Short Haunts - After Hours
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
An office building after dark.
Grey carpets, glass panels, motion-sensor lights, and the kind of silence that only arrives once everyone else has gone home.
But silence doesn’t always mean emptiness.
In this Short Haunts episode from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares the unsettling account of a contract cleaner working alone on the late shift in a modern office building in the Midlands. At first, there was nothing about the place that suggested anything unusual. It wasn’t ancient, ruined, or atmospheric in the traditional sense. It was ordinary. Functional. Familiar.
Then the vacuum cleaner switched itself on while unplugged.
After that, small things began to happen. A cloth moved from a desk to the floor. A caution sign scraped across the corridor. Three deliberate knocks came from inside a closed kitchen cupboard. Footsteps followed behind the cleaner, matching their pace — until one night, they carried on after they had stopped.
Quiet, restrained, and deeply unnerving, this short true paranormal story explores the strange unease of empty workplaces, possible poltergeist activity, and the feeling that some buildings may only reveal themselves once the lights go out and the working day is over.
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| 0:00.0 | Quick question, why does every pop star suddenly cover one eye? |
| 0:04.0 | Why do kids' movies have more occult symbolism than a 19th century spellbook? |
| 0:08.4 | And why does everyone say, oh, it's just a coincidence right before they change the subject? |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome to occult symbolism and pop culture, the podcast where we ruin movies, music, and your sense of reality in a fun way. |
| 0:20.5 | My name is Isaac Wisehop. |
| 0:21.6 | In each episode, we decode the hidden language of Hollywood conspiracy theories, secret societies, |
| 0:26.6 | MK Ultra Mind Controls, Saturni and Death Cults, and much more through familiar pop culture. |
| 0:31.5 | From Deep Dives of the Shining to 1984 book clubs to Alien Disclosure updates, to Dark |
| 0:36.4 | Enlightenment conspiracies of peter teal's |
| 0:38.2 | antichrist to interviews with guests like dr jacques valet it's your new home for truly independent |
| 0:42.6 | research into the occult is it all intentional is it psychological is it spiritual warfare or am i just |
| 0:48.1 | being paranoid i don't tell you what to think i just hand you the red string and let you connect the dots |
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| 1:32.3 | I'm Welcome, dear listeners to our series of Short Horns, a shot of scary, just for you. |
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