Short Haunts - Does Darkness Follow?
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Some hauntings seem tied to houses.
Others seem tied to land.
But what happens when the darkness appears to follow a person?
In this Short Haunt, listener Gary shares a series of unsettling experiences stretching from childhood in Birmingham to later encounters in Sutton Coldfield, Malta and his current home in Burntwood.
It begins in a council house with a freezing bedroom, the number 666 painted onto a door, phantom cries in the night, a dead dog seemingly heard scratching to come in, and a warning from an elderly visitor about something dark inside the home. Years later, Gary encounters a Victorian girl in an old flat, a black mist moving through a mirror, and strange figures appearing in the corner of a hotel room abroad.
The account becomes even more disturbing in his current house, where a tall shadow figure appears in the doorway, seems solid enough for a pillow to strike it, and is later seen by Gary’s mother in the same place. With dogs refusing to go upstairs and shapes still appearing in the night, the story raises a chilling question: are certain people more sensitive to the unseen — or can something attach itself and follow them through life?
Atmospheric, personal and quietly unnerving, this is a story about haunted houses, shadow figures, spiritual sensitivity and the possibility that some darkness may not belong to a place at all.
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