Short Haunts - A Medium Most Haunted
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A sceptic sits down with a medium.
The reading begins with guesswork, vague names and familiar tricks.
Then something changes.
In this Short Haunt, Rachael shares a deeply unusual account of childhood, grief, scepticism and one encounter that still refuses to fit any ordinary explanation. As a child, she believed she saw her grandmother’s deceased ginger cat, Poppet, sitting at the window as if nothing had changed. Years later, as her grandmother was dying, Rachael asked for a sign — something unmistakable, something only the two of them would understand.
That sign may have arrived in the most unexpected place: inside the home of a medium Rachael believed was exploiting a vulnerable friend. What began as a test of cold reading and fortune-telling suddenly turned into something far more personal, when the medium appeared to speak in Rachael’s grandmother’s voice, using a private childhood phrase and a name no one else in the room should have known.
Calm, intimate and quietly astonishing, this is a story about scepticism, memory, love after death, and the unsettling possibility that sometimes the most convincing paranormal evidence arrives when you’re least willing to believe it.
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| 1:04.3 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode. |
| 1:09.0 | This is the Haunted UK Podcasts, Short Horns. I'm Oh'm I'm |
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| 1:47.0 | I'm Welcome, dear listeners to our series of Short Horns, a shot of scary, just for you. |
| 2:24.7 | So grab a hot chocolate, maybe a tea, maybe something stronger, because this is Haunted UK |
| 2:31.3 | podcasts, Short Horns, a medium most haunted. The following story was |
| 2:39.9 | sent in by a listener and long-time supporter of the show who wishes to remain anonymous, |
| 2:45.8 | so for the purposes of this episode, we'll call this listener, Rachel. |
| 2:59.2 | As an open-minded skeptic myself, I'm always trying to find rational explanations for the paranormal and supernatural, |
| 3:03.9 | but not to the extent of dismissing the witness's claims. |
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