sitting in silence, plotting your escape, always knowing that you'd be
3:09.9	safe in the end. For almost all of us, these scenarios were simply just daydreams, amazing
3:17.6	products of our brilliant imaginations, but they could never be real, could they? The episode which we present to you today was sent in by a listener
3:27.8	who'd wanted to share these experiences for a long time.
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