S08-E04 - A Life of Knowing - Catherine’s Story
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Some people experience the unexplained once, and spend the rest of their lives trying to understand it.
For Catherine Jackson, it has never been just one moment. It has been a lifetime of knowing things before they happened, sensing presences in empty rooms, hearing voices with no visible source, and living alongside something that seems to follow from house to house.
From childhood in Western Australia, Catherine carried a quiet certainty about events before they unfolded. She knew when her grandmother was about to arrive. She sensed the death of her father before the news reached her. Years later, she would hear a radio report of a well-known entertainer’s death a full week before it was officially announced.
But Catherine’s story reaches far beyond premonition. Across decades, homes, relationships, and generations, strange activity has continued around her and her family. A hand stopping her from stepping into traffic. A shadow figure standing beside the bed. A child seen in the kitchen and then gone. Objects vanishing and reappearing in impossible places. Voices calling from empty rooms. And, perhaps most unsettling of all, a doppelgänger seen by her own son: an exact version of Catherine sitting on her bed, reading, while Catherine herself was miles away.
This is a deeply personal witness account of paranormal encounters, family memory, grief, intuition, and the strange possibility that some people don’t simply pass through the unexplained. They live with it.
A calm, atmospheric journey into one woman’s lifelong relationship with the unseen — and the question of whether a haunting can follow a person, rather than a place.
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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. |
| 0:09.5 | 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. |
| 0:27.1 | My children had their own experiences too. The one that stands out most happened to my eldest |
| 0:37.4 | when he was 16. That day, |
| 0:40.5 | I'd been curled up on my bed completely absorbed in a book. My husband came in and insisted I |
| 0:46.2 | join him at the hardware store to choose fence paint. I didn't want to go. I just wanted to read, |
| 0:52.0 | but he was persistent, so I went. The whole time we were at, I kept thinking about my book. I was going to go. I just wanted to read, but he was persistent, so I went. The whole time we were at, |
| 0:56.4 | I kept thinking about my book, wishing I were at home back in my room. When we returned, |
| 1:03.0 | my eldest came out to greet us. As I rounded the corner from the carport, he stopped dead |
| 1:07.7 | in his tracks. His face went pale. He stared at me like he'd seen a ghost. |
| 1:13.2 | How did you get outside? he asked. I told him I'd just come back from the store. He looked shaken. |
| 1:20.4 | But I just saw you, he said. You were sitting on your bed, reading. I passed your room. You said hello when you looked up and smiled. |
| 1:31.0 | He hadn't known I'd gone out. He'd seen me clear as day, exactly in the place where I'd wished to be. |
| 1:37.9 | It frightened him deeply, and I've often wondered if my intense desire to be home had somehow manifested |
| 1:43.5 | a version of me, a doppelganger, |
| 1:46.3 | a trace of thought made visible. |
| 2:01.6 | I'm I'm I'm I'm |
| 2:02.6 | I'm |
| 2:03.6 | I'm |
| 2:05.6 | I'm |
| 2:06.6 | I'm |
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