Short Haunts - A Girl Called Pep
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A little girl begins talking to someone no one else can see.
At first, her parents think it’s an imaginary friend.
Then the house starts to answer back.
In this Short Haunt, Justin shares the deeply unsettling story of his late wife Elaine, whose childhood home in Sussex became the setting for a haunting that seemed to focus around a mysterious little girl called Pep.
What begins with whispered conversations and childlike giggling soon develops into something far more disturbing. Objects vanish and reappear, knives are found arranged in a perfect circle on the kitchen floor, Christmas lights are removed from the tree and placed in a glowing ring, and a bearded man in a hat appears at the bedroom window.
As Pep’s presence becomes more intense, Elaine begins to say that her unseen friend wants her to stay in the house forever. When a fire breaks out in her bedroom and her mother sees the image of a small child in the flames, the family are forced to confront the possibility that this is no ordinary childhood haunting.
Intimate, chilling and quietly tragic, this is a story about imaginary friends, haunted houses, family testimony and the fear that something unseen may not simply want to be noticed — it may want to keep someone.
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